BlackBox Gauge Debugging Utility:

As a gauge builder novice, much of my learning is trial and error based. To help me out, my son wrote an XML gauge development utility that I find to be exceptionally useful whilst debugging my XML gauges. This tool, “BlackBox”, is very simple in concept but greatly speeds up my learning and gauge development. What it does:

BlackBox constructs an xml diagnostic gauge that can be used to display in readout form the numerical or string values of all or selected A:, E:, P:, L:, C:, G:* and @c and @g macro (related to the FS9 or FSX gps module) variables of the gauge you are editing/building. It can display important parameters such as boolean, L: and A: variables that are not often displayed directly by the gauge you are building. As such, it is very useful for debugging xml gauge logic; you can see what the variables are actually doing as MS Flight Simulator flies.

It's very fast, polished, and simple to use. I think other gauge builder novices and veterans will also find this very useful.

BlackBox is FREEWARE and was uploaded to Simviation FS2004 and FSX Utilities.  Alternatively, it can be downloaded here.

Feedback is very important and very welcome.

Cheers,

Bob