Classic British Flight Sim

gauge programming is my only FS development interest...

Wanna help us with our Tornado? :lol:

And I'll send you a rather large cheque :thumbsup:

Rgds

Ben
What, like this one?
http://www.mow.org.za/wpe31.jpg

:dance:

Sounds like fun, but I don't have FSX or any knowledge of XML - only ...

Say the model is a FS9 one..........could they not then import the panel into FS Panel Studio, and rewrite the entire panel with freeware gauges, using the replace gauge function?

I've done this before with some degree of success.

Rgds

Ben

I don't know if that could work with complex aircraft ...

I'm curious - when you're building gauges as part of the aircraft model, what drives their output? Do you just link them to some internal FS parameter or can they be driven by XML or C .gau files in the old-fashioned way?

I've just discovered an old (1999) tool which can extract and substitute .bmp images from .gau files. It doesn't always work but it could thwart this copy-protection idea, if the pirate can simply alter your copyright text image.

Just create a dummy gauge which pops up a bitmap when initialised, with the bitmap saying something like "This HS748 model and panel © Rick Piper and distributed as freeware from flightsim.com (etc), if you've paid money for this you're a right sucker, go ask for a refund". Clicking on the bitmap ...

I was reading the biography/autobiography of Joe Sutter, the guy who became chief engineer of the Boeing 747, in my local library a couple of weeks ago. (I couldn't withdraw it without paying the £20 overdue fees from the last books I'd borrowed though, so I had to be brief!) He was quite dismissive ...

Was this a low-risk backup for the Hurricane and Spitfire, like the Valiant was to the Victor and Vulcan? Very attractive aeroplane...

Back when I had a PC which could do such things, and evenings which weren't full of pizza delivery, I flew with an Il-2 Sturmovik squadron based on 19 Sqn... good times...

Looks encouragingly affordable!

There will be some work to do over at HJG then, as "our" gauges are C-gauges ;-)

Well for all it's worth both types are supported in FS9 as in FSX. Where MS recommends XML, but one of the reasons for making C-gauges might be that they aren't easily "tampered" with, where the XML-gauge is a bit ...