Black popup MFD

ErnieAlston · **Posted:** Wed Jan 03, 2007 12:52 pm

ahinterl wrote:

I'm currently re-designing FFS's Saab 320 panel and like to have a popup MFD which opens with the corresponding button.

While the MFD works when it's added to [window00], the popup variant (which perfectly opens when clicking the "open MFD" button) is completely black and "dead"!

I tested with popup only as well as a gauge on the main panel together with the popup, each time the same result (in the latter case, the gauge in [window00] clears as intended, but the popup is "clear" as well).

Andreas

You need to use the 'WN' name as the 5th parameter for gauges that are in a popup window.

Ex:

[Window14]
...
gauge00=isg1!MCU, -2,0,312,240,WN

If you have the EHSI or EADI gauge in [window00] and in a popup window, use the 'ident' for that gauge in the popup window.

ex:

[Window17]
...
ident=4005
...
gauge00=isg1!EFS50_EADI, 0,0,312,301,WN

[Window18]
...
ident=4008

gauge00=isg1!EFS50_EHSI, 0,0,312,301,WN

This will allow the popup window to toggle open when you click on the hot area in the center of the EADI or EHSI. Or when you click on the icon button to open the popup window.

Below is the list of idents for all the gauges.

Code:

MCU
P1000_MFD
P1000_MFD_CNTR
GNSXLS
EFS50_EADI
EFS50_EADI_NB 
EFS50_EHSI_CNTR
EFS50_EHSI
EFS50_EHSI_NB 
EFS50_TCAS

If the gauge is in the Virtual cockpit use the 'VC' parameter.

[Vcockpit01]
...
gauge13=ISG1!EFS50_EHSI, 446,389,172,244,VC

If you have more than one instance of the EHSI or the MFD in the virtual cockpit, use the 'VC2' parameter on the 2nd instance.

Ex:
[Vcockpit02]
gauge13=ISG1!EFS50_EHSI, 446,389,172,244,VC2

An example would be a Virtual cockpit with the gauge installed on the pilot and co-pilot sides, if the panel is centered on the pilot (left) side
then you won't really be reading the gauge on the co-pilot side. The VC2 parameter turns off some frame rate intensive features (like the ATC boundary display) on the second instance to lessen the frame impact of both gauges displaying at the same time in the VC. But the VC2 gauge will still appear to working in the Virtual cockpit.

For more details see the 'settings' document.

Regards.
Ernie.

ErnieAlston · **Posted:** Thu Jan 04, 2007 1:16 pm

ahinterl wrote:

Thank you, Ernie, for your help! And thank you for the idents list, the one in the manual was a little confusing for me (4005 for instance was in parantheses where I couldn't explain to which gauge in particular it belongs).

Great product, great support!

Andreas

The value in parens refer to the same gauge 'with' the bitmap background. as in some cases you may want the version of the gauge in the main panel to not have a bitmap background but the popup version you may want to open with the background bitmap.

I guess I should be clearer about that in the Docs.

Regards.
Ernie.

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