On most of my aircraft I've created custom GPS and radio panel windows that are nicely positioned and large enough to interact with. I use the virtual cockpit and like to keep the GPS and radio windows open sometimes, but the problem is every time I switch between cockpit and outside views the windows disappear. Is there a way to keep them open until toggled off?

Right-click and choose "undock"...

Right-click and choose "undock"...

 

Thanks for the response. That's pretty much what I want to do, except undocking the windows puts a border and title bar around them. I've spent a lot of time getting the windows perfectly sized and positioned so they are easily accessable, yet unobtrusive. The borders and title bars around them don't look good at all and block part of the view. Plus, I would like for it to happen every time automatically.

 

I was kind of hoping for some kind of command I could put in the panel,cfg file where the options like window size and position are listed. I'll try undock=1 :-)

Is there a way to keep them open until toggled off?

 

Although it is possible to do what you want, you would need to write a lot of code to handle all the possible variants when changing views in FSX, and I doubt it's worth the effort.

 

Tom

Is there a way to keep them open until toggled off?

I can't help with the rest of your query, but, a simple panel.cfg edit/addition in a window description works for that.

 

[WindowXX]

...

...

type=SPECIAL

 

That keeps that window open until you decide otherwise...Don

I can't help with the rest of your query, but, a simple panel.cfg edit/addition in a window description works for that.

 

[WindowXX]

...

...

type=SPECIAL

 

That keeps that window open until you decide otherwise...Don

 

Don, thank you so much!!

 

That does exactly what I wanted to do.

If you want your FSX 2d panel to only show in the VC and have Doug Dawson's sound gauge installed you can use this code:-

 

Make a gauge in VC 1

 

<Element id="2Dshow">
		 <Select id="Select0">
		 <Expression id="Expression">
			 <Script>
 (L:AutopilotPanelContrl,bool) (L:ViewSystemStatus,number) 2 == and 0 > d (L:APwindowONSecs,number) * (>L:APwindowONSecs,number) (P:absolute time, number) 1 > d (L:APwindowONSecs,number) + 3 min (>L:APwindowONSecs,number) * ! (L:APwindowONSecs,number) 2 > || ! if{ 10070 (>K:PANEL_ID_TOGGLE) }
			 </Script>
		 </Expression>
	 </Select>
 </Element>

 

Make an icon on the VC panel (this will only open the 2D panel)

 

<MouseArea id="Gauge_2Dpanel_OPEN">
		 <FloatPosition>0.000,0.000</FloatPosition>
		 <Size>20,20</Size>
		 <CursorType>Hand</CursorType>
		 <MouseClick id="MouseClick">
			 <Script>
		 (M:Event) 'LeftSingle' scmp 0 == if{ 1 (>L:AutopilotPanelContrl,bool) }
	 </Script>
			 <ClickType>LeftSingle+LeftRelease</ClickType>
			 </MouseClick>
			 </MouseArea>

 

Make an Icon or clickspot on your 2D panel (this will only close the 2D panel)

 

<MouseArea id="Gauge_2Dpanel_CLOSE">
		 <FloatPosition>0.000,0.000</FloatPosition>
		 <Size>50,50</Size>
		 <CursorType>Hand</CursorType>
		 <MouseClick id="MouseClick">
			 <Script>(M:Event) 'LeftSingle' scmi 0 == if{ 10070 (>K:PANEL_ID_TOGGLE) 0 (>L:AutopilotPanelContrl,bool) }
			 </Script>
			 <ClickType>LeftSingle</ClickType>
		 </MouseClick>
	 </MouseArea>

 

Make an icon on the VC panel to open & close

 

(L:AutopilotPanelContrl,bool) if{ 0 (>L:AutopilotPanelContrl,bool) 795 (>K:PANEL_ID_TOGGLE) quit } 1 (>L:AutopilotPanelContrl,bool)

 

 

Only tested on one 2D panel but should work on more. I did find in testing I lost the (L:ViewSystemStatus,number) 2 == value after lots of recoding but it could be OK now with this stable code.