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HelloTry thishttp://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID...4gau&DLID=72068

Thanks for the link, but that will not work. What I want to do is build GPS 500 box with working buttons and a screen. I can effectivly build the box and get everything to work on a 6" LCD screen and the buttons wired to the computer. What I need is to find a way to get the GPS 500 display screen and nothing else. Man I hope this is making sense :)Thank youJason G.http://online.vatsimindicators.net/940901/3117.pnghttp://www.matrixlair.com

mad dog, Nice find...I forgot about that one.Jason, you could also copy, then open the fs9gps.cab file from the gauges folder. Extract everything that doesnt have 295 in its name, rework the bitmaps (paint black, select and save, or make new blank textures) that are pertinent to the background and buttons. Recompile under a new name with the cab sdk. How you would ever tie in real buttons to the 500's xml file is beyond me, but I guess that's your department.Good Luck and have fun.

Great Info But If I am thinking right, you are talking about erasing the buttons from the gauge file but the border around the actuall GPS Information screen will still be there. Is this right? If so then it still doesnt work. I want to replace what you would do with a mouse with actual hands on buttons. The XML is in there. The key stroke are not bound by defualt. There are 16 or 17 keys that can be bound just for the GPS. I guess the best way to put in words of what I want to accomplish, is...I want to get rid of the fake GPS image and buttons that suround the GPS information display.Thank youJason G.http://online.vatsimindicators.net/940901/3117.pnghttp://www.matrixlair.com

There is a bitmap in the cab named "gps_500_background.bmp". It is the gps border or frame image. You can paint it out with black (disappears), make a new all-black bitmap and name it the same, or select just the border of the 500's screen/save/paste to new and resize as you wish. Any of these methods will eliminate the 500's frame.Next, you would have to do basically the same with the bitmaps (.bmp) for the buttons. They will be gone.No changes would be made to the xml file, the goodies are still called for by the gauge and there is a bitmap for it to find, but nothing shows up.

ok, I understood all of that :) Im going to give that a shot and see what happens :)THank you very muchThank youJason G.http://online.vatsimindicators.net/940901/3117.pnghttp://www.matrixlair.com

Can I re-compress it with winzip and change the extension? I blacked out everything and made sure that I did not black out the display area of the background and when I loaded FS9 the GPS was completly blacked out with no GPS display.Thank youJason G.http://online.vatsimindicators.net/940901/3117.pnghttp://www.matrixlair.com

Save the altered bitmap as 256 Color Bitmap, same name. It doesn't matter if you paint over the display area as long as it is true black.======Create a folder named something like "Jason_fs9gps". Open a copy of fs9gps.cab with winzip. Extract everything that doesn't have 295 in its name from the cab and place into your new folder.Alter the bitmaps, i.e., background and buttons.Save them as 256 Color Bitmaps, same name, and replace the ones in your new folder with the altered bmp's.Place the new folder and its contents into the folder of CABfile_sdk that you installed from Microsofts SDK page.Drag the folder on top of cabdir.exeA new cab is created named "Jason_fs9gps.CAB"Place the new CAB into fs9's gauges folder or into your aircrafts panel folder.Open the panel.cfg of desired aircraft. If it already has a gps window section, just change the gauge name from fs9gps!gps_500 to Jason_fs9gps!gps_500example: [Window00]Background_color=0,0,0 size_mm=456,378window_size_ratio=1.000 position=0visible=0ident=GPS_PANELwindow_size= 0.350, 0.380window_pos= 0.040, 0.620gauge00=Jason_fs9gps!gps_500, 0,0,0 //<---------change gauge nameThat should work Jason. (make sure the aircraft's power is on to see the gps)

prelim test shot of just the background border blacked out. You can see two edges there that I didn't quite get covered with black paint. The casing is invisible, but actually still there and of course the buttons and other goodies need to be addressed as well.The invisible border is why I think when opening the 500's background bitmap, if a person would record the Height x width size of the bitmap and either recreate a black bitmap of the same size/same name or select the outside edge of the display screen/save it and paste into a new view/resize to the original full dimensions (or dimensions you desire)/ save as same name. You'd have it sized the same as the original for placement. Anyway, just some afterthoughts of which there can be many.http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/144000.jpg

Thats pretty much the same thing I am getting. I messed it up a little and cut out the black part of the display which in turn, reduced the size of the background bitmap. It works great in 2d mode, which is what I want but the GPS still has the top left black border and makes the GPS disply croped at the bottom right.I have a feeling it is going to be harder than I thought. Each element, just for the GPS diplay it cronfigured by position with in the 500.xml. so insted of changing one element to x=0 and y=0 I have to reconfigure the rest of the elements that make up the display.This is what is going through my mind now. Im not sure if that logic is correct but it sounds correct to me.On a side note. Thank you very much for the information you have givin so far. It has been great :)Thank youJason G.http://online.vatsimindicators.net/940901/3117.pnghttp://www.matrixlair.com

It works!!!!!!!!!!I got it to work perfectly! Now I can go about getting the funds to create the GPS boxit truns out my logic was wrong and the lines Notice the 1'sand thats all it took :)Thanks again for the great helphttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/144010.jpgThank youJason G.http://online.vatsimindicators.net/940901/3117.pnghttp://www.matrixlair.com

That's great! I see you've got it figured out now, !code and all! I just did pretty much the same thing, minus the code. I just resized via the panel.cfg_ "window_size=" line.It's just a matter of sizing to fit your 7" screen. Anything superflous (if anything) would be pushed out of view.2D viewwindow_size= 0.750, 0.780http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/144012.jpg

>It works!!!!!!!!!!>>I got it to work perfectly! Now I can go about getting the>funds to create the GPS boxI'm glad you got it working...Might I suggest that any future questions of this sort should probably be in the "Aircraft and Panel Design" forum though? Many of the gauge guru's don't vist this more 'general chat' forum... :)

Sorry 'bout that, Bill. I knew it should have migrated over there. Next time. ;-)