14 minutes ago, ryanbatcund said:

Bert is brilliant... he's a big help here!

I've got the HOME and DirectTO buttons working.  Not sure on the knobs yet.  But the unit is pretty much functional with the DTO button on the bezel!  I rarely use the 3d knobs anyway.

I'll make a new xml file and add to the thread and also get this Citation working too hopefully.

EDIT:  Got the dto and home 3d buttons working on the Citation now WOOHOO!

 

 

Awesome! Good work. Looking forward to your configuration as I have just updated my 550 to for v4.

 

Also working on the Alabeo Mooney ovation... working pretty well here

alabeomooney by ryan b, on Flickr

Hi Ryan and thank you for sharing your progress. Thanks to Bert as well for his invaluable assistance. This might be a good case to wrap up what you've done as I'm sure this would help many other getting the most of their GTN.

Do you think you may sum up the process you went through in the form of a tutorial?

15 hours ago, RXP said:

Hi Ryan and thank you for sharing your progress. Thanks to Bert as well for his invaluable assistance. This might be a good case to wrap up what you've done as I'm sure this would help many other getting the most of their GTN.

Do you think you may sum up the process you went through in the form of a tutorial?

Oh boy, I'm pretty terrible with instructions on paper.  I can try to write a readme or something.  I'm still a little stuck on getting the knobs to work correctly with mouse wheel.  I've got them working one way only... IE scrolling with the mouse wheel either way will make the stbdy frequency decrease.  Honestly I rarely use those knobs anyway but I'd like to get them working before releasing a mod.  Or maybe I'll just release a WIP one that works pretty well for the Legacy and Citation and Mooney.

Well for now I've got a WIP for the Citation 550 if someone wants to try.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jurl64540hr6jnn/C550RXP_wip.zip?dl=0

1) Run the F1 GTN installer exe that comes with the Citation

2) Run the RXP gauge replacement app when you load the Citation

3) Extract the three files in the zip.  the RXP ini file goes in the main Citation directory.  The panel.cfg and customGTNxxx folder go into the Citation\panel directory.  Backup your original panel.cfg first of course.

Known issues.  Basically the 3d functions don't work yet.  Exception:  The Direct To button works (my main concern), and the single press of the HOME button works to get you back to the main menu screen.  The lower right outer and inner knobs only scroll one direction and it using them is pointless because the push knob function doesn't work anyway.  So basically stick to the direct to and home buttons or click the (super tiny) clickspot on Carenado's in VC GTN750 - just on the top of the gauge bezel - this will open the 2d popup.

8 hours ago, ryanbatcund said:

or click the (super tiny) clickspot on Carenado's in VC GTN750 - just on the top of the gauge bezel - this will open the 2d popup.

Or create a setting section in the RealityXP.GTN.in file, name it something like [GTN_750_1.VC] and use the popright= to assign the popup window ident number.

Don't forget to also set nobezel=true in this new section.

then use the 5th param for your gauge in the VC like so:

gauge##=rxpGTN!GTN_750_1,x,y,w,h,VC

This way, the VC GTN screen is touchscreen with left mouse button, and it is popup window with right mouse button! No fighting with a tiny clickspot anymore: you get the whole screen!

Where can I find the popup window number?  Is that like window ID at the start of the panel.cfg?

At the moment I did not add a popup via RXP's per aircraft config.  I only set the VC gauge.  I ran into a odd graphical issue on the Alabeo Mooney Ovation.  When I added a RXP generated popup, and opened it with the carenado clickspot, the entire gauge changed to a checkerboard graphics anomaly - and was unusable.  Not sure how to fix this.  So I decided NOT to add a RXP generated popup in the Citation for fear of this issue.

Hi Ryan,

This is the "ident=" line in any [Window##] section.

The GNS V2 and the GTN both support either number of named ident(s) (like GPS_PANEL)

It'd be great you post the screenshot of the 'anomaly' too.

This happens only if I add a popup via in sim config

 

Here are the lines of window08 - which here I have commented out and the problem goes away.

//[Window08]
//size_mm=100,100
//window_pos=0.000000,0.000000
//window_size=0.324219,0.573572
//visible=1
//always_visible=1
//zorder=99
//background_color=0,0,0
//ident=15751
//gauge00=rxpGTN!GTN_750_1, 0, 0,100,100

 

mooney by ryan b, on Flickr

Is this the only aircraft you are having this issue? When this happens, can you try resizing the window width in small increments (1 or 2 pixels) and see if the image changes?

If I change the window size in the sim while it's running and make it larger, it fixes the issue.  But it has to be really big.  

Here's default popup.  Then what I have to resize it to to make it work

Oh edit - I found the issue.  When I set the ratio of the popup to less than 1:1 - it does this graphics problem.  If I set 1:1 it works.

notfixed by ryan b, on Flickr

fixed by ryan b, on Flickr

37 minutes ago, ryanbatcund said:

Oh edit - I found the issue.  When I set the ratio of the popup to less than 1:1 - it does this graphics problem.  If I set 1:1 it works.

I'm glad you've find a solution, but can you please detail which 'ratio' are you referring to? This might help other customers facing the same situation (and maybe help us find a workaround too).

27 minutes ago, RXP said:

I'm glad you've find a solution, but can you please detail which 'ratio' are you referring to? This might help other customers facing the same situation (and maybe help us find a workaround too).

It's the one in your app - when I add a popup window it asks if you want it visible at 1:1 etc.

Ok I get it. Does it fail in ½ or ¼ as well? 

Only happens with the 3/4 setting... and with all the carenado planes so far