Greetings, all.I am looking for a way to open and edit gauge code of gauges that already exist in my flight simulator. Does anyone know of a program - payware or freeware - that can do this?Folks have told me that XML editors can do this, however that is only for specific XML gauge files, not .GAU files themselves. So I am looking hopefully for a program that is aimed directly at opening files with the GAU extension.Anyone have any ideas?<> I already have FS Panel Studio, and I am awarte I can edit gauge bitmaps in it, but it is not caoable of accessing specific gauge code. Just to clear up that confusion before it gets replied :-)Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

I think gauge code is written in C or C++. Once compiled, it cannot easily be reverse engineered - which is good if you are the author!You could try Easygauge if you are attemting to write gauges:http://www.bluecommerce.net/easygauge/english/

><> I already have FS Panel Studio, and I am awarte I>can edit gauge bitmaps in it, but it is not caoable of>accessing specific gauge code. Just to clear up that>confusion before it gets replied :-)No help for this, friend... Once the C code is compiled to a binary .dll, there's no way to 'decompile it' to any easily editable form.Granted, you can "decompile" a gauge to assembly language, but that isn't really helpful at all... ;)

Many thanks. That helps a lot. I was just curious as I was going to play with some of the default Cessna gauges and make them more accurate to an upgrade I am doing in the plane's dynamics.

>I was just curious as I was>going to play with some of the default Cessna gauges and make>them more accurate to an upgrade I am doing in the plane's>dynamics.You know that this would be reverse engineering?;-) CheersThomas

**laughs**Very true.Actually last night I found a better way. Aliased Flight1's wonderful C172R flight dynamics and gauges into the default Cessna -- I did al this because i am a student pilot, and when i come home in the evenings from my lessons i like to take the FS lessons related to what i learned that day as a review. Since the default Cessna was in NO way even CLOSE to acting like -- well -- any plane of that size (more like an ultralight instead?), and since you cant use the F1 Cessna in the flight lessons, I figured I'd do some sort of mix-and-match or editing to get the bird to fly like a -- well -- Cessna.The merge worked, so the FS flight lessons feel more realistic now. :-)

"...and since you cant use the F1 Cessna in the flight lessons..."Chris: Pardon the intrusion, but I think that is possible. Sometime back I recall this topic coming up and was going to try it. If you enter "default lessons" in the search for this forum, there are a number of threads relating to this. I have not tried it, but it seems to work ok. Hope this helps.

Okay I will definately search that!In the lessons, 2D came up fine when i attempted it before, but i fly from the VC and the VC was really freakishly distorted when i atempted such a merge. I'll search these areas again and see if there was something I missed. Thanks for the advice.