How To Move Red Text On Screen Down One Line?

[Republic DC9]

I've had great success raising my FPS and eliminating blurries by moving to full 1920x1080P resolution, but now I can't see the top line of text with the speed etc. (and I "cheat" using that while flying).

Is there a way to move both lines of text DOWN just one line in a .cfg file?

Thanks,

Steve

 

 

[joepoway]

The short answer is yes, you can change what’s displayed, the color and positions left and right as well as what line the info displays on. Under the P3D config file under Display you will see:

InfoUpperLeftTextColorUser=255,255,255 this is default red

255,0,0 will make it white

a couple lines down:

InfoUpperLeftBackgroundColor=0,0,0,0 this is no background

0,0,0,128 will give it a 50% transparent black background

I find these two changes much easier to read

Under TextInfo.1 TextInfo.2 and TextInfo.3 you can change what’s displayed and the order as well as the row. The numbers after the item say Airspeed=1,5 means it’s on the first row and the fifth item over.

Just change the 1 to a 2 and it appears on the second row just make sure the second row items have unique placement numbers left to right.

Another thing I did was to eliminate the TextInfo.2 and TextInfo.3 items by either deleting them or commenting them all out with / marks. This means only one display window will toggle on and off without having to go through 3 windows. I then put only what I want to see in TextInfo.1 and exactly where I want it displayed with the color change I mentioned earlier.

Remember as always make a backup of the config file before editing and I use notepad++ to do all my editing

I hope this helps

Joe

[Sartanius]

Hey, Joe.  I thought that was the correct way to move text down one line, but when I changed my respective lines under TextInfo.1 from =1, x to =2, x, the text block still appeared at the top of the window.  I may have done something wrong, but here's my config text, and this doesn't move the lines down.

[TextInfo.1]
Latitude=2,1
Altitude=2,2
GForce=2,3
Heading=3,1
AirSpeed=3,2
WindDirectionAndSpeed=3,3
FuelPercentage=3,4
AverageFrameRate=4,1
FrameRate=4,2

[vgbaron]

IIRC, they're relative entries - you must have a line 1 or your line 2 entry becomes line 1.  Put something there that you don't need to see.

Vic

[Ted Striker]

22 minutes ago, joepoway said:

The short answer is yes

I have wondered about this text before also. Thanks for posting all of this information Joe. One of these days I'm going to have to sit down and read the SDK.

I've noticed that you and a lot of other people use Notepad++ for editing. I tried it once and it looked confusing and complex so I went back to default notepad. What is the benefit of Notepad++ for editing P3D files? More importantly will I mess files up by using the default windows Notepad?

Thanks,

Ted

[Sartanius]

4 minutes ago, vgbaron said:

IIRC, they're relative entries - you must have a line 1 or your line 2 entry becomes line 1.  Put something there that you don't need to see.

Vic

Yea, that seems to be the case.  Would be nice if there was a null variable to produces a blank line.  Will need to research this.

[Poppet]

Hello 

Just on the colour Note

I like the Blue

 

[Poppet]

For anybody wondering the above Blue is this 

 

InfoUpperLeftTextColorUser=0,0,255

 

Your Prepar3D.cfg file is located below

Local Disk (C:) ► Users ► You ► AppData ► Roaming ► Lockheed Martin ► Prepar3D  - Prepar3D.cfg

[Republic DC9]

Thank you, Joe and Poppet I may just have to try that blue too! :)

Steve

[Indy511]

To find your favorite text colors use RGB values.
For ATC window text colors use Hex code
https://www.rapidtables.com/web/color/RGB_Color.html#color-picker

COMM_MSG_AI_ATC_COLOR=0X333333
COMM_MSG_ATC_AI_COLOR=00000000
COMM_MSG_ATC_USER_COLOR=0X820000
COMM_MSG_USER_ATC_COLOR=0X0000FF
COMM_MSG_ATIS_COLOR=0X1B4009
 

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[Redeye1]

Does anyone know the correct lines in FSX.cfg?  I can't find InfoUpperLeftTextColorUser or InfoUpperLeftBackgroundColor.  Thanks in advance!

Please disregard, found the answer!