>How can I copy your modified gauges to the FSX SP2 Gauge>folder so that other aircrafts using these gauges will use the>new and improved ones?Hi Emile,After installing PanelMania you should find you have a file in your Gauges folder called Dastardly.CAB. Right-click on it and extract/unzip the files to a folder called Dastardly. If you now open this folder you'll be able to see what all the modified or new gauges are called. Then you can just substitute the new name of the gauge for the old one in the panel.cfg of whichever aircraft you want to apply the fix to.For example, suppose you have a 3rd party aircraft which uses a copy of the clock from the C208B (and therefore the seconds hand points to the wrong time). Looking in the Dastardly folder which you unzipped the cab file to, you can see the new version of that gauge is called "c208b_clock.xml". Now open the panel.cfg for the aircraft you want to fix (in Notepad) and find the line which specifies the position of the clock in the panel, which might look something like this:gauge07=MyAircraft!clock.xml, 434,392,76,76Replace it with:gauge07=Dastardly!c208b_clock.xml 434,392,76,76..and the aircraft should now use the fixed version.The only other point to watch out for is that I've adjusted the size of quite a few of the gauges (generally to make them look less blocky when displayed at the large sizes used by PanelMania, which are often much bigger than the original designer of the gauge intended). This won't matter if the panel.cfg defines the size which the gauge should be displayed at (as in the above example where the "76,76" bit defines the horizontal and vertical size). However, sometimes a panel designer will omit the size values and just give the x,y coordinates at which the gauge is to be drawn, like this:gauge07=MyAircraft!clock.xml, 434,392In such cases the gauge's size is determined by the definition in its xml file, or by the size of its background image if this is not specified. If the fixed version is bigger than the original this will result in the replacement gauge being drawn larger than the panel designer intended. This is easily fixed, though, by simply adding the missing size definitons to the line, as follows:gauge07=Dastardly!c208b_clock.xml 434,392,76,76(We'd determine what the size parameters should be by looking at the definition in the original gauge's xml file, which was 76,76 in this example, or by looking at the dimensions of its background image if there was no definition).Cheers,DD

I downloaded this and it is clear how much effort you put into this. Thank you for the outstanding work! Also the W-key fix is a joy to behold and deserves additional heaps of thanks!

Hello and thanks for this very clear answer and solution

Thanks for all the effort you did put into this nice project.Kind regardsBert

Just came across this on Phil Taylors blog. I havent got it yet but just by reading the description its clear you have undertaken and completed a huge task. Very generous to then give it to the simming community. I will definetly be checking this out :)