Hi George,great idea about contacting my university. I'll try to do that :-). The only compiler I have for the moment is the Borland commandline compiler. Is the IDE from http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32/ a good one?Greetings, and really big thanks for the help!Steven

Steven,You asked". Is the IDE from http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32/ a good one?"I would say yes based on the half hour I looked it over after downloading and installing it. BUT........earlier in this thread,you will come across some good information JeanLuc made. He indicatedthat he never got a complete compiled guage (functional guage) for FS2002 using that compiler. BUT. As mentioned more then once, if you would like to use a fully windows driven package that contains aneditor (which also allows one to include images into text file etc.),compiler with many options set by pop up windows, linker with pop up options windows, resource manager (where one sets up directories that contain extra things used for a given compile such as image files etc.), and a project manager system (where one can have set things up for different type program development projects), then I would say yes.......it is worth downloading the LCC Compiler found at that sight.If you go to that site, you will see six different downloads. I would suggest you download them all. I had a bit of problems (took a few times) to get a few of the things to download (the tutorial for one). But in the end (about two hours of time) I got all the packages to download and install correctly. In short a few of them are simply user documents. The one for the WINAPI for instance is not needed unless one is going to specifically do window OBJ type designs, such as window applications, etc.. But might be worth downloaded for the information it delinates.At any rate, as JeanLuc indicated, he does all his gauge design from a C programming standpoint with the Borland ver. 5.5 compiler pacakage. This is the one I plan on also using, once I get my act together. IF YOU GO THIS PATH, AND CUT AND PASTE THE MAKEFILE STUFFJeanLuc included in this thread earlier in the game..........BE AWAREIT MUST BE MODIFIED. It simply will not work as shown in this thread, because one must change paths, change name of gauge to be compiled etc.. So just be aware of this. chow for now, PS. I may not be checking out this forum for a few days. And do not feel obligated to respond unless you have more questions at preesent. Lastly, tech questions should go to Arne and or JeanLuc about the B compiler because I just started to use it and may have difficulties quickly answering things. It has been about six years since I used my Borland packages, and I am not a Universitytrained C programmer.hang in there,GeorgeGeorge.

If you want an IDE try this one:http://www.bloodshed.net/It will work with BCC and GCC I only tried with GCC. Since you are in the University try to see if they have a MS or Borland campus license that will allow you to use their IDE. I'm not saying that is better but the integrated help and debugger will increase your productivity.Jos