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A gauge that reads user input requested variable?
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ddawson
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So, I keep thinking I'm going to build something like that - a general purpose debugging/testing gauge that would provide lots of information.
Are you looking for the ability to literally look up any variable, with the choice made at run time, or would something suffice that used a config file to allow you to choose 20 or 30 variables to follow?
Are you looking for the ability to literally look up any variable, with the choice made at run time, or would something suffice that used a config file to allow you to choose 20 or 30 variables to follow?
Hi,
well actually both will make it
I was trying to do make my own in a simple way, a scaleform flash gauge (only P3D 3 and higher) in which you have an input text field, you write any variable name like "E:ZULU TIME" and in the box it appears the value... It works, but the problem is that when you click the input textfield to write, nothing happens you cant write in it, scaleform gauges dont allow to use keyboard to write text
(standard xml gauges do, like an FMC for example)
I haven't seen any gauge like that. You could build one, that would be great
You need to include all Avars listed in SKD and then do a simple string compare. Long code, but not quite difficult I guess, either in XML or C
Tom
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The debug gauge provided as an example for LOCALVARS class included in XMLTools can do this.
Just write any A:, E:, P:, C:, etc. variable to a custom L: var in a gauge's update section.
Reload the panel, open the debug window, sort the list by name and done.
Just write any A:, E:, P:, C:, etc. variable to a custom L: var in a gauge's update section.
Code:
(E:ZULU TIME,seconds) (>L:000 Zulu Time, number)Reload the panel, open the debug window, sort the list by name and done.
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Then please read the Blackbox instructions again. It has all A:, E:, and P:Vars listed in Simulation Variables.xml file ... 1196 of them. Just click the ones you want to read. It also reads your L:Vars, too, from any XML gauge, or gauges, in your panel.
Bob
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