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FSX SDK gauges tutorial

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Maybe I'm just been a bit stupid today, but I can't get the simple gauges to work in the FSX SDK (Sp2) to work.

I've created the fuel pressure gauge exactly as they describe and yet it wont preview in the Ace.exe tool. What's more, I can't get their own example to preview in it either. (Even after I've corrected the incorrect background image path.)

Funny thing is my gauge shows up and looks fine in FSX. But Ace.exe either doesn't show it, shows a black square instead, or crashes completely. It's actually displayed it immediately after loading one or twice but whenever I've closed the tool and reopened it, it wont display again.

Hence I'm having real trouble with the stopwatch example as the one I've created wont show in Ace.exe either and isn't working in the sim.

Am I doing something really wrong, or is this Ace.exe about as stable as a one-legged stool?

Si

Edit: It appears that is is msvcr80.dll that is crashing when the program crashes.

Edit 2: This is getting seriously weird. If I have two copies of Ace.exe running then either one will load and display a gauge without any problem that neither will open if there's only one copy running. This has to be a kernel or dll fubar.

Oh, and when I cab the SDK samples (after correcting the texture path) and put them in the sim - it crashes!!
 
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Si,

I can confirm some strange behaiviour, but I can open the FuelPressure, Stopwatch and Stopwatchtwo files. Bitmaps are shown. However if I open up ace.exe and open a document say fuelpressure. I then open Stopwatch. Stopwatch is blank like you say. If I open a second time it appears.

I have the Acceration SDK.

Have you got the SP1 release of VC 2005?

my msvcr80.dll is 8.0.50727.762 in VC sub-dir
my SXS is 1433 and 762.
 
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I have VisualStudio.net 2003 and VisualStudio Express 2008 installed. A quick search of the HD showed multiple copies of the ms runtime dlls in the system installed under Windows with guids in the pathnames.

It's not crashed for a while now, but the version that it's using is 1433. I found the exact copy of the dll it was using and tried to change it to 762 and Aces.exe wouldn't run at all. So it's still using 1433.

It seems really hit and miss whether my panels will open and display or not. Sometimes they do, othertimes not. Same with the examples. It seems to work better when I have two copies running, which makes no sense.

Si
 
I'm not sure I understand the question, so perhaps not. What do you mean about C++ extensions? I am using the Ace tool to create XML gauges. What C++ extensions do you refer to?

Si
 
Simon853 said:
I'm not sure I understand the question, so perhaps not. What do you mean about C++ extensions? I am using the Ace tool to create XML gauges. What C++ extensions do you refer to?

Si
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The ones that you have to install for the SP to work right. =)

Actually, the SP installs them, so that is not it. I had to install it manually, b/c I was developing before the patch came out.

Patrick
 
I have this same problem with Ace. It is usually hit or miss whether or not things will be displayed correctly, usually miss. Anybody found a solution? Is there a better tool for FSX XML editing? I realize you could do it with as something as notepad, but the graphical representation and built in syntax is nice.
 
I got frustrated and gave up with XML. (Never got Aces.exe to work properly.) Took me all of a few days to learn the basics of C gauge design and never looked back.

Si
 
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