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How to have NonAces Callouts?

lionheart

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Hey guys,

I have a perdicament.

On my aircraft, I have a main 'control' in the ship that is 'Door Seal' which is important for the entire flight, (pressurized cabin, etc).

On the aircraft, on the panel and in the VC, there is the 'Door Seal' switch. I am rigging (trying to rig) the Garmin window Alert popup to show 'Door Seal ON / Door Seal OFF' in popup font.

Now.. Is this possible?

I know gauge code can be custom, but how on earth would you have it run off another gauge? For instance, can I link my PFD to my Door Seal switch? so that when its 'on', the PFD will show it on also?



A thousand thanks on info of if its possible and how.


Bill
LHC
 
Bill,

A shot in the dark. I have not tested but was curious when I saw that the vickers diff throttle in the modeldef.xml file uses the stack to pass information between different animations. Perhaps your guage code could do the same.

This code stores a local variable on the stack in one animation.

Code: 
         <Code>
           (A:general eng1 throttle lever position:1,percent)
           s0
           (&gt;L:VickerLeftThrottlePercent,percent)
           l0 -2 / 50 +
           </Code>

There is also a RightThrottle one.

This code uses it in a different animation.

Code: 
<Code>
 (L:VickerLeftThrottlePercent,percent) (L:VickerRightThrottlePercent,percent) - 4 / 25 +
</Code>

If your control has door closed (>L:acdoorseal) is set based on control switch value, then the Garmin screen can read the local variable for your L:acdoorseal

I may have misinterpeted the functionality of this code. But it looked interesting to me.
 
Thanks Ron,

Dang, that is ingenious. I'll have to digest that and see if I can get it to work.

I realise they are using 'throttle position' as a base value and renaming it. That may be where I have an issue since I am not using a actual Aces Parameter, and they are.


Bill
 
lionheart said:
Hey guys,

I have a perdicament.
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That's not surprising when folks try to run the Boston Marathon when they haven't mastered crawling yet... :D

Bill, any L:variable,unit you use may be "seen" by any other XML gauge. It is a "global" variable.

Only G:var types are local to a single gauge.
 
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