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Is there a better editor?

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Hello,
I'm using FS Panel Studio, and editing gauges is not confortable enough.
For example you can't drag and move "clickable areas". You have to position them specifing X,Y coordinates.
Is there any editor more friendly and flexible?
Thanks!
 
Not as far as I'm aware. Even the ACES editor in the FSX SDK is a pretty useless piece of junk, IMNSHO.

I use Visual Studio 2008 myself, since I can do both C gauge coding and XML gauge scripting with just one program.
 
hi Bill,
thanks for the info.
With VS 2008 can one "draw" the clickable areas? i.e. the buttons of a FMC
 
No, it is not a 'visual editor' at all. It is a program editor however, and will quickly highlight any errors you will make...

I remember that "someone" tried without much success to develop a WYSIWYG XML studio.
 
n4gix said:
I use Visual Studio 2008 myself, since I can do both C gauge coding and XML gauge scripting with just one program.
Click to expand...

I have been using Notepad++ for XML coding and highly recommend it. I had looked at Visual Studio in the past but found it cost prohibitive. After seeing this thread I looked again and was delighted to find that Visual Studio 2013 Community is a free download. I installed it yesterday and it seems to have all the bells and whistles. It's been ages since I programed in C but I might have to dig out the old text books now.
 
Express were free as long as I remember. Community is now a complete package, available freely. Great stuff.

I'd also add to Bill, visual studio indeed is visual, but for Windows applications, not simulator gauges.
 
Indeed....that's why when im doing a gauge I typically have a GIMP window open at the same time
 
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