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mission compass size for triple-screen noob

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Greetings! I have FSX and SoftTH (http://www.kegetys.net/SoftTH) a triple-wide FOV expander. When I pop up a Shift-# window (like Shift-3 for GPS) the popup came in 3 times as wide as normal. I found on this forum: (http://www.gamespot.com/pc/sim/micr...how_msgs.php?topic_id=m-1-42645129&pid=931252) that it is possible for the popups to be adjusted in size using the settings in the panel.cfg for each plane. I experimented and found how to get my GPS the right size and desired position on use of the shortcut.

Now I have to do the Mission Compass when I fly missions. It comes in 3x as wide as normal, oval-shaped not round, due to the extra FOV width. I've been poking through the cfg's looking for this and cannot find anything. I searched this forum for "mission compass size" and found this from Gunner CAF (http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9610&highlight=mission+compass+size):

"In the SDK documentation, you will see there are 4 scale varibles that can be changed to adjust the size of the object. You can also change the object used as a pointer by changing the SelectedModelGuid. You can remove the Guid if you don't want a marker object.

The player can move or adjust the size of the compass from within the mission to their liking."

I can't move or adjust the mission compass because the SoftTH FOV software is still in beta and has broken the mouse link to FSX. No mouse, no move mission compass.

I have the SDK installed, and have looked through the help file, but I cannot find the 4 scale variables for the mission compass Gunner seems to be referring to. I want to change the default size of the mission compass and move it to the upper left corner of my middle monitor, not the left one where it is now.

I'm expecting the tweaks I need to be inside each set of mission files, that will be fine. I just need to know what to change. Can any gurus here help me?
 
I think you should be able to move and rescale the compass using your mouse onscreen, then save the mission and use the saved FLT file.
 
Thanks, Horst, for the idea. I might try deactivating the SoftTH tempoarily, then moving the compass and saving the mission, then re-activating SoftTH (Can't use the mouse with SoftTH for now)

Meanwhile, anyone know those variables for the compass to move it in the default missions?
 
Found what I was looking for!

I took Horst's advice, reverted to an earlier, but choppier, version of SoftTH where the mouse worked, and saved a mission flight at the beginning, both before and after I moved the popup gauges and mission compass to where I wanted them. I found that the FLT file (My Documents\Flight Simulator X Files) saves the locations of the moved popups in sections like this one (for the mission compass, I think):

[Panel.9]
ScreenUniCoords=5105, 444, 284, 983
UndocCoords=0, 0, 0, 0
Visible=False
Undocked=False
HiddenOn=False
ID=22001
ViewsOn=0

Panel.2 is for the radio and Panel.3 is for the gps (again, I think).

The following is from Microsoft ESP flight files, which supposedly still applies mostly to FSX, regarding the line "ScreenUniCoords":

Universal Screen Co-ordinates

Universal screen co-ordinates is a system designed to make screen positions independent of screen resolution. The universal co-ordinates extend from 0,0 in the top left hand corner to a width of 8192 and a height of 6144. So, for example, if the universal co-ordinates of a rectangle are 500,400,7192, 650 (which is X,Y,sizeX,sizeY) and the screen resolution is 1024 x 768, then this would translate as follows:
X = 500 * (1024/8192) = 62.5
Y = 400 * (768/6144) = 50
sizeX = 7192 * (1024/8192) = 899
sizeY = 650 * (768/6144) = 81.25
So the pixel position of the top left hand corner of the rectangle is 62,50 with a width of 899 and a height of 81 pixels.

The neat thing is that each mission also apparently has a default FLT file (C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Missions, for Windows 7), and when I pasted in the Panel.# sections from my saved FLT to the default FLT (after making a copy of course) the default mission gad the popups where I had put them in the saved flight. So all I have to do is visit each mission's FLT, back-up copy it, and edit the Panel.# sections, and the popups will be set!
 
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