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ScottB
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FSX 2D Pop-up Panels Jan 8, 2018 12:59:19 GMT

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Post by ScottB on Jan 8, 2018 12:59:19 GMT

Mark or anybody, is there a way save 2D pop-up aircraft panels to a specific monitor in full screen mode running triple monitors in surround and a 4th monitor for gauges/panels? I recently purchased the GNS-750 to use in place of Gmap/Panel Builder (networked), which served me well for years. To use the 750, I moved away from using my 4th monitor on a networked PC via simconnect. I now use my 4th monitor as part of FSX, which of course blacks out in full screen. The 2D pop-up 750 works great but was horribly stretched across the three surround screens initially of course, as were other 2D pop-up windows, requiring resizing and dragging. Upon Googling, I was able to figure out how to change the size and position of all my 2D pop-up panels/windows so that they look right in 2D surround mode... on the "main" FSX monitor(s) only. (I even added a radio stack which my system sorely needed.) But for the life of me, I can't figure out how to save the 2D windows to the 4th monitor in order to avoid dragging and dropping. I've tried saving the flight in multiple ways, etc. I'm guessing there's no way around this.

I'm also completely unable to figure how to save the size and positon of the ATC window even on the main FSX window/monitor. I've tried editing my saved "default.flt" with no luck. I don't want to use FSX "windowed mode" with the title bars visible, etc. And saving ATC size and position in windowed mode as a default flight and reverting to full-screen doesn't work consistently.

Mark, I recall one of your videos may have covered this? How do you manage your GPS? Resize and drag each time? Apologies if my questions have been covered here or on your channel.

I'm not sure why I bought the 750! I like it but I just further embedded myself into FSX, which seems nuts! Now I'm dug-in like an Alabama tick!

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FSX 2D Pop-up Panels Jan 8, 2018 13:29:09 GMT

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Post by MarkH on Jan 8, 2018 13:29:09 GMT

Jan 8, 2018 12:59:19 GMT ScottB said:

How do you manage your GPS? Resize and drag each time?

YES

In fact I have never been able to save window positions in full-screen mode without getting the 'flashing cursor from hell' and losing the popup windows entirely. If you save in windowed mode I have found it saves the size of the window.

As I recall, Opus FSI can save the window positions so you might want to try that. I think there is a demo version. But it's an expensive way of getting it to work!

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FSX 2D Pop-up Panels Jan 8, 2018 14:48:02 GMT

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Post by ScottB on Jan 8, 2018 14:48:02 GMT

In fact I have never been able to save window positions in full-screen mode without getting the 'flashing cursor from hell' and losing the popup windows entirely.

Yeah, I've had the cursor issue as well, especially with "shift 1", of which I removed all shortcuts to. I've basically been editing "panel.cfg" files (making backups first) and I've correctly sized each pop-up at least, including all GPS's. Positioning has been tough, as there are different ways in which that is implemented, like "position=#" (defines a section of active FSX monitor) VS. "window_pos=0.###, 0.###" (which defines the position of the upper left corner of the popup in terms of X and Y on the active FSX monitor.) And one of them takes precedence over the other I've read. "Window_pos" works best but some pop-ups don't have that entry, nor do they seem to accept it. And to confuse matters, ATC somehow makes use of screen coordinates in a "screenunicoords=1944, 1219, 4303, 3706" format, which is limited in size and position in regards to editing. It seems none of them can be edited to save the position of the pop-up on the the blacked-out monitor.

As I recall, Opus FSI can save the window positions so you might want to try that. I think there is a demo version. But it's an expensive way of getting it to work!

Thanks. I will look into Opus, but your right, that would be expensive for just this issue. There is another free utility out there but it only works in windowed mode I think.

Hmmm... I just found a good explanation of everything I've learned by googling P3D instead of FSX.

Last Edit: Jan 8, 2018 14:49:33 GMT by ScottB