I thought I answered those questions for you here: http://www.captainsim.org/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1405818021/33#33

rfresh777 wrote on Dec 5^th, 2014 at 4:32am:

For resizing the Simicons panel, change the size_mm=120,160 of [Window01] AND the size of gauge00=Captain_Sim.x777.tools!icons,0,0,120,160 to match, like this:

[Window01]
size_mm=120,160
background_color=0,0,0
window_pos=0.000,0.75
type=special
visible=1
render_3d_window=0
zorder=99
ident=11101
gauge00=Captain_Sim.x777.tools!icons,0,0,120,160

But as a consequence of resizing it (I tried 50% larger and used 180,240 as the size), the bottom of the gauge was missing, so you need to either (1) change the location in window_pos=0.000,0.75, or (2) comment out the window_pos= line by adding a forward slash (or deleting it) AND then replace it with position=6 (6 places it in the lower left side of the screen (where it is located using the window_pos= entry, but with the difference being that the position= entry will make the entire gauge visible). Positions are as follows:

0 = upper-left corner
1 = upper-middle side
2 = upper-right corner
3 = middle-left side
4 = middle
5 = middle-right side
6 = lower-left corner
7 = lower-middle side
8 = lower-right corner

To add other icon to the Simicons panel, you lengthen it's size, i.e. size_mm=120,160, by increasing the last set of digits. So if I wanted to add something else to it, I would add another gauge at the bottom, i.e. gauge01=gauge name, coords, size.

The coords would have to start at 0,160, and the size can be up to 120 wide, and however deep you make it. So if I change 160 to 200, then the depth will be 40.

You could change the Simicon panel IF you edit the Captain_Sim.x777.tools!icons gauge. You would probably be better off to replace it with a Simicons panel of your own.

Quote:

It's possible that you can, but you will need to edit the FSX\SimObjects\Airplanes\CS_B777-200ER_GE\panel\Captain_Sim.x777.tools\icons.spb file, and I don't know what program you would need to use to do it. I can open the icons.spb file in notepad, but I see a lot of strange charaters like this:

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and I have no idea what they are, or what they do. But there is some lines in there that are perfectly readable too, like this:

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So the question is this. Are the SPB files C, C+, C++, or what other programming language? And I do not know the answer to that question.

The location of the icons/clickspots seem to programmed into the icons.spb file itself. If they were individual "gauges", like the default simicons are, then it would be very easy to shuffle them to your liking.

OK...all the edits I needed to make were in that icons.xml file.

I moved some of the icons around to different positions within the matrix, to better suit my liking.

I also removed the icons I have no need for such as ATC, etc. So they are gone.

I wanted to replace one of the cells with the 2d panel of the overhead but the 2d overhead panel is not flat, its an angled view so I decided to skip it and just use my Opus camera overhead view.

If anyone else is interested in how to do this, just PM me.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction Mark.

Here's my new SimIcons panel now. Note that I made a new icon called 'COM' to better reflect calling up the COM Radio panel.

Well by gosh...I think I will give that a try...thanks Mark.

Update: I got the values edited to give me the head-on view I wanted for the 2d overhead panel.

Now I'm searching for the overhead panel ident value so I can plug that into the SimIcons .xml file to actually pop-up the 2d overhead panel when I click in one of the matrix cells.

I'm still looking for it...