Quote from Hangar45 Admin on November 26, 2017, 7:10 pm

(Original thread started on 03-13-13 by Alan Norris)

I am having an issue with resizing the ADI with the "i" and "d" keys. Does anyone have any information on how to resize the standby gauges?

 

(Posted by Dave Ault on 03-13-13)

Alan, the .ini file that stores the gauge size and position is only written when you close the gauge down manually. As an example, if you resize or move the gauge and then reboot, it will NOT remember the position. Therefore, your gauge will not be where you think you saved it.

 

(Posted by Alan Norris on 03-13-13)

I will remember to close the gauges manually instead of letting Windows do it as part of it's shutdown procedure.

 

However, I still have the problem whereby I cannot reduce the size of the gauges below the default -- not even by dragging the corner of the window. Can size up using alt+i but that's of no use. I've had this issue since Windows updated the driver without my knowledge (but I fixed that) and I have tried every legacy driver that Nvidia lists.

 

(Posted by Dave Ault on 04-30-13)

alt-i should increase the border size. What happens when you just press lower case i ?  Once you have increased them with alt-i can you then reduce them again?

 

Might be a daft question but has installing video drivers left your screen in a low resolution mode which makes the minimum size seem larger?

 

(Posted by Alan Norris on 04-3-13)

I can increase using alt+i above the default but alt+r only brings it back to default and no lower. The resolution of my three monitors is 1024x768 (default). I cannot even reduce the window by dragging the corners. Will try the "i" to see if that reduces the size.

 

I can only change the size of the gauges by editing the .ini file. That's fine but still very strange that I cannot drag a corner of the window with my mouse or use the alt+ keys.  Thanks

 

(Posted by Dave Ault on 05-01-13)

Here are the adjustment keys for latest versions:

i ............ Increase Size

r ............ Reduce Size

b ............ bare mode ( no bezel or orange horizon marker )

s ............ Toggle Shadow On/Off

a ............ Rotate Instrument

ALT+f ........ Find Instrument

ALT+i ........ Increase Border Size

ALT+r ........ Reduce Border Size

ALT+s ........ Toggle Smooth Graphics

 

Here is a list of the .ini file variables for the latest versions of the gauges:

 

ALT

Horizontal screen position: pixels

Vertical screen position: pixels

Width of window: pixels

Shadow enabled: 0 or 1

Instrument Angle: either 0, 64, 128 or 192 ( weird allegro angles, not degrees )

Extra border: pixels

Gaussian Blur: 0 or 1

Pressure: hPa * 16

 

ASI

Horizontal screen position: pixels

Vertical screen position: pixels

Width of window: pixels

Shadow enabled: 0 or 1

Instrument Angle: either 0, 64, 128 or 192 ( weird allegro angles, not degrees )

Extra border: 0 or 1

Gaussian Blur enabled: 0 or 1

 

ADI

Horizontal screen position: pixels

Vertical screen position: pixels

Width of window: pixels

Shadow enabled: 0 or 1

Bare mode i.e bezel or no bezel: 0 or 1

Instrument Angle: either 0, 64, 128 or 192 ( weird allegro angles, not degrees )

Extra border: pixels

Gaussian Blur: 0 or 1

 

There is no option to remove the windows border but you can increase the black border around each gauge instead.  Also the Allegro graphics library that I have used when programming the gauges does not allow you change the window size by dragging the corner with the mouse, hence the keyboard controls.

 

Looking at the code, I prevent the gauge from being reduced smaller that 120 pixels across. so if you measure your 1024x768 screen width then the smallest the gauge can be would be (Screen_width / 1024) * 120 .Is this the minimum you are getting?.

 

You can get smaller gauges by either increasing the screen resolution or tweaking the .ini file. If this is an issue then I can lower this limit and recompile a new gauge for you.

 

(Posted by Alan Norris on 05-01-13)

I didn't know that you couldn't resize the window by dragging the corner. That's good to know.  I found that changing the size in the .ini file to 200 (50% of default) they fit Ron's bezels perfectly.  Thanks for all the help Dave!