If the blanking plate is used instead of the sidebar, then colour of the plate can now be changed by editing variable [FG_GLOBAL_BLANKING_COLOUR] in SPAD.neXt data monitor.

Version & Info:

Turn left dial clockwise to turn on and counter clockwise to turn off current version number and other useful links.

 

Side Buttons:

Turn left dial clockwise to turn on and counter clockwise to turn off side buttons.

 

Glass Reflection:

Turn left dial clockwise to turn on and counter clockwise to turn off optional glass reflections. This is a global setting so all gauges that have this function will turn on and off.

 

TOGGLE IDENT:

 

GAUGE STYLE:

 

Background Colour: (GA Style)

Left dial will change colour styles to the following

    1) Dark grey panel with dark grey clock face

    2) Dark grey panel with black clock face

    3) Very dark grey panel with black clock face

    4) Black panel with black clock face.

 

Background Colour: (B737 Style)

Left dial will change colour styles to the following

    1) Grey panel with grey gauge face

    2) Blue grey panel with grey gauge face

    3) Dark grey panel with black gauge face

    4) Dark blue panel with black gauge face.

 

LCD - LED - CUSTOM

 

Brightness:

Turn left Dial clockwise to increase gauge brightness and counter clockwise to decrease gauge brightness. This will adjust the brightness of all gauges at the same time.

 

 

     Side Buttons (Off = 0, On = 1)

 

     Instructions Page (Off = 0, On = 1)

 

     Side Button Labels (Off = 0, On = 1)

 

     Menu Item Index (0 to 9)

     0 = Menu Closed

     1 = Version & Info

     2 = Side Buttons

     3 = Toggle Ident

     4 = Style Jet or GA

     5 = Glass Reflection

     6 = Background Colour

     7 = LCD - LED - Custom

     8 = Brightness Control

     9 = Panel Lights Control

 

     Foreground colour of fonts while power is on (default = "#dd0000")

 

     Background colour of fonts while power is on (default = "#000000")

 

     Foreground colour of fonts while power is off (default = "#000000")

 

     Background colour of fonts while power is off (default = "#000000")

 

     Foreground colour of fonts while power is on (default = "#00DD00")

 

     Background colour of fonts while power is on (default = "TRANSPARENT")

 

     Foreground colour of fonts while power is off (default = "#001100")

 

     Background colour of fonts while power is off (default = "TRANSPARENT")

 

     Side panel LED Style Index (1 - 3)

     1 = LED Style

     2 = LCD Style (Default)

     3 = Custom

 

SIMCONNECT Vars Used:

(ELECTRICAL MAIN BUS VOLTAGE)

(ELECTRICAL AVIONICS BUS VOLTAGE)

(ELECTRICAL BATTERY BUS VOLTAGE)

(ADF SIGNAL:1,bool)

(ADF radial:1,degrees)

(NAV HAS NAV:1,bool)

(NAV RELATIVE BEARING TO STATION:1,Degrees)

(NAV HAS NAV:2,bool)

(NAV RELATIVE BEARING TO STATION:2,Degrees)

(Plane heading degrees magnetic,radians)

(ADF radial:1,radians)

(NAV RADIAL:2,radians)

(NAV RADIAL:1,radians)

(ADF SOUND:1,Bool)

(NAV SOUND:1,Bool)

(NAV SOUND:2,Bool)

 

 

(not all vars used in every gauge)

 

     Variable used for dial acceleration (Off = 0, On = 1)

 

     Brightness value of physical FIP's. Affects all physical gauges (20-250)

 

     Variable used when editing Global or individual Brightness (0-1)

     0 - Global Brightness

     1 - Inedividual Brightness

     Text Variable used to set blanking plate colour

 

     Glass Reflection (Off = 0, On = 1)

 

     Toggle visibility of Mini Menu LED (0 = On, 1 = Off)

 

     Background Colour (0 to 3)

     1 = Grey panel with grey gauge face

     2 = Blue grey panel with grey gauge face

     3 = Dark grey panel with black gauge face

     4 = Dark blue panel with black gauge face.  

 

     Background Colour (Black = 0, Blue = 1 )

 

     Minimum voltage before gauge electronics turns off (-1 to 150)

     -1 = Disabled

     0 - 150 = Off Voltage Level

 

     Internal Variable - Used to store off voltage value - do not edit

  

     Night Lit Mode (Off = 0, On = 1)

 

     Shared variable for switching inHg and MB (0 to 1)

     0 = inHg

     1 = Millbars

 

  Background Colour (0 to 6)

     0 = Grey

     1 = Black Dial Face

     2 = Darker Gauge & Dial Face

     3 = Black & No Gauge GFX

     4 = Grey - Original Design

     5 = Black Dial Face - Original Design

     6 = Darker Gauge & Dial Face - Original Design

   

     Internal variable used to read current voltage

 

1.4.001 - Using New Sidebar Button and Labels Code (4 display options now also) - blank sidebar custom colour

1.4.000

     - 1) SPAD.neXt 0.9.15 Compatibility (Convert "PRESS" to "PRESSSHORT") Fixes short and long press both firing on long press.

     - 2) New gauge brightness code using SPAD brightness variables.

     - 3) Can control global or individual gauge brightness in gauge (Profile saved settings)

     - 4) Better use of button lights

1.3.000 - New Menu System. SPAD.neXt 0.9.13 compatibility

1.2.000 - New Custom Virtual Power supports ALL aircraft volt variables - See https://fipgauges.com/customfeatures.php

1.1.003 - SPAD.neXt detected code format errors fixed

1.1.002 - Virtual Power Warning added to Menu

1.1.001 - Added Blanking Plate to Left Sidebar options

1.1.000 - Added New Gauge Design and Panel Lighting control in Mini Menu

1.0.004 - Changed heading from gyro to magnetic

1.0.003 - Support for NEW 4 colour hue panel lights.

1.0.002 - Tweaked voltage monitoring to better support MSFS2020. Added Monitoring for Battery Bus

1.1.000 - SPAD 0.9.7.x Compatibility

1.0.000 - First Beta Release