- create real C++ gauges without any programming knowledge
- compile your gauge automatically, the compiler is included
- create own variables in the gauge to expand the possibilites - up to 500 variables!
- share variables with other gauges - possibility to create complex systems,like
APU with complete electrical systems
- define you own functions to command the gauge
- create own mouseevents - make your gauge active!
- Play sound files (.wav) with DirectSound (DirectX Technologie)
- tutorials to learn-by-doing
- access to a market, which has been reserved for programmers
Create in 5 minutes your own instrument!
Even if you are a programmer, writing gauges source code is a slow procedure.
With EASYgauge, everybody is able to create his personal gauge in 5 minutes!
Here an example for a speedometer:
- Select the background image and add it: 1 min
- Select the image of the needle, set the coordinates (with a simple click!): 1 min
- Create the position table (where which value is positioned, again with simple
clicks!): 2 min
- Set the minimum- and maximum value and compile the gauge: 1 min
(see Screenshots for a visual explanation)
If your instrument is a bit more complex, you will need of course more time. But with the manual you will be able to create all difficult instruments of your choice like an attitude indicator or a frequency selector. Your possibilities are uncountable!
EASYgauge takes the complete work like creating Resource-, Header-, Main- or Masterfiles. Nonlinearity-tabels can be created by simple clicks. All elements are available (Needle, Sprite, Moving Image, Slider, String and Static). The callback functions can be created with an editor to break all limits!
Screenshots (click to enlarge):
Hector Molina [06.07.2002]
”I
have been a flightsimmer since 1998 and started to design my own panels a couple
of years ago. This year I decided to share my panels with other simmers and
uploaded them to one of the many specialized web sites. Since I have no idea
whatsoever about C++ programming, I used some standard Microsoft gauges and also
some made by others. Soon I started to receive emails from simmers
congratulating me for the quality of the panels and asking if I could design
some other models. The problem is that at the same time I also begun to get
complains from some authors because I was using their gauges without permission
(at that time I couldn’t tell the difference between a “freeware” and a
“public domain” gauge). Immediately therafter, I asked the site to remove
all my panels, but I remained with that frustrating feeling for not being able
to design my own gauges.
I was searching for public domain gauges when suddenly discovered a gauge made
by Jens Heye and André Sittard with a document attached saying that the gauge
had been made with “EasyGauge”. By its name, “easygauge”, immediately
guessed about the possibility of being a software that could help non
programmers. Jens sent me the site address of Bluesky Software Development and
after quickly reading about EasyGauge I acquired it. Yesterday I received the
code and started to create a rather complex gauge: an EICAS for an Airbus A340.
To my pleasant surprise, IT WORKED, and I did it in no more than a couple of
hours!!!!!
Most of you probably have used an electronic spreadsheet such as Microsoft
Excel, or even a text editor such as Word. Those programs are nothing but
graphic interfaces that allow a computer ignorant such as I to be able to create
complex calculations (like in Excel for example) without even knowing what is
going on between the interface and the computer’s processor.
And that is exactly what EasyGauge is: a friendly interface that allows people
with no programming knowledge to manipulate bitmaps and programming instructions
just by clicking in boxes. I congratulate the Bluesky Software Development team
for inventing the obvious thing. So obvious that nobody had thought about before.
I strongly recommend panel designers and flighsimmers, regardless whether you
have programming knowledge or not, to get this wonderful software. The cost is
too low if you compare it with the frustration that you can remove out of you.”