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Hi.

I have a panel that when you push the little icon that brings up the overhead panel...... the panel appears....... but it is outside the aircraft windows.  It SHOULD pop up over the windows and the cockpit display.

The other pop up panels in this plane work fine.

I went into the panel.cfg file and looked around.  I could find a variable that related to the position that the panel poped up in..... but not one that sort of acted like the "bring to front" function in a graphics program.

How do I fix this?

best,

...............john

please post a pic of what you mean by it being outside the aircraft?. it is not a problem editing it for you if it needs repositioning.  

[quote]I have a panel that when you push the little icon that brings up the overhead panel...... the panel appears....... but it is outside the aircraft windows.

  Here's a very good way to solve this, if your still having trouble. Download CFG editor from their website. Not sure what it is, sorry...
When downloaded, install and run. Open the panel notepad, and choose the overhead window. Make sure you have "Always In Front" checked. There ya go.

http://www.cfgedit.com/index-cfgedit.html

That's the site for CfgEdit.

Good Luck

Thanks for the hint.  

However..... I seem to remember reading somewhere that Cfgedit cauese some real problems with panels that contained XML gauges when it saved the file.

If I am remembering correctly...... what I read said that if you opened the panel and then resaved it out fo Cfgedit... that the xml gauges would then screw up.

That sound familiar????

The panel in question has a lot of sophisticated XML gauges along with some of the older ones.

best,

.................john

I believe you can open any window/panel and then drag it where you want it..even resize it (mouse drag the edges) and for the rest of that session..even if you close it..it'll reopen the way you left it.

I know that's not as good as having it sized and open the way you like.. but you only have to do it once per flight.

Brett,

No... this is not simply a location issue or a size issue.  

The overhead panel comes up BEHIND the aircraft main panel and windows.... so it looks like it is sitting outside the front windows of the aircraft.  In the window of the plane where it is exposed.... I can use the mouse cursor and click on it and drag it around a bit....... but it is always staying behind all that other stuff.  I cannot get it to move to the front of the layers of panels.

I have moved it's start up location all around in the panel.cfg file.  But I can find snything that will move the layer that it appears on to the front.

best,

...............john

[quote]Thanks for the hint.

[quote]Brett,

The overhead panel comes up BEHIND the aircraft main panel and windows.... so it looks like it is sitting outside the front windows of the aircraft.