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Panals Flash White When Opened

Postby westside » Sat Mar 14, 2009 12:09 pm

I'm sure this is an old problem but I'm counting on the experience of the old guard on this site to direct me to a solution. When I activate an instrument panel view, the second I run the mouse pointer over an active control all of my screens flash white for a second then return to normal. After this flash the feature that lets you identify the control is no longer available. Not a big deal but a bit of an annoyance. Any help here would be appreciated.
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Re: Panals Flash White When Opened

Postby pete » Sat Mar 14, 2009 4:00 pm

Do I  understand you properly ... you view Instrument Panel - Main panel - then mouse over a control?

If this is the case does it happen with all aircraft? I have just done this with no problem. I was trying the Extra. All controls in that IFR panel are pretty self evident in that at least but I could imagine in some a/c they are not.
If you mean something else please explain. Are you running multiple screens?
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Re: Panals Flash White When Opened

Postby BAW0343 » Sat Mar 14, 2009 5:04 pm

I actually have the same problem, its fairly random to me, at least I haven't noticed if its only default or only addons.

What happens, for example, is you hit Shift+4 to get the throttle quadrant up, when you put the mouse over a switch the screen flashes white. It then reloads the panel etc and you have full functionality back. This sometimes repeats for all the different panel screens.
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Re: Panals Flash White When Opened

Postby SubZer0 » Sat Mar 14, 2009 5:14 pm

Go into the settings and, under the aircraft tab, uncheck "show cockpit tooltips"
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Re: Panals Flash White When Opened

Postby westside » Sun Mar 15, 2009 2:36 am

I will try that in the morning SubZero. I have shut down that feature but I am to tired to fly tonight. I will take off in the morning and get back to you on the results
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