7/11/99

   Here's another of my reprogramable radar-style GPS gauges.  This one is
based on HIGPS, which had 40 non-programable waypoints, mostly around Hawaii
and Tahiti.  W50GPS adds another 10 waypoints and includes a simple utility
to reprogram them all.  The default waypoints provide a tour of Europe.  This
gauge also corrects a bug reported by some of my European fans.  The bug
occurred with all my previous radar-style GPS gauges (such as the PROGPS
series).  Whenever the waypoint was West of Greenwich and the aircraft was
East of Greenwich (such as flying from Paris to Dublin), the blip behaved
strangely.  I believe this bug has now been completely corrected.  I am in
the process of correcting previous gauges and will upload them to my home
page at http://home.att.net/~chdome.  If you have a favorite, let me know and
I will give it priority.

  
   The W50MOD.EXE file is the waypoint reprograming utility.  Because it was
written with Visual Basic 3.0, it requires the VBRUN300.DLL file to be in
your \WINDOWS\SYSTEM subfolder.  This file is widely available in such places
as the "Must Have Files" library at www.flightsim.com.


REPROGRAMING THE WAYPOINTS:

   As mentioned above, W50MOD.EXE must be run from the \GAUGES subfolder.
Its purpose is to modify the default waypoints and its operation is,
hopefully, pretty self-explanatory.  The opening screen presents the current
values of waypoint 1.  Clicking the ">" button will present waypoint 2, etc.
Clicking the "<" button will cycle backward through the waypoints (from 1 to
50, etc).  An alternate method of choosing a waypoint is to enter its number
in the small white text box at the upper left corner of the screen.  Clicking
the "GO" button will then present that waypoint's values.  At any screen,
clicking the EXIT button will end the program.  In some of my past waypoint
utilities, you needed to enter all new info each time you changed a waypoint.
With W50MOD, you only need to change the numbers that will be different.  You
do, however, need to enter a new waypoint name each time you "SEND" info to
the GAU file.  Otherwise, the waypoint name will be blank on the gauge.
Remember to HIGHLIGHT any new numbers before clicking SEND.  Numbers can be
changed either by mouse-clicking the little up and down buttons to the right
of each number, or by clicking the number then using the keyboard arrow keys.
Depending on how WINDOWS is set-up, your numbers may be just about any color
when "highlit."  Just be sure none of the numbers are white when SENDing.

NOTE 1:  You may rename the gauge after modifying the waypoints, but the
         utility only works on a file named W50GPS.GAU.

NOTE 2:  Do NOT attempt to run W50MOD.EXE while running FS98 or CFS.  WINDOWS
         won't allow two programs to use the GAU file at the same time.


   I hereby declare this panel and this gauge to be in the Public Domain.
Anyone may use them for any purpose without asking permission.  You do not
need to acknowledge me as the original designer, but it would be nice.  The
panel and gauge should not harm your computer in any way but, if you imagine
they have, I accept no liability.

Chuck Dome
chdome@worldnet.att.net
Visit my home page at http://home.att.net/~chdome
