[Feature request] "Close" button on pop-up avionics

[charly]

Hi all!

Was thinking about a potential new feature during tonight's flight.

I do pop-up / pop-off PFD & NAV screen lots of times a flight, mainly to be able to access the controls underneath (A/P switches & knobs, QNH setting, NAV scale...).

BUT: almost everytime I want to pop-off a screen, this pop-up (or another one) is placed on top of the "pop-off" click zone. So, I have to drag it, before I can click to pop-it-off.

SO: would be sooo nice to me to have on the top-right corner of the pop-ups a tiny zone to pop it off (little cross or something similar).

Pilots, would you enjoy it? (guess Philipp will want more than 1 interested user before investing time on that).

Cheers,

Charles

ho! and BTW, another one I was thinking about: when I pop up several screens, they overlay all each others in the bottom-left corner: I'd love that every single screen pops-up in a different initial position. Of course, the behavior of retaining their last position after it was changed is a must to keep. Just speaking about the default initial position.

[Cameron]

This has already been discussed and answered, and a quick search of "popups" would have answered your request/question.

As has been previously specified by Philipp, location saving of display popups is on the list of things to do.

[charly]

Hello, Cameron.

You mean answered here?

Pilotview - set up and used. FOV? 65° already. I "only" have 19' screen with 1280x1024 rendering, maybe here's the issue.

I'd appreciate getting this "close" button on popups, too, as wadesworld. But I understand it won't be.

Thks anyway.

Charles

[Cameron]

Hi, Charles,

No, that is not the topic I speak of and pilotview was not anything I was referring to!

[charly]

Hi Cameron,

Sorry, kept on browsing support forum and still can't find the topic you're reffering to. I would be gratefull if you could post me a link to there.

Thks!

Charles

[Cameron]

Hi Cameron,

Sorry, kept on browsing support forum and still can't find the topic you're reffering to. I would be gratefull if you could post me a link to there.

Thks!

Charles

The post in question is here:

[charly]

The post in question is here: http://forums.x-pilo...1-2/#entry29935

Hi Cam,

OK for remembering position - glad it's in the todo.

But my (main) request is not about resizing or remembering position of popups: it's about adding a "close" button on the popup itself.

To avoid having to find the blank screen in the 3D cockpit when I want to discard the popup.

Cheers,

Charles

[philipp]

Well, we originally had the close button on the top right screw of the display frames, that's why the screw still features a red X instead of a regular philippshead. However, we found most people found the display frames too obtrusive and fly without them - so using the screw as a close button was no longer an option.

I can however bring the close button back as an invisible click zone in the upper right corner of the displays themselves - with no visual clue. Try the CDU, there it should still work this way. Do you think you'd be happy with using "invisble" close buttons?

Philipp

[charly]

Hi Philipp!

Oh YES! for sure. I didn't remember about display frames, 'cause I disabled it from the very first day.

A little invisible zone on the upper right corner would be OK I guess. The only risk is for "non-aware" users to mistakenly discard the popup instead of dragging it if they click on the wrong zone - so it has to be a little one.

Idea for workaround: if X-Planes allows, can a right-click on popup discard it? (may cause issues on XP10 with cockpitmouselook). Double-clik may also be an option if it exists in X-Plane.

Whatever solution I'll be happy to try! Tell me how I can help.

Thks Philipp!

Charles