Gizmo

[JoHubb]

I am newish to X-plane. I run it in W7 x64. I updated to v 1.4 and now notice a Gizmo popup bottom right with a countdown timer.  The purpose of this is not clear to me.

 

When I click on the popup I get options for more information or to write a script. I ignore this and carry on setting up my flight.

After a while I get a log screen with details of various routines performed by Gizmo. None of this makes any sense to me. 

 

Questions:

 

1.  Should I be doing something I am not doing with this gizmo? I presume it is needed otherwise it would not be included in the download. I notice there is a payware version - do I need it? 

2,  Am I doing something wrong with the LES DC-3 which prompts a Gizmo report?

 

Thanks!

 

John

 

 

[Cameron]

There's nothing you need to do with those menus. Some aircraft use them, some don't.

 

Gizmo is a language API for X-Plane. The DC-3 uses Gizmo to simulate systems and make your experience better than what default X-Plane can provide. 

[JoHubb]

Thanks.  I should have said that when I load the sim (with LES DC-3 as default) it says Gizmo is in test mode.  When the countdown timer reaches 0 the popup says Gizmo is disabled.

 

I think I must be missing some vital step. 

 

John

[Cameron]

That should not be happening. Can you post the log.txt file located in your X-Plane folder?

[JoHubb]

Thanks again. File attached.

 

John

Log.txt

[JoHubb]

...just in case here is the GizmoLog.txt

 

 

GizmoLog.txt

[JoHubb]

Any thoughts, Cameron? 

 

John

[JoHubb]

Still nothing?

 

John