VATSIM on windows. Please Help!?

[selim]

Hello, i need a little help ! I want to fly on Vatsim, i am with windows. What program should i use FSInn or SquawkGear? And some other tips will be useful ! Thank you in advance !

[bishb25]

Assuming you have'nt found it already, http://squawkgear.wordpress.com/

Good luck! I just got connected to VATSIM using FG GIT running on Linux.

One thing I had to change though. In the installation/setup instructions the say to:

Edit the file $FG_ROOT/gui/menubar.xml. Look for the line “<label>Debug</label>” and add these lines just above that:

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<menu>
  <label>SquawkGear</label>
  <item>
    <label>Direct Comms</label>
    <binding>
      <command>dialog-show</command>
      <dialog-name>sq_comm</dialog-name>
    </binding>
  </item>
</menu>


This causes the HELP and AIRCRAFT menus to get squished together and not work right

So I moved the Squawkgear menu enrty to the bottom of the file after the HELP menu:

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      <item>
         <name>menu-about</name>
         <binding>
            <command>dialog-show</command>
            <dialog-name>about</dialog-name>
         </binding>
      </item>
   </menu>

   <menu n="11">
     <label>SquawkGear</label>
     <item>
       <label>Direct Comms</label>
       <binding>
         <command>dialog-show</command>
         <dialog-name>sq_comm</dialog-name>
       </binding>
     </item>
   </menu>
</PropertyList>


And that looks like this:

This change would be the same for windows or linux.