I found the process more reliable by running POPM from the 2nd monitor, manually.
Then the mouse cursor is well away from the panels.
BTW The Ready to Fly Button Skipper is a winner. So simple but very effective. Thanks Stanley.
The R2F button is just an annoying waste of time, we have already chosen Fly. What were Microsoft thinking? It’s up there with startup music on the annoying GUI chart 
When I had a 1600 x 900 main monitor the full height pop outs obscured the target panels, which then failed.
I may have done something wrong to make that happen. But moving to a HD monitor fixed the problem.
Now it seems MSFS knows to generate the popouts on the 2nd monitor.
That’s a pretty low spec monitor for use with flight sim. Even the most basic of setups generally use a 1920 X 1080 or higher. The sim remembers popout positions if they were open when you last exited a flight but upon very first use without having used the popout before the default is still 0, 0 on the main monitor I believe.
Yeah the 22in HD main monitor is permanent now.
Instruments pop out on a 15.6" HD touch screen and look crisp.
2nd PC runs Little Nav Map across my 1Gb network. When the SIM db is copied over it’s very efficient in CPU on the flightsim PC, and looks great on 2nd PC. Air Manager runs the overhead - again efficient across the network.
Might get another 15.6" monitor for twin G1000 and other AM instruments for A32NX. Then a DIY knobster.
I’m had this working perfectly, but recently it is failing every time and I don’t know why. I’ve deleted the panels and set them up again a few times, but same problem. It fails on Loading Custom Camera View and there is no error.log produced. When I check the green circle is in the middle of the PFD and the red circle is in the middle of the ND display.
What it sometimes does is jumps into the passenger compartment of the plane. It then sometimes jumps back to view in the image, but sometimes it stays in the passenger compartment.
The only thing that has changed, is I remapped my custom views to use Ctrl- to set view and then just to select it (e.g. 0 to go to view in screenshot). Not sure if this has messed things up or not.
I’ve checked Right-Alt is mapped correctly and it looks like it is. I can get this to pop the screens out correctly using the right-alt + mouse click. So at least a workaround.
Any advice / help appreciated.
Yes. POPM expects to use Alt+number to change custom views, and Ctrl+Alt+number to save them. AFAIK that can’t be changed, so if you want it to work you’ll have to change your mappings back to the default.
Thanks for reply @FlyerOneZero - that is a shame. So much easier using the num pad for views but having the PFD and ND on iPad much easier for me with my eyesight. So may have to compromise - possibly set up a single view using the old Ctrl-Alt-Num. Cheers
It is a shame. If you could summon a custom view via Simconnect (or if there were any meaningful control over the camera system via Simconnect at all) then POPM wouldn’t have to rely on keyboard shortcuts.
(However, if you were to ask @RoastGnu to make all the keybinds that POPM uses fully configurable, maybe they might consider it for a future version.)
How about it @RoastGnu - is this something that could be added?
For now I’ll just use the right Alt key and the mouse which is OK as workaround so far. Thanks.
Currently, I don’t have a way to summon custom view using SimConnect even though SimConnect SDK supposed to have commands to load view but it doesn’t work. It has been like that for the past year. On every SimConnect SDK update, I test the load custom view commands and hope the commands will start working. I really don’t like sending keystroke but there isn’t a way to get around MSFS limitations. As for customizing keyboard bindings, it will be a lot of work and involve a pretty robust user interface to do that. An idea I have is to read MSFS control binding file to use that as the basis to send keystrokes and I will need to do some research and experiment.
Hi all,
Some updates for MSFS Pop Out Panel Manager. Sorry to all for not being able to provide new features or updates during the past couple of months. I was super busy with work and family activities. But during the extra time that’s available, I’ve been working on couple of non-popout related features to add to POPM that I found personally useful.
Once I complete and test the newly added features, I’ll release the next beta for you all to try. Please stay tune.
Stanley
Bought a small 10 inch screen to test popping out the screens in the PMDG. I had already read about MSFS Pop Out Manager so installed the software and managed to get it to work using the Quick Start guide. Let me first say: What a great little gem of an application this is. many thanks for creating this.
I do have a small problem with the PMDG pop out. Currently I am popping out the PFD on this 10 inch monitor. If I look at many screenshots, many users seem to be popping out both PFD and ND on one screen. However I cannot do that, as my PFD popout is not square (as it is in the PMDG panel) but it pops out as a 16:9 “window” with a lot of black pixels on both sides.
This means I cannot add the ND to the same screen (as it also is not square but in 16:9 format with a lot of black).
Tried to resize the panels, but that “squeezes” them horizontally making them look very weird.
What am I doing wrong? How do i get the square PFD/ND popouts that I can place together on 1 display?
Once popped out just use the positioning features of POPM to move an resize it to fit whatever you need. You can move and size down to a single pixel if it’s needed to be that precise. Just remember to keep to an aspect ratio that matches that of the actual display so there is no distortion.
The ascpect ratio is my problem. The original (unpopped) display in the PMDG is square, lets say 800x800 pixels. Ive seen videos of people popping out this panel, and it is still square, exactly like the original one, so still 800x800 pixels, 1 : 1 aspect ratio.
However, if I try to pop out the PFD panel in the PMDG, it’s size is suddenly 1920x1080 in a 16:9 ratio (the actual PFD is still square though, but somehow two black pixel-borders are added to make it 1920x1080).
So resizing it back to 800x800 does not work, because of the big black borders the image will then get heavily distorted.
The black borders disappear if the window is sized the same as the actual popout. The black areas are just there to fill the difference between the window size and the display size. I’ve done it multiple times. Having it 1920 X 1080 may mean you have it set to popout full screen. Turn that off and try again.
I have noticed a regression (in SU14?) that if you ALT+ENTER on a pop-out that has the incorrect aspect ratio when you do so, it fills the screen but the aspect ratio is not fixed, leading to squeezed or stretched content. I don’t think it did that before.
Hey there, I am just learning how to use Pop Out Manager now. I am trying to pop out the GTN 580 in the TBM, I have a touch screen monitor for it. I am getting stuck at a certain point and I wonder if anyone could assist. Here is a link to a photo of the failed area.
I’ve been reading through seeing if I can find anything related, so forgive me if I missed something.
Bill,
The first question is can you pop out the panel manually, using Alt Gr + mouse click?
Yes, it’s Right Alt+ Mouse Click for me, but yes, I have successfully popped out the panels manually. For the PFD/MFD, I’m okay with that, but since I got myself a touch screen for the GTN, that what I’m really wanting to get working.
Please see the following post in github with users having your similar problem. Most likely you’re having MSFS keyboard control assignment issue to pop out window or loading or saving custom camera.
Stanley
