General HydroStatics
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Command of the Week
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A Gadget
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Someone had the idea that it would be nice to have a little
"gadget" that pops up and shows the locations of the tank ends
for the currently selected tank in Load Editor.
It takes only a few lines of GHS code to make one: macro tk_ends tank {LEtank} template tk_endsT "Aft: {TENDA}" "Fwd: {TENDF}" // .tk_endsT tank off / And here is how it looks: |
But we can make it look better than that by using some of the color and formatting options. Here is one possibility: |
How did we do it? Nothing special. Check the TEMPLATE command documentation if you're curious, and you will come up with one better than that. |
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