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Secondary Window

Secondary Window is a small floating window that sits on top of EuroScope. It shows your maps (ground layouts, airspace, sectors, fixes) and live traffic in their own window, so you can keep a clean second view open while you work the main radar.

Secondary Window

Getting started

  1. Open the folder you were given. It contains three files: SecondaryWindow.dll, SecondaryWindowMap.txt, and SecondaryWindowSettings.txt. Keep all three together in the same folder.
  2. In EuroScope, open Other Set, then Plugins, then Load, and pick SecondaryWindow.dll.
  3. A small window titled Secondary Window appears above EuroScope.

That is it. The window stays on top so it always feels part of your layout.

The window

Along the top of the window you will find a title bar with three buttons on the right side:

  • The list button opens the sidebar, where you choose what to show and reach every action.
  • The minus button collapses the window down to just the title bar. Click it again to bring it back.
  • The X button hides the window. Type .sw show in the EuroScope chat to bring it back.

You can move the window by dragging the title bar, and resize it by dragging the small grip in the bottom right corner.

Moving around the map

  • Pan: hold the right mouse button and drag inside the map.
  • Zoom: scroll the mouse wheel.

The left mouse button is kept free for tags and the measuring tool, so a left click on empty map space does nothing.

Choosing what to show (the sidebar)

Click the list button in the title bar to open the sidebar. The top of the sidebar has a row of action buttons, and below that is your list of maps.

Maps are grouped into folders such as GEO, REGIONS, ESE, and per airport folders like ESE/RPLL. Click a folder to expand or collapse it. Tick a map to show it, untick to hide it. Your choices are remembered for each window, so the next time you load EuroScope everything comes back the way you left it.

  • Hide all and Show all: hide or show every map at once.
  • Load .asr: pick one of your EuroScope .asr files and the window shows the same maps that .asr had turned on.
  • Altitude filter: open a small box where you set a minimum and maximum altitude in feet. Traffic outside that band is hidden. You can also clear it back to no filter.
  • Hide aircraft on ground: turn this on to hide slow targets so parked and taxiing aircraft stop cluttering the view.
  • Open new window: open another Secondary Window (up to five). It starts blank so you can build a different view.
  • Reload maps and Reload settings: re read your files from disk after you have edited them.

Traffic and tags

Each aircraft shows as a dot with a short label (a tag) beside it. The tag can show the callsign, altitude, speed, and more, depending on how the settings file is set up.

You can drag any tag to move its label away from the dot, which helps when two aircraft sit close together. A thin line connects the moved tag back to its dot so you always know which is which. The position you set lasts for the session.

Measuring distance and bearing

To measure between two points, double click on the map and, without letting go, drag to the second point. A line appears showing the distance in nautical miles and the bearing.

When you let go, the measurement stays on screen so you can read it. It disappears the moment you left click anywhere again.

Waypoints (fixes)

If your sector file includes fixes, they appear as a layer called FIXES in the sidebar. Tick it to show every fix as a small triangle with its name beside it. It starts hidden, so turn it on when you want it.

Using more than one window

You can have up to five Secondary Windows open at once. Each one keeps its own position, size, zoom, altitude filter, and its own set of visible maps. A common setup is one window zoomed in on a ground layout and another showing the wider airspace.

Open another window from the sidebar Open new window button, or by typing .sw new in the EuroScope chat.

Quick chat commands

Type these in the EuroScope command line.

Command What it does
.sw reload Re read your map and settings files
.sw new Open another Secondary Window
.sw show Bring back any hidden windows
.sw hide Hide all windows
.sw save Save your current layout right now
.sw alt 3000 24000 Set the altitude filter on every window (in feet)
.sw alt off Clear the altitude filter on every window

Changing colors and tag text

Most of the look is controlled by SecondaryWindowSettings.txt. You can open it in any text editor and change things like the background color, the traffic dot color, the tag font, and what each tag line shows. Every line has a short comment next to it explaining what it does.

After you save your changes, type .sw reload in the EuroScope chat (or use the Reload settings button in the sidebar) and the window updates right away. If something does not look right, the original values are written next to each setting, so you can always put them back.

If a window goes missing

If you close a window with the X and want it back, type .sw show. If you want to start fresh with a single default window, close EuroScope and delete the file SecondaryWindowState.txt, then start again.