That is great news. Be sure to check out an amazing program called Air Manager 2.0 for creating custom gauges. It is very affordable and supports X-plane 10 -- see this link:
http://airrietveld.nl/Also... the X-plane developers provide a wealth of information on their developer website. See the link below. Look forward to hearing how things go!
http://developer.x-plane.com/Chris
Finally, here is another link to the release notes for the latest version (10.40) which is still in beta but lots of great improvements:
http://www.x-plane.com/?article=x-plane ... ease-notesUnder the section titled, "
New Features and Improvements" it says this:
"ANY App can now send in the string (by UDP, to port 49,000) “RREF” plus a dataref, and X-Plane will then send that dataref string, and its value, BACK TO THAT IP ADDRESS EVERY FRAME! So, we can get unlimited datarefs from X-Plane with no UI needed! So, just write your own map or external visual or other app and have it send the dataref requests to X-Plane, and X-Plane will send those datarefs right back to you with their values! Now, you can write an App to get any data you like from X-Plane, easily, with no configuration needed from the user!THIS lets you write any App you can imagine, that can EASILY interact with X-Plane by UDP!"