MSFS 2024 how to create a most simple add on to show "hello world" ? Help!

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Hi there:

Is there anybody know how to use MSFS 2024 sdk 1.3.4  to create a most simple window(html? instrument? screen render?)  to show hello world message on screen ?

I tried many many many times as document "CREATING AN HTML/JS/CSS INSTRUMENT"  said, and nothing shows up.  I even tried to create a new project only with most simple aircraft and configed panel.cfg file,  html files etc....   nothing shows up!  I'm very sure that official document lost some very important details! 

WASM maybe works but a little complecated to me, not test yet.

I want to write a add on to show some simple message with some image like buttons and can be selected, like windows message dialog or a very very simple config window. It cost me more than a week and got nothing !

thanks for the following creator's help
MSFS Development Creating an HTML Screen in blender
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpd3vkVrWYk&t=1145s

Importing and Integrating a default html gauge for customization
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4UE9lpUItE

Thank you for your time!

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Hello world instrument

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Thank you very much。 I’ll try that but I still want to know the official document about html/js/css method, where is the problem, what’s wrong, I did exactly what the document said.

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The easiest way to understand the HTML instruments is to look at some of the included packages and understand the common features. The most basic of these inherit the BaseInstrument class.

The structure is basically a modified version of Web Components. If you have some familiarity with those, it will make more sense. In the sim, the VCockpit system will register each of the HTML instruments in your package and render them in Coherent GT to be available as a material that gets linked to your model via the panel.cfg.

I have a repo that implements a simple framework to create a configurable tablet interface but it also contains all the parts to build a basic HTML instrument.