Simconnect window disappears

[Aum364]

Hi Pete,

I have nasty and strange problem recently.
I use a separate numeric keypad placed in the window of my cockpit and I only use it for ProATCX and it's few keystrokes.
But PATCX only accepts CTRL-ed and SHIFT-ed keys, so I left the default keys for PATCX 1,2,3,4,etc. and used a few lines in FSUIPC to get the required results from the numeric pad, like:

1=W05DC=0 N45,8,1070,48     -{Ins: Press=key press & release: 0 }-
2=W05DC=0 N35,8,1070,49     -{End: Press=key press & release: 1 }-
3=W05DC=0 N40,8,1070,50     -{Down: Press=key press & release: 2 }- and so on

I also use the numpad's + and - to change the simrate, like:
6=W05DC=0 N109,8,65790,0     -{Num-: Press=SIM_RATE_DECR }-
8=W05DC=0 N107,8,65789,0     -{Num+: Press=SIM_RATE_INCR }-

Works absolutely fine, until I go into full-screen mode. From that moment on, the keys don't work anymore, the Simconnect-Window doesn't appear anymore, no keys work on the numpad, even after returning from full-screen to windowed-mode.

Tried it with P3D4.0, 4.1 and also a vnext version. Same result.
Some other progs like GSX, that also uses the simconnect-window, just works fine, only the numeric keys become dead from the moment on I once used full-screen.
What could be the problem?

regards
Achoriham

[Pete Dowson]

16 hours ago, Aum364 said:

But PATCX only accepts CTRL-ed and SHIFT-ed keys,

No, you can use whatever keys you want to assign. I tend to use the defaults, which are still plain keys I think.

16 hours ago, Aum364 said:

But PATCX only accepts CTRL-ed and SHIFT-ed keys, so I left the default keys for PATCX 1,2,3,4,etc. and used a few lines in FSUIPC to get the required results from the numeric pad, like:

1=W05DC=0 N45,8,1070,48     -{Ins: Press=key press & release: 0 }-
2=W05DC=0 N35,8,1070,49     -{End: Press=key press & release: 1 }-
3=W05DC=0 N40,8,1070,50     -{Down: Press=key press & release: 2 }- and so on

But if the keypad is recognised by Windows as a key press, that would seem to provide keypresses within keypresses?

16 hours ago, Aum364 said:

Works absolutely fine, until I go into full-screen mode. From that moment on, the keys don't work anymore, the Simconnect-Window doesn't appear anymore, no keys work on the numpad, even after returning from full-screen to windowed-mode.

And only using your strange assignments for 0, 1, 2 and so on? Why not just use 0, 1, 2 etc as normal. It surely works okay then?

16 hours ago, Aum364 said:

Some other progs like GSX, that also uses the simconnect-window, just works fine, only the numeric keys become dead from the moment on I once used full-screen.
What could be the problem?

So the numeric keys don't become "dead" with other Simconnect menus? There's no difference between them, you know. They are all the same standard SimConnect mechanism.

FSUIPC knows nothing about whether you are in Full Screen or Windowed mode. It simply doesn't care, or detect it. I think you need to look elsewhere about your configuration.

PEte

 

[Aum364]

Thank you Pete!