Pete Dowson

Sorry, I've never heard of "FS-C". What is it, please? I've no idea what it means by that, nor how it is trying to operate the elevator. I need more information, please. Like what IS FS-C, and some FSUIPC4 logs. Really it would be best if the program's authors could work out what they think is wrong, and if they think it is an FSUIPC4 problem, for them to discuss it with me so that we can fix it. Really it is very difficult, if not impossible, for me to diagnose programs interfacing to other folks' products. So, with that in mind please contact them and ask them to look into it and contact me if necessary. Meanwhile, please first ensure you are using the current version of FSUIPC4 (4.05), enable IPC read, IPC write, and Axis logging in the Logging options page, then run your test (keep it short -- only just long enough to see this error message), and then close FSX (very important to close it), ZIP up the FSUIPC4.LOG and send it to me at petedowson@btconnect.com. I'll then take a look to see if it is anything obvious. Regards Pete

It certainly sounds like Simconnect has simply stopped responding. I've had one other case only of this so far, and I was trying to get more information so I could put together a complete report for Microsoft when he decided to do a complete uninstall and re-instal of FSX -- so maybe that fixed it, or maybe he'll come back. I don't know. Are you by any chance using any type of multiplayer facility in FSX? If so, then that is one already known reason for SimConnect stopping -- I've implemented a work around in FSUIPC (you would need to install the current version, 4.05). Otherwise, maybe you could please go to the trouble of getting the needed information? If so, do this: We need a SimConnect log so I can see what is happening, and then you and I can both report it to Microsoft (you via tell_fs@microsoft.com, me direct via my contacts there). And, you never know, maybe I can figure out a work-around in FSUIPC4. To do this create a file containing these lines: [simConnect] level=Verbose console=No file=C:\SimConnect%01u.Log file_max_index=9 The 'file' line there can place the logs wherever you like -- for simplicity I've just suggested putting them in the root of your C: drive, but adjust it to wherever you want them to go. Save this file as Simconnect.ini in your "My Documents\flight simulator X files" folder. Then, keeping things a short as possible, reproduce the problem. Close FSX, Zip up both the Simconnect log and the FSUIPC4.LOG and send them to me at petedowson@btconnect.com. WE'll take it from there. If it does look like I can implement a work around, you'll be one of the first to get a test copy! Thanks & Regards Pete

Just delete the FSUIPC.KEY file from the Modules folder and re-register. Leave the FSUIPC.INI file alone, that contains your settings. Pete

Oh, thank goodness for that! There's must have been a corrupted DLL in there someplace. Thanks for letting me know! Regards Pete

Ah, someone still using the old original program loading facilities in WideServer, eh? Those actually date from before FSUIPC. Although they were left in the separate version WideServer.DLL for compatibility, the facilities were really replaced long ago by the [Programs] section facility in FSUIPC itself. Now that I've re-written the code as one DLL it seemed pointless having two similar facilities in different sections. The FSUIPC-based ones offer the same sort of facilities, or probably more, but use a different format (for instance, there's no separate Close parameter line, you can specify that action on the loading line). Ful details are in the Advanced User's guide for FSUIPC4 (and FSUIPC) under the heading: Programs: facilities to load and run additional programs Regards Pete

No, there isn't. Why does it shut down? The registration page is an ordinary Windows dialogue like any other. It sounds like you have something suspicious in your PC. Try shuttong everything else down -- one or other process is interfering. Maybe it's a Kensington Mouse driver -- folks have had lots of problems with that. There other things, like window Blinds that interfere with ordinary processes. Pete

How do you view the documentation? Nearly every program in which you can view my documents there's a search facility. Often you press CTRL+F and say what you want to search for. Surely you've used an editor before and searched for words? Pete

Sounds like you have something set for calibration in FSUIPC4 which you shouldn't have. On A/P I should think the only thing which might possibly do what you say is aileron trim or more likely the rudder or rudder trim centering -- but you should then notice you need to compensate in normal manual flying as well. Are you using rudder pedals? Check the calibration. If the rudder is off-centre to one side the A/P will have to compensate with opposite aileron -- the A/P doesn't control the rudder, you do. If you have been messing in the options and don't know what you've done, please simply delete your FSUIPC4.INI file and let it build a new one. FSUIPC4 itself doesn't alter or touch any part of FSX. Anything which occurs is always through some user or application activated option or assignment. FSUIPC4 is merely the interface to enable these things. Regards Pete

You cannot use FSUIPC3 keys to register FSUIPC4. It is a different product, completely re-written. Please read the documentation and follow the links to SimMarket for key purchase. Pete

Why not use the search facility in Word or WordPad to find these things in the documentation? I have to do it for you? I searched on GPS and immediately found "NAV/GPS switch" at 132C. Do you think I remember all these? I have to search just like you could! :-( There is no C/O pushbutton control or state. The display shows IAS when IAS control is selected, MACH when MACH control is selected, via the standard A/P offsets. The FS gauges to actually change the display without the mode being selected, but that is a local function in the gauge, not in the FS A/P. Pete

Not really. The NAV button is the same as the LOC (sometimes VOR/LOC) button on a real MCP -- it captures the NAV1 radial set in the pilot's CRS window. Those more advanced cockpits which provide proper LNAV and VNAV fiunctions do so by sophisticated programming inside the cockpit coding (in the gauges usually), and both functions need a programmable FMS (with CDU and data entry keyboard) because it is the FMS which provides the data guiding the Lateral and Verical courses. If you use something like the PMDG 737NG you should be able to program all your MCP buttons to operate their buttons, but I think you have to do that using keystrokes unless you come to some arrangement with them for their SDK. You could use it with Project Magenta software (http://www.promagenta.com) because all of the PM MCP functions are accessible through FSUIPC offsets -- documentation on their website lists them in some detail. Regards Pete

Yes, I understood that. You think I'm the idiot? But when you turn it it has to go unclosed again before going closed on the next position, right? Else it is a useless switch. So it goes off-to-on, then on-to off, just like any other switch. That is all a switch can really do, you see? :-( Groan. You are evidently not reading anything I say. How many more ways do I have to say the same EXTREMELY simple thing? Each time you turn your switch and it makes contact, that is an "off" to "on" change. That is the same as a PRESS of a button. Therefore all you need to do is program the PRESS to do what you want!!! No it is not. It is NOTHING like holding a key down UNLESS you tell FSUIPC you want to do this! I have already explained this!!! Please go and re-read what I said. I really cannot explain such a simple concept any better. I do not understand why you cannot see that it is NOT the state ofv the switch you are programming, but the CHANGE, from off to on, or on to off, or both, as you like!! Think CHANGE not STATE!!! What can't you understand what "off to on" and "on to off" mean? These are simply short words. There is nothing complicated here. You seem to think it is. Why? I am off to bed now, it is late here. Please go and think about things for rather longer than you appear to have done so far and maybe the light will dawn. :-( A further thought. if you don't understand words, why not just go and try it? I'm sure you'll see what I mean. I have run out of ways to say it anyway. Pete

Offsets don't change from version to version, hopefully. Especially rather standard ones -- they would have been the same back in FS98 days! New ones are added but old ones don't dile easily ;-) The current version of FSUIPC4 is 4.05, by the way. N1 button ---- there isn't one exactly, but TO/GA is the closest you'll get: 080C. ALT HOLD Button ---- A/P altitude lock, 07D0 LNAV, VNAV button ---- no such thing in the default 737, they left those off. Where are you looking? FS doesn't provide these functions by default. Pete

With FSUIPC4 or FSUIPC3? If FSUIPC3, why are you needing to re-register? Since you have the original email send it to me at petedowson@btconnect.com and I'll check it. If FSUIPC4 then obviously your FSUIPC3 keys won't work because it is a new product and it didn't even exist in 2004. Regards Pete

Erassuming that somehow your switch is looking "closed" then "open" (i.e. pressed and released) as you are turning it, isn't that the same as programming only the "off to on", as for a button. Just don't program the on to off in that case. If your switch signals nothing on each turn then it cannot be used for anything anyway, can it? You seem to be thinking this is complicated when surely it is easy. Please think about it a moment longer and re-read what I said already. ALL any software can possibly see of a switch is its changing from off to on or on to off. You can program one or other or both, as you like. How much more flexibility can you get? If you are programming a keypress from a button press in FSUIPC's buttons option, you have the additional option of having the key held pressed or not. So the keypress can do "KEY DOWN" and "KEY UP" each time, or "KEY DOWN" but not "KEY UP" till you move the switch again. Surely all this is pretty obvious. If you are not understanding then obviously I'm missing something, but I'm pretty sure everything is covered by the options as documented and explained. Regards Pete

Where execly can a user set that? Thank you Pete! Registered users, in the 'miscellaneous' options; non-registered have to edit a parameter in the INI file. Please do check the FSUIPC user guide some time. It describes the user facilities including this one. Regards Pete

In FSUIPC you mean? You don't say. If you want it to do the same action when it goes from On to Off as it does when it goes from Off to On, just program the same action for "Release" as for "Press". This is surely easy to understand? After all: "Press" is off -> on. "Release" is on->off FSUIPC doesn't know what sort of switch it is. It only sees those transitions. Pete

Same as with all FS windows -- drag it, size it, dock it, undock it, do what you like with it. When you save a Flight it is saved as well. It is an FS window, it isn't mine. As I said before, and as documented, 3302 is set by user options, not by IPC writes -- the documentation explicitly says it is read-only. It is for user's to decide what they can read best. The white messages user option doesn't appear to work in FSX at present, by the way. Pete

No, that cannot be. For several reasons: 1) The title is written before the text, so if that activated it the window would be empty! 2) Only one title for the wole session is used, because once the window is created it stays created no matter what. FSUIPC doesn't support multiple such windows, only the one, so the first title sent wins. I'm pretty sure it says that too. You only write the title once, on initialisation, and hope you are the first such application. It most certainly says you need to write 32FA to activate it. 'Call FSUIPC_WriteS(&H3380, Len(writetxt), writetxt, dwResult) 'Call FSUIPC_Write(&H3302, 2, VarPtr(0), dwResult) Why is there a write to the read-only location 3302 there? I don't know what "VarPtr(1)" does. Is it a pointer to an integer 1? If so the display is only for 1 second maximum. Is that what you want? Not sure what you mean -- they are both pop up windows with text messages in them. Just a different place and, normally, a different shape. but both can be undocked and re-shaped and so on. Have you enabled the multiline message window on the first page of the FSUIPC options? Is there more than one line of text in your message? Even if you only want one line you need a New Line or Return character in there as the whole point is to filter single lines to the standard message window, allowing only multiline messages to the multiline message window. Regards Pete

Ahem. Did you check the documentation at all? Writing to 3380 just provides the text to be displayed. The activation is by what you write into 32FA. It does say this quite clearly if you look up 3380, and the options and values you can provide are detailed against offset 32FA, though some of those don't apply to the multiline window. Regards Pete

Sorry, didn't mean it to hurt! ;-) Regards Pete

Ah! Thank you. All is explained. ;-) Well, almost all. It is very odd that any attempt is made to connect to the internet to find your Server PC by its name! That is rather weird. It's as if the name server (on the router perhaps?) didn't know thename so went off to see if it could be matched. Regards Pete

In another thread? Why start another then? Have you a reference? I really cannot remember all the separate threads I respond to, you know! ;-) No, this is not specifically an FS2004 forum. It is a forum for support of my FS modules, which run on FS98, CFS1, CFS2, FS2000, FS2002, FS2004 and FSX. There are also some programs which are separate to FS altogether. I cannot guess what you are using, and most enquiries at present are about FSX. The latest FSUIPC3 is 3.71. What is your version of WideFS? You need to quote numbers because the "latest" just means the last ones folks bothered to download. Are you starting a different thread because you think the answer to the same questions might thereby be different? If you want detailed answers I need detailed information. I don't know the other thread offhand, but if your logs look like they did then the answer will be the same. You said nothing was changed but now you say: So in fact you've changed at least two things -- moving the computers and changing your internet. It sounds very much like one of those things has changed or even broken something that was working before. Regards Pete

WideServer7 is installed when you install FSUIPC4. There is no separate module, as has been made very clear. WideServer is mentioned on the first options tab in FSUIPC4. When it is registered you will see you can enable it there. The current version of FSUIPC4 is 4.05 by the way. It is available above, since yesterday, but it loos like Enrico's not updated his site yet. Odd that, he's usually pretty fast. There is NO WideServer.DLL for FSX. If you've put one in delete it please. It won't do any harm other than confuse you. Please please do read a little about these products. There has NEVER been a WideServer.DLL for FSX, it has always been part of FSUIPC4, and it says this clearly in several places. No it does NOT!!! It never has. It says this: :cry: :cry: :cry: Pete

FS does allow payloads to be changed via the same Aircraft menu entry as the one which sets the Fuel levels. You don't need to reload the aircraft. FSUIPC does allow you to change individual payload weights dynamically, but I think in FS2004 this didn't actually affect anything unless you then went into and out of that payload menu. I never found out how to "broadcast" the change to the aircraft dynamics sections. FSX now officially supports payload changes via SimConnect, so FSUIPC4 uses that method. It should deal with the changes properly, but I haven't tested that. I'm not really the best person to test it, not really knowing that much about aircraft dynamics. I suppose I could fly the Cessna with just a pilot payload, then use FSInterrogate to put a huge weight in the other seat and see if that causes lateral balance to go awry. I might do that when I get time. I didn't answer the original question because I don't know much about programming aircraft panels, and zero about XML. Regards Pete