Pete Dowson

And I replied to it this morning with an Access Key: Program name : squawkbox.exe Company: None Product Name : SquawkBox 2.3 Key = LWVQ 7I2V 9GPB The reason for the delay was that it was not obvious that "None" was the actual content of that field, or Fabio was simply saying it was empty. It's any two out of the three, just in case one was really empty. Pete

You need to register for all user options. Without registration FSUIPC is all the original FS6IPC used to be, an interface for external programs. Please check the announcements and the description of what you get, what you don't get, in the documentation. Regards, Pete

Since Squawkbox is FreeWare it is perfectly entitled to interface correctly to a non-registered FSUIPC. The trouble is that, if it is not maintained and no one is "looking after it", as it were, then no one will presumably send me the details so I can generate an Access Key for it. If someone here would like to send me the data I need to make the key, I will publish it for manual entry. What I need is: 1. The EXE name 2. The contents of these 3 fields of the Version data (right click on the EXE in Explorer, then select Properties-Version): (a) Company (b) Product Name © File Description I need at least two of these three to contain something, and I need the contents of those accurately. Thanks Pete

As per announcements, and the doumentation: What you get if you don't register: an interface for accredited application programs. What you get if you do register: full user facilities plus an interface for all programs whether accredited or not. BTW, I assume you are talking about FS2002? FSUIPC doesn't provide that user facility on FS2004 as there's such an option built into FS I believe. Regards, Pete

There should be two separate and different keys, one for FSUIPC and one for WIDEFS. The same one will not work for both. If you paid for both keys then all I can suggest is that you send me the details (the email) to petedowson@btconnect.com, along with your FSUIPC.KEY file and FSUIPC.LOG, both from the Modules folder. Regards, Pete

Well for the SimMarket payments it is done by them for me, but even so, I expect the SimMarket folks also take breaks now and then, and probably sleep more at night than I do at present! They promise the key within 24 hours. I don't really think you can expect a 30 minute turn-a-round every time. Regards, Pete

No bug. Please read the announcements, or even the beginning of the FSUIPC User Guide. If you don't register, you can only run accredited programs. Accredited programs have access keys. I supply access keys to developers or suppliers on request, and they are free for freeware programs. No one has requested one for Squawkbox yet. I cannot generate keys from thin air, I need data about the programs. I am not a Squawkbox user so I don't even have the program. So, it is no use you "waiting for a better version". Sorry. Pete

This is with FS2002 or FS2004? I really don't know what's going on there - those offsets are pointing to somewhere is transient structures created by SIM1.DLL. However, if you can explain some time to me exactly what they are, what they are for, and so on, I'll see about documenting them and including them in the formal IPC interface. But in a few weeks, please, I'm inundated at present! Regards, Pete

Hmmm. Yes. I must do something about that -- it should not really repeat the same messages all the time. It needs to log the fact that the program cannot be accepted, but it shouldn't do it continuously. I'll fix that in the first update, in a couple of weeks. I really must do the SDK first. Thanks for the report! Regards, Pete

With an unregistered installation of FSUIPC, no un-acredited programs will get anything but zero data from FSUIPC. You can look in the FSUIPC LOG and see that the program was not accepted. Programs need an access key to enable their interface ot FSUIPC to work, UNLESS that copy of FSUIPC is registered. This is described several times in my announcemetns, I'm surprised you missed it all. It's also described in the FSUIPC User Guide, near the beginning. I have responded to all requests for access keys that I have so far received. For freeware program they are free, and as Squawkbox is a freeware program I would provide it with a free key. However, the author or some organisation responsible for its supply realy needs to get in touch to supply the details I need to make the access keys. I cannot conjure them out of thin air I'm afraid. Regards, Pete

This is really more a question for Enrico Schiratti, whose website that is, but I understand he had some difficulty with the Internet earlier today, but all is well now. Pete

The whole point of FSUIPC is to try to provide compatibility through from FS98 through FS2000 and FS2002 to and including FS2004. As far as the IPC interface is concerned, if the program works on any it works on all -- provided of course it doesn't take advantage of NEW things offered in later versions. Some packages, however, also need access to other aspects of FS -- things like Airport Data formats, scenery, aircraft files, Multiplayer. These things are outside of FSUIPC and may or may not be compatible from FS version to FS version. The other thing then is whether you register FSUIPC or not. If you don't, then the FS2002 add-ons which use it won't get any joy unless and until they have an access key. Regards, Pete

Last time I looked, it was. Slap bang at the top. Pete

Developers who want to supply FSUIPC with their product and have it work out of the box, as it were, without the user having to register FSUIPC, merely need to reach an agreement with me as to licensing fees for that. Freeware get free licenses, for others it varies according to circumstances. As described in one of my other announcements, which is *still* on the forum, I have been offering to send full details to any developer who asks for several weeks now. You need to write to the email address it mentions, please check the Announcements. I'll be updating the SDK next week and including all the details inside that too. Regards, Pete

Please check the announcement at the top of the forum about supported versions, and also visit http://www.schiratti.com/dowson. Most of my modules were updated ready for FS2004 a while ago -- the GPSout update was released on July 8th I think. Pete

I think that will most certainly hapen if you go to each page in turn and order them separately, yes. The combined offer is selected via a drop-down at the top of the page, from either one. You don't need to visit the other page. I know that works because most of the combined receipts I've been getting are for the special both-together offer at 30 Euros. I wish you luck with SimMarket trying to sort it out, but I can understand it. I shouldn't think their software is sophisticated enough to compare all items in a shoping basket to hunt out your special offers, as in real shops it is up to you to select them. Regards, Pete

Sorry, but there are so many things like that which were not known in FS98. FSUIPC really does almost nothing at all in that version, it is just a window to the GLOBALS.DLL module, like FS6IPC was before it. There's no way of getting information which may not be accessible, and no one is going to spend a lot of time investigating a 6 year old version. I'm very sorry, Pete

Well of course most all of the changes have been to get FSUIPC working on FS2004 as well as it was working on FS2002, so, no, for FS2002 you won't notice much difference at all. Some things will have been improved, but not noticeably, and there may have been a bug fix or two, but nothing really important. Now that the main work, in porting it to FS2004, is done, of course new facilities may start to get added, again. No doubt some of these will be for FS2004 only, but not all. If I were you I'd simply review the changes listed in the History documentation for each release as it happens. You can still download them and look, of course. However, if you ask for help or support and say it is version 2.975 or earlier I may ask you to upgrade first! Isn't that fair? Regards, Pete

I sent the files to all the sites at 1200Z today. Unfortunately the usual site, which is run by Enrico Schiratti, was not updated immediately because Enrico was out. He has just been trying to upload the file, but called me a moment ago to say that he is having Internet problems. I think it will be sorted out soon. Sorry. I don't have any control at all over any websites, this Forum is my only outlet! Regards, Pete

You can run as many copies of WideClient, one on each Client PC, as you like. The licensing covers the use of WideServer, the part which goes into the FS installation. Regards, Pete

Sorry, I really have no idea what these are, let alone where to find them inside FS. It has taken me many months to find enough things to allow FSUIPC to provide as much compatibility as it does, and I probably haven't covered all of the listed values yet in any case. When I get time, in a few weeks maybe, I'll perhaps start looking for new data on request, but you'll have to help me. I'd need to know exactly what this is and how to use it. Please ask me again in September. Meanwhile, if all you want to do is control this from outside FS, use the control values which those equate to and send them through the FS controls facility at offset 3110. Regards, Pete

Yes. But you have to use WideFS -- usually you would then also run the FS appplication (e.g. Squawkbox) on that other PC too. Under WideFS you assign KeySends to "RWon" and "RWoff" (in the wideclient.ini file on the RW PC), and then program your buttons in FSUIPC ot use the KeySend controls, not the RW controls. There's stuff about this in the FSUIPC Advanced User's Guide as well as in the WideFS documentation. Regards, Pete

Sorry, I never actually produced random wind (perhaps you mean turbulence?), and, for the time being, at least, I've not implemented the random rain or storm functions. I have a strong feeling that most of my weather features will not get used very much when folks get to experience the FS2004 weather engine. It is far better than anything before, and I don't think I can do much to improve it. As in previous releases, I can really only influence "global" weather, and really you wouldn't particularly want to use FS2004 with a single global weather setting, the local differences are far too attractive now. If feedback indicates that people would still prefer FS2002/FS2000-like weather effects, albeit with better graphics, I'll consider adding some of the facilities back, but I would be very surprised. I actually felt a bit daft putting in the facilities for global weather which I have done. Regards, Pete

Rightyes, that test hot key was enabled in that. Sorry if it confused you, but there's no harm done. Just delete those files, and go into the FSUIPC Hot Keys page and reset the assignment for the bottom left entry (which probably says "reserved"). In the Betas for version 3.00 I used the same system to produce binary dump files for other things, not aircraft specific data, but your message has reminded me to remove this before I issue it, this time! :) Thanks, Pete

I thought UK release date was at least another week off. Normal release dates here are Fridays, so I'm guessing 1st August at the earliest. Do you know different? Pete