Pete Dowson

Please check my announcement at the top of the forum. I can send registration details and details of testing to developers. Pete

WideFS is the only one I am always charging for. FSUIPC in its use purely as an interface to FS will be free to users -- please go and read something about it all before you criticise. I shouldn't have to keep repeating the same information Regards, Pete

I have no site. I do not run a web site. This forum is as close as I get. How does FS2004 say these things? Doesn't it know 2.9 is only an internal Beta release? Or are you referring to a person? FSUIPC version 3 will support FS2004, and it will be released on or a little before the same time as FS2004 is released, which is the 29th July as far as I've been informed. If it is much earlier than that I'm afraid FSUIPC might be a little later than FS2004. How did you get FS2004 so long before its release date? I'm on the Beta team and I've had it less than a week and I still therefore have a lot of work to do! Pete

Please read the announcement at the top of the forum. It is all there. You could also follow all the very detailed questions and answers, some much more clearly worded than I could possibly provide, in the thread entitled "FSUIPC Payware, I support it". It's long, but you'll find it quite amusing in places! Regards, Pete

I'm afraid I don't know anything about Squawkbox or Roger Wilco, and I certainly wasn't aware that RW "autoloads" -- how does it do that? What loads it? It won't load itself unless it has some background process or driver running to do this for it. If SB has a facility to load RW, then of course it cannot when SB is not even on the same PC. The same may apply to this switching of frequencies -- I don't know any "ATC directory" (is this in SB?), but if SB feeds frequencies to RW, it won't find it if it's on the other PC, now will it? None of this is anything at all to do with WideFS or FS. Roger Wilco is NOT an FS Application as such, it doesn't interface to FSUIPC or WideFS, it is an entirely separate program. Only FSUIPC client applications can communicate via WideFs, and then only if they are programmed to do this. Regards, Pete

737NG uses FSUIPC. Maybe you have an old version, or maybe their installation installed an old version? Check. Make sure you have FSUIPC 2.975 and WideServer.dll 5.50 or later. Right click on them in Explorer and check the Properties-VersionInfo. If this isn't it you'll need to wait for their response. There's no relationship at all between any aircraft and WideServer, so they must be stomping on something. Regards, Pete

In XP, Start-Programs-Accessories-System Tools-System Information, then select Hardware Resource-IRQs. Also check Conflicts/Sharing while you're there. Pete

Okay. Sorry. Well, I do have the software so I can take a look. But I am going to be pretty busy now till late August, what with the imminence of FS2004. could you perhaps ask me again then? In the meanwhile, perhaps you can see if you can get any details from Garmin. If the protocol they are using is proprietary then it may also be "secret". I really wouldn't want to start trying to work it out without any information -- it would be far cheaper to buy you a different program! Same applies if it is too complicated -- I know some of their stuff is really so different from NMEA that I wouldn't want to go there with the simple freebie GPSout DLL. Regards, Pete

Oh .... that's good. Thanks! Still, I don't like the maps, compared to many other programs. Now, now, there's no need for sarcasm! Apologies for getting it wrong. Regards, Pete

Yes, yes and yes. Please make sure you are using the latest released versions of my modules (see announcements at the top of this Forum). Pete

What version of FSUIPC do you have installed? The current one, the only one supported at present, is 2.975. TrafficLook certainly works with that. If everything is correct and you have FSUIPC installed (in FS go to the Modules menu and check), then the only other possibility is a corrupted program. Try downloading the ZIP again. Regards Pete

If it isn't for sale, if you don't make any money out of it, it is the same as freeware and gets a free key -- if you need one (see below). I'm only asking for a contribution from those who earn money using my work, and even then it has to be agreed as fair by both parties. On the other hand, if you license FSUIPC as a user then you don't need keys for any add-ons anyway. That's going to be cheap enough and could be useful if you also want the extra (non-application interface) facilties in FSUIPC too. Regards, Pete

I use Mapsource as well, but it is NOT a moving map program. It can plot routes for you to download into your GPS ready for a trip and it can upload the routes you followed afterwards so you can see where you went, but in no way is it a useful moving map. If you have a map display facility on your Garmin GPS it can even download map segments into the GPS so that it (the GPS) can be used as a moving map -- this is what I use it for when I am on holiday trips, for instance. Even if it could follow things in real time, which it can't, its maps are really pretty awful compared with real map programs like Autoroute, and more expensive in any case. No, there is nothing in real time to support. I think you misunderstand its function. Sorry. Regards, Pete

None of the variables in the 2nd table of the programmers guide should be used if there's an alternative method -- because they were found and mapped "by fluke" in FS2000 and cannot be guaranteed in anything later. I state this at the head of that table I think. That particular offset (3460) is clearly marked as NOT supported for FS2002 (see the "No" in the rightmost column?). It isn't needed in any case. ALL the autopilot controls and read-outs are mapped in their FS98 compatible places, 07BC through to 0810. I'm surprised you even wanted to look further afield! The airspeed value is at 07E2. Of course you also need the autothrottle armed (0810) and the airspeed hold selected (07DC). If you have difficulty finding things, try using your viewer's search function. It would be nice to have an index, I know, but there's not enough hours in the day! Regards, Pete

You can have a program interfacing to FSUIPC (or WideFS, on another PC on a Network) which can detect pretty much everything about the state of the user aircraft in FS -- certainly ground/airborne, flap settings, gear states, and so on are easy things. The FSUIPC SDK (on http://www.schiratti.com/dowson) gives all the details and can be used by VB, C/C++, Delphi or even MASM programmers. Pete

I don't think these have been implemented in FS2002. What would you expect them to do? If there's a sensible use for them I could probably map them for you -- but it might have to wait till I've finished preparing the initial FS2004-compatible version. No one has asked about them in the whole life of FS2002 so I assume they are not of popular use. There are a set of radio switches for the audio aspects -- see offset 3122. Can you clarify which buttons these are, on which stack please? Ctrl-1 to 5? What FS controls are these assigned to? You can send keystrokes to FS via FSUIPC -- see offset 3200. However, since FS keystrokes are subject to assignments to FS controls it would probably be better to send the controls directly instead (see offset 3110). Then you don't have the hassle of KEYDOWN and KEYUP to worry about, nor problems if the user re-assigns the keys. Best to search the Programmers Guide document for stuff like this, you might be surprised at what you find sometimes! If you think there's a need for additional mapping for whatever these controls are, please let me know, but I'd rather not receive such a request till, say, the end of August now. Else it will get lost in all this turmoil I'm in for FS2004! Regards, Pete

There's a (non-Beta) version 4.20 which was released to FS Beta testers a month ago and which will work with the Release version of FS2004 as soon as FSUIPC is ready for it. In fact all of my FS modules are ready except FSUIPC, upon which most (not all) depend, with the exception of: ESOUND which I'm not really supporting, but I will look at updating, and ADVDISPLAY which works for displaying messages sent to it via FSUIPC, in it's own window, but at present neither intercepts ATIS or other messages in FS2004, nor injects user messages into any FS display. The reason for the latter is that the FS coding of all that window stuff has changed considerably and I've not found the right routines yet. I will sort that out, but it may not be in time for the Release. When I have a good enough Beta FSUIPC for FS2004 Gold I will post a notice here and supply a complete bundle of all modules to those bona fide developers who need them. Regards, Pete

Ouch, Nasty. Sounds like a COM port or seral driver problem. Make sure the COM port is not sharing an IRQ with anything else. Try another COM port. Try deleting it in the device manager and re-installing it. If it comes to the worst you may have to try re-installing Windows. Regards, Pete

No problem, glad you got it sorted. Pete

I don't think throttles can cause nose bobbing. How could they, unless your torgue and P-factor settings are very high (see Aircraft Realism menu) and there's some jittering from the throttle. I find the FS settings a bit overdone anyway -- set both those somewhere near the centre of their range. See if the throttles are jittering (the PFC.DLL calibration screen should show you). If so you either have a poor power supply or there's something else wrong. For either you would need to contact PFC. Regards, Pete

Total fuel quantity is calculated from the values already provided. This is the way FS actually does it when you ask for that value. It isn't a good idea to ask FSUIPC to provide this as, when running WideFS, in order to keep gauges updated it would have to force the calculation on every frame, no matter whether anyone wanted it or not. It is really best for such things to be off-loaded to the individual applications when needed. The munition things aren't mapped simply because I've never seen any working guns or bombs in FS. Although FSUIPC does run in CFS1 and CFS2, in rather limited fashion, these weren't supported deliberately. When CFS3 turned up completely closed there was never any point going back. Are you using FS? Are you implementing something with Guns and Bombs? If you want access to things which do exist in FS2002 or FS2004 I can add them, but not at present please. Ask later in the year. I've still far too much to do for FS2004. Regards, Pete

I will confirm details within the next two weeks, but it looks certain to be via SimMarket, which provides numerous ways to pay -- PayPal being just one of them. It can even be by cash, cheque, or bank transfer for those who don't have Internet access, or who don't trust it. SimMarket is run by the same folks who host this Forum for me. Regards, Pete

Well, I'll have a look at it, and if it isn't too much work (I don't think it will be) I will update it. But it won't be the first priority, or even the second. Just keep a look out, please. Regards, Pete

If all you want to use it for is to run add-on applications, then it is free. PLEASE go and read the announcement again and maybe follow through some of the existing threads. I shouldn't need to repeat myself here. Please research your subject a little before posting! Pete