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Something was certainly set wrong, then, because if that INI file parameter is correct and the NRZ option selected, FSUIPC is sending the same controls, exactly, as assigning in FS itself would. I know a lot of NGX users are using FSUIPC fully without any problems at all. Er, why does using two separate throttles need calibration syncing? I never have my two throttles synced. It is quite realistic for the actual positions to be slightly different. And if for some reason you do want them lined up perfectly you can do that easily enough using FSUIPC's sync pos facilities. Regards Pete
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Simulate normal mouse clicks?
Pete Dowson replied to Firefly's topic in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules
A Lua mouse library is now available. It is added in FSUIPC 3.999c and 4.802, obtainable from the Download Links subforum. The library is documented in the updated Lua plug-ins download. Regards Pete -
The latest FSUIPC update, 4.802, provides a revised mouse look facility which operates without a reset and using the centre mouse button. It also provides a new Lua library with mouse movement and button clicking facilities. Regards Pete
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Everyone else seemed to solve that as I described, by using the "UseAxisControlsForNRZ=Yes" option in the INI file and checking the "No Reverse Zone" option in FSUIPC's calibration page. That simply forces FSUIPC to use the exact same controls as FSX. There is no reverse zone available in the regular FSX axis controls, which is why FSUIPC normally calibrates using the THROTTLESn_SET controls, which do have a reverse zone. There's no other way to get a reverse zone on an axis. Of course if you have enough throttle levers you can assign separate reversers, which gets over the problem -- otherwise reverse would have to be handled by button assignment. Regards Pete
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controling stab trim speed
Pete Dowson replied to teeb57's topic in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules
Where? A reference would have helped, as I don't remember one. How are you making it "travel"? Key press, button, joystick lever or other axis, program? You need to be a little more explicit about what you mean I'm afraid. Also say what you are assigning whatever it is you are using. There are so many ways of controlling things I really can't guess. I think it says it it rather larger characters, though. I cannot read your quotes. Let me try and make them larger here: "The elevator trim is a signed WORD at offset x0BC0. For this sort of information you'd need the Programmer's Guide in the FSUIPC4 SDK." You surely don't need to know exactly what it means. The part you are quoting from, removed from context like that, may look odd, but look at the heading of that section: Offset Increment/Decrement Controls See the word "Offset" there? Even then you don't really need to know. All you needed to do was follow the step-by-step instructions given. It tells you in step 2: 2. Enter x0BC0, or just xBC0 into the offset edit box. which you could surely do withouty havingh any idea what 'offset' meant!? You don't need "luck", you only need to download the file containing it. It actually tells you it is in the FSUIPC SDK. That's available in the same place as FSUIPC, and it is called, unsurprisingly the FSUIPC SDK! Why don't you just follow the numbered instructions. The "offset" edit box will appear, labelled "Offset". Just do what it says! It really cannot be explained any simpler than simple steps, You don't need to be computer literate, just literate! There are really no simpler steps. The section is in part of the user guide which has already shown you how to assign controls. Have you EVER used FSUIPC to assign any controls? If not, best go back to the beginning of the Chapter and try something simpler first. If you have then Step 1 is easy, just do exactly as it says. Once you've done that, step 2 becomes easy because you will magically see, on screen, the mysterious "offset" edit box appear! ;-) Regards Pete -
fsuipc/ windows 7 wont work with fsx
Pete Dowson replied to fullofattitude06's topic in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules
Hmm. The log shows everything is working correctly. -- almost! There should be a line stating " Starting everything now ...", showing tha FSUIPC is getting the correct signals from SimConnect. So it is worrying that this is missing. This is the typical sequence after the Menu has been added: As you'll see, there is a bit of a gap (34 seconds in this case -- the numbers on the left are in milliseconds) initially waiting for FS to be "ready" and start providing data, but in your case those last few messages never appear, which is odd and worrying. Please add the following to the [General] section of the FSUIPC4.INI file, then run FSX again. This time, when you've noticed things are wrong, close FSX (not just the log, please, as you did last time), and show me the LOG again. Debug=Please TestOptions=x800 I've seen a similar problem just once before, a while back, and asked the user then to do this, but he never replied so I never managed to determine why it happened. It would be very useful if you could do this as soon as possible as I have an update almost ready to release. Thank you, and Regards Pete -
Which is the 'latest edition" in your view? Please always state version numbers, that is what they are for! What does FSCARS want to connect to, and how is that related to FSUIPC? If you think FSUIPC isn't working I need to see the FSUIPC log file, afterr FS is closed, and you can find that in the FS Modules folder. FSUIPC doesn't control autothrottles in either aircraft. And what "old" version is that? If you don't provide any real information I can't really help. Some programs which use FSUIPC offsets night be affected by a correction to an bug in some old versions of FSUIPC. For some strange reason programmers of add-ons did not report the bug but went and programmed using the wrong information, despiite the documentation telling them otherwise. So when the bug was eventually reported and fixed, a few months ago, their programs then had a bug. In order to get arond this, temporarily until they fixed their bugs, I had to provide a fiddle to re-introduce the old bug in FSUIPC. This is documented, it is the AxesWrongRange=Yes Add this to the [General] section in the INI file, or change "No" to "Yes" if the line is already there. Don't forget to change it back if these add-on makers ever fix their products. Note, however, that I don't think the iFly uses FSUIPC -- it doesn't say FSUIPC is needed, does it? So I suspect you have a different problem altogether. The only aircraft I know about which might be affected by 'AxesWrongRange" are older editions of the VRS Superbug and some Eaglesoft aircraft. No one has reported any others. Regards Pete
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Where is the Demoversion?
Pete Dowson replied to Sunshine_29's topic in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules
Why do you need a macro for the lights when you can simply assign directly to the controls provided for them? Pete -
fsuipc/ windows 7 wont work with fsx
Pete Dowson replied to fullofattitude06's topic in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules
That's the same as the previous one, except it is complete and successful. So it sounds like it is all okay. If you still think something is wrong, show me the FSUIPC4 Log, also from the Modules folder. Make sure you close FSX first. Regards Pete -
Where is the Demoversion?
Pete Dowson replied to Sunshine_29's topic in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules
I thought he'd found that out and ansered it himself. That's wat I read, in any case. Well, let's see: FSUIPC supports all of the FS controls, as listed in the FS controls list in his FSUIPC Documents folder, plus all the additional ones listed in the Advanced User's Guide, plus additional axis assignments such as reversers and steering tiller. He can compare that to the lists in FS assignments. Regards Pete -
I shall try your INI here later. Thank you! [LATER] Initially I couldn't reproduce the problem, but then I added my defalut-loaded aircraft to one of your profiles, then i could reproduce it. The problem is a corruption in your INI file. I don't know how it happened (it might have resulted from a bug in any older version of FSUIPC). Please delete these lines: What's happening is that the aircraft name is matching this blank one. Silly. I shall fix FSUIPC so it cannot do that, and will also see if I can detect bad sections like those above and automatically delete them. However, meanwhile, deleting them manually will fix it for you. [LATER] Fixed in 3.999c and 4.802, both now available in the Download Links subforum. Regards Pete
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Yes, but the options dialogue doesn't allow you to do multiple assignments to buttons, so the INI file must have been edited beforehand, or suffered some sort of corruption? If you delete the INI file, FSUIPC reverts to all default settings, just as when first installed. No INI file is actually installed for you, it is generated when there isn't one. Regards Pete
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Where is the Demoversion?
Pete Dowson replied to Sunshine_29's topic in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules
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Why trial and error? Don't the documents provided help? I don't understand. You should use a logical scientific approach, not random tests. Why are you editing the INI file? Have you not discovered the Options dialogue in FS itself? What are you trying to do which can't be done there? Re-installing doesn't touch any of your settings, it simply replaces the FSUIPC module itself (DLL) with an exact copy, or an update if it's a different and later version. If you want to delete your settings you need to delete the INI file. Same with any MCRO files you've mad which you don't want. Regards Pete
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SIOC-FSUIPC - first steps - Send Value problem
Pete Dowson replied to gibbon's topic in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules
I don't know SIOC at all, but the AP ALT is 4 bytes and contains the altitude setting in Metres times 65536. So the two bytes you are using represents the number of 1/65536ths of a metre. I don't know any aircraft which has an Altitude display which could possibly show such small fractions of a metre, and if you don't change the other two bytes (the whole number of metres) then the displayed whole number is unlikely to change either. Please do use the documentation (the offsets list) for the values you want to change. You will see them described correctly. Pete -
Saving a Mouse Macro file
Pete Dowson replied to AAV1174's topic in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules
It isn't done by folders. Why make it so complicated? In the assignments Tab in FSUIPC, look near centre top. There's a checkbox labelled either "Aircraft specific" or "Profile Specific". When you check that then EVERY assignment made in that Tab is specific to that Aircraft or that Profile. Every specific assignment is set for you automsatically when that aircraft is loaded. I'd recomment using Profiles, so if it doesn't already say "Profile specific" (which has been defaulted in recent releases only) you'd need to change the "UseProfiles" line in the INI file to say "Yes" before loading FS. FSUIPC has always detected the aircraft loaded (NOT the panel, the Aircraft), and it has always consequently loaded specific keyboard, button, axis and calibration data to suit that aircraft. You simply have to tell FSUIPC that the assignments are specific before you make them! It is easy -- it is the most used facility in FSUIPC, and the reason most folks purchase it. Please please please read a little more carefully. There's a whole Chapter on Profiles, and it is listed in the Contents! I cannot understand how you could possibly miss these important facilities! :sad: Pete -
fsuipc/ windows 7 wont work with fsx
Pete Dowson replied to fullofattitude06's topic in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules
Is that all? It isn't finished. After the last line there it should contain: FSUIPC4.DLL installed and signature checked out okay! Deleted GlobalSign Root fix program ... no longer relevant =========================================================== All installer tasks completed. *************** End of Install Log ***************[/CODE] Can you describe what happens at the end of the Install? Don't you get the dialogue appearing asking if you want to Register? When you run FSX, in flight mode, is the an AddOns menu entry, the right-most one in the menu bar? If so, if there an FSUIPC entry there? If so, does it work? Look again into the FSX Modules folder. Is there an FSUIPC4 log file? If so, please show that to me. If there isn't, then FSUIPC4 is not being loaded, which probably means that your DLL.XML file is in a mess. there are several add-on installers which corrupt that file so it is worth checking. You'll find it in this folder: C:\Users\Treleaven\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX Despite the name it is a text file so you can paste it into a message here for me to check for you. You could also try renaming it then re-running the FSUIPC4 installer -- it will make a new DLL.XML for you, and if that works we'd need to see why the old one didn't. Regards Pete -
Where is the Demoversion?
Pete Dowson replied to Sunshine_29's topic in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules
FSUIPC lists all possible FS controls as well as a number added by FSUIPC itself. All of the FS controls are listed in the document installed for you, as I said. FS's assignment dialogues do not offer all of them, as you have found. You CAN assign them in FS, but you'd have to do it by editing one of the FSX XML files. It is easier to do it in FSUIPC. Regards Pete -
Saving a Mouse Macro file
Pete Dowson replied to AAV1174's topic in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules
You posted your support question into the User Contributions forum, by mistake, i assume. That's for folks providing solutions not posing questions or problems. I've moved it here, to the Support Forum, for you. Macro files are saved, they ARE files in your FS Modules folder! I suspect that what you really want is to have your assignments switched when you switch aircraft. That's what the original "aircraft specific" assignments and calibration facilities were for, now pretty much getting superseded by the easier-to-use Profile faciliities. All your assignments can be different for every aircraft or every class of aircraft, as you wish. This is the main reason that most folks purchase FSUIPC in the first place! Mulltiple macro files are no problem. You create one or more for each aircraft. You can assign to any control in any one in each aircraft or profile. Maybe you somehow missed all this in the User Guide? Regards Pete -
Your problem is that you are equating "left" with "minimum" and "right" with "maximum"! FSUIPC's calibration is NOT graphic, as you surely must have noticed? Did you turn your elevators left and right to calibrate? Or your throttles? To obtain the precise calibration which FSUIPC is noted for it uses NUMBERS, not DIRECTIONS. "Minimum" means "lowest" and "Maximum" means "highest". Whether that means up down left right back forward in the FS world is irrelevant. FSUIPC needs the numbers ascending from left to right -- the minimum needs to be lower than the centres and the centres lower than the maximum. Else you'll get the "ding". Press Reset, then Set again and calibrate it properly, following the numbered steps in the User Guide. That's what they are for. Again you need just to calibrate properly. Foilow the instructions! Pete
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Where is the Demoversion?
Pete Dowson replied to Sunshine_29's topic in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules
You can assign a key to the beacon, if that's what you mean. The control is "Toggle beacon lights". It is an FS control. You will need to look up the controls yourself. They are all in the assignment drop-downs. And there's a lit in the document in the FSUIPC documents sufolder, in FS modules. Regards Pete -
Checklist on wideclient using LUA
Pete Dowson replied to texfly's topic in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules
There is no display facility provided in the WideClient versions of the Lua libraries. The Lua display facilities that are supported work on the same FS windows that the FSUIPC library does. If the text is displayed from a text file, you can of course using the normal file handling facilities in Lua to edit that file. I've got no plans at present for any Lua display facilities in addition to those already available with the FS windows. It is something I might consider for the future (especially if I can ever find a way to grap the FS windows themselves -- like the ATC window and the similar menu windows produced by other add-ons). But it would not be soon. There are some existing checklist display programs which can do the sort of thing you want. I can recommend this one, for example, which although originally specifically for 737 can be used for any aircraft with user checklists: http://www.technical...Product_ECL.htm Regards Pete -
Where is the Demoversion?
Pete Dowson replied to Sunshine_29's topic in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules
You can use it on as many of your own computers and in as many of your own copies of FS as you like, provided they are all yours. FSUIPC is registered to the user, not to the system. Regards Pete -
Controls/Settings File in FSX
Pete Dowson replied to alpilot's topic in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules
If you've not used FSUIPC for such things before, there's nothing yet to save. When you do make settings, they are all saved in the FSUIPC4.INI file ("config settings" file). Just make a safe copy of that. You'll find it in the FSX Modules folder. Save a copy of your KEY file as well while you are at it -- it contains your registration details. FSUIPC doesn't make any changes to FSX's configuration files at all. The only thing you are likely to do with FSX before making assignments in FSUIPC is to disable controllers -- so that the FSX assignments don't conflict. If you ever want to get back to using FSX assignments instead you'd just delete the FSUIPC4 settings and re-enable controllers in FSX. It's only one checkbox. Regards Pete