cspencer

I develop ACARS software for a VA and we've had trouble with active pause as well. Our heuristic is basically, if the aircraft is moving according to the ground speed, but the coordinates are identical to the last tick, assume active pause is enabled. It's a bit naff but it works well enough. Hopefully we will eventually get a way to query this properly via SimConnect..

I might have to look into that then. If it's good enough for FSUIPC then it's good enough for me! Thanks Pete. I once had a guy who ended up with a 64-bit version of the C++ runtime in his 32-bit system directory which was fun to track down. I do think it's funny the things people manage to do to their computers!

Ah, of course. I forgot about all the extra trickery that FSUIPC has to do. In my application I bundle separate manifests for the RTM, SP1 and SP2 versions of SimConnect and attempt to create activation contexts at runtime until one of them works. It's really a wonder how Microsoft has managed to make DLL loading so overly-complicated with WinSxS. That's interesting. I've never used Prepar3D, but I know people successfully use my application with it. I always assumed it installed the FSX versions of SimConnect, but I guess everyone who has it working just has the original FSX installed alongside it. How is SimConnect distributed with P3D if not as a DLL? Is it a static library? Hm. This does have the advantage of being able to locate all the available versions at runtime, but it does feel a little hacky.. It would be nice if there was some official way of enumerating the available WinSxS DLLs, but I've not been able to find any. Chris

Pete, I assume this is because of the new version of SimConnect? A fresh install now will get you 10.0.62608.0 with 10.0.62607.0 nowhere to be found, which is really quite irritating as a software developer. I can see this becoming a real point of grief if I have to release a new version of my application every time Dovetail does an update. The best idea I've been able to come up with is to include manifests for the next few versions on the assumption that they will continue to increase the number incrementally. I've yet to find any way to get Windows to just load whatever version is available which would certainly make life easier. I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on the matter. Cheers, Chris

Thanks, I've resent the email. My address is spencercw@... Yeah, anti-spam :) Chris

Hi Peter, I sent you an email last Monday regarding licensing the FSUIPC C SDK for a freeware application, but haven't heard back. I sent the email to petedowson>btconnect.com. I just thought I'd post here because I wasn't sure if you got the email. Thanks, Chris.