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You might also want to take a quick look in the "Your account" section at SimMarket. I haven't received an email from them after paying for WideFS, but my key is posted there on their website. Richard

Rudder pedals are probably the easiest piece of hardware to make for yourself. There's nothing in there but a single 100k-Ohm potentiometer. No electronics, no circuits or anything. If you're using a gameport yoke, which pins to hook the wires from the pedals to is posted all over the net. I'm not used the USB versions, but I'm sure that's out there too. Couple of hours and a hanfull of guilders and uou'll have better pedals than you could buy, and cheaper too. if you look in the cockpit builders forum on http://www.avsim.org, there's several links to pedals people have made, including pictures, scematics and everything. Richard

Excellent! Thanks, Pete. I'll go ahead and get the latest version of WideFS in a short while and get this tested out on an outside machine. Richard

OK.... this may be a really silly question, but since I switched to the registered version of FSUIPC I can't access WideFS anymore, so I can't check for myself.... Does a computer running WideFS have to be running MSFS itself? I'm writing a stand-alone application to display a "Project Magenta" type instrument panel on an outside computer, but it's all in Visual Basic, so no OpenGL / 3D acceleration will be needed on the client. If they don't need to run MSFS even, then I can use REALLY cheap old laptops for this. Richard

Thanks anyway, Pete. Maybe I'll even have a stab at it in VB myself..... Richard

Thanks, Pete. the key section of FSUIPC.INI is all just numbers.... 0=77,9,66374,0,66374,0 I was hoping there was a way to get "Ctrl-I = Com 1 fract incr carry" and the like :-( Richard

Hi there, everyone. My little Cessna GA 'pit is up to close to 80 inputs already, working through keyboard emulation. It's getting hard to keep track of what keys or combinations are / are not already assigned. Is there a way to tickle FSUIPC intp producing a printable list of what keys are currently assigned to what controls? Richard

Thanks, Pete

Since I'm not using WideFS, and it's not working with my registered FSUIPC anyway, how do I go about uninstalling it? Can I just delete the dll, or would that leave FS or FSUIPC confused and lost trying to find it ? Richard

Dammit, I should have stayed w my older FSUIPC :-( Actually, since I've decided to go with a hardware radio panel attached to my main computer, I don't need WideFS anyway, so I'll just delete it. Richard

Hi Pete - I just went ahead and downloaded the latest version of FSUIPC, and registered it. Now, when I start MSFS, I get an error message that says "WideFS requires FSUIPC version 2.30 or later. It can carry on but may not provide consistant access to FSUIPC variables". Richard

I misstyped the image link, sorry.... Richard

Thanks, Ulysses. I also found this site.... http://mikkila.wabbits.org/fsbus/lcd/ with the wiring diagram for wiring two LCD's to a single Parallel port. There's also a link to download a freeware program to interface with FSUIPC and drive the displays. Here's what I'm planning to do... Total cost should be around $40. I got five 2x24 LCD's for $20, of which I'll only use 2, a 25 pin connector, some wire and half a dozen $3 knitter switches. Richard

I'd like to try using my color Palm Pilot in conjunction with GPSout to display a moving map. What mapping software have others used succesfully to do this ? Richard

Got it, thanks Pete. Richard

Yesterday it worked Today it does not work Such is Windows (From "High-Tech Haiku")

Oh, duh.... never mind, I was just missing it. 0C2E. I searched in MS word instead of reading the hardcopy, and there it was :-( Richard

Hi all, I'm sure I'm just continually missing reading it, but what the hey is the offset address for the speed relative to the DME station ? (The speed displayed next to the DME distance on the DME equipment) Thanks, Richard

Hi everyone, this isn't strictly FSUIPC related, but I have great faith in the assembled genius of the regulars, so here we go anyway..... I have found around the net numerous sites telling how to wire a cheap 44780 driven LCD display to a parallel port. The LCDs can be picked up for around $3 for a one line x 16 char display, and no electronics are needed to conect them to a parallel port. Four or five of them would be enough for a basic GA radio stack, making this a cheap solution if it's possible. My question is, though, is it even possible to wire more than one such display to a single parallel port? Getting the data from FSUIPC to the port shouldn't be too tricky, but I don't know if the hardware side is even doable. Does anyone know ? Rick

Thanks very much, guys, I've got it now. I had actually just finished a routine using the full mathematical explanation Doug posted when I saw Chris' post I hadn't even looked for a "hex" function, because when I was searching the forum for this info, I had found a post from someone in which he had stated that VB didn't HAVE a hex function, so I hadn't even checked. :-( I got it to work, but it was long. using Hex() is far easier. This code works fine.... Private Sub cmdConvert_Click() Dim Answer As String Dim valanswer As Double Dim bcdinput As Long bcdinput = txtInput.Text Answer = Hex(bcdinput) txtAnswer2.text = Answer ' this displays the answer in hex, just as a visual check valanswer = Val(Answer) valanswer = 100 + (valanswer / 100) txtAnswer.Text = valanswer ' this is the answer that would actually show on the radio panel End Sub now to work on the interface to the LCD's Richard

Hi Daryl, If you read the sticky "Paying for FSUIPC, why and how", it'll tell you what the free as opposed to registered version of FSUIPC will or won't do.

FWIW, Rob, that's exactly how the starter switch on my GA pit is set up, and it works just fine. I have it set to "Magneto Start", with "Control to repeat while held" checked, and the starter motor chugs away as long as the key is held in "Start". Richard

Hi Doug, thanks. Changing the byte size to two did indeed give me the four digit number that, I can tell, equates to the actual frequency. The 34E was actually deliberate - in my fiddling around I was trying reading the COM1 frequency rather than the ADF but had left the variable named as ADF since this was still just at the 'try it out' stage. However..... I still don't know how to readily convert the BCD value to what I actually want to show. If I set the COM1 to 121.90 for example, the stored value should be Ox2190. The value I get (confirmed by FSInterogate) is 8592. How do I take the value 8592 and get 2190 fom it? (From 2190 to 121.90 even I can figure out :-)) Richard

Well, "DUH"........ I realised why it keeps showing "0" as the value - I hadn't included a line to assign the value to the variable fADF! Changing it slightly to read.... Dim iADFfreq As Long Dim fADF As Double Call FSUIPC_Read(&H34E, 4, VarPtr(iADFfreq), dwResult) Call FSUIPC_Process(dwResult) fADF=iADFfreq lblADFfreq.Caption = fADF results in my getting the correct value out....... "except" that the result is in 32bit format. in other words, I get a result of 3282129E+08 How do I convert this to the 2190 that I need for the display ? Thanks, Richard

Hi everyone. I'm trying to write an app to display the Avionics settings, and I've hit a block. My app is returning 0 for all the values :-( It is connecting, because I can read non-BDC values. Here's the relevant bits of code..... Dim iADFfreq As Long Dim fADF As Double Call FSUIPC_Read(&H34C, 4, VarPtr(iADFfreq), dwResult) Call FSUIPC_Process(dwResult) lblADFfreq.Caption = fADF This returns 0 :-( This, however, returns the IAS no problem.... Dim iIAS128 As Long Dim fIAS As Single Call FSUIPC_Read(&H2BC, 4, VarPtr(iIAS128), dwResult) Call FSUIPC_Process(dwResult) fIAS = iIAS128 / 128 fIAS = Int(fIAS) LblSpeed.Caption = "IAS is " & fIAS so I know I'm connecting to FSUIPC and getting data out. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks, Richard