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I thought FSUIPC7 was currently only this beta stand-alone application, so I don't quite understand what you mean by that? Can I use Lua as it is now or not?

Well, of course you would have to define the x,y coordinates in pixels for where the mouse click should happen, but that's not a problem. I have the Wilco Airbus and there are some functions I can't do any other way than using a mouse click. And if I use the same view all the time (I use Ezdok) the location of the buttons will always be the same, so it will work just fine even though its not the most desirable solution. Right now I'm using HIDmacros which can send mouse clicks but it's annoying to have FCU functions on a keyboard when I have the MCP Combo buttons that are meant for doing those functions...! Well I can't use it with the MCP Combo. Also, it costs money - and quite a lot compared to what it does! The developer for the Wilco Airbus do sell an extension that gives me FSUIPC offsets - but it's RIDICULOUSLY expensive! (cost more than the full PMDG 737 NGX!!) FS controls are n/a. Mouse macros don't work. No Lvars are available. Assigned keypresses do exist but only to a key press. And the key press doesn't work for the MCP Combo with LINDA. Hmmm, to me it seems like a logical fallback option when everything else fails... Also with vasfmc some of the mouse macros don't work and I have no other option than to find the mouse, move it to the exact location, and then click. In a busy cockpit I'm sure you know how annoying that is! :) Regards, Allan

Hi Pete, Is there an API available in the Lua that comes with FSUIPC for simulating a normal left and right mouse click? I can't find anything in the documentation, but wonder if a "simple" thing like this really isn't possible... My goal is to be able to assign mouse clicks to buttons on my VRInsight MCP-Combo through LINDA. (Mouse macros, Lvars etc doesn't work for the functions I need) Allan

Pete, (I hope you see this :) ) I have a question along the lines of information from HIDMacros to FSUIPC/Lua. From a script in hidmacros I'm running a Lua script through FSUIPC by calling this (thanks to Petr recently adding the SetFSUIPCString call): HIDMacros.SetFSUIPCString &HD70, 40, "Lua testlua" But at the same time I want to pass a parameter (a string) to that program. I tried the parameter offset like this (before the above line): HIDMacros.SetFSUIPCString &HD6C, 4, "mystring" (not sure if SetFSUIPCString is correct and if I can max write 4 chars/bytes!) But when I access the ipcPARAM variable within the Lua script it always translates to some number which I can't use for anything. Any idea how to solve this, or any other idea how to pass a string to a Lua program? I could maybe write it to a file from within hidmacros and then read that file from Lua but I would guess that would be inefficient?!! -Allan