[FSUIPCConnection.SendControlToFS problem with Fsuipc6 and P3D v5]

Hello Paul,

It seems I'm not the only one who has encountered this problem as Pete mentioned. I found the forum thread in the LM forum.
Thanks for your reply.

Best,
Rob

 

[FSUIPCConnection.SendControlToFS problem with Fsuipc6 and P3D v5]

Hello Pete,

Thanks for your response, I'll just use the SendKeyToFS function. I'll report the bug in LM website. It is a pitty that simconnect doesn't have a functions to send key presses to the sim.

Regards,
Rob

 

[FSUIPCConnection.SendControlToFS problem with Fsuipc6 and P3D v5]

Hello,

I have a client program which uses FSUIPCConnection.SendKeyToFS via WideFs to activate the GSX menu in P3D. Then I can make a choice from the client program with the call FSUIPCConnection.SendControlToFS. I send one of these values:

67145   SIMCONNECT_MENU_0
67136   SIMCONNECT_MENU_1
67137   SIMCONNECT_MENU_2
67138   SIMCONNECT_MENU_3
67139   SIMCONNECT_MENU_4
67140   SIMCONNECT_MENU_5
67141   SIMCONNECT_MENU_6
67142   SIMCONNECT_MENU_7
67143   SIMCONNECT_MENU_8
67144   SIMCONNECT_MENU_9

In P3D v4.5 this works without any problem, in v5 this doesn't work anymore. Could it be Fsuipc6? Or maybe something has changes for those text menus in P3D? 
It is an easy fix, replaced the call to FSUIPCConnection.SendControlToFS with FSUIPCConnection.SendKeyToFS and send the corrct number key. But I was just wondering why it is broken?

Regards,
Rob

 

[P3D v3.3.5.17625]

Thanks for your reply Pete. Now I know it isn't a problem, thanks. The reason for me doing a complete re-install was to start fresh again. I'm not doing that with every update but it was time again for that.

Regards,

Rob

 

[P3D v3.3.5.17625]

Hello Pete,

Just did a reinstall of the latest P3D v3.3.5.17625 and when I installed Fsuipc it gave me a warning that this version isn't supported. But did install. I used version 4.955.

 

Regards,

Rob van der Wiele

 

[Offset 0x3324 question]

Hello Pete,

Thanks for your quick response, I encounter these hickups with version 3 under FS9. I will check version 4 with FSX. But for now I'm testing under FS9 mostly and sometimes with FSX to see if it is still working for both versions. Would be great if you could make the change in version 3. So it makes sence that I don't get the exact same results as FS does about these calculation. I will check the other downloads next week.

Thanks again, Rob

[Offset 0x3324 question]

Hello Peter,

I got a question about calculating the value you provide in offset 0x3324. When I use offset 3324 in my 737NG Glass software I'm working on, it updates rather slow. When I make a climbing turn the heading rose keeps turning smooth but the alt tape (which uses offset 0x3324) has hickups. The tape stops for a moment and then continues again. So I changed the offset it uses to 0x0570 or 0x6020. Now the hickups are gone but these offsets don't take the pressure difference of the QNH and the kollsman altitude setting into account. When I try to calculate them from offset 0x0330 and 0x0EC6, I can't get the result from offset 0x3324. I come close but the difference is not always the same. Could be rounding errors, but I don't know for sure. Could you tell me how you calculate this offset and with what offsets please, so I can get rid of those hickups.

Thanks, Rob van der Wiele

Here a picture of the 737NG PFD.

[Problem with offset 0x0842]

Hello Pete,

Just let me know if I can be of any assistance to you. I noticed that in the Fsuipc4 Offsets Status document there is a question mark behind offset 0x0842 and an ok behind 0x02C8. Maybe I should have used that one in the first place. But still it is odd that is was working with version 4.04 and before.

Take care, no hurry needed.

Rob

[Problem with offset 0x0842]

Hello Pete,

Just gave version 4.06 a go but still the same problem with offset 0x0842. I changed the offset in my code to 0x02C8 and this one does work!

Regards, Rob

[Problem with offset 0x0842]

Thanks for your quick reply Peter. I can live with version 4.04 for the time being.

Rob

[Problem with offset 0x0842]

Hello Peter,

After upgrading to version 4.05 the offset 0x0842 doesn't work anymore. I also checked version 4.052 but stil the same. After switching back to 4.04 it is working again. I could use offset 0x02C8 instead but I didn't tried that yet.

Regards, Rob

[To all ShowText users]

Hello,

In the next week or so I will make my ShowText application accredited with the new version of FSUIPC.

What I wanted to ask you is, are there any enhancments needed you can think of in the program ?

Best, Rob van der Wiele

Boeing Cockpit Project

http://home.hccnet.nl/r.v.d.wiele/