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John, Thanks for the information. I was able to get it working when using just one accelerator key.

Hello, I'm trying to configure FSUIPC7 to send a control to MSFS using the "Key Presses" under the "Assignments" tab. I can properly setup the key press to control assignment in FSUIPC7. However, what I've discovered is that when I run MSFS the following happens: 1. If my key assignment is a single, regular key (such as 'a', 'b', 'c', etc), then the assignment works properly in MSFS. 2. If my key assignment involves an accelerator key (ctrl, shift, alt or any combination of these), the key assignment does not work. 3. If FSUIPC7 has the focus, then the key assignment even with the accelerator keys DOES work. 4. But if MSFS has the focus, then it does not pass through any of the accelerator keys. I can see this behavior in FSUIPC7's log. When FSUIPC7 has the focus, then it properly picks up any accelerator keys in combination with the regular key (e.g. ctrl + shift + a). It displays the keydown/keyup for each of these keys, detects the key combination and sends the appropriate control to MSFS. MSFS reacts appropriately. HOWEVER, if MSFS has the focus, when I press any accelerator key, it does NOT appear in FSUIPC7's log. Only the 'a' in the sequence ctrl + shift + a gets sent to FSUIPC7 and shows in its log. Therefore FSUIPC7 does not detect the full key press sequence and so does not send the assigned control. I'm sorry if this is a known issue, but I've tried a number of searches to find previously reported issues and looked through FSUIPC7's documentation. I realize this may be an issue with MSFS and not resolvable by FSUIPC7. But my experience with MSFS support has been abysmal to put it nicely so I thought I'd ask here to see if anyone had any insight into this? Thanks.

I'm using FSUIPC 4.934 with Prepar3d 2.2.10437. I can get lua files to run (such as ipcReady.lua as well as gfdDisplay.lua). However, I can't get any of the ipc.lineDisplay or ipc.display functions to show (or open) a window within Prepar3d. Any ideas why? I can get gfdDisplay.lua to run as indicated by the display lights on my GFD modules as well as logging information to the log file, but there is no text output appearing within the Prepar3d simulator. This worked fine for me without any modification in FSX. Am I missing something? Thanks

Hello, I have a few questions about using FSUIPC and LUA: 1. What is the difference between manipulating controls using FSUIPC offsets (ipc.writeUB()) versus sending the FSX control directly (ipc.control())? Which is more efficient? 2. What is more optimized, assigning FSX controls to buttons through the FSUIPC interface or setting controls via FSUIPC offsets (ipc.writeUB()) from lua scripts or sending FSX controls directly from lua scripts (ipc.control()). I've been doing quite a bit of programming using LUA and have discovered there are multiple different ways to interact with FSX. I'm just trying to determine what ways are better, simpler, more optimized, etc. Thanks for any input or insight into the inner workings of FSUIPC.