I'm doing some work with FSUIPC and Tripod's SuperScripts for the VRS SuperBug. I want to drive LEDs on a generic HID device in response to Offset changes. I've prototyped a system and it's working pretty well, but I've had to work around some funnies with the ipc.set and get calls. So I have some questions about how the ipc.set and get calls work.
I wanted to store some tables via these calls. The documentation appears to state that they will work for 'any type' however my experience is that when trying to retrieve a table, I get back nil. If I change the variable to a string for example then it works. Can anyone explain how or why this might be?
Possibly related - I wanted to open the HID device in one script and use it elsewhere. The com.openhid call works fine and I can write my Output Report to the device, LEDs light up etc. But if I try to store the device handle using ipc.set and later retrieve it for writing via ipc.get then the write call fails. It seems related to the above issue, any ideas would be appreciated.
To deal with this last issue I am opening and closing the HID device handle every time I need to update the LEDs. However I have a small but noticeable latency between the virtual cockpit annunciators and the LEDs, I suspect the file open / close for every write is hurting me here.
I'm pretty new to Lua, as I learn it further maybe a solution well become apparent. But if anyone can suggest a means to avoid these repeated openhid calls then that would be most helpful, thanks!
