buddym

Hi busfreak! what does th PM mean ??

Hi Peter! Hi forums! I have just started in the VB / FSUIPC arena in this past few weeks. I have asked several questions here, always I get answers, thank you so much. My project is an ethernet-connected VFD module that can display FS data. It uses a Rabbit Micro RCM2200 and a surplus alpha-numeric VFD display. It works so cool! So much easier to read than LCD! From searching the forum here, I see many texts with questions and answers reagrding how to do this and that, and it seems that the questions are mostly VB programming questions, not really FSUIPC questions. What variable type to use, how to do the math correctly, incorrect data being displayed after math routines, etc. With the SDK texts, and FSInterrogate, lot's of info is available, but sometimes still kind of confusing to some folks. I wonder why no enterprising VB programmer has assembled a lib (vb calls it a module) for performing the different math functions on the data returned from your software? Maybe for at least the first few common things we beginners want to look at, like ALT, GS, IAS, HDG, COM/NAV, LAT/LONG, etc.......? I, like so many guys out there just love to cut and paste other people's hard work! (grin) I think that upon reading this post, someone may just put a module together...If not, I think that once I have my stuff all working I will do so.... it's always nice to help others, and I have already received so much help here. Everyone is very generous with time and code samples. Anyway, thanks to you and the forum community for all that you do.. what a great hobby! Buddym Tampa,FL

Peter, Thanks so much for the replyI had not understood that fsinterrogate could do that! I will fire it up and look at it closely. I did also want to thank you for all of your hard work on the tools you provide us with, and the continuing support you give us. i really appreciate it! buddym tampa,fl

Hi all, I know this is a repeat of topics gone by before (more than likely), but I need help in reading values form FSUIPC and using them in my code. I have a Rabbit RCM2200 connected via ethernet, programmed with some C code to take IP data and display it on 1 of 3 VFD displays I have connected to it. This all works fine. I then have VB code to get FSUIPC data and send it to the Rabit module. This works, but the FSUIPC data is not correct. I thought I had the IAS displaying correctly once, but changed the math and can't get back again. I am no math genius, but this doesn't seem to be that hard.....what am I missing? I am able to run the example (VB) from the SDK. All the info displays correctly. I can even send it to my VFDs on the Rabbit. I am able to get values with the "fsread" function, for instance the IAS. This is where I begin to lose it. It appears I need to read 4 bytes, then multiply them by 128 to get the airspeed? And then the heading is 8 bytes, * 360/(65536*65536) ??? This results in overflow..... I am sure someone has already done this, and I am re-inventing the wheel. Does anyone have VB examples of reading and displaying alt, TAS/IAS, heading, COM/NAV, etc ???? I am building radio panels for my A320 cockpit sim and this is my next step. Pleae help, I'm stuck!