alexberry

Pete, These all seem reasonable, but don't appear to work. That certainly does work though. Didn't see that in the help, so that's a good spot. :D Regards, Alex

Pete, thanks for your excellent advice. Using the IPC log soon showed what the problem was... Just in case anyone else is interested (might be worth putting it in future versions of the VB SDK) - You can enter Hex values in VB by typing &H at the start of the number, for example &H3AF0 for the Hex value 3AF0. However, VB treats these as a signed 2-byte integer, so anything greater than &H8000 (dec 32768) is actually treated as a negative number. So entering the IPC addresses in Hex format only works up to &H8000. If addressing values up where the NWI is (&HC000), you need to use decimal notation for the addresses. Anyway, worked for me and problem solved... Thanks again, Alex Berry Edinburgh, Scotland.

I'm hoping somebody might be able to help me. I'm trying to write a program that uses Pete's FSUIPC module to interface with MS FS9. While I'm having no trouble with most of what I'm trying to do, one area that is proving difficult is using the 'New Weather Interface'. I want to be able to read the weather for any airport (by entering in the appropriate ICAO code). Unfortunately, I just can't get it to work; I consistenly get no data back after entering the ICAO in to the correct (I think) FSUIPC address together with the 'Signature' in the other address as detailed in the NWI programming guide. I am programming in VB6, using the FSUIPC SDK that includes a VB6 module to read / write / process addresses in FSUIPC. Have you programmed anything like this in VB6 (or VB generally, though not .NET)? Have you managed to get the NWI to work in VB? If so, would you be able to offer me some help or advice, or perhaps even show me some example code. I appreciate that I'm asking a lot. However, If you are able to help, I promise to share with you the fruits of my programming endeavours (for what it's worth...) Kind regards, Alex Berry Edingburgh, Scotland

Thanks Pete, you're absolutely right, it is the writeS function I should have used. Regards, Alex

Hi Pete, I'm trying (as a beginner) to do some programming for FS using your fantastic FSUIPC module (of which I have a registered version.) While eveything else seems to be working fine, I can't get text to display properly in the scroll bar that goes across the top of the screen in FS2K4. All I get is nonsense scrolling across the top... The short piece of code is: strMessageB = "" disString = "Distance to " & DestICAO & ": " & Format(Distance, "#0.0 nm") For iCount = 1 To Len(disString) strMessageB = strMessageB & ChrBAsc(Mid(disString, iCount, 1))) Next iCount strMessageB = strMessageB & Chr(0) myInt = -1 If FSUIPC_Write(&H3380, 128, VarPtr(strMessageB), dwResult) Then If FSUIPC_Write(&H32FA, 2, VarPtr(myInt), dwResult) Then If FSUIPC_Process(dwResult) Then End If End If End If If you have a spare moment, please could you see if you can spot any silly mistakes I've made in the above. Kind regards, Alex Berry, Edinburgh.