Turning off the Global Instrument Panel

[amosd]

Hi All,

Does anyone know how I set the value of "Views/Instrument Panel/Global On" to be false using FSUIPC. If it is of any help this value can be toggled by pressing the "SHIFT+[" keys. I've searched the "FSUIPC for Programmers" manual with no joy.

Any suggestions??

Cheers,

Dan

[Pete Dowson]

Does anyone know how I set the value of "Views/Instrument Panel/Global On" to be false using FSUIPC. If it is of any help this value can be toggled by pressing the "SHIFT+[" keys. I've searched the "FSUIPC for Programmers" manual with no joy.

Whatever control you have got assigned to "Shift+[" can be sent to FS via the FSUIPC interface using the facility to send any control to FS via offsets 3110-3117. All you need to do is identify the control and thus its number.

In my FS9.CFG this line defines it:

PANEL_TOGGLE=219,9

As you can decode from the list in the FSUIPC Advanced User's guide, 219 is the key code for the '[' key, and '9' indicates Shift.

In the FS2004 Controls document (from http://www.schiratti.com/dowson) you will find that the numerical value of "PANEL_TOGGLE" is shown, thus:

PANEL_TOGGLE 65748

so all you need to do is write decimal 65748 to the 32-bit offset 3110, and your Uncle is called Robert! Try it with FSInterrogate.

Note that you can't be sure this turns it off rather than on -- it is a toggle. However, There are these controls listed:

PANEL_ID_CLOSE 66508

PANEL_ID_OPEN 66507

I have no idea whether these work, but they might be worth a try. I assume the ID is the number assigned to the panel part in the Panel.CFG file. You probably need to provide that as parameter.

There are also the set of 9 PANEL_X controls, but those are toggles too (they are the ones normally assigned to Shift+19).

Regards,

Pete

[amosd]

Hi Pete,

Thanks for the advice. Worked the 1st time. :D

Regards,

Dan