Brand new user of WideFS

[symmcom]

Dear Pete,

This is my email to you even though i was using your FSUIPC for quite a long time. I recently bought the WideFS. I am having two problems.

First, when i registered FSUIPC, i had different email address. Now i cannot register WideFS because it wont let me change the email. But i moved the FSUIPC key to another location and i was able to register WideFS. Coonected my client pc with WideClient and my main PC running FS says 1 client connected.

Now that i am connected why do i get the client show my gauges and stuff in the client window??

Please give me a solution for the registration and way to show my gauges in the client.

Thank you.

-Wasim

[Pete Dowson]

First, when i registered FSUIPC, i had different email address. Now i cannot register WideFS because it wont let me change the email.

Both Keys need the same name and email, as stated in the documentation. I can replce one or the other Key, your choice. Email me at petedowson@btconnect.com, and attach both Key notification emails you got from SimMarket, and tell me which one you now want to use.

Now that i am connected why do i get the client show my gauges and stuff in the client window??

Sorry, I don't understand. How have you done that? It is not possible!

WideClient cannot support FS gauges. Please read the WideFS documentation -- perhaps you should have read that before you paid for it!

WideFS extends the FSUIPC external program interface to work across Networks. It supports programs written to use FSUIPC. There are plenty of them (see, for a start, the list on the right-hand side of the http://www.schiratti.com/dowson page). But no parts of FS use FSUIPC. gauges and panels and other Windows in FS are parts of FS, they are not separate application programs which interface to FS via FSUIPC!

Regards,

Pete

[symmcom]

Hi Pete,

Thank you very much for replying. So far what i understand is, WideFS is just bridge which enables other network software to work with FSUIPC. WideFS itself doesnt show a thing in other pc. I can use WideView to use my gauges or panels, but i would still need WideFS to support WideView. Am i in the right direction? Please let me know.

Thank you,

-Wasim Ahmed

[Pete Dowson]

WideFS is just bridge which enables other network software to work with FSUIPC.

No. It only allows software which will work with FSUIPC on the FS PC to be used, instead, on a Networked PC. WideFS is an extension of the FSUIPC interface to Networked PCs. Please persue the documentation.

I can use WideView to use my gauges or panels, but i would still need WideFS to support WideView. Am i in the right direction?

No, WidevieW, a program by Luciano Napolitano, links multiple installations of FS, across a Network, so that they function as one. Yes, by doing this you can have the copy of FS on one PC showing different things to the one on the other PC. How much that can be gauges and so on I'm not sure -- it is usually used to obtain multiple external views, like left, centre, right, rather than to spread gauges around. Check the WidevieW website.

And, no, WidevieW does not need WideFS. In fact it won't run on the same client as WideClient, because both Wideclient and FS itself pretend to be the same thing.

There are separate packages of aircraft gauges which are provided by external programs, which do interface via FSUIPC, and which therefore do run on client PCs under WideFS. The most famous and professional one is undoubtedly Project Magenta. The cheapest (free) one is FreeFD. Links to both are provided on the http://www.schiratti.com/dowson page.

Regards,

Pete