FSReady status

[BigRick]

Evening Pete. I'm running the registered version of FSUIPC and have noticed something here lately. I use ActiveSky 6.5 and, when I load up FS9, ASv6 goes active at the main FS screen rather than waiting until I'm actually sitting at the airport. It didn't used to do this in the past. I've contacted AS support and they said all they are doing is checking the status stating if FS is ready or not. When does FSUIPC flag FS as ready? At the main screen or once the flight is loaded and you are sitting in the cockpit? Right now I have to exit out of ASv6 and load FS, THEN load AS to get it to update correctly. I'm also running registered WideFS and ASv6 is on the same computer as FS. Thanx a lot.

-Rick

[Pete Dowson]

ASv6 goes active at the main FS screen rather than waiting until I'm actually sitting at the airport. It didn't used to do this in the past. I've contacted AS support and they said all they are doing is checking the status stating if FS is ready or not. When does FSUIPC flag FS as ready? At the main screen or once the flight is loaded and you are sitting in the cockpit?

There are several flags, one "ready to fly" (3364 = 0), one "in menu" (3365 bit 0) and another "in dialogue" (3365 bit 1) . Their setting and clearing hasn't been changed in all the time they've existed.

This is not the same as the ability for an application to actually connect to FSUIPC -- it can do the latter soon after FS starts -- though in very early versions of FSUIPC there was an imposed delay (the parameter for that is still there -- it is called "initdelay" I think). However, the purpose of that was merely to change the order in which different intercepting add-on DLLs subclassed the FS window, and in recent software that's never been needed. It certainly wouldn't stop connection during the FS opening dialogue, if you have FS stopping there.

Anyway I've just double-checked, and the "ready to fly" indication is most certainly not given (3364 changing to 0) until FS is genuinely "ready to fly" -- the "in dialogue" flag (3365 bit 1) is, however, cleared after you click the "fly" button and FS starts its loading progress bar. That's as it is supposed to be.

Right now I have to exit out of ASv6 and load FS, THEN load AS to get it to update correctly

Hmm. I've been an AS user for many years and I've NEVER had to restart it to make it update to the current position correctly. I'm afraid you need to get back to HiFi Simulations about that.

Incidentally, I'm checking with the current version (3.80x). I'm afraid I can't check any old unsupported versions, though, as I say, this is not an area where there's ever been any change.

Regards

Pete

[JSkorna]

Hi Rick,

I think we mis-understood each other. I thought we were talking about the "FS Connected" message not whether FS is "ready to fly".

Thanks!

[BigRick]

ASv6 starts processing and updating the weather as soon as the opening start menu comes up, not when I'm actually sitting on the cockpit at the airport. That's why I was asking Pete about when FSUIPC reported that FS was ready for input of weather. I'll take this back over to the HiFiSim support area.

-Rick