FS Application or Gauge

[jetblue]

Hello

I'm currently trying to figure out how exactly to program within Flight Simulator. I'm very experienced with Visual basic .Net, and was wondering if it is possible to make an FS internal program with Visual Basic, like a gauge or a simple button. I have used the FSUIPC .net dll to make some test applications (that read FS values) and it works great. Now I want to make a program that runs within FS, any suggestions would be appreciated. :D

Thanks in advance,

Diego

[Pete Dowson]

I'm currently trying to figure out how exactly to program within Flight Simulator. I'm very experienced with Visual basic .Net, and was wondering if it is possible to make an FS internal program with Visual Basic, like a gauge or a simple button. I have used the FSUIPC .net dll to make some test applications (that read FS values) and it works great. Now I want to make a program that runs within FS, any suggestions would be appreciated.

Isn't VB.Net a managed language, not even native code? If so I think you'll find it next to impossible. FS is all native code. You might be able to make some sort of wrapper for it, but I think it would be horrendous. And you'd be severely risking the performance of FS .

I'm not sure why you'd want to run internally to FS in any case. It limits options (like you then cannot run it on a separate PC, to alleviate the load on the FS PC, or provide much more screen space or peripheral access). And you have to program very very carefully to make sure you don't impinge upon FS performance. Your skills at efficient programming with a mind to time-slicing and use of threads has to be top notch. I'm not even sure you can do much of what you'd have to do in VB, let alone VB.NET.

Regards

Pete