Distributed FSUIPC apps

[bpollock]

If I create an application using the DLL for .NET, will it run on an end users computer with an UNregistered version of FSUIPC...or will they need to register it?

[Pete Dowson]

If I create an application using the DLL for .NET, will it run on an end users computer with an UNregistered version of FSUIPC...or will they need to register it?

I assume you mean an FS plug-in DLL? Can you make a .NET managed DLL which runs inside FS? It would need some sort of wrapper I suspect -- nothing in FS is "managed", it is all native code.

The interface to FSUIPC from inside FS, whether from a DLL or Gauge, is different to the external one. Remember to use the correct library, or the code therefrom. It's the one using FSUIPC_Open2. In this version of the interface, you supply the memory space for the data exchanges instead of creating a memory mapped file, which is only needed to share memory between different processes.

FSUIPC doesn't need to be user-registered, but if your application is going to be payware you should write to me privately, petedowson@btconnect.com, to agree a commercial license.

Regards

Pete

[bpollock]

Let me try to explain differently. I'm teaching myself VB.Net and decided to create an external application. Originally the app was just for me, but i decided to see if anyone in my VA would be interested...for free. All I really use FSUIPC for is to poll different variables to drive a moving map and do some cockpit callouts. For obvious reasons, the end user would require a widefs license to run my app on a networked computer. But if they wanted to run the app locally on the FS computer, can they use the basic free version or do they need the full blown licensed version of FSUIPC?

[Pete Dowson]

Let me try to explain differently. I'm teaching myself VB.Net and decided to create an external application.

Aha! An external application -- an .EXE. Sorry, I misread it as you wanting to make a DLL.

Originally the app was just for me, but i decided to see if anyone in my VA would be interested...for free. All I really use FSUIPC for is to poll different variables to drive a moving map and do some cockpit callouts. For obvious reasons, the end user would require a widefs license to run my app on a networked computer. But if they wanted to run the app locally on the FS computer, can they use the basic free version or do they need the full blown licensed version of FSUIPC?

There's only one version -- the difference in operation is based on their registration unlocking extra USER facilities -- that is facilities for the user to set and change in the FSUIPC options.

The facilities offered by FSUIPC to applications, those that you will be using, are not dependent upon user registration -- they work with or without the user paying for FSUIPC.

For freeware applications you may also package FSUIPC with your program, though i'd really rather folks downloaded it for themselves so they get the current version.

Regards

Pete

[bpollock]

Perfect...thanks for the info.