FS independent gauge header...

[Delvos]

Good morning Pete... i've got one question concerning loadable modules: through the years i wrote some modules to be loaded into FS and they do they work ver well. The only thing that makes my a little bit unhappy is the gauge header. I used the gauge header for FS 8. So my modules are loaded into FS2002 as well as into FS9, but - of course - i have to make entry in the [OLDMODULES] section of my FS9 config file or say 'Yes' if FS9 wants a confirmation for loading third party software. How can i avoid this? Is there any "independent gauge header" or some thing else?

What is going wrong, if i want to add a menu item to an existing menu with AppendMenu? After retrieving the handle of the desired submenu, i use AppendMenu menu function to add a new item passing the submenu's handle as parameter, MF_STRING and its menutext, AppendMenu returns true, after this i call DrawMenuBar which alo returns true, but the added item is not visible... I also tried InsertMenuItem but did not have any success. What's going wrong?

Thy in advance, greeting from EDDL and

best regards,

[Pete Dowson]

I used the gauge header for FS 8. So my modules are loaded into FS2002 as well as into FS9, but - of course - i have to make entry in the [OLDMODULES] section of my FS9 config file or say 'Yes' if FS9 wants a confirmation for loading third party software. How can i avoid this? Is there any "independent gauge header" or some thing else?

The difference is only the version number in the Linkage structure. There's a value 0x0800 in the, er, 6th (I think) DWORD in that structure, which needs to be 0x0900 for FS9. You can change it in your DLLmain function as that is called before FS gets a chance to do its linking.

What is going wrong, if i want to add a menu item to an existing menu with AppendMenu? After retrieving the handle of the desired submenu, i use AppendMenu menu function to add a new item passing the submenu's handle as parameter, MF_STRING and its menutext, AppendMenu returns true, after this i call DrawMenuBar which alo returns true, but the added item is not visible... I also tried InsertMenuItem but did not have any success. What's going wrong?

Sorry, I've no idea. I don't use AppendMenu -- I use InsertMenuItem.

Note also that FS seems to re-build its menu each time it is displayed if the option to hide it is chosen. So you have to add your items every time it does this. To do this I intercept the "WM_NCPAINT" message, get that processed by the default msg proc, then check and add my item(s) again.

Regards

Pete

[Delvos]

Oh yes my friend; thx for reminding me; WM_NCPAINT - once i knew this and now i'll never forget:-) Now it works - as well as the Linkage modification depending on fs' version...

Best regards,