How to properly read light switches @ [0D0C]?

[YankeeFan 0]

I am having a bit of a hard time figuiring out how to determine exactly which light switch is on by simply reading the [0D0C] offset. According to the SDK the light switches are defined as follows;

0D0C 2 bytes Lights (FS2k/CFS2), a switch for each one:

0 Navigation

1 Beacon

2 Landing

3 Taxi

4 Strobes

5 Instruments

6 Recognition

7 Wing

8 Logo

If somebody has some sample code written in VB that would be great. Basically I am trying to determine each of the possible light switches if ON or OFF. When testing and had all lights off except for NAV the value in [0D0C] = 33, when I used the "L" key to switch everything on the value was 1023.

Does the value of the offset just need a conversion like Decimal to Binary?

Thanks!

John

[YankeeFan 0]

Never mind on this post, that's exactly what it appears I needed to do is convert the decimal value returned from the offset to a binary string and read each byte from right to left to make the determination of ON/OFF.

[Pete Dowson 280]

Never mind on this post, that's exactly what it appears I needed to do is convert the decimal value returned from the offset to a binary string and read each byte from right to left to make the determination of ON/OFF.

Ernothing returns a DECIMAL number as such. Everything is in binary in any case. All you needed to do was test for each bit in turn. The bits are simple "flags".

So, if the value of 0D0C is in an integer variable called

nLights

you can test for Strobes, say, by seeing if

nLights AND 16

is non-zero (replace "AND" by whatever is used in your programming language for logical AND). The value 16 arises from the value of bit 4 (2 to the power 4 = 16). Here are the values to save you calculating them:

0 value 1 Navgation

1 value 2 Beacon

2 value 4 Landing

3 value 8 Taxi

4 value 16 Strobes

5 value 32 Instruments

6 value 64 Recognition

7 value 128 Wing

8 value 256 Logo

9 value 512 Cabin

The last one is new in FS2004.

Pete

[YankeeFan 0]

Many thanks Pete, that makes alot more sense now! Also, thanks for sheading some light(no pun intended) on the new Cabin light switch as well.

[MattWise 0]

YankeeFan can you give me an example of your code. I am having the same problem. If YankeeFan is no longer on the form can someone give me an example. I can't figure out how to declear the variables. I see they are a S16 int but I don't know how to declear that in VB6. Thanks.

[Pete Dowson 280]

YankeeFan can you give me an example of your code. I am having the same problem. If YankeeFan is no longer on the form can someone give me an example. I can't figure out how to declear the variables. I see they are a S16 int but I don't know how to declear that in VB6. Thanks.

I don't think VB supports short integers, so just declare an ordinary Integer and set it to zero before reading the 2 bytes from offset 0D0C into it. The bits representing the light switches will still be in the right places, the top 16 bits (bit numbers 16 to 31) will be zero, is all.

Regards,

Pete

[MattWise 0]

Thanks that helped a lot. I just pulled out the decimal value that was held in the offset. Then converted the decimal to binary as YankeeFan said and it works great. Thanks!

[joeherwig 1]

In case someone wants to play around with it in JS...

Just open your webbrowsers Dev-Tools [F12] and execute the below snipet in your browsers console:

// set the numeric value as reported from FSUIPC Offset 0x0D0C
fsuipc_0d0c = 234

fsuipc_0d0c = (fsuipc_0d0c >>> 0).toString(2);

// log the bit-sequence as string to console
console.log(fsuipc_0d0c)

light = {}
light.navigation = fsuipc_0d0c.charAt(0)* 1
light.beacon = fsuipc_0d0c.charAt(1) * 1
light.landing = fsuipc_0d0c.charAt(2)* 1
light.taxi = fsuipc_0d0c.charAt(3)* 1
light.strobes = fsuipc_0d0c.charAt(4)* 1
light.instruments = fsuipc_0d0c.charAt(5)* 1
light.recognition = fsuipc_0d0c.charAt(6)* 1
light.wing = fsuipc_0d0c.charAt(7)* 1
light.logo = fsuipc_0d0c.charAt(8)* 1
light.cabin = fsuipc_0d0c.charAt(9)* 1

// log as object
console.log(light) 

// log as beautified string
console.log(JSON.stringify(light,null, '\t')) 

which results in 

{
	"navigation": 1,
	"beacon": 1,
	"landing": 1,
	"taxi": 0,
	"strobes": 1,
	"instruments": 0,
	"recognition": 1,
	"wing": 0,
	"logo": 0,
	"cabin": 0
}