Failed to open a view to the file map

[superdudes]

Hi guys,

I did try and search the forum for an answer but the search page kept timing out!

Anyway, I have created a logger program for my VA that tracks startup time, position shutdown time etc etc, and some of my pilots are reporting this error message from FSUIPC

Failed to open a view to the file map

Was wondering what it means and if theres a fix or if its something I have done wrong?

Thanks in advance

Chris

[Pete Dowson]

Anyway, I have created a logger program for my VA that tracks startup time, position shutdown time etc etc, and some of my pilots are reporting this error message from FSUIPC

Failed to open a view to the file map

Sorry, that is not a message which exists in FSUIPC. I think it must be referring to Error #6 in the interface software you are using, whatever that is. If it's the C code I wrote for the FSUIPC LIB you might be using, it's "FSUIPC_ERR_MAP", here:

// create the file-mapping object
	m_hMap = CreateFileMapping(
					(HANDLE)0xFFFFFFFF, // use system paging file
					NULL,       		// security
					PAGE_READWRITE, 	// protection
					0, MAX_SIZE+256,   	// size
					szName);        	// name 

	if ((m_hMap == 0) || (GetLastError() == ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS))
	{	*pdwResult = FSUIPC_ERR_MAP;
		FSUIPC_Close();
		return FALSE;	
	}

But none of the code I wrote actually reports the error with that message, it simply returns the error code -- it must be your code doing it, or the library code of someone else that you are using.

The source and all documentation for this is included in the FSUIPC SDK. You should be able to debug your program with the debugger included with your compiler.

Regards

Pete