FSUIPC Problem???

[jafred]

Hello,could you please explain to me why AFCAD no longer works with the new version of FSUIPC,It worked well with version 2.9.7.4.

Thank's jan. :?:

[Pete Dowson]

Hello,could you please explain to me why AFCAD no longer works with the new version of FSUIPC,It worked well with version 2.9.7.4.

Can you tell me what AFCAD uses FSUIPC for? I thought it was for designing and editing airport taxi routes, holding points, and parking areas.

If it uses FSUIPC simply for plotting positions then all that data is unchanged, so it should have no trouble. The same data is used widely by other programs without any fuss.

Perhaps you have not registered FSUIPC 3 and therefore no program without an access key can use it? Please check the Log file produced by FSUIPC and see what it is telling you in this regard.

Certainly no one has yet applied for such an access key. Perhaps you would like to scan some of the Announcements and Sticky messages at the top of this forum to see what goes on in this regard? Also you will find full details of both the payment scheme and the registration system in the documentation accompanying FSUIPC, in the ZIP.

Regards,

Pete

[jafred]

Hello,could you please explain to me why AFCAD no longer works with the new version of FSUIPC,It worked well with version 2.9.7.4.

Can you tell me what AFCAD uses FSUIPC for? I thought it was for designing and editing airport taxi routes, holding points, and parking areas.

If it uses FSUIPC simply for plotting positions then all that data is unchanged, so it should have no trouble. The same data is used widely by other programs without any fuss.

Perhaps you have not registered FSUIPC 3 and therefore no program without an access key can use it? Please check the Log file produced by FSUIPC and see what it is telling you in this regard.

Certainly no one has yet applied for such an access key. Perhaps you would like to scan some of the Announcements and Sticky messages at the top of this forum to see what goes on in this regard? Also you will find full details of both the payment scheme and the registration system in the documentation accompanying FSUIPC, in the ZIP.

Regards,

Pete

Thank's for the reply,I still need to know why it does not work and if there is so that I have to buy this program.

I do not use the facilities of Fsuipc other than this.

I also want you to read this.

"6. Preparing to use AFCAD – FSUIPC

AFCAD presents a basic route map of an airport, similar to a subway transit map. Although AFCAD can be used by itself, it is much easier to use it linked with Flight Simulator so you can keep the facility map elements registered with the visual scenery. You can start Flight Simulator and ‘slew’ around an airport in a virtual aircraft and crosshairs will move on the AFCAD map to show your location. Alternatively the AFCAD map can be locked to your aircraft position like a moving map display. This requires the addition of a freeware program called FSUIPC, by Peter Dowson. FSUIPC, among its other uses, allows third party software to interface with Flight Simulator.

FSUIPC does not come with AFCAD but it can be downloaded from any well stocked flight simulation web site, or from the following site:

http://www.schiratti.com/dowson.html

FSUIPC comes with documentation, but it is not necessary to read it for this application. All you have to do is copy the file FSUIPC.dll into the MODULES folder off your main Flight Simulator folder, for example:

…\FS2002\MODULES

That’s all you need to do to allow AFCAD to link with Flight Simulator." :)

But there is no problem anymore,I've got hold on version.2.9,7,5 and now it is working well.

:D

[Pete Dowson]

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Thank's for the reply' date='I still need to know why it does not work and if there is so that I have to buy this program.

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What does the FSUIPC Log file say? Do you get a Message Box saying that you are trying to run an unaccredited program?

I am sorry, but I do not have, and cannot keep track of, every program that is written for FS. I have to respond to requests as they arise. And even then it isn't as if I have nothing to do but wait for these to come so I can jump to it! :(

Although AFCAD can be used by itself, it is much easier to use it linked with Flight Simulator so you can keep the facility map elements registered with the visual scenery. You can start Flight Simulator and ‘slew’ around an airport in a virtual aircraft and crosshairs will move on the AFCAD map to show your location. Alternatively the AFCAD map can be locked to your aircraft position like a moving map display. This requires the addition of a freeware program called FSUIPC

Okay, this means it is reading the location through FSUIPC.

If AFCAD is freeware it is perfectly entitled to a free key to access FSUIPC. The only reason it hasn't got one already is that no one has asked for one, and no one has supplied the details for me to make one. If you look near the top of this Forum you will see a "sticky" thread about all this, which invites such application.

But there is no problem anymore,I've got hold on version.2.9,7,5 and now it is working well.

:D

Fine, but this would not be the case in FS2004, and FSUIPC version 2 is no longer supported. It would benefit folks more to get AFCAD issued with a Key. Normally I'd expect the author to do this, but perhaps he's too busy with the FS2004 version, or maybe no one has even asked him.

Regards,

Pete