METAR through FSUIPC

[paul-henri]

Hello,I want to use FSUIPC to write some METAR for fixed airports in FSX. I have read the FSUIPC4 Offsets Status.pdf document which gives some information about the area where to copy data, but i'm not sure to fully understand... Suppose I want to send the following METAR: KSEA 030405Z 27007KT 15SM SKC 17/13 A2992. I copy this string is into a string variables named Metar[]. Should I use the following API at the following 0xB000 offset ?

FSUIPC_Write(0xB000, 42, (void *)Metar, &dwResult);

FSUIPC_Process(&dwResult); Or am I completly wrong ?

[Pete Dowson]

Hello,I want to use FSUIPC to write some METAR for fixed airports in FSX. I have read the FSUIPC4 Offsets Status.pdf document which gives some information about the area where to copy data, but i'm not sure to fully understand... Suppose I want to send the following METAR: KSEA 030405Z 27007KT 15SM SKC 17/13 A2992. I copy this string is into a string variables named Metar[]. Should I use the following API at the following 0xB000 offset ?

FSUIPC_Write(0xB000, 42, (void *)Metar, &dwResult);

FSUIPC_Process(&dwResult); Or am I completly wrong ?

I'd use "strlen(Metar)+1" instead of 42. The length must include the zero terminator.

For the METAR format needed, please refer to the SImConnect SDK -- function SimConnect_WeatherSetObservation. FSUIPC simply passes your string to that function. I think you might get away with:

KSEA METAR 030405Z 270007KT 15SM SKC 17/13 A2992

Don't forget, if you are writing a lot, do the Writes first with one Process at the end.

Regards

Pete

[paul-henri]

Hello Pete,

Thank you very much for your answer. I was not sure to have fully understood the way to proceed to write a METAR. I think I was missing the zero terminator....

Best regards.

Paul-Henri