Program on top of FS2004

[Kareem Ahmed]

Hi all ....

 

Is there a way to make a program on top of FS2004 full-screen mode ? - I tried all APIs for making such task but all failed .. Is there a way from inside the FSUIPC ?

Coding tools : Visual basic 6 or C++

 

Thanks in advance

[Pete Dowson]

Is there a way to make a program on top of FS2004 full-screen mode ? - I tried all APIs for making such task but all failed .. Is there a way from inside the FSUIPC ?

 

What do you mean "program on top of FS2004"?  You mean display something?

 

Full screen mode means what it says -- the screen belongs to the program which is using the mode. There's no way anything not in that program can display on top of it. You would need to have it displayed as a gauge or other component. FSUIPC can do it with its display windows only because it is within FS and is calling functions inside FS to do the displays. This is only for text, in the status window or similar. For instance you can use the Lua plug-in ipc.display function for text -- see for example the Log Lvars and Display Vals plug-ins in the pack of Examples installed in your FSUIPC Documents folder.

 

Pete

[Kareem Ahmed]

Pete

The idea is to run an external executable file <Project.exe program window> and to be set it on the top of FS2004, not showing text of graphics .  Can a dll file inserted into modules folder do it by running the Project.exe file and set it on most top ? -

Edited March 14, 2014 by Kareem Ahmed

[mgh]

It is possible to create an .exe file that reads/writes data from FS.

[Pete Dowson]

The idea is to run an external executable file <Project.exe program window> and to be set it on the top of FS2004, not showing text of graphics .  Can a dll file inserted into modules folder do it by running the Project.exe file and set it on most top ? -

 

If it is not showing any text or graphics, what is it actually showing "on top of" FS2004? If it doesn't need to show anything it doesn't need to be "on top"!

 

In any case a process running in full screen mode cannot share that screen with other processes. That's the whole point of full screen mode. What you want is called windowed mode.

 

Pete

[Kareem Ahmed]

You got me wrongly, I meant I don't want to show a text-only based on DirectX-Drawing like how Fraps show on the corners of the screen.. I want to show the window of the program which of course has buttons, and doing a task in front of the FS <on top> ..

I know it's complicated to show some form,program in front of a Directx game which it reserves the whole screen ..

But as you know, Yahoo messenger can pop-up notification windows while in game .. a very close sample how some tool like FSpassenger shows its windows on top of Flight Simulator full-screen mode ..

That's what I have searched for several weeks on Google and developers forums and tried almost a lot of ideas but all didn't work ..

Honestly I'm trying to learn how it can be done and tried to do it by my knowledge in programming but useless ..

Edited March 14, 2014 by Kareem Ahmed

[Pete Dowson]

But as you know, Yahoo messenger can pop-up notification windows while in game .. a very close sample how some tool like FSpassenger shows its windows on top of Flight Simulator full-screen mode ..

That's what I have searched for several weeks on Google and developers forums and tried almost a lot of ideas but all didn't work ..

Honestly I'm trying to learn how it can be done and tried to do it by my knowledge in programming but useless ..

 

I don't think it can be done from a separate process. I have no idea what Yahoo messenger is. Sorry. you'll need to do research on Windows programming websites.

 

Pete

[mgh]

I may also have misunderstand but what you want relates to windows, not FSUPC.