P3D v4 atc menu - can text be 'captured'

[srm]

Is there anyway to have access to the displayed atc text in P3d?  In VR the menu doesn't show up.  If I could capture it as text, I could have a text to speech program tell mw what is being displayed.

[Pete Dowson]

  On 8/13/2017 at 5:21 PM, srm said:

Is there anyway to have access to the displayed atc text in P3d?  In VR the menu doesn't show up.  If I could capture it as text, I could have a text to speech program tell mw what is being displayed.

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In P3D3 I can capture the SimConnect style menus, like those from GSX and ProATC/X, but never the default ATC.

With P3D4 I am waiting for L-M to implement suitable facilities, which are sort of half-promised. Whether they'll also cover the default ATC is unlikely, however, as the easiest implementation would be to intercept and pass on the data from the SimConnect calls.

Pete

 

[737-SimGuy]

  On 8/13/2017 at 11:00 PM, Pete Dowson said:

In P3D3 I can capture the SimConnect style menus, like those from GSX and ProATC/X, but never the default ATC.

With P3D4 I am waiting for L-M to implement suitable facilities, which are sort of half-promised. Whether they'll also cover the default ATC is unlikely, however, as the easiest implementation would be to intercept and pass on the data from the SimConnect calls.

Pete

 

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Hi Pete,

Any update to this regarding capturing the ATC menu with your latest FSUIPC (5.13+) and WideClient (WideClient 7.146) updates?

Also, with regard to the SimC menus (GSX for example), I find that when the menu disappears from the screen automatically after it's timeout that the event.textmenu does not fire off sending a msg count of 0 in order for me to clear my menu. Is that by design? I get the event when I close the menu manually.

Thanks,

James

[Pete Dowson]

  On 5/23/2018 at 7:24 AM, 737-SimGuy said:

Any update to this regarding capturing the ATC menu with your latest FSUIPC (5.13+) and WideClient (WideClient 7.146) updates?

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No, L-M have only implemented the capturing of the SimConnect texts and menus. This was really the main expectation. Inbuilt stuff like ATC is a different matter altogether. If this is a requirement in any demand then those needing it should tell L-M.  I must admit that I've not found this to be the case -- most folks with such sophisticated needs have surely moved to better ATC solutions?  There's no shortage.

  On 5/23/2018 at 7:24 AM, 737-SimGuy said:

Also, with regard to the SimC menus (GSX for example), I find that when the menu disappears from the screen automatically after it's timeout that the event.textmenu does not fire off sending a msg count of 0 in order for me to clear my menu. Is that by design? I get the event when I close the menu manually.

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I don't get notification of that, yet -- same as when Menus are closed. This seems to be set to be fixed with the next P3D4 update though.

Pete