DLuis Posted September 17, 2018 Report Share Posted September 17, 2018 Hi, I'm trying to make Lua script to automatically handle all the GSX services. It's possible to extract the text from the GSX Menu to know if it's visible or even better, possible to get the services page? I'm asking this because I don't want to use timers to press the keys so that the menu barely appears. Using last 5.14 and P3Dv4.1 without WideFS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted September 17, 2018 Report Share Posted September 17, 2018 2 hours ago, DLuis said: It's possible to extract the text from the GSX Menu to know if it's visible or even better, possible to get the services page? Is the text actual ASCII characters, or part of an Image? If it is a character string then of course you can using the standard Lua string library functions to search for specific words or phrases, and thus act upon them. Refer to string.find. Image recognition is far too complex. I doubt if Lua is the right language for that, and I wouldn't know how to even begin! That image looks like it is from the EFC program which is in Beta at present, from the ProSim forum. Correct? On P3D4 you can get texts as above, in searchable string form, from SimConnect directly, or using FSUIPC + WideClient. Then run your Lua program in the client. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timonier Posted September 18, 2018 Report Share Posted September 18, 2018 Hello, Perhaps those two links will give an idea : https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/542078-gsx-library-sept-2018/ Certainly for the doors and https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/512119-new-linda-309-32-64-bit-compatible-18-sep-2018/ Hope this help Best Regards Marc UPDATE : sorry it's only for the GSX doors 😧 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Kolin Posted September 19, 2018 Report Share Posted September 19, 2018 Have you tried reading LVARs that GSXv2 uses to determine its status? Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted September 19, 2018 Report Share Posted September 19, 2018 13 hours ago, Timonier said: Perhaps those two links will give an idea : https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/542078-gsx-library-sept-2018/ Certainly for the doors and https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/512119-new-linda-309-32-64-bit-compatible-18-sep-2018/ Hope this help Best Regards Marc UPDATE : sorry it's only for the GSX doors 😧 Sorry, those links tell me that LINDA does it for you, for certin aircraft at least. What is it you now want to do? The image you posted looks like one from an iPad or Android running EFC for ProSim. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLuis Posted September 19, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2018 Hello, Sorry for my delay answer and thanks a lot for the replies. This image is a print from P3D main window with "panel only" view (the reason for the black background), as nothing to do with Prosim, EFC or network gauge. It's just GSX Menu in P3D. Yep, I'm using the new L:Vars of GSX to check the state of the services. I'm using this code in lua to call for deboarding and works great: repeat ipc.keypressplus(123, 3, 4) ipc.sleep(1000) ipc.keypressplus(49, 0, 4) until DEBOARDING < 2 DEBOARDING = L:VAR (FSDT_GSX_DEBOARDING_STATE) but not for pushback because are more option after selected, so I have to delay the keypress. To be safe, the delay must be long (but the menu stays there...). I just need a flag that tells me that the GSX Menu is open to make the keypress just after the menu appears, this is my goal. In the Lua Library, I notice the event.textmenu, but only works in the WideClient. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted September 19, 2018 Report Share Posted September 19, 2018 59 minutes ago, DLuis said: I just need a flag that tells me that the GSX Menu is open to make the keypress just after the menu appears, this is my goal. In the Lua Library, I notice the event.textmenu, but only works in the WideClient. Actually, I don't see any reason I cannot add it to the FSUIPC5 Lua event library. There just never seemed to be any point before. I can implement that for the next 5.14 update. So, you don't read the text of the menus, you just relay on the L:Vars? The event.textmenu facility would give you texts as well, not just for menus but also Simconnect messages and contents of message windows. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLuis Posted September 19, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2018 Hi Pete, Yes, I just rely on L:Vars, not in the text of the GSX Menu. I tried the event.textmenu, but it gives me one a "null" error, so i see that this is a WideClient function (it's documented, my bad). Well, if you are able to do that, for me would be great and be very appreciated, because my goal is to do something like this to call boarding/deboarding and all other stuff: ipc.keypressplus(123, 3, 4) -- CTRL + Shift + F12 while GSXMenuflag == 0 do -- Wait until GSX Menu appears ipc.sleep(100) end ipc.keypressplus(49, 0, 4) -- Press 1 This would make almost one invisible GSX Menu 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted September 19, 2018 Report Share Posted September 19, 2018 4 minutes ago, DLuis said: Well, if you are able to do that, for me would be great and be very appreciated, because my goal is to do something like this to call boarding/deboarding and all other stuff: ipc.keypressplus(123, 3, 4) -- CTRL + Shift + F12 while GSXMenuflag == 0 do -- Wait until GSX Menu appears ipc.sleep(100) end ipc.keypressplus(49, 0, 4) -- Press 1 This would make almost one invisible GSX Menu 🙂 With event.textmenu you'd be able to read the menus, the item placing in the menu itself, and, possibly just as importantly, the textual prompts outside the menu. A plug-in could handle other programs with menus too, whether they have L:Vars you can use or not. So, I've decided it might be very useful and so I am adding this capability now. It will be in the next update for FSUIPC5 (only). Not sure when yet -- there are other things we are doing -- but probably within days rather than weeks. Pete 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLuis Posted September 19, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2018 Hi Pete, What can i say, thanks a lot for this new feature. For me FSUIPC5 it's more than fine 😄 Days or weeks doesn't matter, take your time. Thanks again for the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLuis Posted November 29, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2018 Hello Pete, I've downloaded last version, but I can't find anything in the documentation for check if the GSX menu is Active or not. Can you tell me what the reference in lua to check this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted November 29, 2018 Report Share Posted November 29, 2018 1 hour ago, DLuis said: I've downloaded last version, but I can't find anything in the documentation for check if the GSX menu is Active or not. There's nothing to check "GSX menu" specifically. You just use event.textmenu and receive the text from whatever menu there is, when it displays. 1 hour ago, DLuis said: Can you tell me what the reference in lua to check this? event.textmenu in the event library descriptions. It's been in there for a long time, but enhanced for P3D4 since FSUIPC 5.13. So I'm not sure what the "last version" you refer to is? Note that there are minor updates in the document in the 5.15 release too, but please check the first paragraph of the document It should say "(for FSUIPC5, version 5.15 and later, ...". The first day of the 5.15 release actually had the previous versions of the documents installed, for the very latest you'd need to clear your cache (F5 I think) and download again. But this is not necessary for this facility. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLuis Posted November 29, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2018 Hi Pete, Last version for me is 5.15, but I was looking for something different and didn't notice that event.textmenu now works without WideFS I will try this facility and give feedback later. Thanks a lot for all your work and effort on this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLuis Posted November 29, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2018 Pete, Little help please 😞 Trying this facility with only this lua script: function GSXMenu(type, colour, scroll, delay, id, n, msgs) ipc.log("Menu Opened") end event.textmenu(0, "GSXMenu") but I'm having this error starting the script: *** LUA Error: ...GSX.lua:5: unexpected symbol near 'ï' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted November 29, 2018 Report Share Posted November 29, 2018 22 minutes ago, DLuis said: Trying this facility with only this lua script: function GSXMenu(type, colour, scroll, delay, id, n, msgs) ipc.log("Menu Opened") end event.textmenu(0, "GSXMenu") but I'm having this error starting the script: *** LUA Error: ...GSX.lua:5: unexpected symbol near 'ï' You have some extra characters in your code, non-ASCII ones I think -- one character or more after the last ). Delete the line completely and re-type it. BTW you realise that using 0 to don't just get Menus, you also get Text Messages. For menus only you need 2. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLuis Posted November 29, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2018 Pete, Totally right, copy/paste did put some non-ASCII in the code. About the types, this it's just for testing probably just need 2 for menu popup. Now i don't have errors, but also nothing happens when opening GSX menu... I've "Waiting for an event in "...GSX.lua" in the log, but no "Menu Opened" or function called. Using last version of GSX and FSUIPC 5.15. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted November 29, 2018 Report Share Posted November 29, 2018 1 hour ago, DLuis said: Using last version of GSX and FSUIPC 5.15. Which version of P3D4? Your script is working fine here. Maybe add a log entry when you invoke the event.textmenu function, just to check that your Lua is really running. To check that the facility is working add the following lines to the [General] section of FSIOPC5.INI: Debug=Please TestOptions=X8000 This will give entries for menus like this (this is a test menu only): 1498655 ### TEXT: 512 (Menu) From SimC, Duration 0.00, Flags 00000000, Len=81 1498655 SimConnect Text Menu 1498655 Choose which item: 1498655 Item #1 1498655 Item #2 1498655 Item #3 1498655 Item #4 1498655 Item #5 1498655 ***DISP*** Text/menu type 2 broadcast 1498655 TextMenu Displayed That last line is from your script. When I selected an item from the menu I got this logged: 1578262 ### TEXT_DESTROY: 512 (Menu) Result: 2, Flags 00000000 1578262 ***DISP*** Text/menu type 2 clear broadcast 1578262 LUA.0: Menu Opened so it gets called then, too, when the menu is cleared. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLuis Posted November 29, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2018 Hi Pete, Still using version 4.1 If the script works fine with you, means that probably the problem is in P3D4 version. I really don't have anything with the Debug=Please and TestOptions=X8000 I will try to update P3D and then use the script again. Thanks a lot for your time Pete, really appreciate for your effort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted November 29, 2018 Report Share Posted November 29, 2018 12 minutes ago, DLuis said: Still using version 4.1 If the script works fine with you, means that probably the problem is in P3D4 version. I think in was added in P3D later -- 4.2 with errors, fixed to indicate clearance in 4.3. Sorry, this should really be mentioned in the Lua PDF. I obviously thought no one would stick with such an old version of P3D4. I'll amend it for the next update. I can very strongly recommend P3D4.4. Excellent version, very robust, good performance, outstanding graphics. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLuis Posted November 30, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 Hi Pete Please don´t sorry. The problem is with me, I need to move forward. I'm not going to give up, after the update I will try again this facility to make the key press a son as the GSX Menu appears and give the feedback to you. Thanks a lot for this amazing piece of software and for all your attention and effort to the community. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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