Pass optional params from a lua event listener?

[spokes2112]

Hello Pete and / or John.

This is an idea, maybe for the future? ( too late now for FSX) This seems it would be very helpful for those working on a sim cockpit.
An optional passing 3rd parameter on "event.Lvar".

Have been working on a project for a friend where ~226 l:vars needed to be assigned to offsets so that mobiflight/arduino can use them for the cockpit.
Mainly these are indicator lamps and the like - not updated/changed repetitively.
All done with it and seen there was quite a bit of repetition. (~215 semi-repetitive functions)
Thinking this would save (big time) on lua memory usage, writing of the script, and possibly quicker loading of the lua. 
Would something like this work? 
If it could work, any downsides?

Of course tested it with grand hopes, but alas.....
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local poll_spd = 300

function write2ub (varname, value, offset)
     ipc.writeUB(offset, value)
end

function write2uw (varname, value, offset)
     ipc.writeUW(offset, value)
end

-- etc...

event.Lvar("lvar#1", poll_spd, "write2ub", 0x####)
event.Lvar("lvar#2", poll_spd, "write2ub", 0x####)
-- thru
event.Lvar("lvar#225", poll_spd, "write2uw", 0x####)
event.Lvar("lvar#226", poll_spd, "write2uw", 0x####)
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Again, just an idea. Regards,
Roman

[Pete Dowson]

36 minutes ago, spokes2112 said:

This is an idea, maybe for the future? ( too late now for FSX) This seems it would be very helpful for those working on a sim cockpit.
An optional passing 3rd parameter on "event.Lvar".

At first reading it seems a pretty easy option to add, yes. I'll take a look at the code.

John's away at present but I'm sure he would also be favourable towards this, possibly for the next release of FSUIPC5 (for which we can't currently give a date).

Pete

 

[John Dowson]

Hi Ramon,

Yep, looks useful and pretty simple to add so I'll schedule for the next release. I'll post you a dll to test when done.

Cheers,

John

[Pete Dowson]

17 hours ago, John Dowson said:

Yep, looks useful and pretty simple to add so I'll schedule for the next release. I'll post you a dll to test when done.

Hi Roman,

Please see the PM I've just sent.

Pete