textmenu event without WideFS

[Jason Fayre]

Hello,

I'm wondering if it's possible to use the textmenu event in a LUA plugin without using widefs? I'm working on an accessibility add-on for blind flight sim users and I want to be able to detect when a simconnect menu has popped up, then do something with the data in that menu, like write it to a file.

I know I could do this via widefs, but I'm wondering if I can just do this in a lua script inside the simulator.

Thanks!

[John Dowson]

You can in FSUIPC5 but not in earlier versions. The event.textmenu function was added to FSUIPC5 in version 5.151, released February 2019.

Cheers,

John

[Jason Fayre]

Hmmm, interesting. I'm trying to do this via the offsets at b000. I'm running fSUIPC version 5.152. When I use it without Widefs, I get nothing in those offsets. If I use WideFS on the same pc, I do. 

Any idea what's up then?

 

[Jason Fayre]

Ok. It looks like this may have been corrected in 5.153. I just updated and I can now read SimConnect messages from b000 without Wide Client running.

 

[John Dowson]

Strange as it should have been working in 5.151, although there was a minor update to this functionality in 5.152 as well. Anyway, I was going to suggest that you update to the latest version as we only support the latest version of each product.

Cheers,

John