ark1320 11 Posted January 9 Report Share Posted January 9 The SetPauseMSFS&P3D.lua script attached below makes use of the FSUIPC Lua event and wnd libraries (as suggested by John Dowson) and can be used to pause MSFS or P3Dv4.5/v5.1 from 1 minute to days after the script is run. When run, the script asks for a pause time and if none if provided within two minutes the script closes with a brief message. If a pause time is entered, for example 260 minutes until a Top of Descent, the user would see Then after hitting the Enter key the display would change to This display will change once per minute as the time to pause counts down towards zero. If the user decides to cancel the pending (future) pause with the Enter key, the display briefly changes to When the pause time is reached, the sim pauses and looks just like a pause had been initiated with the ESC key. To cancel a paused sim you just need to click on Resume, or push ESC. The ESC in MSFS and P3D works as a toggle pause key. So if you were to set a future pause time with this script, and then pause the sim ‘manually’ by pushing the ESC key, when the time until pause reached zero, it would unpause the sim. While kind of interesting, I’m not sure what the utility of this is! 🙂 If using MSFS this script requires at least FSUIPC version 7.0.4, or at least FSUIPC version 6.0.12 for P3D. Al SetPauseMSFS&P3D.lua Quote Link to post Share on other sites
grigna 1 Posted March 19 Report Share Posted March 19 Very interesting, but how implement it? Does it have to be associated with a button? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ark1320 11 Posted April 9 Author Report Share Posted April 9 On 3/19/2021 at 7:31 AM, grigna said: Very interesting, but how implement it? Does it have to be associated with a button? Hi, Just saw your question here-- sorry I didn't notice it sooner. You need to put the Lua script in the same location as your FSUIPC.ini file, and then use FSUIPC to assign either a keyboard key or button to activate (call) the script. Al Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Andreas Stangenes 4 Posted May 29 Report Share Posted May 29 I tried this script today, and when I activate it, I just get a flash of a white rectangle (which I guess is the outline of what was supposed to be a text box/prompt). I dont get anything to enter the time till pause. I guess this lua doesn't work anymore? Is there an alternative? I would really like a pause at tod or pause x nm from destination function. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Andreas Stangenes 4 Posted May 29 Report Share Posted May 29 Nevermind, I just needed to update my FSUIPC to the latest version. It works like a charm now :) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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