LUA SCRIPT FOR ATC WINDOW POSITIONING

[codatcri]

Hello, I want to have a button that, at the flight start or during a flight, opens ATC & VFR MAP & ... windows and put them in a specific position on my side screens.

I actually succeed in partially doing this using the script below:

ext.position("ATC", 0, 0, 33, 97, 4)
ext.position("VFR MAP", 33, 0, 63, 97, 4)
ext.position("NAVLOG", 0,0, 50, 97, 2)
ext.position("CHECKLIST", 50,0, 50, 97, 2)

what is missing is the previous step that is to get the window "external"

Any idea?

Thanks.

Cristiano

[John Dowson]

3 hours ago, codatcri said:

what is missing is the previous step that is to get the window "external"

If by 'exteranl' you mean un-docked, then I don't think  there is currently a way to do this via simconnect. 

[codatcri]

yes that's what i meant. 😞

[John Dowson]

You could try an ext.state call, using either EXT_NRML or EXT_MAX, but I'm not sure those will undock the window. Otherwise maybe ext.postmessage, if you can determine what the windows message is to undock....Alternatively, if there is a keypress or key combination that does this, you could try sending those key commands using ext.sendkeys or ext.postkeys. Just some ideas to try, but I wouldn't expect too much....!