Change Focus to undocked Cockpit View

[Alhard Horstmann]

Hi all,

I am flying with P3D  and an A320 on two monitors. I separate my undocked cockpit view on the second monitor. On my Master monitor runs the main P3D process with main panel view. So I have two views running. I change the views with FSUIPC and my controller buttons.

Now I want to change the view on the second monitor e.g. from cockpit view to spot view. But before I do this, I have to click on the second monitor in order to get focus on that screen. Then the view change works by controller buttons.

Now my question: what FSUIPC function can I use to change the focus to my second screen, before I change the view by controller button with a key sequence and FSUIPC?

My term "focus" always means the MS Windows process focus.

Thanks and regards

Alhard

[Pete Dowson]

4 hours ago, Alhard Horstmann said:

Now my question: what FSUIPC function can I use to change the focus to my second screen, before I change the view by controller button with a key sequence and FSUIPC?

Sorry, this is not anything FSUIPC can do at present. The Lua library functions for programs loaded by Lua (ext.run function) include focus facilities, but not for individual windows within a process, and certainly not for P3D itself.

You could perhaps do it with a Lua plug-in which uses the mouse library -- mouse.move to more the cursor to a suitable position, then mouse.click to set the focus there. I can't think of any other way.

Pete

 

[Alhard Horstmann]

On 10/20/2021 at 12:34 AM, Pete Dowson said:

Sorry, this is not anything FSUIPC can do at present. The Lua library functions for programs loaded by Lua (ext.run function) include focus facilities, but not for individual windows within a process, and certainly not for P3D itself.

You could perhaps do it with a Lua plug-in which uses the mouse library -- mouse.move to more the cursor to a suitable position, then mouse.click to set the focus there. I can't think of any other way.

Pete

 

Thanks, Pete, I will try with mouse.move. Haven't found any solution yet.

Alhard

[aua668]

Hi,

I assume, the window on the second monitor is an undocked window. In that case you could try to use this LUA code:

local lhandle = ext.gethandle( "PUT YOUR WINDOW TITLE HERE" )
ext.focus()		-- select main application window
ipc.sleep(100)		-- wait some time
ext.focus(lhandle)	-- set the focus to the window

ipc.control( 66860)	-- replace the parameter with the number found in the P3D controls list (VIEW CAMERA SELECT x)

Rgds
Reinhard

[Alhard Horstmann]

Hello Reinhard, das ist genau , was ich brauche.

Thats exactly what I need. I have LUA experience and will try it asap.

There are all undocked windows on the other monitors.

rgds

Grüße nach Graz.