Event luas no longer work

[eagle11]

Hi John,

In 7.2.15 and 7.2.16 my event luas no longer work.

For my GoFlight stuff I use two luas, one for the radio (GF-166) with which the buttons, rotaries, leds and displays are programmed, and one for the other leds and displays (GF_Leds_Displays). The buttons of the latter are set via the FSUIPC menu and that works correctly. For the log file I pressed two buttons: toggle pitot heat (menu) and frequency swap (lua). In 7.2.14 everything works correctly. Did I miss something when upgrading?

Thanks!

Frans

FSUIPC.zip

[John Dowson]

Are you sure you had an aircraft loaded and were in the ready-to-fly state?

Your log shows the lua's were killed as you were  (most probably) in the main menu:

Quote

   101812 Lua threads being terminated:
   101812       1 = "E:\Prog\FSUIPC7\LuaFiles\GF_166.lua"
   102000 LUA: "E:\Prog\FSUIPC7\LuaFiles\GF_166.lua": killed
   102000       2 = "E:\Prog\FSUIPC7\LuaFiles\GF_Leds_Displays.lua"
   102187 LUA: "E:\Prog\FSUIPC7\LuaFiles\GF_Leds_Displays.lua": killed
   121797 Sim stopped: average frame rate for last 95 secs = 118.4 fps
   121797 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 

If this is not the case, something is triggering the lua threads to be terminated.

 

[eagle11]

Hi John,

Thanks for the quick response.

Yes, plane on the runway ready-to fly, waited about 1 minute, then pressed the two buttons and closed the sim.

Do the changes in 7.2.15 and 7.2.16 affect the behavior of events in lua-threads? I'm asking because I see this in the log:

      250 LuaFiles from: "E:\Prog\FSUIPC7\LuaFiles\"
      266 *** Cannot find preset file: 'E:\Prog\FSUIPC7\myevents.txt'

[John Dowson]

9 minutes ago, eagle11 said:

I'm asking because I see this in the log:

      250 LuaFiles from: "E:\Prog\FSUIPC7\LuaFiles\"
      266 *** Cannot find preset file: 'E:\Prog\FSUIPC7\myevents.txt'

You can safely ignore that message - it is related to the new preset mechanism (see Advanced user guide).

The problem seems to be due to changes I made in 7.2.15 related to starting luas after lvar/hvar lists have been received from the WASM. Looks like I forgot to test without the using the WASM, as luas are no longer started when not using the WASM.

I will take a look and fix this in the next release. However, in the mean-time, to get your luas working again you will need to activate the WASM, using the Add-ons->WASM->Enable menu entry. You don't need to use the WASM, but it must be installed and enabled.

Sorry about this.

John

[John Dowson]

The issue should be corrected in the attached version, v7.2.17a: FSUIPC7.exe

Again, apologies for this.

John

[eagle11]

Hi John,

the WASM enabled and everything works again, so take your time for the fix. Thank you for your great support. 

A happy FSUIPC 4,5,6,7, ? -user! Have a nice weekend!

Frans

Edit: I see there is already a new version, I will try them right away, thanks again!

Edited February 18, 2022 by eagle11
I hadn't seen your last post yet

[eagle11]

Hi John,

Everything works fine with 7.2.17a. Thank you for the quick solution!

Frans

[John Dowson]

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