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Hello everybody,

does anyone know how to derive the name of a VOR/NDB composed of 3 letters? FSUIPC provides the relative offsets for example VOR1 Identity is reported in the offset 3000 which is composed of 6 bytes but I don't understand how to get the letters from the string.

Thanks for your help.🙃

Valerio

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3 hours ago, BABA767 said:

does anyone know how to derive the name of a VOR/NDB composed of 3 letters? FSUIPC provides the relative offsets for example VOR1 Identity is reported in the offset 3000 which is composed of 6 bytes but I don't understand how to get the letters from the string.

How are you trading the offset? For example, in lua you would use
    n = ipc.readSTR(offset, length)

John

 

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..just add a photo to show what I would like to understand; in practice on the offset 3000 I read a bit string with the decimal value next to it but I don't understand the relationship between the string and the VOR ident in the example highlighted the Ident corresponds to the letters OST.

In lua I would read the same string?

Valerio

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1 hour ago, BABA767 said:

.just add a photo to show what I would like to understand; in practice on the offset 3000 I read a bit string with the decimal value next to it but I don't understand the relationship between the string and the VOR ident in the example highlighted the Ident corresponds to the letters OST.

Every variable type is a sequence of bits, whether it is a string, an integer, a floating point number or any other type. You just have to read it as a string. Each letter is one byte / 8 bits:
   O = 0x4F (Virtual Key Code) = 01001111
   S = 0x53 = 01010011
   T = 0x54 = 01010100

And so the string  OST in binary is (in reverse order - how strings are stored) :
     
010101000101001101001111
which is what your picture shows. And 010101000101001101001111 as an integer is 5526351, also as your picture shows.

1 hour ago, BABA767 said:

In lua I would read the same string?

As I said, to read it as a string in lua you would use
    n = ipc.readSTR(offset, length)

John

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3 hours ago, John Dowson said:

Every variable type is a sequence of bits, whether it is a string, an integer, a floating point number or any other type. You just have to read it as a string. Each letter is one byte / 8 bits:
   O = 0x4F (Virtual Key Code) = 01001111
   S = 0x53 = 01010011
   T = 0x54 = 01010100

And so the string  OST in binary is (in reverse order - how strings are stored) :
     
010101000101001101001111
which is what your picture shows. And 010101000101001101001111 as an integer is 5526351, also as your picture shows.

John this is exactly the explanation I was looking for!
I didn't know how to interpret the string, maybe it is reported in the FSUIPC manual anyway, problem solved😊
thank you!
V.

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