Auto_save Enable/Disable toggle control question

[ark1320]

John,

How does the control ipc.control(0x1151) work? Does it automatically detect if auto-save is active and if so, disables it. But if auto-save is disabled, the control will activate auto-save? Or do you write a 1 or 0 with the control to toggle auto-save on and off?

Is there a way within a Lua script to detect if auto-save is running (active)?

Thanks,

Al

[John Dowson]

9 hours ago, ark1320 said:

How does the control ipc.control(0x1151) work?

Control numbers are given in decimal, not hex, so the to send the auto-save on/off toggle control you would need to use
    ipc.control(1151)

9 hours ago, ark1320 said:

Does it automatically detect if auto-save is active and if so, disables it. But if auto-save is disabled, the control will activate auto-save? Or do you write a 1 or 0 with the control to toggle auto-save on and off?

No. As it says in the documentation (Advanced User manual, page 30):

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1151 Auto-Save enable/disable toggle. An additional control to toggle AutoSave on/off.

This is only active once the AutoSave functionality has been activated.

So auto-save must be active, and then the toggle allows you to enable/disable it.

9 hours ago, ark1320 said:

Is there a way within a Lua script to detect if auto-save is running (active)?

No, not directly. But as it should always be on when you start a flight (*), you should be able to determine the current state of auto-save by the number of times it has been toggled.

* auto-save should always be on when a flight is started, regardless of the state of the auto-save after the previous flight, but I am not sure if this is the case...if not, I would need to correct this.

John

[ark1320]

4 hours ago, John Dowson said:

Control numbers are given in decimal, not hex, so the to send the auto-save on/off toggle control you would need to use
    ipc.control(1151)

Yes, of course! Thanks for catching that.