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  1. Ralph Freshour

    SimConnect for FSX Steam

    My FSX Gold DVD stopped working so I could not load FSX onto my new PC. I purchased FSX Steam and installed that on my new PC. I have an app that uses SimConnect but I'm getting a compile error that says my side by side configuration is wrong. I want to load the RTM verion which I see in my...
  2. Ralph Freshour

    Help needed with FlyBy outside camera view

    I'm trying to add an outside camera view, "FlyBy" to my app. I'm using FSX (yes I know it's old)! I can't seem to get a FlyBy camera view to work. I've read this link: http://www.fstipsandaddons.com/tutorials/understanding-fsx-cameras.html I'm adding the FlyBy camera view to my custom camera...
  3. Ralph Freshour

    Differences between keyboard buttons and joystick buttons

    Can someone explain the difference between pressing a button on a joystick and pressing a key on a keyboard? On my joystick, I'm pressing a button and detecting it as a joystick button press (and then telling my app to do something). When I attach a Gaming Pad and press a key, I get no...
  4. Ralph Freshour

    How to set Outside Camera Views?

    I'd like to add outside camera views to my camera app. I've been using 3D cockpit camera views. Now that I'm trying to create outside camera views, I must be missing a setting via SimConnect to get out of 3D mode and into Outside view mode?
  5. Ralph Freshour

    FSX TrackIR where to start

    I want to add TrackIR capability to my add-on FSX app but I don't know where to begin? I'm using C# and the examples given are in C++. But besides that, I can't figure out what the basic things are that I need to do to make my app work with TrackIR. Does anyone here have any C# experience doing...
  6. Ralph Freshour

    Developing WiFi Apps

    For my FSX add-on camera app, I'd like to develop an Android mobile app that uses wifi to communicate with my windows add-on app, running on the FSX machine, to select camera views. I'm NOT asking for help on writing the mobile app, I can do that and have done that in the past. I'm asking for...
  7. Ralph Freshour

    How programmatically identify FSX Steam

    I'm uisng the following C# code to identify FSX but am wondering how I can detect if Steam Edition is runnning? IntPtr nWinHandle = FindWindow(null, "Microsoft Flight Simulator X"); SE has the same window name. Thanks...
  8. Ralph Freshour

    Write Text Across Screen Examples in C#

    Can someone point me in the right direction to see how one can write some text across the screen using C#? Thanks...
  9. Ralph Freshour

    How do I port my FSX app to FSX SE?

    I'm looking for some help on how to port my FSX app to run under the FSX Steam Edition platform? Someone told me to look for the msi install program in SE and run that. I did but my FSX app still won't run under SE. There must be more for me to do? Thanks...
  10. Ralph Freshour

    Trying to find FSX window

    I'm using C# to try and find the running FSX window so I can grab the window rect and take a screen shot of it. However, my code below isn't grabbing the 'fsx' window. What am I doing wrong? int nWinHandle = FindWindow("Microsoft Flight Simulator X", null); if...
  11. Ralph Freshour

    Moving cockpit camera around with mouse?

    I'd like to be able to use my mouse to move the camera around the cockpit. Can some one help point in the right direction to start looking at how I can do this in C#? Thanks...
  12. Ralph Freshour

    Adding FSX menus in C#

    Does anyone have some examples of adding a menu item in FSX using C#? Thank you...
  13. Ralph Freshour

    Get filename of loaded aircraft?

    I was looking through the SimConnect SDK for FSX and didn't see a call that looked like it would return the file name of the currently loaded aircraft. I'm sure there must be a way to get that file name? Thanks...
  14. Ralph Freshour

    MapInputEventToClientEvent Key Mapping Help

    I've created a small camera app to move the camera around the cockpit. I'm now trying to add the capability of pressing a key to move the camera in one axis. My "L" and "R" code below isn't working. I press L or R and nothing happens. I must be missing something. Also, can I map an left arrow...
  15. Ralph Freshour

    Can we reset the zoom level?

    I looked in the sim connect API and didn't see anything about a zoom call...does this mean we have no way to reset the default zoom level? Thanks...
  16. Ralph Freshour

    Can't add a new VC camera

    I'm doing some manual testing of adding a VC camera to a Boeing 777 cockpit. I'm editing the aircraft.cfg file...doing an aircraft reload or escaping completing out of the cockpit and coming back in, but I don't see my added VC view. So, camera definition .006 is working as expected. So, then...
  17. Ralph Freshour

    How to detect mouse wheel events

    I'd like to be able to detect mouse wheel movement. I'm using C#...can someone point me in the right direction to see some C# examples of how this is done? Thanks...
  18. Ralph Freshour

    How to detect joystick button press

    I would like to press a joystick button and have my app detect that event so it can then act accordingly. How do I set up my code to detect when I've pressed one of my joystick buttons? Thanks...
  19. Ralph Freshour

    Is there any way to reset a camera view?

    So the little app I am writing moves the camera around the VC. I would like to add a reset button so I can reset the initial or default camera XYZ PBH values but I don't see an API for this in the SimConnect SDK. Did I miss it or can we not do a camera reset? Thanks...
  20. Ralph Freshour

    Creating Custom Camera Views

    I'd like to write my own app to create and edit my own cockpit VC views. I've read some of the docs on the aircraft.cfg file structure so I know they contain the camera views I will need to create and use. I don't know if I need to be using SimConnect for this kind of project? It seems to me...
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