Hi,
I need to develop a small application that grabs some data from FS9 across WideFS. I need to grab the framerate and display it in a window on my client side of WideFS. I am going to admit my complete lack of understanding on how to do this. However, I do have quite a bit of programming experience but not in C. I can do Visual Basic.
Is there any one who has some small source code that they would not mind sharing that I can use to just understand the process? I have heard of remote buttons programs on the client side to drive FS so this maybe something that I could use as a tool to understand.
Thanks for any help or direction that anyone can provide,
Gil
If framerate info is available via FSUIPC, it would be easy to cobble together a VB6 app to do the job - The FSUIPC SDK has some good VB6 examples.
g.
I am a pretty easy going guy, and I know for a fact that I freak when someone tells me to RTFM, however I have seem many discussions about the LUA Plugin for FSUPC that Peter wrote in there. I have seen this used (to write a script) that moves auto throttles before and it is nice because it is built right into fsupic. Get a list of the offsets and find out if the frame rate is listed.
Asside from that, read through Peters Manual, regarding LUA Programming.
Hi Gil,
Not sure if the links are still functional, but this guy appears to have done something similar to what you are asking, using FSUIPC:
http://forum.avsim.net/topic/224135-any-way-to-monitor-fps-remotely/ (http://forum.avsim.net/topic/224135-any-way-to-monitor-fps-remotely/)
I believe SimConnect can produce that kind of information over a network, but unfortunately it's only usable in FSX.
Regards,
Robert
Thanks All,
I dusted off my programming skills, bought an old but legal copy of VB6, and banged away at the keyboard. A few hours later....I have a small app running on the client-side of WideFS spitting out the frame rate once a second.
Thanks for the advice!