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Is it normal for a gauge using SimConnect to have it's handle to SimConnect become invalid after a dialog (such as Options) has been opened and closed by the user?

I asked this over in L-M's Prepar3D SimConnect forum and the only sound are the crickets.
 
Ed,
In 4.2, with a Mickey Mouse test gauge, I'm not seeing this result.
 
I'm in 32bit-land with this for now... I had an aircraft loaded that had a SimConnect connection for throttles and some other stuff like keyboard entry... I went into the Options/Controls dialog... and then closed the dialog and then I lost the ability to type in entries into the FMS and it no longer worked. Very weird and makes no sense.
 
You may have had your joystick/keyboard masking/hooks overridden by another module? I'm not sure, but I think that masking in simconnect goes to the last client to request it... So it could be that another module is masking those inputs when the sim returns from dialog.
 
I wish it were that simple... the value of hSimConnect goes to NULL (0). I'm trying to determine if this is expected behavior or not.
 
I just figured out what triggers it, but I can't fathom a reason why.
The sim loads into the VC... everything works. I flipped over to a 2D panel that I use for testing... and it wiped the SimConnect. I don't get it.
 
I have one in PANEL_SERVICE_DISCONNECT and one for if I get the QUIT message from SimConnect itself.
 
I added logic around the one in the PANEL_SERVICE_DISCONNECT and that took care of it. Thanks for the suggestion Mr. Dawson. :)
 
Why don't you have it in the module_deinit instead of the gauge callback?
 
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