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creating variables for storage

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I currently use a couple different methods for getting data into flight sim. One way is to just use the flight sim variables that are settable and then retrieve the value in xml or cgauge. I also use the cabincomfort example to get data into the xml variables.

Does flight sim allow new variables to be created? It'd be really cool if we could just create a structure in flight sim that could be written and read.

Bobby
 
Surely the only FSX knows about are those it creates itself, so I'm not sure what new variables you are hoping FSX will create?

Obviously yor could create your own structure in, say a Simconnect application, but FSX wouldn't know about them.
 
Guess I missed the OP point.

I also use the cabincomfort example to get data into the xml variables
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So maybe the LOCALVARS would help. Add in a hidden gauge that stores the new Variables you need.
 
I still don't think that allows flight sim to create new variables. Users can obviously create their own variables, but they are not flight simulator variables - the only flight simulator varables are surely those listed in the SDK.
 
After reading my question I see that it's very unclear.

I was just wondering the most efficient way of transferring my own data into an xml or cgauge. I currently using C: variables for xml. That allows me to create new variables and retrieve them in xml gauges. I was just wondering if there were other methods. It's a little annoying because it appears that it must be a dll. I was wondering if maybe there was a way to do something similar with simconnect.

I'll take a look at the LOCALVARS. Looks like an interesting tool.

Thanks!!!
Bobby
 
Simconnect still is a .dll (or an .exe, but then there is whole another set of issues, quite possibly), for you to make a .dll gauge as per cabin comfort example seems the best solution.
 
Look at the client data area functions in SimConnect. You can create any type of structure you wish. C gauges can read and write to these areas using SimConnect.
 
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