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Editing In-Sim Menus

theisomizer

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Hi All,

We'll since I'm (probably) unchained (see here if you didn't catch the discussion), I guess it's time for a new post.

Here's a piece of the latest thing I've been working on: Messing around with the menus (and other systems) through the FSAPI.

I don't want to divulge much more right now, but exciting things are coming. But for now, two questions. Do you think a skinning / menu editing tool or API would be useful for end-users and/or developers? And, what could you see being done with a custom winodwing and menu system? Does it sound revolutionary, or extremely boring? Just trying to test the water here.

Screenshots:
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Edit: Also works in FSX. Just testing in Prepar3d here.
 
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Would this be something like a GUI for menu and window code creation?

I can spawn me menus and handle events easily enough, but I dread the windowing code. Something like a graphical editor that will create the code for me would be nice. I would use it.
 
pfabian said:
Would this be something like a GUI for menu and window code creation?

I can spawn me menus and handle events easily enough, but I dread the windowing code. Something like a graphical editor that will create the code for me would be nice. I would use it.
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Well, it certainly could be :) Like I said, just testing the water here. I am NDA'd on the project I'm working on right now that uses this API, so I can't really discuss what I'm using it for now.

I am just looking at the future and seeing if having the ability to manipulate all menus and windows in the sim is something people would want to do. I'm certainly thinking of gearing this more towards developers.

Out of curiosity, how are you doing this now? As far as I'm aware there's no existing way to do this in FSX right now. Cyril's methods from FS9 don't work with the new xui skin, and through simconnect all you can do is put an entry in the Add-Ons menu. There are ways to create FS98FLOAT windows already, and I agree it needs to be easier. But I don't know of any other way to actually add and remove top level menu bar entries from FSX/P3D.
 
theisomizer said:
Out of curiosity, how are you doing this now? As far as I'm aware there's no existing way to do this in FSX right now. Cyril's methods from FS9 don't work with the new xui skin, and through simconnect all you can do is put an entry in the Add-Ons menu. There are ways to create FS98FLOAT windows already, and I agree it needs to be easier. But I don't know of any other way to actually add and remove top level menu bar entries from FSX/P3D.
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Actually, I am not doing it now (yet).

What I do, for now, is spawn a "menu" with one selectable item - close.
This is the same kind of semitransparent menu that is used for ex. to handle ATC. I would really like to spawn a proper window instead. I am not too interested in making a top level menu item (if that is what you thought I do), menu nested in "Addons" item is more than enough for me.
 
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