MSFS How to work with SimConnect_AIReleaseControl

[Taz5150]

Hello,

I have been struggling with this topic for quite sometime and checking several code to try and find an answer. Also, and although I might misinterpret something, I have read once and again the official documentation (MSFS's, FSX's and P3D).

The question is this simple, and maybe I am doing it right already. But since I am still getting some issues within my code, I'm not sure if these are due to this problem or some other.

This is what I do, from what I've seen:

First I include the proper requestID in my enum structure:

static enum DATA_REQUEST_ID {
    REQUEST_PROBE_RELEASE,
    ...
}

At some point in my code, when I create a SimConnect_AICreateSimulatedObject, I initialize it with the following to release it and be able to move it without issues:

void probe_init(int probe_i)
{
    HRESULT hr;

    hr = SimConnect_AIReleaseControl(hSimConnect, probe_info[probe_i].id, (UINT)REQUEST_PROBE_RELEASE+probe_i);
    hr = SimConnect_TransmitClientEvent(hSimConnect,
        probe_info[probe_i].id,
        EVENT_FREEZE_ALTITUDE,
        1,
        SIMCONNECT_GROUP_PRIORITY_HIGHEST,
        SIMCONNECT_EVENT_FLAG_GROUPID_IS_PRIORITY);
    hr = SimConnect_TransmitClientEvent(hSimConnect,
        probe_info[probe_i].id,
        EVENT_FREEZE_ATTITUDE,
        1,
        SIMCONNECT_GROUP_PRIORITY_HIGHEST,
        SIMCONNECT_EVENT_FLAG_GROUPID_IS_PRIORITY);
    hr = SimConnect_TransmitClientEvent(hSimConnect,
        probe_info[probe_i].id,
        EVENT_FREEZE_LATLONG,
        1,
        SIMCONNECT_GROUP_PRIORITY_HIGHEST,
        SIMCONNECT_EVENT_FLAG_GROUPID_IS_PRIORITY);
}

Now, the problem I see from third-party code, is that the REQUEST_PROBE_RELEASE is never called within the Callback function. Is this how its supposed to work?

I am wondering if this is the problem why I am getting a SIMCONNECT_EXCEPTION_DATA_ERROR (20) although the code seems to be working fine.

Thank you.

Best!

 

[DragonflightDesign]

Error 20: '(... )It is also used by other functions to report that flags or reserved parameters have not been set to zero'. Are you sure that your SimConnect_AIReleaseControl call has the correct parameters?

 

[Taz5150]

Error 20: '(... )It is also used by other functions to report that flags or reserved parameters have not been set to zero'. Are you sure that your SimConnect_AIReleaseControl call has the correct parameters?

Thank you for the tip. As it turns out, both questions/ issues are not correlated:

1. regarding AIReleaseControl, I found out that it doesn't do much for non-Aircraft SimObjects which have not be given a path (waypoints) and are not controlled by the AI. So this is not a problem anymore for my specific case.

2. regarding Exception (20), it turns out the problem was on the SetDataOnSimObject. On my data definition, I was trying to read a SimVar which is not supported for the SimObject in question.

Again, thank you!