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Hello All,
Long time lurker, first time poster.
I have seen quite a few questions around UI within FS via simconnect, but haven't seen too much in the way of answers.

I am currently using simconnect.text to scroll some information across the screen to the user inside FSX. How can I carve out a little space on the screen to display persistent data? ALA fspassengers?
I'd like to show a small box that displays phase of flight (boarding, taxi, takeoff etc..)
Maybe even have some small buttons to toggle things...

I'm using an external .exe but have added a menu to the fs toolbar. Sound even works in the background. However, I haven't seen any code to display other text than the info bar that pops up on the top of the screen.

Thanks!
Craig.
 
Craig987 said:
Hello All,
Long time lurker, first time poster.
I have seen quite a few questions around UI within FS via simconnect, but haven't seen too much in the way of answers.

I am currently using simconnect.text to scroll some information across the screen to the user inside FSX. How can I carve out a little space on the screen to display persistent data? ALA fspassengers?
I'd like to show a small box that displays phase of flight (boarding, taxi, takeoff etc..)
Maybe even have some small buttons to toggle things...

I'm using an external .exe but have added a menu to the fs toolbar. Sound even works in the background. However, I haven't seen any code to display other text than the info bar that pops up on the top of the screen.

Thanks!
Craig.
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The same way you use Simconnect to put up the scrolling text.
I think you have the option to make it NON-Scrooling, as well as where you put it on the screen, and how long it is to stay on the screen.

I also seem to recall you can get an event when it times out, with would be time to display an update ?

Geoff_D
 
Actually, the simconnect.text only allows three options.
Text at the top of the screen, text scrolling at the top of the screen and a menu which is not flexible enough for any purpose other than a menu.

FS passenger (x) displays a small information panel. Unless I'm missing something, I don't think they are using simconnect.text (they have some small icons in their window).

Is there any other way to accomplish this task without hacking into directx?
 
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