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Hi all,

this is my very first post here, and therefor i'd first like to introduce myself.

My name is Markus Joppich, i am 18 years old, living in the seven mountains near Cologne (Germany), still studying (having one year left until i leave school) and being very interested in aviation, FS and programming.

I mainly program with Delphi and already did a nice ACARS utility which is currently still under construction to remove the errors of previous versions (in most cases some errors within communication with servers :duck: )

My program is called FTG-ACARS v2 (v2 in short form) and is interacting with FS using FSUIPC. It is a stand-alone exe.

Now, my problem is, how do i get that tool to be displayed in FS, so users can use it being in Full-screen and not in Windowed mode only?

I first thought of creating a gauge that simply loads every tenth of a second a screenshot, and if you click somewhere on that gauge it send the coordinates to my program (is that even possible?), which then executes a click on these coordinates.
However i think that'd not be good for performance... :D

So another way is needed. Is it possible to load a program into a program? Like displaying another HTML page in an HTML page using the <iframe> ? Because, i think, that would be the ultimate solution?

At this point also sorry if this isn't the correct subforum, but i thought it would match best here as i need help for a tool ;) If this is the false position, could one please move it into the correct place?

If someone had an idea that'd be great!

Cheers,
Markus

P.S.: I am sorry, but I managed to do a typo in my user name ... could perhaps someone change it to mjoppich? Thank you very much!
 
Hi Markus,

What kind of program is your tool? I think to have it really running into FS you would have to code it as a module. But if you just want to read things like a coordinate from FS, you should also be able to use a timer for that in your EXE. No need to be really a part of FS.

PS. I will change your nickname as well.
 
Hi Arno,

first thanks for renaming my account :)

well, it's a simple delphi program that collects several data through FSUIPC - already via a Timer. This is a picture of the start screen:

v2releasexp7.png


Well, i compiled an EXE and have that program running outside of FS. Now what i want is, that i can see and use the program as well in FS as outside of FS - at the same time seeing the same things.

So if I click on a line select knob it changes the page shown. What i want is: display the same program in FS and outside FS. If i click somewhere on the gauge inside FS change page in FS and outside FS and if i click somewhere on the application outside FS it should change the page outside FS and also inside FS.

So what i need is - i think - a gauge that displays exactly that in FS what my program is showing outside FS.

If somehow could tell me how that is possible that'd be great!

Cheers,
Markus
 
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