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Hi all.

Ken Adam, Scott Hendry, and Jacky Brouze have finished a mountain of work in making SimConnect viable for Delphi programmers.

They have converted the headers and made many examples for both console and form-based applications, based on the SDK examples. It can be found here:

http://home.exetel.com.au/flightsim/SimConnectDelphi.htm

A wonderful, cooperative effort to give this freely to the community.

Borland makes Delphi Turbo Explorer ( for Win32 applications ) available for free:

http://www.turboexplorer.com/downloads


Dick
 
Thanks for the info, Dick. :)

I think I'm a bit stupid, though. :o
Ok, I never was a coder and I never will be, but how do I get the package to work with Delphi?
I just want to do one little thing: Create a small exe (or dll) that calls a FLT-file if it receives a call from simconnect.
I would really appreciate any help how to achieve this. :)
 
Sorry for the thread necromancy. Hope it is ok.

I'm just playing around with D2009 and the Delphi FSX SDK port from http://home.exetel.com.au/flightsim/SimConnectDelphi.htm.

No matter what I try I always get SIMCONNECT_RECV_ID_EXCEPTION with SIMCONNECT_EXCEPTION_NAME_UNRECOGNIZED (Index (Parameter) = 2).

In this example the "RequestData" sample.
Code: 
hr := SimConnect_AddToDataDefinition(hSimConnect, Ord(DEFINITION1), 'Title',
      '', SIMCONNECT_DATATYPE_STRING256);
hr := SimConnect_AddToDataDefinition(hSimConnect, Ord(DEFINITION1),
      'Kohlsman setting hg', 'inHg');
...

The same sample for C++ works fine (same computer, same SimConnect.dll, same FSX).

Anyone any idea why the exceptions and how to fix it?
 
You may need to contact Scott. His email is in the readme file of the Download.

Unfortunately, I don't program in Delphi since C# came along. My involvement was simply to prove that it could be done, and get the process of conversion started. I don't even have Delphi currently on my computer, and I'm not to be considered fluent in it's usage.

Sorry.

Dick
 
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Alright. Thanks for the reply. I'll try it.

Between my idea was to code a dummy DLL in C++ which exports some of the functions SimConnect.dll has, like SimConnect_AddToDataDefinition to see what he receives on the other side. Maybe it is just a pointer problem.
 
I reinstalled Turbo Delphi 2006, and it compiled the RequestData example just fine. On running, it behaved as expected.

Edited++++++++++++

I mis-spoke. I tried the windows form version and it worked fine. The console version did not.

Dick
 
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Thanks for the test. You confirm it works with Turbo Delphi? Strange ... Tested it with Delphi 6 Prof and Delphi 2009. Compilation and starting worked fine. But clicking "Start Poll" or "Start Event" returns "Receive Id: 1" to the Callback which means SIMCONNECT_RECV_ID_EXCEPTION, as already described.

I'll just try Turbo Delphi too.

** Edit **

Indeed, just tried it with Turbo Delphi and it works. :scratchch

I think thats OK for me also.
 
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The bad thing is the console examples don't work for me. They return a "2" error, which is a type mismatch. I don't know why the windows version would work, and the console would not.

Perhaps ther is some compilation dirtective that is causing the error. The simconnect.pas is the same, and that should control the exchange of values between simconnect and the program.

Dick
 
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I think I found my solution.

The console examples need to have the HeaderStandard version of Simconnect.pas referenced, at least as they are written.

Dick
 
SimConnect and Delphi 2009 (or 2010)

SimConnect.pas (HeaderRT) worked fine with Delphi 2007. With Delphi 2010 I suddenly got the "unrecognized name" exception. The following changes in the SimConnect.pas file resolved the problem:
1. Replace every instance of the text "of Char" with " of AnsiChar"
2. In the function declaration of SimConnect_AddToDataDefinition change
"DatumName: string" to "DatumName: AnsiString" and
"UnitsName: string" to "UnitsName: AnsiString"
(3. In the RequestData sample and other applications also change
"title: packed array[0..255] of Char"; into
"title: packed array[0..255] of AnsiChar";)
 
I would love to get a copy of that Chas. Unfortunately, the original website seems to be down. :(

Skysimflight.cc isn't loading either.

g.
 
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