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FSXA SimConnect startup

Daniel

Daniel

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Some information that might be helpful to others experiencing SimConnect issues:

My add-on is in a exe and started from the exe.xml file. This has worked perfectly for over 2 years. Earlier this week a user reported a problem though.

My add-on works like this:

- start up
- connect to simconnect
- if connect -> minimize
- if connection fails -> show add-on gui

It appears that for this user SimConnect has not been initialized yet at the time my add-on gets started by FSX, the gui always pops up. I added a delay (actually a quick fix for now by starting a program from exe.xml that waits for 30 seconds and then starts my add-on) and now it works.

The user has a new Windows 7 PC with a fresh install of FSXA, as far as I could see only my add-on was added (even the SDK dll's are disabled).

Of course the proper fix is to let my add-on itself wait a bit and retry a few times, but until now SimConnect was always available once the add-on got executed.

Daniel
 
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