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FSXA VB Dialog Disappears

Flying Officer Jevans

Flying Officer Jevans

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Hi,

I'm using the SimConnect managed wrapper to show a dialogue box from VB.NET 2 on screen when an option is selected on the addons menu. All works fine in windowed mode, but in full screen, dialog mode goes on and focus shifts to the dialog, but then within about half a second, the dialog disapppers and focus shifts back to FSX - which, of course, is just showing a black screen in dialog mode.

Why is the focus dropping off my window? I presume FSX is reclaiming focus as a fullscreen app, but other addons work like this. Does my code have to be executed in process to get the window to be a child of FSX or something? I do have the always in fromt flag set on the window too.
 
Out of proc addons can't display UI while FSX is in full-screen mode, only in windowed mode. InProc addons (C++ based DLL's loaded via the DLL.XML file) can display UI, if they create their windows as children of the main FSX window (window class named "FS98MAIN"). The Dialog Mode option is really there for InProc addons to use (well, and the FSX dialogs themselves :-> ).

Tim
 
Unless you really really need to leave the FSX environment, I would highly recommend you keep your UI inside FSX. The Simconnect_Text call allows you to display dialog boxes and menu's (with a bit of imagination), e.g.

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For an example in VC++/simconnect sdk, you can see the source code of sim_logger http://carrier.csi.cam.ac.uk/forsterlewis/soaring/sim/fsx/dev/sim_logger/

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