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All,

I have a program in which I have multiple view windows open, and I cycle through those view windows to control things such as zoom utilizing the NEXT_VIEW and PREVIOUS_VIEW events. However, I have found that occasionally one of these events is silently dropped, and I wind up with a View-in-Control that I didn't expect. Is there an event to go to a known view (i.e. reset to view 00), or better yet, go to an assignable view (View 00, 01, or 02)? I've tried VIEW_RESET, but have been unable to figure out what it does (or maybe how to correctly use it).

Alternatively, is there a way to determine which view is currently selected?

Also, is there a way to determine the zoom level for the current view?

Finally, is there any way to use the SimConnect_CameraSetRelative6DOF command to control a view other than view 0?

Thank you in advance for any/all help!

-Nathan
 
If you're subscribed to the view event, it only reports the view upon the initial subscription or when you change the view. This works fine unless you have multiple views open. If you change focus to a different window it will not report the view mode.

What you can do in SimConnect is to unsubscribe and re-subscribe on a regular basis, like every 1/4 second or faster. You'll then regularly get the view mode of the currently focused window.

To use the SetCamera6Dof you need to switch to the view you want but there is no way of enumerating windows to definitively know the current window id. What you can do, if you're running in windowed mode and not full-screen is to use the Windows SDK calls to get the window title. Remember that foreign versions may use different text though. But the focused window is the only one you can use SetCamera6Dof on. This also effects the sound system though as sounds are always played according to the focused view's aspect on the aircraft.

There is no way of getting the current zoom setting. The only way is to count all zoom in and out steps and keep track yourself.

Si
 
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