fsedano Posted October 11, 2016 Report Posted October 11, 2016 Hello folks, I'm thinking on building my flight sim cockpit around the very nice IXEG, but I found no way to export FMC strings using dataref. Commands for input are there, but not output. Could this please be considered? We don't need anything fancy, just exporting the text strings that are displayed on each line would be more than enough. Please please do consider it... Otherwise not really possible to interface with a real cockpit :/ Thanks! Quote
jfjoubert Posted October 13, 2016 Report Posted October 13, 2016 (edited) Hi fsedano, All CDU screen outputs are already available as custom datarefs. (like ixeg/733/FMC/cdu1D_line1L_t and ixeg/733/FMC/cdu1D_line1L_d) The _t is the smaller "title" line and _d is the larger detailed line. Co-pilot CDU is cdu2D... there are separate datarefs for scratchpad, page number and title lines as well as the CDU annunciators. (MSG, OFST and FAIL) Pretty much all you need to build your own "virtual CDU". Let me know if you need the complete list... (yes, I made my own) Here's a screenshot from my Android tablet virtual CDU... still very much work in progress. Edited October 13, 2016 by jfjoubert Typo 2 Quote
fsedano Posted October 14, 2016 Author Report Posted October 14, 2016 Great! 20 hours ago, jfjoubert said: Hi fsedano, All CDU screen outputs are already available as custom datarefs. (like ixeg/733/FMC/cdu1D_line1L_t and ixeg/733/FMC/cdu1D_line1L_d) The _t is the smaller "title" line and _d is the larger detailed line. Co-pilot CDU is cdu2D... there are separate datarefs for scratchpad, page number and title lines as well as the CDU annunciators. (MSG, OFST and FAIL) Pretty much all you need to build your own "virtual CDU". Let me know if you need the complete list... (yes, I made my own) Here's a screenshot from my Android tablet virtual CDU... still very much work in progress. That's great, thanks!! Would you mind sharing the list? I missed that one, where did you get it from? Quote
jfjoubert Posted October 14, 2016 Report Posted October 14, 2016 Here's the list... I used DataRefEditor to get the list... Note that the SP (space) key is not mapped nor active in the sim. You will also notice that there's no entry for the CLR key. You'll have to send a custom command to use the CLR key. ("ixeg/733/FMC/cdu1_clr" and "ixeg/733/FMC/cdu2_clr") IXEG_CDU_Drefs.txt Quote
fsedano Posted October 14, 2016 Author Report Posted October 14, 2016 4 minutes ago, jfjoubert said: Here's the list... I used DataRefEditor to get the list... Note that the SP (space) key is not mapped nor active in the sim. You will also notice that there's no entry for the CLR key. You'll have to send a custom command to use the CLR key. ("ixeg/733/FMC/cdu1_clr" and "ixeg/733/FMC/cdu2_clr") IXEG_CDU_Drefs.txt Thanks!!! For some reason my dataref editor does not show any of the ixeg datarefs (?) Any trick? Quote
jfjoubert Posted October 14, 2016 Report Posted October 14, 2016 Maybe I was just lucky... I had to remove it after the 10.50 release as it kept on crashing my X-Plane. Quote
Rodeo Posted October 15, 2016 Report Posted October 15, 2016 DataRef Editor automatically sees all datarefs… when running it under Mac OS X. Otherwise you have to manually provide it with a list of DataRefs. DataRef Tool will specifically scan plugins and planes for datarefs, but it works a bit differently to DataRef Editor and sometimes causes the IXEG 737 to crash. Quote
jfjoubert Posted October 15, 2016 Report Posted October 15, 2016 4 hours ago, Rodeo said: DataRef Editor automatically sees all datarefs… when running it under Mac OS X. Otherwise you have to manually provide it with a list of DataRefs. DataRef Tool will specifically scan plugins and planes for datarefs, but it works a bit differently to DataRef Editor and sometimes causes the IXEG 737 to crash. Yes, DataRef Tool was the one... Quote
jsnapp Posted October 17, 2016 Report Posted October 17, 2016 On 10/16/2016 at 1:30 PM, Ben Russell said: Try the new beta. New beta of IXEG or new beta of datareftool? Quote
Ben Russell Posted October 18, 2016 Report Posted October 18, 2016 9 hours ago, jsnapp said: New beta of IXEG or new beta of datareftool? I speak only for Gizmo. Quote
jsnapp Posted October 18, 2016 Report Posted October 18, 2016 8 hours ago, Ben Russell said: I speak only for Gizmo. That makes sense. I am just confused then what the new beta of Gizmo solves here? Maybe I am being dense. Quote
jfjoubert Posted October 18, 2016 Report Posted October 18, 2016 I'm guessing here but I think the beta version of Gizmo might solve the DatarefTool crashes with the IXEG. Ben can confirm... Quote
Ben Russell Posted October 18, 2016 Report Posted October 18, 2016 11 minutes ago, jfjoubert said: I'm guessing here but I think the beta version of Gizmo might solve the DatarefTool crashes with the IXEG. Ben can confirm... Correct. I don't use DRT though so it's only a suggestion. But why Gizmo? Because Gizmo is the scripting engine underneath the IXEG scripts. DRT -> X-Plane -> Gizmo -> IXEG systems. The typical mode of failure from third party plugins is a stack overflow in Gizmo's Lua scripts. This happens for various avoidable technical reasons, the important thing to me is that X-Plane works. Quote
jsnapp Posted October 18, 2016 Report Posted October 18, 2016 Interesting. I had never observed any crashes with DRT and the IXEG ... on Windows. Quote
Ben Russell Posted October 18, 2016 Report Posted October 18, 2016 7 minutes ago, jsnapp said: Interesting. I had never observed any crashes with DRT and the IXEG ... on Windows. Me either. But apparently others reported it above. ...as I said, I don't use it. Quote
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