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FSUIPC4 version 4.265

This is an interim update, with the FSUIPC4.DLL module only, replacing the one in the full 4,26 install package available from http://www.schiratti.com/dowson

http://fsuipc.simflight.com/beta/FSUIPC4265.zip

The changes since 4.26 are:

1. The macro control facilities, for adding application-oriented custom controls to FSUIPC4’s Keys, Buttons and Switches facilities, are extended to allow some mouse-only add-on gauges to be controlled from keyboard or buttons. This doesn’t work for all such add-ons (some, such as the PMDG ones, are designed in ways which prevent this), but an example Macro file is supplied which works with all of the otherwise mouse-only functions of the Airport Chart gauge (APchart) by Holger Maass. The added controls are all preceded by the macro file name, “Apchart”.

Any add-on developer who wishes to take advantage of these new facilities should contact Pete Dowson for more details, pending updated documentation.

2. A new offset, 3410, is provided which includes flags for assorted control indications. At present the only bits used as as follows (bit numbers, 0 = 2^0):

4 Engine 1 reverser inhibit (offset 32F is active with the reverser is engaged
5 Engine 2 reverser inhibit (offset 32F is active with the reverser is engaged
6 Engine 3 reverser inhibit (offset 32F is active with the reverser is engaged
7 Engine 4 reverser inhibit (offset 32F is active with the reverser is engaged

The reverser inhibit active flags are cleared when the inhibit is disabled or forward thrust is engaged. Setting the throttles to idle will not normally clear these indications.
[Note that this facility is untested at the time of release]

3. The Mouse Wheel elevator trim action is temporarily disabled automatically whilst the space bar is held down, to allow the wheel to be used for zooming.

4. An option is added on the Miscellaneous options tab to make FSUIPC4 automatically correct the IAS speed bug value when the autothrottle is engaged with a mach target speed. This is to fix an apparent bug in FSX where the IAS target is not updated for changes in altitude, etc, until the IAS mode is engaged or the Mach value is adjusted.

Note that FSUIPC does this by periodically (around every 15 FSX frames) setting the currently set Mach target value. There is a chance that occasionally this action could come between the last update of this value from SimConnect and an external change, as from a mouse click or control use. This probably would not be noticeable in practice.

5. A problem with the Buttons & Switches options dialogue causing it to hang when the CH Control manager is in use is fixed. This was due to the fast poll rate used in the dialogue actually being too fast for that driver, which appears to be rather slow (5 mSecs or more per call). The dialogue's poll rate is now auto-adjusted as needed to ensure good flow of Windows messages, so preventing the hang.

Note that this diagnosis of the original problem implies that using the CH Control manager with FSUIPC button scanning will seriously affect FS frame rates. To alleviate this, users may wish to reduce the frequency of FSUIPC’s button polling: try values of PollInterval (a parameter to be added to the main [Buttons] section of FSUIPC4.INI) greater than the default 25. A value of 166 will approximate FSX’s default poll rate.

6. This release fixes a silly error in the changes made to prepare for wind smoothing (in 4.25 onwards), which caused vertical winds to be nullified except in turbulent conditions, where it is modulated. This in turn caused the thermals to fail to provide any lift.

7. If any aircraft names used with the aircraft-specific assignment facilities contain [ or ] characters, the manipulation of the saved INI file parameters goes completely haywire and nothing is saved correctly or reloaded correctly. This is because Windows uses [] to parenthesize the INI file section names, and extra such characters confuse it.

To fix this, FSUIPC replaces such characters in the section names with ( and ). The original aircraft names are not affected, and nor is the visual representation in the dialogues. Only the saved parameters are affected.

This change operates on all four parts which can have aircraft-specific settings-Axes, Buttons, Keys and JoystickCalibration.

8. The Mouse Wheel elevator trim facility is extended by the addition of four keypress or button assignable controls:

1080 Wheel trim toggle
1081 Wheel trim faster
1082 Wheel trim slower
1083 Wheel trim speed toggle

The toggle control turns the trim action on or off, the other three change the speed of its action when it is on. "Faster" means twice as fast (up to 16x), "Slower" half as fast (down to 1x), whilst the speed toggle switches between 4x and 1x speed.

All four can be assigned in the drop-downs in Key and Buttons assignment tabs of the FSUIPC options. The Miscellaneous checkmark is effectively the same as the wheel trim toggle control.

9. If the autopilot max bank angle value in offset 2E04 is written to, FSUIPC4 attempts to change the A/P setting to match the value provided. Since FSX only provides INC and DEC controls for this, the result is approximate. The value read from offset 2E04 is the one actually set.

10. Two new offsets provide the current extension of retractable floats (as on the Grumman Goose), as follows:

0614 2 bytes Left float extension: a 16-bit value ranging from 0 (fully retracted) to 16384 (fully extended).
0616 2 bytes Right float extension: a 16-bit value ranging from 0 (fully retracted) to 16384 (fully extended).