Easy way for C gauge to find aircraft using it?

**Waugh** · 10-01-2006, 12:31 PM

Anyone know of an easy way to determine which aircraft's panel your C gauge is being used by?

***n4gix*** · 10-01-2006, 01:40 PM

I'm not aware of any way, hard or easy... ;)

**Waugh** · 10-01-2006, 06:44 PM

Hmmm that's what I was afraid of... but luckily I have an idea.

I'm thinking of getting the info through an XML variable that gives me something from the aircraft.cfg, and then I can parse those till I find the one.

If not, plan B is to use the dreaded 5th parameter to tell me.

Plan C is to just hard code the b******!

**ddawson** · 10-01-2006, 07:14 PM

Have a look at FSUIPC offsets 0x3C00 and 0x3D00. Pete's notes in his beta SDK seem to indicate that these guys will be available in FSX, so it might be worth pursuing.

Doug

**bartels** · 10-05-2006, 03:21 PM

I made a C-function that looks up the aircraft.cfg by reading the aircraft info via xml and then searches the first matching aircraft.cfg entry for FS9.

Add findcfg.c to the workspace include findcfg.h and then call BOOL FindAircraft(...). You need to provide to CHAR arrays and their lenght where the information is written too. If the entry is found, the return value is TRUE.
Arne Bartels