Michael Hodge Jr 961044 Posted September 16, 2006 at 06:21 AM Posted September 16, 2006 at 06:21 AM Ok I would like a way to open up an external File in flight simulator. Similar to what squawkbox does. I would like to pull up an external program through Flight Simulator, make sense? I don't know if i need to make a module, dll or what. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -Mike Michael D. Hodge Jr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart Vedin Posted September 16, 2006 at 07:09 AM Posted September 16, 2006 at 07:09 AM Im sure it may make sense, but what. i not get the point what you want to do , whats the purpose ? "open up an external File" what does it mean ? / Lennart Vedin / Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodge Jr 961044 Posted September 17, 2006 at 04:47 AM Author Posted September 17, 2006 at 04:47 AM Ok, pretty much let me try to simplify the question (now that its not early in the morning) Is there a way to get a program to appear in the Modules drop-down box in Flight Simulator, as squawkbox does. Or make its own drop down box such as how fs p[Mod - Happy Thoughts]engers does. Michael D. Hodge Jr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart Vedin Posted September 17, 2006 at 09:18 AM Posted September 17, 2006 at 09:18 AM There are two separate different issues to get an application like SB3 (squawkbox 3) to appear in FS 1. To get an application to appear at the FS-menu. 2. To get an external application to appear as a window inside FS. As i know there is not a simple user-function to add menues. One are requred to use MS-FS SDK (SoftwareDevelooperKit) , or a more simple way is to use FSUIPC SDK. But still require some kind of programming-knowledge and setup. To get an external application to appear as a window in FS, i only know specific FS-designed DLL-applications appear inside FS, i.e. require good programming knowledge and a lot of time. However additionally one can make HTML-coded pages appear in the FS built in Knee-board. An alternative to start an external application, just to run as in an external window beside FS, you can use key-command to start applications included any parameters (shell-command, same as the Run-command in XP) by use KeyMacro: http://hem.p[Mod - Happy Thoughts]agen.se/lvedin/dk/freeware/fs / Lennart Vedin / Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodge Jr 961044 Posted September 18, 2006 at 04:34 AM Author Posted September 18, 2006 at 04:34 AM Thanks Lennart, How would you pull up a webpage in the kneeboard? -Mike Michael D. Hodge Jr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart Vedin Posted September 18, 2006 at 07:29 AM Posted September 18, 2006 at 07:29 AM (edited) How would you pull up a webpage in the kneeboard? It is very simple. 1. If you want to display you own contain as simple plain text. a) create a text-file use any text-editor e.g. Notepad. b) make first and last line as following taggs: Hello this is my text i want to display in FS knee-board. c) change the file-extention to XXX.htm (now you can open the file in any web-browser). d) to view the html-page in FS knee-board, you must put the file to some knee-board page location There are two pages in the knee-board located here example for FS default boeing 737: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 9\Aircraft\b737_400\boeing737-400_check.htm" "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 9\Aircraft\b737_400\boeing737-400_ref.htm" 2. Of cause you can create more complex pages or use already excisting pages. Norman's way below can be an other additional way to locate the file, how suite your purpose best. Edited September 18, 2006 at 03:39 PM by Guest / Lennart Vedin / Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norman Blackburn Posted September 18, 2006 at 03:05 PM Posted September 18, 2006 at 03:05 PM How would you pull up a webpage in the kneeboard? Mike, Go to your FS\aircraft folder where you will see a file kneeboard_keys.htm Edit this to reflect the things you want to display. Norman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodge Jr 961044 Posted September 18, 2006 at 03:42 PM Author Posted September 18, 2006 at 03:42 PM Thanks guys i really REALLY appreciate it! -Mike Michael D. Hodge Jr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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