Boeing 737 zibo CDU

[ozuser]

Hi everyone. I have managed to make a (almost) fully functional CDU for the zibo 737 in Air Manager 3.0 beta. All of the buttons work and It also features working EXEC and MSG lights.There are a couple of things I still have to figure out.

1 - The text is all jumbled up and constantly flashes on screen

2 - When you press the buttons on the air manager CDU it switches the active window away from xplane

If anyone has any ideas to solve these it would be great!

[Ralph]

I'm not sure about number one, but I'll have a look next week.

Nothing to do about two I'm afraid. Other than running the CDU on a remote computer. It would run easily on a Windows tablet for example. And we can probably release it for the iPad soon.

[ozuser]

Thanks for the reply.
I was thinking about the ipad when I made this so it has a little visual feedback when you press the buttons.

[Ralph]

I've looked at the script. You don't use the visible API function anywhere. That means that it'll write the same (purple or white) line at the same time and you'll see them both. What you need to do is make one of the two visible at the correct time. I guess that X-Plane doesn't clear the string for the other color, so you'll see them both. But that's something you have to investigate.

[Ralph]

I didn't get any purple text to show by the way...

[ozuser]

Thanks for checking it out. I'll see what I can figure out.

[Ralph]

You can check the state of the datarefs with the Viewer in the create / edit tab, that might help with debugging.

[ozuser]

I compared the values from dataref tool vs the ones in viewer, and it looks like it's duplicating values when the original dataref is empty (example - line03X showing "") rather than being a blank line made from spaces (eg - line02X having a full line of spaces between the quotation marks)
So I have to figure out how to ignore the dataref value of "" and not create text on that line.
Any suggestions?

[ozuser]

OK. Issues solved with some help from you guys. Thanks to all!

We (hopefully) now have a fully working FMC CDU panel for the xplane 737-800 zibo mod.

Be sure to use the latest version of the plugin.

Any feedback / error reports are welcome.

File attached.

Enjoy.
Darren

[JackZ]

Hey great Job!
Do you mind if I reuse some of your code to try and develop a CDU for the PMDG 737NGX?
it’s been in my Todo list for a while, was either to lazy either too busy with my IR training.

Jacques