June 5, 201114 yr Hi,Its been an expensive past 2 weeks waiting for the 737NGX. Finally got EZCA, AivlaSoft's EFB and a Logitech's G13 keypad. Must say now that I can finally be efficient in VC now. I had EFB on my iPad screen using AirDisplay and the windows menu bar was ruining my otherwise perfect setup. I installed "AutoIt" and created a small script to resize the FSX window as if it was in fullscreen:WinWait("Microsoft Flight Simulator X")WinMove("Microsoft Flight Simulator X","",-8,-30,1935,1240)I now have a fullscreen FSX while being able to touchpress EFB on my iPad screen. View control using EZCA and the G13 is great: Vincent Rouleau AMD Ryzen 7950X3d / 64.0GB G.SKILL Neo DDR5 6000 / Gigabyte GeForce® RTX 4080 16Gig / / Samsung C49RG9 49' /ASUS PB287QQ ‑ 27" UHD / AGAMMIX 2TB / Samsung 970 PRO 1TB / PNY SSD 1TB / Windows 11 / Gigabyte B650M Elite Motherboard
June 5, 201114 yr Wow, I have a G13 and I've been trying to figure out how to run EFB using my iPad without running in continuous windowed mode. Are you saying that you use the G13 and this script to switch between windowed and full screen mode, or do you keep it in this "false" full screen mode all of the time?
June 5, 201114 yr Too bad i get -10fps in windowed modeTwo options:1.-Set your task bar to hide automatically or what I do:2.- Disable Aero in windows and use a classic theme instead
June 5, 201114 yr Author I mean I keep it in "false" fullscreen all the time... With auto hide task bar. Vincent Rouleau AMD Ryzen 7950X3d / 64.0GB G.SKILL Neo DDR5 6000 / Gigabyte GeForce® RTX 4080 16Gig / / Samsung C49RG9 49' /ASUS PB287QQ ‑ 27" UHD / AGAMMIX 2TB / Samsung 970 PRO 1TB / PNY SSD 1TB / Windows 11 / Gigabyte B650M Elite Motherboard
June 5, 201114 yr How did you come up with the values for your script? Am I correct in assuming that the last two values are your screen resolution?
June 5, 201114 yr Author How did you come up with the values for your script? Am I correct in assuming that the last two values are your screen resolution?Tested the script until it matched my 1920x1200 monitor resolution Vincent Rouleau AMD Ryzen 7950X3d / 64.0GB G.SKILL Neo DDR5 6000 / Gigabyte GeForce® RTX 4080 16Gig / / Samsung C49RG9 49' /ASUS PB287QQ ‑ 27" UHD / AGAMMIX 2TB / Samsung 970 PRO 1TB / PNY SSD 1TB / Windows 11 / Gigabyte B650M Elite Motherboard
June 5, 201114 yr Commercial Member Tested the script until it matched my 1920x1200 monitor resolutionYes, makes sense: -8,-30,1935,1240 indicates your side borders are 8 pixels wide (8 + 1920 + 8 = 1936), and you want 40 off the height, which must be 20 for the title bar and 10 each for top and bottom borders.So -8,-30,1936,1240 would be dead accurate, but I don't think yuou'd notice the one pixel border on the right! ;-)Pete Win10: 22H2 19045.2728 CPU: 9900KS at 5.5GHz Memory: 32Gb at 3800 MHz. GPU: RTX 24Gb Titan 2 x 2160p projectors at 25Hz onto 200 FOV curved screen
June 5, 201114 yr Yes, makes sense: -8,-30,1935,1240 indicates your side borders are 8 pixels wide (8 + 1920 + 8 = 1936), and you want 40 off the height, which must be 20 for the title bar and 10 each for top and bottom borders.So -8,-30,1936,1240 would be dead accurate, but I don't think yuou'd notice the one pixel border on the right! ;-)PeteThanks for the explanation,Pete. That makes things much easier.
June 5, 201114 yr Many, many thanks for the AutoIt bit! That's really useful! :( Suggestion: Best to explicitly fish for the window border width within AutoIt (should be possible) and then subtract from the screen size so you don't need to adjust your scripts if you ever decide to change the width of your borders. Do the same for the screen size as well!If it's not possible, you may want to define these variables (Monitor1screenSizeH, Monitor1screenSizeV, Monitor1BorderWidth) in a separate file that could be included in your scripts, then you only need to make the changes in one place and they will propagate.Just standard programming techniques.Cheers,- jahman.
June 5, 201114 yr Author Many, many thanks for the AutoIt bit! That's really useful! :( Suggestion: Best to explicitly fish for the window border width within AutoIt (should be possible) and then subtract from the screen size so you don't need to adjust your scripts if you ever decide to change the width of your borders. Do the same for the screen size as well!If it's not possible, you may want to define these variables (Monitor1screenSizeH, Monitor1screenSizeV, Monitor1BorderWidth) in a separate file that could be included in your scripts, then you only need to make the changes in one place and they will propagate.Just standard programming techniques.Cheers,- jahman.Good idea, autoit has this "compiler" that generates an executable. I could create a generic 'fsx full screen' executable an upload it to avsim so people won't have to download and install autoit at all. Vincent Rouleau AMD Ryzen 7950X3d / 64.0GB G.SKILL Neo DDR5 6000 / Gigabyte GeForce® RTX 4080 16Gig / / Samsung C49RG9 49' /ASUS PB287QQ ‑ 27" UHD / AGAMMIX 2TB / Samsung 970 PRO 1TB / PNY SSD 1TB / Windows 11 / Gigabyte B650M Elite Motherboard
June 5, 201114 yr Moderator It would have been even more helpful to post a link to "AutoIt..." :( http://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/Reaching and using the top menu bar must be a bit difficult though, being off-screen and all... :( Fr. Bill AOPA Member: 07141481 AARP Member: 3209010556 Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
June 6, 201114 yr I'm kinda surprised no-one has "Deleted" this post, as it should really belong in the "Hints & Tips" forum.... I mean... that's what happens to hardware problem posts... doesn't it? :( :( i7 [email protected] | 32GB RAM | EVGA RTX 3080Ti | Maximus Hero VII | 512GB 860 Pro | 512GB 850 Pro | 256GB 840 Pro | 2TB 860 QVO | 1TB 870 EVO | Seagate 3TB Cloud | EVGA 1000 GQ | Win10 Pro | EK Custom water cooling.
June 6, 201114 yr Author Reaching and using the top menu bar must be a bit difficult though, being off-screen and all... :( I didn't move the window so to hide the menu bar. I still use the 'alt' key to show/hide the menu bar, as in real fullscreen. Vincent Rouleau AMD Ryzen 7950X3d / 64.0GB G.SKILL Neo DDR5 6000 / Gigabyte GeForce® RTX 4080 16Gig / / Samsung C49RG9 49' /ASUS PB287QQ ‑ 27" UHD / AGAMMIX 2TB / Samsung 970 PRO 1TB / PNY SSD 1TB / Windows 11 / Gigabyte B650M Elite Motherboard
June 6, 201114 yr Two options:1.-Set your task bar to hide automatically or what I do:2.- Disable Aero in windows and use a classic theme insteadCan you eloborate on the 2nd item. How and where do you disable Aero? Using win7 ? Which classic theme, where? thanks.Ray When Pigs Fly . Ray Marshall .
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