10 minutes ago, Agrajag said:

My first instinctual response to the app was, "Wow, this is a bit much for what I'm looking to do", but after reading up on it, it is quite flexible.

Over time, you will find that it is not only flexible, but indispensable... 🙂

2 hours ago, Agrajag said:

That's pretty simple. Need to look into that. The only negative I can think of is would it shut down the apps on exit and you'd also lose the concept of "presets" for different setups (like not loading the injector when I'm heading onto VATSIM.

You're right. What I did is to have separate backups of the exe.xml with different addons installed, so I use the one I need for specific situations. That way you only have to edit the exe.xml once.

23 hours ago, Agrajag said:

What about it? It autoload with the sim for me as it's a plugin. 

In FSUIPC.ini you can manage your [Programs] section, here is mine as a sample

[Programs]
Run1=CLOSE,"C:\Progs\Pilot2ATC\Pilot2ATC_2021.exe"
Run2=KILL,"D:\Projets\Visual C++ 2019\P2Acars\P2Acars\bin\Release\P2A batch.bat"
Run3=READY,MIN,KILL,"F:\JEUX\SimuTools_MFS\AI Ground\AIGround.exe"
Run4=READY,MIN,KILL,"F:\JEUX\MSFS\Community\fsltl-traffic-injector\fsltl-trafficinjector.exe"
Run5=READY,CLOSE,"D:\Download\Programs\vsthostx64\vsthost.exe"
Run6=CLOSE,"C:\Progs\webserver\webserver.exe"

See FSUIPC documentation

22 hours ago, cianpars said:

Because not everyone uses or wants to use an addon linker

How does that make it the "best way"?  I understand not everyone wants to use an add-on linker (though honestly I have no idea why).  Not everyone uses a yoke, throttle or joystick to control their aircraft in the sim either, but I would never say flying via keyboard control is the "best way"...  I am not saying your way (writing a batch file to pre-load programs for MSFS)  isn't a valid or even best solution - as I haven't tried it myself.  But your argument that "not everyone wants to use an addon linker" certainly doesn't answer WHY it is the best way.  I bet not everyone wants to write their own batch file either 😉

 

Edited April 6, 20233 yr by PlumCrazy

33 minutes ago, PlumCrazy said:

How does that make it the "best way"?  I understand not everyone wants to use an add-on linker (though honestly I have no idea why).  Not everyone uses a yoke, throttle or joystick to control their aircraft in the sim either, but I would never say flying via keyboard control is the "best way"...  I am not saying your way (writing a batch file to pre-load programs for MSFS)  isn't a valid or even best solution - as I haven't tried it myself.  But your argument that "not everyone wants to use an addon linker" certainly doesn't answer WHY it is the best way.  I bet not everyone wants to write their own batch file either 😉

 

OK, If you want to make a fuss about it, it's the simplest way for those who don't use an addon linker.  Fine if you don't agree - I really don't care.  I simply made a suggestion which I find to be the easiest and accept others may prefer different solutions.

I just created a bat file.    Mine looks like this,

Quote

@echo off
cd "C:\Program Files\SPAD.neXt"
start SPAD.neXt.exe"

cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\NaturalPoint\TrackIR5"
start TrackIR5.exe

cd "C:\Windows\System32\"
cmd.exe /C start shell:AppsFolder\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App -FastLaunch

exit

To make a bat file you paste the commands into a text file,  then rename the file extension .bat instead of .txt.

Edited April 7, 20233 yr by Waldo Pepper

Old DOS guy so no issues there. My only minor issue with this approach is that it couldn't close the apps after flying. 

On 4/6/2023 at 8:24 AM, roland_lfor said:

In FSUIPC.ini you can manage your [Programs] section, here is mine as a sample

See FSUIPC documentation

Interesting. FSUIPC.INI appears just once in the User Guide and it isn't about this section at all.

AHA. It's in the manual for Advanced Users. Giving this a try first.

Edited April 10, 20233 yr by Agrajag

Well the FSUIPC route failed for me as being too messy. TrackIR5 insists on running as administrator and I could not get everyone else also running as admin while getting it to also work. I despise permissions issues.

 

So next up is the batch file approach as I should be able to start everything and then taskkill the stuff run. Plus I might even be able to travel my brain back in time to recall how to even do some advanced batch file UI to launch things based on picking a setup.

Edited April 10, 20233 yr by Agrajag