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Another niche soaring question: any var or other way to detect usage of lift visualisation?

our multiplayer soaring group is up to a couple of thousand members obviously including inexperienced gliding folks and I've just learned some pilots are putting the 'visualise lift' setting on a hotkey as if it's a normal feature inside a glider.

We don't need to disable it but it would be hugely valuable to be able to detect when a player has used it in the same way we detect slews or the use of the engine. I can't find anything in the SDK that would provide any hook to work out whether that visualisation being used - does anyone know of a solution?

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FlyingRaccoon answered

Hello @B21

There is no simvar or key event for this at the moment.
However, if you check the Weather.js file in fs-base-ui/html_UI/JS/Services/ (it is used by the weather panel in the UI), you'll notice there is a JS_LISTENER_WEATHER you can register to and it exposes callbacks to get and set the thermal visualization.

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Sylvain

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thanks again for this advice. Including Weather.js and using example code from WeatherEditionMenu.js I've tried with:

class MyInstrument extends BaseInstrument {
    constructor() {
        super();
        this.weather_listener = RegisterWeatherListener();
        this.weather_listener.onUpdateToggleThermalVisualization(this.viz_toggle);
    }
    viz_toggle(viz, toggled, title) {
        console.log("weather_listener on_thermals_viz_toggle", viz, toggled, title);
    }


this.weather_listener.connected goes to true which is promising, but tragically I can't find a way that the viz_toggle callback actually gets called when I move the slider in UI during a flight. If there's something obvious I've missed I'd appreciate a hint in the right direction, but otherwise maybe this code will help others get started with weather callbacks.

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