Version: 1.7.27.0
Frequency: Consistently
Severity: Low
Context: Reading/Writing O: variables
Bug description:
Accessing O: variables is only working for some of them.
Repro steps:
This is working fine for example for the default C208:
(O:ELECTRICAL:ELECTRICAL_SWITCH_ALTERNATOR_1:SwitchState, Number)
But this is not working for the BKSQ Caravan
(O:ELECTRICAL_PANEL:ELECTRICAL_SWITCH_ALTERNATOR_1:SwitchState, Number)
I tried hard but can’t find where this is documented - I’d expect something as core as a variable type would be documented somewhere as:
O: variables :
RPN: … (found this: Used for variables within components, where the variable scope is the component itself.)
Javascript: ..
External Simconnnect: …
WASM Simconnect …
Typescript ..
RPN …
Template language …
but I can’t find other mention of it in the SDK docs and “O” is a tricky search term. I’m assuming outside of the model XML/RPN there has to be a reference to the model XML component id that contains the O simvar but that immediately suggests complexity with the use in a template that could be in any component.
It is in the SimConnect API Spec:
SimConnect_AddToDataDefinition
At the bottom of the page are the descriptions of how to handle the various variable types.