setDataOnSimObject with Waypoints Array

[WhakamoleNZ]

When trying to send a set of (or even one) waypoints to a non-atc aircraft simobject (created with aICreateNonATCAircraft) - i get size mismatch exception.

Looking at setDataOnSimObject the array item size seems to be forced to 0 in all cases?

    if (data instanceof Array) {
          this._writeBuffer.writeInt(DataSetFlag.DEFAULT);
          this._writeBuffer.writeInt(data.length);
          this._writeBuffer.writeInt(0); // size
          data.forEach(simConnectData => {
              simConnectData.write(this._writeBuffer);
          });
          this._writeBuffer.writeInt(this._writeBuffer.getOffset() - 36, 32);

In my code i'm basically createing a single waypoint then sending it to a data definition that just includes AI Wapoint List. Example below:

let newWaypointValue: Waypoint = new Waypoint();
                  newWaypointValue.speed = 100;
                  newWaypointValue.altitude = 1000;
                  newWaypointValue.latitude = 34.03684;
                  newWaypointValue.longitude = -118.22659;
                  newWaypointValue.throttle = 90.0;
                  newWaypointValue.flags =  SimConnectConstants.WAYPOINT_SPEED_REQUESTED;

handle.setDataOnSimObject(
                    dataDefinitions.waypoints,
                    aircraft.objectid,
                    [newWaypointValue]
                  );

[Even Rognlien]

@whakamolenz thanks for the bug report.

Looks like I forgot to implement the write()-function in the Waypoint-class (.. and a few other classes). Could you give 3.2.1-beta.0 a try now?

It took some time until I realised/remembered that the 0 is just a placeholder for the array total size, which will be calculated after the array has been written. Really confusing.

[WhakamoleNZ]

Awesome - yep will check it out now.

[WhakamoleNZ]

@EvenAR - not getting the excpetion anymore which is great. Though waypoints themselves still don't work for me - i.e. the aircraft seems to ignore them. But this has been an ongoing battle with MSFS for sometime.

[WhakamoleNZ]

Does that example code look ok for sending the waypoint? From what i've seen people using the managed simconnect seem to be able to set waypoints ok but not without - but that seems rather odd!

let newWaypointValue: Waypoint = new Waypoint();
                  newWaypointValue.speed = 100;
                  newWaypointValue.altitude = 1000;
                  newWaypointValue.latitude = 34.03684;
                  newWaypointValue.longitude = -118.22659;
                  newWaypointValue.throttle = 90.0;
                  newWaypointValue.flags =  SimConnectConstants.WAYPOINT_SPEED_REQUESTED;

handle.setDataOnSimObject(
                    dataDefinitions.waypoints,
                    aircraft.objectid,
                    [newWaypointValue]
                  );

EDIT: Actually definitely yet another MSFS thing i think - if when i insert the non atc aircraft i makr on ground as true - then the assigned waypoint works - otherwise they just remain as zombies.

[Even Rognlien]

@whakamolenz I'm not sure if it's related but I noticed that setDataOnSimObject have been sending an incorrect cbUnitSize value when there are more than one element in the array. I just published 3.2.1-beta.1 which should fix this. Maybe that version works better? At least the packets from node-simconnect and the offical samples looks identicial now 😄

[WhakamoleNZ]

Thanks for the update @EvenAR - doesn't seem to have changed anything for me. Basically if the initial aircraf is insert with onground = true - then the waypoints get accepted - but if the aircraft is onground = false - then just ignored. So i think i just need to try and force some workarounds for this.

[Even Rognlien]

Ahh ok. It would be interesting to know whether this is a problem with the official SDK too. I have never used this feature myself, but I think your code looks right.