Comments on: ReloadPlugins

By: James Preiss

James Preiss — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 20:57:42 +0000

The Linux build of this plugin does not work correctly on X-Plane 11.41. The version of the SDK included in this code results in an ELF file where the XPluginStart, etc., are defined as “local” symbols instead of “global” symbols.

I was able to fix this problem by overwriting all the contents of /SDK/ with those of the most recent version of the Hello World sample plugin.

By: Tyler Young

Tyler Young — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 15:45:19 +0000

In reply to Roger Ramirez. This is a "refcon" parameter, and it's used throughout our APIs. If you pass a pointer to some struct of your own when you register a callback with the XPLM, we'll give you that same pointer back each call. This is how you can associate a particular "object" with a call.

By: Roger Ramirez

Roger Ramirez — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 12:45:08 +0000

I’m confused as to was the void * mRef does and void * iRef does. Can you provide an example of what should be entered here as part of the function?

By: Lorenzo Beronilla

Lorenzo Beronilla — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 04:22:44 +0000

Hello,
So I tried modifying this code to have two+ sub-menus and have one not do anything and have one reload the plugins. I am not sure exactly how to do this. I have been able to create a second sub-menu but am not able to attach a function to it. I tried

“XPLMAppendMenuItemWithCommand(id, “Hello Again”, (void *)”Hello People”, XPLMCommandRef, MakeMenuHandler);”‘

And Visual Studio would not let me compile it. If there is any more code you want me to include that would allow you to better diagnose the problem, please let me know.

Thanks,
Lorenzo Beronilla