XPLMFlightLoop_f

XPLMFlightLoop_f

typedef float (* XPLMFlightLoop_f)(
                         float                inElapsedSinceLastCall,
                         float                inElapsedTimeSinceLastFlightLoop,
                         int                  inCounter,
                         void *               inRefcon);

This is your flight loop callback. Each time the flight loop is iterated through, you receive this call at the end.

Flight loop callbacks receive a number of input timing parameters. These input timing parameters are not particularly useful; you may need to track your own timing data (e.g. by reading datarefs). The input parameters are:

• inElapsedSinceLastCall: the wall time since your last callback.
• inElapsedTimeSinceLastFlightLoop: the wall time since any flight loop was dispatched.
• inCounter: a monotonically increasing counter, bumped once per flight loop dispatch from the sim.
• inRefcon: your own pointer constant provided when you registered yor callback.

Your return value controls when you will next be called.

• Return 0 to stop receiving callbacks.
• Return a positive number to specify how many seconds until the next callback. (You will be called at or after this time, not before.)
• Return a negative number to specify how many loops must go by until you are called. For example, -1.0 means call me the very next loop.

Try to run your flight loop as infrequently as is practical, and suspend it (using return value 0) when you do not need it; lots of flight loop callbacks that do nothing lowers X-Plane’s frame rate.

Your callback will NOT be unregistered if you return 0; it will merely be inactive.