NOTE about Touch Portal v4:

There are a number of issues with TP v4 which may prevent you from using it effectively for now. My personal recommendation is to wait to update. Please check the various bug report and beta forum rooms at Touch Portal server before deciding.

Overview

This plugin provides tools to build two-way interactive interfaces between Touch Portal macro launcher software and Flight Simulators which use SimConnect, such as Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 (MSFS) and FS-X. The plugin makes available new Touch Portal Actions, Connectors, States, and Events for creating buttons and pages suitable for virtually any simulated aircraft, component, or system.

Features

• Connects to local or remote simulators with SimConnect.
• Allows getting data variables from simulator at regular intervals, such as flight instrument readings, control surface positions, or switch states.
• Allows triggering any interactive aircraft event via Touch Portal Actions, such as setting switches, adjusting control surfaces, radio frequencies, and so on.
• Use Touch Portal "Sliders" to control a value within any range, and/or provide visual feedback to simulator variable changes (eg. a throttle slider can both control the sim throttle and show the actual position when the throttle is moved with mouse/joystick/keyboard).
• Completely configurable to request any variable or trigger any event supported by the connected simulator, including with custom extensions like MobiFlight.
• Supports simulator system events (such as "flight loaded" or "sim started") as Touch Portal Events.
• Allows simultaneous usage from multiple networked Touch Portal devices.
• Optional WASM integration allows even greater expansion, with access to many variable types (including "Local" variables) and events/actions not normally accessible via SimConnect alone.
• NEW: Includes database of all SimConnect Events and SimVars imported from MSFS online documentation.
• Integrates live HubHop data for activating thousands of available Input Events provided by the community.

Downloads and Repository

The project is published and maintained at: https://github.com/mpaperno/MSFSTouchPortalPlugin

MSFS TOUCH PORTAL PLUGIN README
LATEST RELEASE DETAILS AND DOWNLOADS
MSFS TOUCH PORTAL PLUGIN DOCUMENTATION WIKI
TOUCH PORTAL GUIDES

Please follow the links above for more information, documentatoin, example pages, and the latest releases.

IF YOU DOWNLOAD FROM HERE: Unzip the file you downloaded here and extract the ".tpp" file inside. Then it can be imported into Touch Portal. Please see the README for further instructions.

The WASimModule zip file (included in the main zip file you download here) is an optoinal WASM module which enables deeper integration of the plugin with the simulator, including many 3rd party aircraft.  To install it, just unzip the file and place the "wasimcommander-module" folder inside your Community folder. The simulator needs to be restarted if already running, after which "WASimCommander" should show up in the game's content manager.

Support and Discussion

Please use the GitHub Issues pages for bug reports and concise feature requests. Use the Discussions pages for general conversation on any related topic like suggestions or support questions.

There is also a Discord support forum on my server, and discussion rooms on my Discord server channel #msfs-general and at Touch Portal's Discord server channel #msfs2020.

Copyright (c) 2020 Tim Lewis;
Copyright Maxim Paperno, all rights reserved;
Copyright MSFSTouchPortalPlugin Project Contributors
License: GPLv3.
See repository for license details, copyright, and disclaimer information.

Najnowsze zmiany for 1.5.0.0

v1.5.0.0 Release (1050000) 7-Nov-2023

(These release notes are also available with better formatting on the official releases page:
https://github.com/mpaperno/MSFSTouchPortalPlugin/releases/tag/1.5.0.0 )

## Changes since v1.4.3.3:

### Additions
* Added _experimental_ ability to set and read simulator "Input Events" values, which is a new feature in MSFS SU13. This provides access to aircraft-specific controls which may not be available otherwise.
These events can be seen in MSFS "developer mode" using the "Behaviors" tool window.
They are also referred-to as "B" type variables, and custom variable requests can be set up for them like for other variable types.
* **IMPORTANT NOTES**
* **The SU13 implementation of this is BUGGY!!**
- First off, it **doesn't work at all unless developer mode is enabled in MSFS.**
- **The simulator will crash** if there are any Input Event values being requested/read while switching airplane models. So either don't use that feature for now or make sure to manually
remove any requested 'B' type variables before changing models (including in he main menu/World Map). See new feature below for removing all requests of particular variable type.
* Both issues are supposedly fixed in SU14 (currently in beta), but I have not tested it personally.
* Only the currently loaded model's Input Events exist in the simulator at any given time.
Plugin errors are logged when trying to set or request an input event ('B' var) value which doesn't exist in the current model.
* There may be other changes in SU14 which will modify or break how the whole system works... the current system is rather wonky. So, no guarantees (as usual).
* Added "Set a Selected Airplane Input Event Value" action with a list of the current model's Input Events.
* Added 'B' variable type choice to "Set a Named Variable" and "Request a Named Variable" actions.
* Added ""Update Airplane Input Events List" and "Re-Submit Input Event Value Requests" choices in the "Connect & Update" action.
* Added ability in the "Clear Variable Definitions" action to remove variable requests by the file they were loaded from and by the type of variable.

### Changes
* Setting ('L') type variables with a specific Unit type is now (again) handled by WASimModule (when available) for greater efficiency.
* 'L' vars are created on the simulator if they don't already exist, using the specified Unit type (if any), which mimics SimConnect behavior.
* The "Create Local Variable" option has been removed from the "Set a Named Variable" action.
* For Touch Portal v4:
* The plugin will now show up in the "Games" category instead of "Misc."
* Descriptions of each setting are now available in TP's "Plug-in Settings" dialog by hovering over the question mark icons.
* Updated to use .NET 7 runtime environment (.NET 6 for FSX version) and dependencies (up from .NET 5). All required components are included in the distribution as before.

### Fixes
* Fixed "Plug-in performance issue detected" Touch Portal v4 warning message. ([#63](https://github.com/mpaperno/MSFSTouchPortalPlugin/issues/63))
* Fixed that very long lists (thousands) of currently loaded Airplane Local variables were sometimes incomplete in the corresponding "Set" and "Request" actions.
* Fixed a possible plugin crash when list of Local variables was being updated multiple times in quick succession. Also prevents the list from being updated unnecessarily.
* Fixed possible simulator hang when exiting to desktop while plugin is still connected and using WASimModule (sim had to be terminated from task manager). This seems to have been new behavior since SU13.

### Related
* The user-interface part of my WASimCommander project, [WASimUI](https://github.com/mpaperno/WASimCommander/tree/next#desktop-gui), now supports importing and exporting custom variable requests in the plugin's format.
That includes a new interface for editing plugin-specific information like category, state ID, name, default value, and formatting.
It can be downloaded at that project's [Releases](https://github.com/mpaperno/WASimCommander/releases/tag/1.2.0.0) page.