Simple way (portable) to send a keypress event to BMS?

[hoover]

Hi folks,

I'm trying to get Komurcu's MFDE android app (icp only) to talk to Falcon BMS when running in WINE on Linux *without* using the MFDE server part as that won't run properly in WINE.

Using a simple python handler I can already receive keypresses / events from the Android app, but how do I send them to Falcon BMS? I guess some shared memory jostling is involved here, right?

I'm looking for a way to send those "SimICP" callbacks (and later, probably others) to Falcon BMS in a portable manner that works on Linux.

All I found in the "technical docs" so far is a description of the shared memory bits, but no way of sending input events / keypresses *to* BMS.

Thanks in advance & all the best,

Uwe



hoover@feynman ~ $ python bin/mfde_testserver2.py
started on 21111
connected
got CmdHandShake@21111
connected
got SimICPCom1@21111
connected
got SimICPCom2@21111
connected
got SimICPTILS@21111
connected
got CmdStopDED@21111@21114@100
connected
got CmdStopRWR@21111@21116@100

[hoover]

Answer outlined here...   

https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?34503-Easiest-way-to-send-a-keypress-to-BMS&p=480022#post480022

[salaxi54]

Nice to know that it works, but isn't Falcon 'crawling' through WINE on Linux? I've no personal experience, but my guess is that you would need quite some horsepower. Please enlighten us if you would. 

[hoover]

For me, BMS fps on Linux through WINE are faster than on windows (1070ti, win7 on a separate partition). Performance-wise I have absolutely no complaints about BMS running in a Linux environment. 



All the best, Uwe

[Nikolas_A]

I guess some shared memory jostling is involved here, right?

Shared memory only accommodates outputs. For callbacks you have to emulate keyboard events or DX button presses.