Add support for sending text messages to the screen?

[musurca]

It has been possible since FSX to send short text messages to the screen via SimConnect (ATIS messages, etc.), and that ability remains in MSFS2020—the vPilot client, for example, makes use of it to transmit text communications from ATC.

It would be great to have an easy hook to use that feature! (Thanks for your great work on this so far, by the way.)

[odwdinc]

added in 0.4.21 https://github.com/odwdinc/Python-SimConnect/blob/9d855a4492804005c7f50017102209a7675abd26/SimConnect/SimConnect.py#L444

Per the SDK:

Menu	SimConnect_Text	Minimal support	(TEXT_TYPE_PRINT_color) Simple text works, (TEXT_TYPE_SCROLLING_color) scrolling gives simple text, (TEXT_TYPE_MENU) menu gives no error-no response. (_color) color is ignored

Sample:

from SimConnect import *
import logging
from SimConnect.Enum import *
from time import sleep

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)
LOGGER.info("START")
sm = SimConnect()

sm.sendText("Hello Python-SimConnect", 10, SIMCONNECT_TEXT_TYPE.SIMCONNECT_TEXT_TYPE_SCROLL_BLUE)

sm.exit()

[musurca]

amazing-- thank you!