sendVIEW

Sets the camera view in X-Plane.

Note: This command currently works on Windows only.

Syntax

Language	Signature
C	int sendVIEW(XPCSocket sock, VIEW_TYPE view)
MATLAB	sendVIEW(view, socket )
Java	void sendVIEW(ViewType view)
Python	sendVIEW(view)

Parameters

sock (C): The socket used to send the command.

view: The view to set. In Python, the ViewType class provides named constants. The MATLAB client expects an instance from the Java gov.nasa.xpc.ViewType enum.

socket (MATLAB): An optional reference to a socket opened with openUDP that should be used to send the command.

Return value

C: A negative value if an error occurs, otherwise 0.

Remarks

The current view can be checked using the sim/graphics/view/view_type dataref, however the value returned does not correspond to the command values used for this command.

Exceptions

C Error Code	Java Exception	Python Error	Description
-1	--------------	ValueError	The specified view is not valid.
-3	IOException	OSError	The client is unable to send the command

Examples

C

#include "xplaneConnect.h"
XPCSocket sock = openUDP(IP);

// Set the view to the chase camera
sendVIEW(sock, XPC_VIEW_CHASE);

closeUDP(sock);

MATLAB

import XPlaneConnect.*;

% Set the view to the chase camera
sendVIEW(sock, gov.nasa.xpc.ViewType.Chase);

Java

import gov.nasa.xpc.XPlaneConnect;

try(XPlaneConnect xpc = new XPlaneConnect())
{
    // Set the view to the chase camera
    xpc.sendVIEW(ViewType.Chase);
}

Python

import xpc

with xpc.XPlaneConnect() as client:
    # Set the view to the chase camera
    client.sendVIEW(xpc.ViewType.Chase)