Improved Window Fitting, Settings Persistence, and Update Checker
This utility expansion for Microsoft Flight Simulator brings all your favorite desktop applications right into your VR cockpit. Visit https://fsdesktop.com to learn more 🚀
FSdesktop can
- enable you to watch your favorite streamers,
- help you to follow along YouTube tutorials,
- show you streamers out there your Twitch or YouTube chat
- make those long distance flights a bit more entertaining by letting you stay in touch with your Discord communities
- display your vPilot client
- show you your LittleNavMap flight plans
- ... and much, much more
right inside your Flight Simulator cockpit! This is is especially helpful for those of us who like to fly in VR (and thus not being able to look at a second screen).
v0.1.0
MAJOR
- improved the rendering canvas so that it will always fit the available screen real estate "from inside", i.e. users won't see any vertical overflow anymore
- store resolution and refresh rate settings to "survive" across sessions
- hide resolution and refresh rate selection buttons by default, reveal only on hover
- added an update checker which checks for available updates for FSdesktop
- hide serial number once submitted to prevent unintentional leaking by content creators or people seeking advice etc.
MINOR
- make FSdesktop trial period "version-based", i.e. the trial period will reset for every new version
- show version number in title bar
- remove default application menu bar
- changed default server port to less commenly used port 9670
- catch any unexpected errors on the process level and show a user-friendly dialog with a hint to restart FSdesktop and on how to get support