SDK Question get gear status

[Topper]

Hello, is there any workaround to get the gear status of a vessel if it's retracted or not? I havn't seen an api method to get it. I think it's because it's a general "animation" without anything special, but there is also an api method "doubleVESSEL::GetWheelbrakeLevel". For the Deltaglieder, this returns the same value no matter if the gear is retracted or not... I want to retract the gear automaticly which is possible with *VESSEL->SendBufferedKey(OAPI_KEY_G), but I only want to do this if the gear is not allready down.

 

[Face]

Hello, is there any workaround to get the gear status of a vessel if it's retracted or not? I havn't seen an api method to get it. I think it's because it's a general "animation" without anything special, but there is also an api method "doubleVESSEL::GetWheelbrakeLevel". For the Deltaglieder, this returns the same value no matter if the gear is retracted or not... I want to retract the gear automaticly which is possible with *VESSEL->SendBufferedKey(OAPI_KEY_G), but I only want to do this if the gear is not allready down.

I know of 2 workarounds:

1. Hook into RecordEvent and listen for the GEAR tag.
2. Save the vessel state by means of clbkSaveState() and a temporary file, then parse the file for the GEAR tag.

I used both in OMP, but eventually settled on the second option for some application reasons.