kooky45

Thanks John, I can't send to MSFS since it doesn't detect most of the key presses from the device I'm using (it's a mini keypad that has rotary encoders instead of keys with the encoders sending keyboard characters when rotated). For some reason MSFS misses most of the characters while other tools like FSUIPC see all of them but only if they're sent directly to FSUIPC and not through the sim first. MSFS even misses the keys sent by AHK if they come from the encoders. There's something strange about the way MSFS is reading keyboard input and my encoder isn't sending keypresses exactly like a keyboard (it's flashed with QMK and I'm looking if that could be the problem too)! The problem I'm trying to overcome using AHK is that I don't want to have to keep FSUIPC focused in the desktop to collect the keypad input, I'd prefer MSFS to be focused all the time, and I thought that AHK could intercept the encoder key presses and send them to them FSUIPC while it's in the background. An alternative that sort-of-works is to have the FSUIPC open and it works fine but AHK moves focus to it when it sends the first key press and the focus won't reliably move back to the previous window.

I'm trying to get Autohotkey to send key presses to FSUIPC while FSUIPC is running in the background. I'm sending from AHK to FSUIPC using ControlSend and the FSUIPC PID. It's not receiving them. But if I select "Show" from the FSUIPC taskbar icon and the little window is visible then it now receives the Autohotkey keys - I can see it in the console. I don't want the FSUIPC window active when I'm playing FS2020. Any idea, please? Perhaps I need to tell AHK which ControlSend "Control" to use but that is a mystery to me so I'm leaving it blank at the moment.

Thanks, I'll try that.

Can someone explain to me how FSUIPC7 reads keyboard inputs when running with FS2020, please, and how it sends the mapped commands back to the sim? I bought a mini keypad but instead of having five keys installed I asked the builder to put in 5 rotary encoders (it's a miniMacro5c). The firmware has been flashed so that each rotation of a knob sends a keyboard character to the computer, a different one for each knob and each direction, and also when the knobs are pressed downwards. I want to use it for things like radio tuning, AP heading, etc. If I have any type of text input window open on the computer, like Notepad++, or even a text input field in FS2020, rotating or pressing the knobs reliably inputs the right character into the the computer - never missing a character and is very fast. But when I'm in the sim cockpit and the sim is running then the inputs from the knob rotations are very unreliable, most are missed and when the sim does catch them it's erratic. I thought I'd try FSUIPC for catching the knob inputs and to feed them to the sim. But it makes no difference. When I'm viewing the FSUIPC console it looks like FSUIPC is waiting for the sim to tell it which keys it has detected being pressed and then tells FSUIPC. And since the sim is missing the character inputs then it's not telling FSUIPC. I'm lost for where the fault could be in the sim not reading the knob inputs (why it's so bad compared to all other tools on the computer) or how to address it. All help gratefully accepted. Many thanks.