Thank you Pete,
for your reply. Sorry for my unqualified procedures, but I am an absolut beginner.
First, I checked on the PM webside before I started and was under the empression to have the newest version of FSUIPC (4.60a from 4th March 2010), but this seemes to be the first mistake.
Second, I saw later last night, that I obviusly did not download the complete manual of FSUIPC. What I have ends with the installation advices. Probably that happened, because I downloaded that part before I bought the full version.
So I will check both - is the right place to do this the PM side ?
What actually did so far was (to answer your questions) was:
Button and Switches
turned the "Range knob" got Joy 170 Btn 20
Select for FS controls
In the column "Control sent when Botton pressed selected "EFIS ND Scale Set" and Parameter "0".
then I turned the kob clockwise, again "EFIS ND Scale set and Parameter "1" (because I thought this would be very clever, and finally it worked, because the range was increased , but what happend was, that parameters changed by itself into 10 miles -0, 20 miles 257, 40 miles 514 etc. after I turned the knob completely clock and counterwise. I did not do that..
So to decrease I thought it would be wise to do it in the "Control sent when button released@ the other way arround, but this failed.
The mode knob (Approach, VOR, MAP) I tried to animate the same way, I took from the menue "EFIS ND Mode Inc and used the same parameters ( 257 etc,), but in this case without success.
The seven buttons when pressed give a corresponding 170/0 etc nr. so the EFIS seems to be ok.
The GF.dll is up to date.
So what I have to do is to get the latest update for the FSUIPC and the manual and give it another try.
regards
Bernd