NEW COCKPIT BUILDER NEEDS HELP WITH UNDERSTANDING OF FSUIPC

[ASTRO]

Hello,

I'm from Belgium and new in the hobby of cockpit building.

I ' m new in this forum and I'm interrested in FSUIPC but I don't understand clearly what the possibility's are with the button programming of FSUIPC.

I don't have FSUIPC yet but I intend to have a registered one soon.

My problem is the following:

I'm building my basic cockpit and I've hacked 2 game pads an I have about 20 pragrammable buttons (excluding the pov's).

I would like to use some ON/ off switches in my cokpit.

For instance: A switch to put the lights on (I mean lights on when the switch is in the on states ) and when the switch is put off the lights goes off.

This is completely different to just press a press release switch to put the lights on and then have to press the same press release switch again to put the lights off.

So that is my question, is it possible to use FSUIPC to programm on off switches( I mean status on -status off switch ) instead of just the classic press release switch use in game pads or joy sticks,

It would be nice to use switches in my cockpit that i can put on and off like in a real plane.

Many thanks for your help.

[Pete Dowson]

I ' m new in this forum and I'm interrested in FSUIPC but I don't understand clearly what the possibility's are with the button programming of FSUIPC. I don't have FSUIPC yet but I intend to have a registered one soon.

Please just download it and read the documentation. Then ask questions if you don't understand.

I would like to use some ON/ off switches in my cokpit.

For instance: A switch to put the lights on (I mean lights on when the switch is in the on states ) and when the switch is put off the lights goes off.

Yes, a normal latching toggle switch.

So that is my question, is it possible to use FSUIPC to programm on off switches( I mean status on -status off switch ) instead of just the classic press release switch use in game pads or joy sticks

Yes, of course.

If the simulator does not actually support separate "ON or OFF" controls for a particular function you would have to program the same "toggle" function for both "press" and "release" and get the switches synchronised before you start. But for many functions, FS does off separate ON and OFF controls as well as Toggle.

For instance, Strobes, landing lights and panel lights have On, Off and Toggle. However the other lights (Nav, Taxi, Wind, Logo) only have toggle functions so you'd need to synchronise them with your switches first.

Check my lists of FS controls (http://www.schiratti.cxom/dowson) is you are curious.

For a more thorough treatment, all the light switches can be accessed through FSUIPC offsets -- a separate bit for each one, set for 'on', clear for 'off'. There are FSUIPC controls which you can program on buttons to set, clear or toggle bits, so you can do anything you like. This is not quite so intuitive, and for FSUIPC offset details you need the Programmers Guide documentation, in the FSUIPC SDK (same website).

Regards,

Pete

[ASTRO]

ok many thanks. :D

I'm going to get FSUIPC and register it .

Best regards

[hm]

Hello Didier,

I am from Belgium too. So if you need some explanaition abouth button programming, you can contact me. You find my email address at http://users.telenet.be/desi-iii -> contact page, the site is also in dutch, french or german :)

hm

[ASTRO]

OK thanks,

I just recieved the key for FSPUIC . I will try to program my system next week-end. I f I have some troubles I will get back to you.

Best regards