MS Sidewinder Strategic Commander

[Hawg One]

Pete, I've got one of the handiest devices I ever purchased with the legacy MS Sidewinder "Strategic Commander". I'd like to make that a "joystick" seen by FSUIPC. Have any suggestions on how I'd do that? I'll be messing with it, and if I come up with an answer myself, I'll post it, but I figure you've probably run across this before. Thanks! Hawg.

[Pete Dowson]

Pete, I've got one of the handiest devices I ever purchased with the legacy MS Sidewinder "Mission Commander". I'd like to make that a "joystick" seen by FSUIPC. Have any suggestions on how I'd do that?

Er .. if it's a joystick, known to Windows as a joystick, it would be seem by FSUIPC. What does Windows think it is? What does FS itself see it as? What IS it, in fact?

Regards

Pete

[Hawg One]

Pete, the Strategic Commander is not seen as a gaming device (by design, according to MS). So I'm guessing it's a glorified keyboard macro transmitter. grrrr. By the way, I changed references to "Mission Commander" to "Strategic Commander" because I made a boo boo. It has a swiveling body which is, supposedly, a pair of joystick axes... still messing with it.

[Pete Dowson]

Pete, the Strategic Commander is not seen as a gaming device (by design, according to MS). So I'm guessing it's a glorified keyboard macro transmitter. grrrr. By the way, I changed references to "Mission Commander" to "Strategic Commander" because I made a boo boo. It has a swiveling body which is, supposedly, a pair of joystick axes... still messing with it.

OkayI think you are right. I Googled it, and all the references and reviews I found, though not terribly clear, did strongly imply that it was a programmable keyboard macro device, exactly as you say.

Regards

Pete

[Hawg One]

Pete:

Is it possible to have FSUIPC translate one keystroke into another?

I want to have, say, CTL+SH+1 translated into SH+5.

That would help immensely.

[Pete Dowson]

Is it possible to have FSUIPC translate one keystroke into another?

I want to have, say, CTL+SH+1 translated into SH+5.

That would help immensely.

Well there's nothing designed in it to do that. I think the only way you might be able to do that is to program the first keystroke to send the FSUIPC-added control 'Key Press and Release'. You should be able to find it in the drop down list.

The parameter for that gives the Keycode + 256 x the shift code. You'll need to look up the key and shift codes in the Advanced User's guide (the list in the Buttons section). For Shift+5 it would be 101 + (256 x 1) = 356, if you mean the NumPad 5, else 53 + (256 x 1) = 309 for the main keyboard 5.

Regards

Pete