Clear up confusion about AXIS

[bimmer4011]

I'm new to using the EPIC USB hardware and I'm up to my neck with documentation and examples, my head feels like it's going to pop sometimes. :oops:

At any rate, while reading Pete's EPICINFO.DOC, I am getting confused about the whole axis POV thing. My understanding so far is that I can read/write data to/from FS2004 via PigeonHoles. What I'm confused about is effecting change to the FS by the AXIS and POV thing. I'd like to use switches in the cockpit, not the joystick hat switch! DId I miss a paragraph somewhere that explains POV actually means 'external switch'? Thanks in advance for your responses!

PS: IF there are any CP builders in Seattle area interested in helping out on my project, I would appreciate it! I have a full motion military jet flight simulator that is being converted to run FS2004 using EPIC. See the website below for pictures and such. Who knows, if you are able to take over for me, you might get a ride in one of the real jets!

Simulator Website: http://home.comcast.net/~bimmer4011/

- Ron

[Pete Dowson]

I'm new to using the EPIC USB hardware and I'm up to my neck with documentation and examples, my head feels like it's going to pop sometimes. :oops:

Well, you may have got further than me. I have done almost no EPIC USB programming. i was used to the old ISA version under MSDOS or Window 95 (or was it Windows 3.1? Probably) many years ago, but by the time R&R went to USB I'd just about finished using any EPIC stuff. i did a driver conversion using the R&R DLL but that was it.

At any rate, while reading Pete's EPICINFO.DOC, I am getting confused about the whole axis POV thing. My understanding so far is that I can read/write data to/from FS2004 via PigeonHoles.

Well, no only read. Pigeon holes and "QPs" are for OUTPUT from FS to EPIC displays. EPICINFO is almost 100% concerned with that direction. There's some very specialised highly technical input options, but I'd ignore those for now!.

For EPIC to FS you should be configuring your EPIC stuff to look like normal axes, POVs and buttons.

What I'm confused about is effecting change to the FS by the AXIS and POV thing. I'd like to use switches in the cockpit, not the joystick hat switch! DId I miss a paragraph somewhere that explains POV actually means 'external switch'? Thanks in advance for your responses!

Sorry, I don't know what you are talking about here. Inputs from standard Windows joystick devices are of three types - axes, buttons and "POVs" ("Point of View" controls). Axes come with a variable parameter, buttons are just on or off, POVs come with a parameter stating "angle" of view, either in degrees or, sometimes, in 1/100ths of a degree.

You need to sort out how to define your EPIC to provide whatever standard Windows inputs of these types you need.

Regards

Pete