Covert Axis to buttons - without ranges

[DanW]

Hi Guys,

I've managed to setup everything in the past in all my hardware, but I'm stuck on one change I was thinking of doing.

I have the Saitek Cessna trim wheel, and I want to convert it from an axis to Trim up/down. The reason being that it's not motorized, so if I use the trim buttons on my yoke, it doesn't move. But if I make the wheel work like buttons, I won't know the difference and there will be no "jump" in trim when I use the wheel.

Now normally I would create a whole series of ranges, like my cowl flaps lever, and my gear lever etc, and that works fine.

But this axis is so big that I don't want to have to create 32,000 ranges to make it work. I was hoping to just overlap the whole range of movement, and tell it UP movements should be X button, and DOWN movements should be Y button etc.

Here's my screenshots of what I was trying to do:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/29331868/Screenshots/TrimDown.jpg

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/29331868/Screenshots/TrimUp.jpg

It doesn't trigger the trim event, or any other button I assign. I suspect I am doing it wrong or this feature only works with small ranges when they are actually entered or exited not when they are moved within.

Would appreciate if anyone can point me in the right direction to convert the axis to buttons along it's whole range.

many thanks

[Pete Dowson]

It doesn't trigger the trim event, or any other button I assign. I suspect I am doing it wrong or this feature only works with small ranges when they are actually entered or exited not when they are moved within.

Correct, as in fact it states on the screen.

The only way to do which you want is to use a Lua plug in which converts the change in axis value to a Trim Inc or Dec. Here's an example:

function checkvalue(val)
   if prev ~= nil then
	  if val > prev then ipc.control(65615)
	  elseif val < prev then ipc.control(65607)
	  end
   end
   prev = val
end

event.param("checkvalue")
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Save this as, "trimwheel.lua", in the Modules folder and add this to your INI file:

[Auto]

1=Lua trimwheel

Run FS and assign your axis, in the normal FS controls assignment on the left, to "Luavalue trimwheel".

Regards

Pete

[DanW]

It works, thanks for the fast response!