Key Press

[ianonline]

Hi there,

Before anything else I would like to assure you that I spent several hours trying to understand the FSUIPC for the advanced user regarding KEY PRESS and have attempted to search for answers in google. But to no avail and or I just did not understand the technicallity of it.

Basically what I wanted to attain is to be able to only press one key to send a series of key presses.

I'm flying the PMDG 747 and what i wanted is that when I land I want to only use Engine 2 and 3 for my reverse thrust... (same during taxi, i want to use only engine 2 and 3)

I know that it can be attained by pressing the keyboard combination E+2+3 but i'm wondering if is it possible to set a key press where i only press E (or a single key) and fsuipc will send the combination e+2+3

and i'm planning to use letter W to send the combination e+1+2+3+4 to get 4 engines..

Thank you.

ian

[Pete Dowson]

Basically what I wanted to attain is to be able to only press one key to send a series of key presses.

In FSUIPC you can't directly assign keypresses to keypresses -- for what should be reasonably obvious reasons. Generally there is never a need in any case. There are ways round it (using FSUIPC "krypress/release" controls), but they are fraught with difficulty and unreliability, because the real key down/ keyup messages get intertwined with the mapped ones, and the end result is not easily predictable.

I'm flying the PMDG 747 and what i wanted is that when I land I want to only use Engine 2 and 3 for my reverse thrust... (same during taxi, i want to use only engine 2 and 3)

It sounds like you only have one throttle lever, right?

I know that it can be attained by pressing the keyboard combination E+2+3 but i'm wondering if is it possible to set a key press where i only press E (or a single key) and fsuipc will send the combination e+2+3

and i'm planning to use letter W to send the combination e+1+2+3+4 to get 4 engines..

The best bet is to use the FSUIPC Offset controls to access directly the value in FS which those E+ keystrokes affect. That is 0888.

Assign your choice of key for engines 2+3 to Offset Byte Set with x888 in the offset field and 6 in the parameter field (4=eng 3, 2=eng 3, 4+2=6).

Assign your choice of key for engines 1+2+3+4 to Offset Byte Set with x888 in the offset field and 15 in the parameter field (8=eng 4, 4=eng 3, 2=eng 3, 1=enf 1, 8+4+2+1=15).

Regards

Pete

[ianonline]

Thank you so much for your thorough instructions... it did not only answer the question but you have actually opened up a lot of possibilities for me to explore.

I'm very grateful. :)

I have a Logitech G940 and it has 2 throttles...

Thank you Again for your dedication.