Speed of Pan View hat switch?

[stuarth]

I have assigned the hat switch on my CH joystick to 'Pan View', but when using it is quite slow panning in each direction, when compared with using the central mouse button/mouse used for zooming/panning. Is there anyway to speed up the panning when using the hat switch axis assignment and still maintain use of the central mouse wheel for zooming in/out?

Regards,

Stuart

[Pete Dowson]

I have assigned the hat switch on my CH joystick to 'Pan View', but when using it is quite slow panning in each direction, when compared with using the central mouse button/mouse used for zooming/panning. Is there anyway to speed up the panning when using the hat switch axis assignment and still maintain use of the central mouse wheel for zooming in/out?

 

You can increase the joystick scanning speed, but that has other effects too. I don't understand why you see any difference, it is pretty much identical here.  FS actually scans joysticks slower than FSUIPC, but FSUIPC has higher overheads (it has to send stuff via SimConnect).

 

Pete

[stuarth]

Peter, thanks for the prompt response,

I'm not on my pc this evening, but I think I have 'mouse look' enabled in the fsuipc.INI, rather than in FSX. The assigned hat switch moves quite slowly compared with the mouse though, the latter being quite smooth and precise. Can you think of any conflict which might cause this? Should I disable 'mouse look' perhaps and use the default FSX zoom function.

I would be happy to use the hat switch panning for moving around the vc if it was faster.

BTW, how does one increase the speed of the axis assignment for panning and should it be assigned as Direct to Fsuipc, or to FSX?

Cheers,

Stuart

[Pete Dowson]

I'm not on my pc this evening, but I think I have 'mouse look' enabled in the fsuipc.INI, rather than in FSX. The assigned hat switch moves quite slowly compared with the mouse though, the latter being quite smooth and precise. Can you think of any conflict which might cause this?

 

Nothing I now of. Here both "mouse look" and the Pan View assignment operate pretty much the same as they do using the FS facilities. In fact they were specifically adjusted to be similar.

 

Should I disable 'mouse look' perhaps and use the default FSX zoom function.

I would be happy to use the hat switch panning for moving around the vc if it was faster.

 

It's entirely your choice. Note that FS's mouse look facility only works if controllers are enabled in FS. That is why I implemented the same facility in FSUIPC.

 

BTW, how does one increase the speed of the axis assignment for panning

 

As described in the Advanced User's guide, you set "PollInterval" in the main [Axes] section of the INI file to a smaller number -- the value is the number of milliseconds between polls. In the [buttons] section it controls button polling, in the [Axes] section it controls axis polling. So a value of 10 gives 100 checks per second.  Also you need to make sure the Delta value in the axis assignment page is set to 1 for the assigned axis -- it should be that by default for a POV Hat.

 

and should it be assigned as Direct to Fsuipc, or to FSX?

 

The "Direct to FSUIPC" option only gives you access to those axes which FSUIPC can calibrate. The Pan View control is an FS control, so only available in the FS assignments list.

 

Pete

[stuarth]

Thanks Pete,

I'll check whether I have PanView set to FS Control rather than fsuipc direct, that may be the problem. If it is a ready set then I may look at the acceleration aspect.

Thanks again for your support.

Stuart

[Pete Dowson]

I'll check whether I have PanView set to FS Control rather than fsuipc direct, that may be the problem. I

 

You cannot set it to "FSUIPC direct" because it is an FS control, not an FSUIPC direct control.  You cannot assign to controls which aren't listed.

 

Pete