LUA for X-Plane in Linux

[John Fee]

I wish to assign functions to a CH Eclipse yoke. As things stand, the yoke cannot be reliably calibrated using the built-in X-Plane routines. This yoke is not directly supported by X-Plane whereas the Saitek Pro yoke is.

Does anyone on these boards have any experience which would be relevant to me?  It's been suggested that I use Lua to write scripts to control the various functions.

I do not know if this is possible in Linux X-P.  If it is, I would have to learn some LUA language  but I do not know where to begin. 

I know, the simplest solution would be to buy a Saitek Pro yoke on ebay, but I like the Eclipse, and I don't like to be beaten.

Thanks for any help. 

[Pete Dowson]

4 minutes ago, John Fee said:

I do not know if this is possible in Linux X-P.  If it is, I would have to learn some LUA language  but I do not know where to begin. 

You'll need to find the XPUIPC support forum to ask about its Lua support. We don't deal with X-Plane here.

To learn Lua the best place is the Lua.org website. There are several good books around too, available directly or through Amazon. For FSUIPC there are many Lua examples installed in the FS Modules\FSUIPC Documents subfolder.

Pete

 

[John Fee]

Thank you very much for your reply, Pete.

The XPUIPC developer does not host a forum and as far as I can see all development work has stopped.  I will email him but am not hopeful.

I will follow up your reading suggestions,  your FS Lua examples will help with context. 

Regards,

John

[Pete Dowson]

14 minutes ago, John Fee said:

I will follow up your reading suggestions,  your FS Lua examples will help with context. 

Yes, but it will be no use making a Lua plug-in for XPUIPC if it doesn't support plug-ins, so that's the first thing to ascertain.

Pete

 

[John Fee]

Thanks, again, Pete.

I've a lot of research to do on this. I am not sure if XPUIPC is coded for Linux.  The Windows version supports plugins.

I've posted on the XP11 boards and will take it from there. 

John