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FSX Custom Event IDs

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It's tough to decide whether this question belongs in the "Gauges" forum or the "Modeling" forum, since the question actually involves both subjects to one degree or another... :D

FSX allows us to create "Custom IDs" for click events. From what I can read in the SDK, and from examining the examples for the F18 in modeldef.xml, I see this format:

Code: 
    <MouseRect>
      <Cursor>Hand</Cursor>
      <MouseFlags>LeftSingle+LeftDrag+Wheel</MouseFlags>
      <CallbackJumpDragging>
        <YMovement>
          <Delta>30</Delta>
          <EventIDInc>0x11009</EventIDInc>
          <EventIDDec>0x1100A</EventIDDec>
        </YMovement>
      </CallbackJumpDragging>
    </MouseRect>

Unfortunately, I throughly despise <CallbackJumpDragging> for many reasons, not the least of which is that I vastly prefer Left/Right click and MouseWheel. In addition, the above won't allow me to use my XML=> sound events.

Is there any way to use "Custom Events" other than in a <CallbackJumpDragging> scheme?

If there is, I've yet to discover one... :scratchch
 
Bill, why couldnt you use right click / left click?

Oddly, I was just converting an animation 2 days ago with this. It was for Flaps, but I wanted my own sound, and finally figured that FSX had the new version XML for it.
 
lionheart said:
Bill, why couldnt you use right click / left click?
Click to expand...

Because "custom IDs" aren't your normal K: events...

The "custom ID" is nothing but a number. The <EventIDInc> tag specifies that whenever this "number" is transmitted, it should be interpreted as an "increase" event. Note that this "number" isn't actually associated to any particular event at all!

The "number" is exposed to a C gauge, which when it "sees" that number and the "increase" or "decrease" event tied to it, will trigger whatever has been coded into the C gauge.

The question one might reasonably ask is why using a "custom ID" is preferable to using an L:variable. The answer is simple. "Custom IDs" are transmitted across multi-player, whereas L:variables aren't.
 
ahhhh sooooo..... (raises eyebrow as jargin flys closely over forehead)

I can only imagine what you are up to with such code technology... Couldnt be with 'Weapon' could it?




Bill
 
lionheart said:
ahhhh sooooo..... (raises eyebrow as jargin flys closely over forehead)

I can only imagine what you are up to with such code technology... Couldnt be with 'Weapon' could it?
Click to expand...

Nope! It's just a more efficient method for synchronizing 3d knobs and switches to a C gauge's "logic" routines, plus the only way to guarantee "shared cockpit" will work 100% of the time.
 
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