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Gauge "soft" keys access

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roarkr

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Hi,


I am trying to access "soft" keys on a gauge for an user aircraft.

The gauge has no Lvars for the "soft" keys. I can access the "soft" keys by hoovering over the "soft" key and make a left click on the mouse. This is the built in way of accessing these "soft" keys.

I am about to make a dll that needs to access these "soft" keys.

AS the airpcraft gauge do not have any Lvars for the "soft" keys, I am wondering if there are other methods to access them?

XLM? gauge indexing? Any other ideas? Or is it impossible?
 
ddawson

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Register a GAUGE_KEY_EVENT_HANDLER function in your dll. You will be able to detect the soft keys events that way.
 
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roarkr

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Thanks for reply.

But, isn't using the GAUGE_KEY_EVENT_HANDLER function to detect eventIDs, the same as can be achieved with FSUIPC's Mouse Macro function?

I have used it to try to detect the eventID in order to "click" them via C++ code.
The Mouse Macro funtion in FSUIPC detected all cockpit buttons,switches etc, but the "soft" keys in the specific gauge were not detected.

So my question is: Will they be detected by the GAUGE_KEY_EVENT_HANDLER function.

I have tried to implement it in the dll code, but haven't been able to detect any "soft" keys.

I just wonder, is it possible at all?
 
WarpD

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Just because you can see a button does mean it's something that triggers anything.
 
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roarkr

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To clarify a little more:

With "soft" key I mean a clickable spot/symbol on the gauge screen. The gauge has several clickable spots/symbols.

I know that that the "soft" key I am trying to find the ID for is something that is clickable and will trigger an action.

I know that because when I click it with my mouse pointer it trigger the action.

My challenge it to find an ID within that gauge so I can use that ID to make the clicking with C++ code in my dll.
 
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roarkr

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It triggers an action locally in the gauge. The action gives another "child" screen in the gauge.
 
WarpD

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There is nothing about what you're seeing that indicates it must be generating a sim event. It could be changing the value of an internal variable.
 
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roarkr

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I never said it was generating a sim event. As I can't detect any with FSUIPC's Mouse Macro or the suggested GAUGE_KEY_EVENT_HANDLER function,

See my opening mesage. This bring back my first question in this thread , is it impossible?

I believe now, that it is impossible.
 
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roarkr said:
How can I know? I guess it is a C++ gauge
Click to expand...

How can't you?
Just check on panel.cfg the name of the gauge. Then do a search in panel subfolders/gauges folders. If gauge extension is .xml, enough said; if it is .cab then is an xml gauge as well; if it is .dll/gau is a C/C++ gauge.

If the gauge is written in C/C++ is is likely that action is an update of an internal variable, as Ed (WarpD) suggested. You can't do anything if that's the case.

Tom
 
JB3DG

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The reason I asked about C++ gauges is because C++ gauges have the option of creating a mouse function callback for a clickspot instead of a mouse event for that clickspot. If it is the former then you will find it a lot tougher. There is a way to access the mouse rectangle of a C++ gauge using the export table but that is rather complicated and I haven't had much success with it.
 
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