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Simconnect - "On button release" event

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Hi everyone,

I just build a panel with two way switches (ON, OFF) for MSFS. Every switch remains "pressed" when is activated.
I created an app in c++ to catch the "ON" event, but, there is a way to catch when the switch is turned off?

Thank you.
 
Ciao Massimo,

Is this a question about switches in the simulator or your physical switches?
Which events are you trying to "catch," when a switch gets toggled in the simulator itself? I'm confused since you'd detect "off" the same way you'd detect the "on" events from sim.

Please clarify.

Best,
-Max
 
MaxPaperno said:
Ciao Massimo,

Is this a question about switches in the simulator or your physical switches?
Which events are you trying to "catch," when a switch gets toggled in the simulator itself? I'm confused since you'd detect "off" the same way you'd detect the "on" events from sim.

Please clarify.

Best,
-Max
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I am talking about the phisycal switch.

I am using this lines of code (part of the app)

hr = SimConnect_MapClientEventToSimEvent(hSimConnect, EVENT_TOGGLE_BEACON_LIGHTS, "TOGGLE_BEACON_LIGHTS");

hr = SimConnect_AddClientEventToNotificationGroup(hSimConnect, GROUP_0, EVENT_TOGGLE_BEACON_LIGHTS);

hr = SimConnect_SetNotificationGroupPriority(hSimConnect, GROUP_0, SIMCONNECT_GROUP_PRIORITY_HIGHEST);

hr = SimConnect_MapInputEventToClientEvent(hSimConnect, INPUT_0, "joystick:1:button:17", EVENT_TOGGLE_BEACON_LIGHTS);

hr = SimConnect_SetInputGroupState(hSimConnect,INPUT_0, SIMCONNECT_STATE_ON);
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When switch is turned ON EVENT_TOGGLE_BEACON_LIGHTS is fired.
 
I'm not sure how any input event (mouse, key, or joystick button) would have an "off" state. They're momentary controls. You can detect when the control is released (vs. pressed) but that's not going to help here, if I understand you right.

I'm guessing you have to keep track of the switch state yourself...? Toggled once, switch is on, toggled again, now it's off. That's typically how momentary switches are handled in hardware, anyway, when they need to act as toggles.

-Max
 
PS. The switch events also have distinct _ON and _OFF events (eg. BEACON_LIGHTS_ON/BEACON_LIGHTS_OFF). Perhaps you could map two different controls/events to those.
 
I use Spad.neXt to program my Saitek X56 HOTAS switches and rotaries to work with the sim. I can even set it up to send custom defined SimConnect events.
 
That's something I've sort-of skim-looked-at in the past but never given it much thought. Time to think again.
 
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