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re-assigning mouse functions

Postby bob755 » Mon Nov 13, 2017 6:06 pm

Is it possible to change the behaviour of the mouse for certain functions?
For example, one aircraft type uses left click to push the AP heading knob and center click to pull it. Another uses a combination of shift,alt and left click for the same function

I'd like to have le former for both aircraft. I can't find the xml files that define these functions.

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Re: re-assigning mouse functions

Postby wkitty42 » Mon Nov 13, 2017 9:16 pm

each craft is different and implementations details like these are up to each crafts' maintainers... while i agree that it would be nice to use the same keys and buttons for the same purposes everywhere, it just doesn't seem to work that way... especially after you get things the way you want them and an update comes along and overwrites your changes...

with that said, the code blocks you are looking for will be in each crafts' installation directory... the file names can be anything so you'll have to actually start in the -set.xml file and follow the flow to find where the keys and buttons are set...
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Re: re-assigning mouse functions

Postby bob755 » Tue Nov 14, 2017 3:47 pm

I searched just about all the xml files and couldn't find where these mouse functions were defined. Could they be coded somewhere in the Nasal files?
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Re: re-assigning mouse functions

Postby wkitty42 » Tue Nov 14, 2017 9:02 pm

IIUC, you would see things like
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<button>
  <key>123</key>
    <some-thing-here-that-the-button-does>
</button>

that's off the top of my head without hunting up anything... there may be a "<keyboard>" or possibly a "<mouse>" tag for the section the above would be listed in...
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Re: re-assigning mouse functions

Postby Johan G » Sun Nov 26, 2017 6:06 pm

bob755 wrote in Mon Nov 13, 2017 6:06 pm:For example, one aircraft type uses left click to push the AP heading knob and center click to pull it. Another uses a combination of shift,alt and left click for the same function

wkitty42 wrote in Mon Nov 13, 2017 9:16 pm:[...] you'll have to actually start in the -set.xml file and follow the flow to find where the keys and buttons are set...

You will find them as either pick or knob/slider animations in the xml wrapper for the model (often found in a "model(s)" directory as an xml file with the same name as the aircraft). As wkitty42 said they are aircraft specific (though the knob/slider animation is usually more coherent between aircraft).

For more information see the FlightGear wiki articles Howto:Make a clickable panel#Pick (perm) and Knob / slider animation (perm).
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