Keyboard XML Controls

[specksavers]

Hi,
I fly the C172 and I wanted to change some of my keyboard controls. Could someone give me the code to make the key 'q' turn on/off the taxi lights and the 'w' key turn on/off the the landing lights. Please let me know where to place the XML code.

Thanks,
George.

[macnab]

OK. With my c172p, switching on the Taxi Light has no visible effect. That being said, here is the code that you need.

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  <key n="113">
  <name>q</name>
  <desc>Toggle Taxi Light</desc>
  <repeatable type="bool">false</repeatable>
  <binding>
    <command>nasal</command>
    <script>setprop("/controls/lighting/taxi-light", !getprop("/controls/lighting/taxi-light"))</script>
  </binding>
  </key>

  <key n="119">
  <name>w</name>
  <desc>Toggle Landing Lights</desc>
  <repeatable type="bool">false</repeatable>
  <binding>
    <command>nasal</command>
    <script>setprop("/controls/lighting/landing-lights", !getprop("/controls/lighting/landing-lights"))</script>
  </binding>
  </key>

Now you want them only for the c172.
Go to the folder where flightgear is installed. Then to data/Aircraft/c172p.
Copy the file c172p-set.xml file to a safe location where you can retrieve it if things go wrong.
Then, still in data/Aircraft/c172p, open the c172p-set.xml file with a text editor.
Scroll right to the bottom. You will see

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      </key> 
    </keyboard>
  </input>

</PropertyList>

You are going to paste the code below the </key> and before the </keyboard>, so click with the mouse at the start of the </keyboard> line.
Then com back here, and at the top of the bl;ock of the needed code, click on SELECT ALL, and press ctrl-c to copy it..
Go back to the xml file and paste the code using ctrl-v.
Save the file.
Test. Not forgetting that there doesn't seem to be a taxi light.

If it doesn't work, go to your "saved" version of the c172p-set.xml file and copy it over the file you have just modified. Then at least you are back where you started. Then come back here and let us know what went wrong.

If it does work, come back to this thread, and click on the green tick-mark at the top right of this post, so that everyone (including other people who find it useful) will know that it works.

[specksavers]

Thats perfect, everything works great.
Have a great summer,
George.