Saitek X52Pro Mfd and Fip how to home

Give me a minute to clean it up and do tutorial add on. Was in the middle of a few things and finally got it going . Wanted to share before I went to bed .

Hi there,

I'm doing some tests to add new functionalities to the DLL but I need some info from you guys.

I know it is possible to export some instruments to another screen but I don't know how.

Anyone knows how to do this in BS or Warthog?

Thx

Chrilith,

I am not sure how the others are doing it, but there is this

LoSetSharedTexture(name) -- register texture with name "name" to export

-- LoRemoveSharedTexture(name) -- copy texture with name "name" to named shared memory area "name"

-- LoUpdateSharedTexture(name) -- unregister texture

-- texture exported like Windows BMP file.

It slows things down a bit. I don't know if Create Gauge() I used in one of the previous tutorials works as I can not draw to the fip, you can try.

Also Check out this thread.

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=70716&highlight=Multi+monitor

Interesting, will check all that and see how to modify SetImage so that we can dump instruments directly to it, thanks algerad3

I'm also planing to add Logitech G13 and G15 support, anyone with these devices?

Don't want to spent too much money for nothing :)

Chrilith,

 

I am not sure how the others are doing it, but there is this

LoSetSharedTexture(name) -- register texture with name "name" to export

-- LoRemoveSharedTexture(name) -- copy texture with name "name" to named shared memory area "name"

-- LoUpdateSharedTexture(name) -- unregister texture

-- texture exported like Windows BMP file.

 

It slows things down a bit. I don't know if Create Gauge() I used in one of the previous tutorials works as I can not draw to the fip, you can try.

 

Also Check out this thread.

 

 

 

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=70716&highlight=Multi+monitor

I have been tinkering with it and one thing I read is that the setimage will only send info based on screen size set up.

Question is this : Is there a way to reduce the stream sent by the Lo...SetTexture function independence of the monitor setting....Say maybe to 320x240. That would reduce a lot of bandwidth usage back to the memory..?

I don't know about Lo* but if they only send huge images, indeed it will be a real waste of bandwidth. Anyway I'll make it work with the FIP screen whatever the image size hoping that reducing the image will not alter the quality to much.

Actually, A10 doesn't start on my old devel laptop. i have to install Vs2010'on my new computer in order to test Lo* implementation and interaction with LUA.

If this work, I should able able to make it work for Falcon 4.0 too.

Sweet , I will keep looking and tinkering on my end.

I am working on tutorial to include buttons use for both the x52 and fip.

I'm also planing to add Logitech G13 and G15 support, anyone with these devices?

 

Don't want to spent too much money for nothing :)

chrilith, I have a G15. Don't use it anymore, replaced by k700 wireless, but can always hook it back up if needed.

How can I be of help?

EDIT

Actually, there are two devices Logitech stupidly calls G15 keyboards.

One here, M/N Y-UG75, I DON'T have this one.

The other here, M/N Y-UW92, this is the one I DO have.

@SV_huMMer, just taking the temperature for now :) will add logitech support later

For now I'm trying to make the sims work but loading takes a lot of time and when DC10 or BS2 are launched the mouse doesn't click well and when I have a change to exit the breifing screen I can only switch view with function keys and the plane is still in the air, no way to do something, not flying away just still in the sky... If I press escape it is near to impossible to click on a button to exit :(

Any clue?

My conf, alienware 11x core i5, 8gb, nvidia 540M

Do you use an external mouse or the built-in touchpad on your laptop?

Touchpad

Touchpad

Weird... No, I don't have any clue, sorry.

Been away for a bit , had things going on. Still working on cleaning up the button press part of the export lua example.

Cleaned up buttons example.

I have attached another ( cleaner) example of the button assignment process. The Fip is included even though the display portion is still a wip.

I am under the impression that others are finding things straight forward to install and use.

Not a lot of questions, excitement or buzz going on here.

Anyone have any examples of how they use the mfd they want to share?

Export.lua

Feed Back Anyone?

Well, I think people are waiting for concrete stuff, they don't wang to program things, just wang to use! :)

I really need to make sims work well so that I can use export to display things on FIP!

I was afraid of that . Oh, well I will create something out of my vision and pass along.

I can't wait until the display is working...

Hey, have you tried a usb mouse, I am thinking maybe the touchpad drivers may not provide the input required from the sim. I recall when A-10 was out in beta stages I was having similiar issues. It was holidays and I took my laptop with me and tried to preview it on that , My video card also was under powered and affected my abilities to do anything.

If you can grab a portable mouse and plug in, it should (windows ) install mouse drivers , after that you should be good to go ( I think). I never tried mouse for laptop as I had desktop at home. That was the impression I was left with at the time , Just now remembered this.

Well, time to take a short break. Too many other issues to deal with to focus. Need more stick time to figure out what is useful at this point and I also need to work on learning the different ways to activate buttons.

I guess when I get everything sorted out ( lua and RL) I will create an export script that is "paste and play".

until then , keep at it. Be back soon.

O.k

I am back at home and will start to work on getting something together for the saitek gear .

What I would like is suggestions as to how you may want the layout for the x-52 to look. What Info do you want.

As for the fip, what gauges are important. I did get the buttons of the fip to work in place of the buttons on the Abris.

Bring me your ideas.

great, sound good.

Just a note to keep everyone updated.

It has been awhile since I last posted here .

Unfortunately , I have been very busy with real life stuff.

I am still trying to get saitek gear up and running , will need time to get back to where i was and move forward.

Still active on this project , Currently time is limited, options are endless , lot's of research going on as well. I hope I find answers soon, I need to get back to learning these sims.( my landing skills suck )

Any news on the project? At least some basic functional presets for A-10C, perhaps? Like radio frequencies?

Actually , I was just thinking about that really I was, I says to myself " self, what can we do next ? "

Give me a little time and I will flesh out something useful for the A-10.

It will take a while as I am still learning the ka 50 ( not much stick time around here.) I will grab stick time and put together some pages for the a-10 an maybe get frequency knobs involved.