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Recently found this very useful tool (especially in VR) allowing us to make a notepad pop up in the cockpit and write anything down.

 

All I wish it had is the ability to draw using the mouse. When having a VR headset on, it's hard to see what we are typing on the keyboard so I wish we could use the mouse instead.

 

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Ok, It's installed and comes and I'm able to type in the window but unable to transfer the text to the parameter of interest. For example:

 

I type in 5000 into the mod scratchpad widow. I then open the DSMS page, open the GBU-12 profile and click on the Min Alt OSB. Nothing happens. Am I missing something? Would love to use this mod since getting data into the various Nav and Weapons pages can get cumbersome especially in flight. I am not using VR just everyday 2D. Thanks for any help!

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Ok, It's installed and comes and I'm able to type in the window but unable to transfer the text to the parameter of interest. For example:

 

I type in 5000 into the mod scratchpad widow. I then open the DSMS page, open the GBU-12 profile and click on the Min Alt OSB. Nothing happens. Am I missing something? Would love to use this mod since getting data into the various Nav and Weapons pages can get cumbersome especially in flight. I am not using VR just everyday 2D. Thanks for any help!

 

It's not supposed to do that. Consider it a note book. You can go to F10 map, jot down coordinates in scratchpad go back to the cockpit and enter them. But you have to enter them manually like a reallife pilot does.

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Copied both files (lua and dlg), installed both into saved game folders. It worked until I changed the font size in the LUA file. Since I did that it wont work AT ALL...

 

 

I have since deleted the files, copied and pasted fresh ones literally a dozen times now, tried it on DCS Beta, used notepad ++, repaired DCS, reinstalled DCS, and it still does not work...

 

 

 

I find it strange how it was working just fine until I opened the one file (deleted and replaced by original file multiple times now) just to change the font size setting.

 

 

I suspect that Windows is somehow to blame for this, probably not reading the extensions properly since opening them or something. However, I even made sure that lua and dlg files are opened from notepad by default.

 

 

I am very confused on what is going on here, have been racking my brain for hours now. Is there something wrong with the registry or something??? Do I need a clean install of windows!!!!


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OK claw. Thanks for the explanation. I was looking for an easy way to type in the UFC scratchpad but I'll live! Thanks again.

 

there is a version with an in screen keyboard.

 

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0.61 changelog shows update for M-2000 to match precision but actually it cuts off precision. Scratchpad coords taken in the M-2000 are now DD°MM.M yet we need DD°MM.MMM

The display of the M-2000 nav sys shows DD°MM.M yet it indeed is fed with DD°MM.MMM

 

Any idea how to switch off Scratchpad's attempts to match coords with the module we fly that moment?

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Change the following line in scratchpad-hook.lua

elseif ac == "M-2000C" then
	return {DDM = {precision = 1, lonDegreesWidth = 3}}

to

elseif ac == "M-2000C" then
	return {DDM = {lonDegreesWidth = 3}}

This will default back to DD°MM.MMM (three places of precision)

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Is there any way to change the coordinate capture format?

 


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15 minutes ago, Chump said:

What would you want changed? They are currently, as far as I'm aware, in the correct format for each aircraft.

Hm... I was using it in the hornet and was getting decimal coords for it... Maybe I'm doing something wrong.

 

I had DMS XX.XX.XX visible on the F10 map, but got like XX.XX.xxx on the pad. 

 


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scratchpad_f18.png

The first line is in DMS. The second line is in DDM. The third is in MGRS.

The F-18 has all three options:

if ac == "FA-18C_hornet" then
            return {DMS = true, DDM = {precision = 4}, MGRS = true}

@Harlikwin Do you not see all of the different formats on your side?

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Just now, Chump said:

scratchpad_f18.png

The first line is in DMS. The second line is in DDM. The third is in MGRS.

The F-18 has all three options:

if ac == "FA-18C_hornet" then
            return {DMS = true, DDM = {precision = 4}, MGRS = true}

@Harlikwin Do you not see all of the different formats on your side?

Lemme double check, I think they were there, but jumbled. not neatly in 4 different rows. 

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I dont have the keyboard on screen any more  with the version I now use? I did before I changed computers and download the program again?

 

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