how to set light hotkeys?

[smeely]

Is there anyway of setting a hotkey for the aircraft lights? The strobes and landing lights are easy, but what about taxi, nav, bcn. I have never been able to find something that will allow me to set them.

[dave3cu]

I replied to your same question in the FSX forum.

Though I don't have FS2004 installed anymore, the method should be the similar. The main difference is that the FS2004 control assignments are in the FS9.cfg file, not in a seperate .xml file as in FSX.

For a list of the event strings needed, download the FS2004 Panels and Gauges SDK from here-http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/downloads.php?do=cat&id=10

You'll find them listed in the EventIDs doc.

Dave

[smeely]

hmmm... I found the fs9.cfg file, but i can't figure out what on earth to do. It has several joysticks there, and then a keyboard... I can't figure out which joystick is the one that I use... and then for the keyboard section it saves the info as "THROTTLE_FULL=115,8
THROTTLE_INCR_SMALL=114,8
THROTTLE_DECR=113,8"

[smeely]

YES!!! i got some buttons set on the joystick. thankyou

now if i can just figure out how the keyboard is worked...

[dave3cu]

For help with assignments, go to http://www.schiratti.com/dowson.html and download the fs2000ctls document (fs2000ctls.zip). It explains the control assignments in the .cfg file.

The only thing that might be different for fs2004 are the event strings. These you can get from the FS2004 Panels and Gauges SDK I mentioned in my first reply.

Dave

[smeely]

thankyou