Controls - Binding with short and long clicks

[Martin Scholz]

DCS could distinguish short and long clicks (longer as 500 ms) of the same button.

 

I know there is Thrustmaster TARGET but it is rather awkward to use.

[SharpeXB]

DCS recognizes those on my CH gear.

[mytai01]

If they can already do that, then how is it done?

[SharpeXB]

If they can already do that, then how is it done?

I just mapped the HOTAS buttons directly in the game menu. The A-10C uses long and short presses of the buttons and those all work like they should.

[Sandman1330]

I'm assuming this is for the A10?

 

To use TMS as an example, you would just bind TMS left/right/up/down. Then, in game, when you short or long press the button you've binded, the aircraft will respond accordingly.

 

There's not need to bind long/short separately, the game will just recognize when you've long pressed.

[Frederf]

I think he means he wants the ability to trigger two entirely different commands based on pressed context. E.g. short press lower landing gear, long press eject.

 

Games like Star Citizen have the ability to bind single-tap A and double-tap A to entirely different commands. Then when you do each action physically the game understands if it was A or A-A and does only that command and not the other one.

 

If this kind of ability was added to DCS then it would be incumbent on the user not to make impossible binds. E.g. short press Button01 is TMS up, long press Button01 is eject. If the user did that then press context would be impossible to use the airplane normally since trying to do TMS up long actions would result in ejecting instead.

 

That doesn't mean the user shouldn't have the ability to "do things wrong" as long as he is careful.

[Martin Scholz]

Thank you, SharpeXB , for the information about the HOTAS category. I found and tested controls of this kind for A10C and AV8B (I noticed them before but was unaware of the builtin behavior).

 

 

I tried TARGET for TWCS and the function

 

 

MapKey(&Joystick, TG1, TEMPO('x', 'y')); //short press X, long press Y

but in effect TARGET is too time consuming and too cumbersome to use for me. For the F15 I will keep the key-and-modifier solution and throw TARGET away.

[Martin Scholz]

@Frederf:

Yes exactly. In the control bindings you could add -short click- or -long click- to a key similar to adding a modifier to a key.

[kahuuna]

@Martin_Scholz;

I am trying to get this to work, but have not been able to as of yet. Can you please let me know how i can get the short / long click modifiers working?

 

 

thanks, many thanks.

 

 

kahuuna.