In-Game Scratchpad Mod Available - Works Great In VR!

[raymondabel]

I think I read that +L/L does not wprk on MP servers.

 

it works on SP but not on MP for me.

Anyway to fix it on the A-10C?

 

Beside that, this is a mandatory add on to DCS

[SGT Coyle]

Can Scratch-Pad capture BRA calls and JTAC transmissions directly? Or can the player copy and paste those messages( or any part) into Scratch-Pad?

 

 

I've had this loaded in OB since pg 8 but haven't had time to play around with it till now. So I'm late to the party, but better late than never.

This is simply brilliant and free beer for the author.:thumbup: and all those contributors. You guys should get together and organize this into one mod github.

Brilliant! Just freaking awesome.

[MAXsenna]

Can Scratch-Pad capture BRA calls and JTAC transmissions directly? Or can the player copy and paste those messages( or any part) into Scratch-Pad?

 

 

I've had this loaded in OB since pg 8 but haven't had time to play around with it till now. So I'm late to the party, but better late than never.

This is simply brilliant and free beer for the author. and all those contributors. You guys should get together and organize this into one mod github.

Brilliant! Just freaking awesome.

As there exists a Voice Attack profile for it you should be able to dictate that yourself. But very interesting idea. If one could redirect the sound to Voice Attack, or like a plugin, that could be awesome.

 

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[imacken]

Is the version linked to in the first post still the latest?

[kaltokri]

Is the version linked to in the first post still the latest?

 

 

No. I think this is the newest one:

https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=4448628&postcount=238

[imacken]

Thanks for that.

[fUnk3mUnk3]

My scratch pad just stopped working it doesn't pop up in DCS anymore and I need this app in my life. Anyone have any ideas.

[kaltokri]

Do you have reinstalled it? Checked if the Shortcut if diffenrent? Or if it is used by another command in DCS or application?

[Rick50]

Oh wow, didn't know about this mod!

[at0m]

Excellent, and the addition of the on screen keyboard for use in VR... brilliant! Thanks to all involved.

 

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[Hammer1-1]

Dumb question as I didnt see this asked in the rest of the thread...but can you save what is typed down in the scratchpad? And I mean without the need of copy pasting to notepad on desktop...I mean save the file directly when you exit. Excellent utility btw! I love it.

[Fisherman82]

Dumb question as I didnt see this asked in the rest of the thread...but can you save what is typed down in the scratchpad? And I mean without the need of copy pasting to notepad on desktop...I mean save the file directly when you exit. Excellent utility btw! I love it.

If you look in scripts\scratchpad in your Saved Games folder after you exit DCS you can find a txt-file that contains what is written in the scratchpad. Mine is usually called 0000.txt

 

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[Captain Orso]

Dumb question as I didnt see this asked in the rest of the thread...but can you save what is typed down in the scratchpad? And I mean without the need of copy pasting to notepad on desktop...I mean save the file directly when you exit. Excellent utility btw! I love it.

 

Yes! All the pages you create and update in In-Game ScratchPad™ are saved on exit into 'c:\Users\user_name\Saved Games\DCS{.openbeta}\Scratchpad\'. The first page is '0001.txt' with subsequent pages being '0002.txt', 0003.txt' etc.

 

While DCS is not running, you may copy, move, and edit them as you wish (I recommend using 'Notepad++' as the default text editor) -- I'm not sure what happens if there is no '0001.txt' present in the Scratchpad folder when starting DCS -- which starts the In-Game Scratchpad™ scripts, but you can try it to find out -- you probably won't be injured too badly... ;)

 

I use this fact to implement map specific pages, depending on where I am flying. So for example I have one page with the coordinates of Persian Gulf airfields I find important. If I'm going to fly in a PG mission, I simply slip that page into the Scratchpad folder and adjust the names as required. You can think of it as a kind of quick-kneeboard-extension.

[Hammer1-1]

So all I really need to do is just close scratchpad and it saves?

[Fisherman82]

As far as I can tell, yes

 

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[Captain Orso]

So all I really need to do is just close scratchpad and it saves?

 

No, you must stop DCS. In-Game Scratchpad is based on scripts, which are hooked into DCS run by it. You cannot start nor stop In-Game Scratchpad independent of DCS, and as far as I have seen, DCS only updates the Scratchpad files when DCS itself is shutdown. Opening and closing the scratchpad window is only that. It's like minimizing and restoring a windows app.

[Fisherman82]

I also ment shutdown scratchpad and then shutdown DCS and then go into the Saved Games folder

 

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[Captain Orso]

Scratchpad is not an independent app which you start on it's own. It is scripts hooked into the DCS environment so that when DCS starts, it also loads the scratchpad scripts and runs those along with DCS'es scripts.

 

Therefore, you cannot shutdown scratchpad, you can only close the overlay-window. It's still running so-to-say, albeit with nothing to do. You can just as well quit your mission and stop DCS without closing the scratchpad window. It's all the same.

[TWC_SLAG]

Scratchpad is not an independent app which you start on it's own. It is scripts hooked into the DCS environment so that when DCS starts, it also loads the scratchpad scripts and runs those along with DCS'es scripts.

 

Therefore, you cannot shutdown scratchpad, you can only close the overlay-window. It's still running so-to-say, albeit with nothing to do. You can just as well quit your mission and stop DCS without closing the scratchpad window. It's all the same.

 

I have D/L the lua file to the right place. But, I can't seem to get it and DCS to work at the same time, though. Any idea what I am doing wrong? I see that I can change the Hotkey, and wonder if it can be changed to a command in my Hornet VoiceAttack file.

[Captain Orso]

 

I have D/L the lua file to the right place. But, I can't seem to get it and DCS to work at the same time, though. Any idea what I am doing wrong? I see that I can change the Hotkey, and wonder if it can be changed to a command in my Hornet VoiceAttack file.

 

Read the README.md file. It says, "Copy the Scripts folder into your DCS Saved games folder". That means also all of its contents, and not just A lua file.

 

Once scratchpad is properly installed, you can set the hotkey to whatever you wish, and of course you can configure VoiceAttack to 'press' the hotkeys you have set.

[TWC_SLAG]

 

Read the README.md file. It says, "Copy the Scripts folder into your DCS Saved games folder". That means also all of its contents, and not just A lua file.

 

Once scratchpad is properly installed, you can set the hotkey to whatever you wish, and of course you can configure VoiceAttack to 'press' the hotkeys you have set.

 

"DCS Saved games folder" ?? I read somewhere else that Saved Games is not far enough. Like, maybe into a sub folder within Saved Games? Its own Scratchpad folder, or into the scripts folder? I'm confused.

[speed-of-heat]

 

"DCS Saved games folder" ?? I read somewhere else that Saved Games is not far enough. Like, maybe into a sub folder within Saved Games? Its own Scratchpad folder, or into the scripts folder? I'm confused.

Yes inside the saved games folder, you will find a folder labeled dcs or dcs.openbeta you will find a number of folders, including a scripts folder inside that, that is where you place the scratch pad fikes

 

[TWC_SLAG]

Yes inside the saved games folder, you will find a folder labeled dcs or dcs.openbeta you will find a number of folders, including a scripts folder inside that, that is where you place the scratch pad fikes

 

Here are the files I have in the Scripts folder:

0000

README

ScratchpadConfig

Scratchpad-Hook

ScratchpadWindow

 

These are all in the xxx/Saved Games/DCS.Openbeta/Scripts

 

And it still doesn't work. Is there too much, or not enough, there, or what? Should they all be packaged in a Scratchpad folder in Scripts?

 

Thanks,

[TWC_SLAG]

 

Here are the files I have in the Scripts folder:

0000

README

ScratchpadConfig

Scratchpad-Hook

ScratchpadWindow

 

These are all in the xxx/Saved Games/DCS.Openbeta/Scripts

 

And it still doesn't work. Is there too much, or not enough, there, or what? Should they all be packaged in a Scratchpad folder in Scripts?

 

Thanks,

 

One other question: The README says activate with "control+shift+X keys". Are those controls and shifts lefts or rights?

 

Thanks,

[speed-of-heat]

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