[Controls] Hotas Warthog (and maybe others) needs toggle functions

[Japo32]

In the Thrustmaster Hotas Warthog, we have switches that are only "ON" functions, so to use an OFF one has to use 2 switchess (buttons also) to mimic the ON/OFF feature of the plane.

In other planes, they resolve it putting of course the ON and the OFF but also a Toggle function so in every press the function turns on and off. For example:

(C+M or SW) R Button and deselection switch

master arm on/off (in this case it would be great if devs would add as the Heatblur MasterArm On ELSE Off. that Else function would allow the use of a single switch as double one. BUT the greatest of this funtion in Heatblur is that also raise the guard, and the switch (and lowers both when off). It is good to have guards in real life, but in simulation with our joystick lack of buttons this feature would be perfect.

Combat flaps on/off 

etc...

[1stBEAST]

+1

[flyingcyrus]

+1

[Trigati]

Maybe try use if the button off feature DCS has to add a binding for switching things off.

Sorry, probably best to explain this a little more. DCS lets you bind both a 'button' action and a 'button off' action for every single DX button on any of your controllers.

So if the Module bindings only have options for ON or OFF and you want to use the Warthog EAC 2 position Switch (ARM or OFF) then you would set this up by following these steps:

1. Go to the ON function in adjust controls you want to bind and double click the box as you normally do to bind a control.

2. Flick the switch to the ARM position, DCS auto sees that and populates the mapping binding. You click OK (Accept or whatever it is) to save it.

3. Go to the OFF function binding and again double click the box.

4. Then move the EAC switch to OFF (does nothing) and back to ARM....but DO NOT save this!!!!

What it has done is given you the same button press, let us pretend that is BTN23.

5. Where that controller button is shown ther eis a little drop down list you can click, which lets you manually choose an option and you will see in that list is the button you just used but with _OFF written (something like BTN23_OFF). Select that and then save it.

Now...when you move the EAC toggle switch to ARM the first binding will be triggered, when you move the EAC toggle switch to OFF the second one gets triggered.

So using a mix of this, the different bind options that are provided by the Module it's possible to work out 99% of control setups without having to load custom bindings or use TARGET to program the Warthog.

I hope this helps you whilst the Module developer considers your wishlist item.

Edited August 14, 2023 by Trigati