not a bug Left click / Right click mouse action

[red777]

Hi everyone I have a question about the action button in the cockpit that I don't understand. I've searched but couldn't find a topic about it.

In my logic, the left mouse button should switch a button ON (or up) and right click should switch a button OFF (or down). But in the sim sometimes it's the opposite : left mouse switches down or OFF and right mouse switches UP or ON, and vice versa. So I'm kind of lost and can't predict what my action is going to do.

Is this normal?

[MAXsenna]

Hi everyone I have a question about the action button in the cockpit that I don't understand. I've searched but couldn't find a topic about it.
In my logic, the left mouse button should switch a button ON (or up) and right click should switch a button OFF (or down). But in the sim sometimes it's the opposite : left mouse switches down or OFF and right mouse switches UP or ON, and vice versa. So I'm kind of lost and can't predict what my action is going to do.
Is this normal?

There is no standard in DCS. Left should be down and CCW. Right the opposite.

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[skywalker22]

All normal, with hours you get used to it, it becomes a muscle memory, for any plane. F-16 goes one way, Mig-21 the other, for example 

I agree it could be more standardized, but this is how it is. I also wanted to do some changes on F-16, but nothing has been heard so far (it was for probe heat & test swith, which clicks strangly, not f-16 standard).

[red777]

2 minutes ago, skywalker22 said:

All normal, with hours you get used to it, it becomes a muscle memory, for any plane. F-16 goes one way, Mig-21 the other, for example 

I agree it could be more standardized, but this is how it is. I also wanted to do some changes on F-16, but nothing has been heard so far (it was for probe heat & test swith, which clicks strangly, not f-16 standard).

OK, between different aircraft, I would understand that (but still find it illogic and weird). BUT within the same aircraft cockpit, this is just silly! logic changes between two different button in the same cockpit... THIS should be standardize across all aircraft. I don't know but this is basic.

[skywalker22]

There IS a standard in F-16, it's for:

- multiple-step switches/knows right click is up, left click is down

- 0-1 switches is which ever click (left or right)

- rollers (potentiometes), left mouse button hold and move the mouse forward (for up), backward (for down)

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As said, the only one that buzes me, is the probe heat/test, it just doesn't work that way.

[RyanR]

On 8/3/2025 at 9:41 AM, skywalker22 said:

All normal, with hours you get used to it, it becomes a muscle memory, for any plane. F-16 goes one way, Mig-21 the other, for example 

 

or! For the F4-U it's a total flip of the coin as to what way a switch/dial will flip.

The F-16 is pretty good.

-Ryan

[Pribs86]

I've noticed this too. RMB will flip switches on in one A/C but then it flip the same switch off in another. Then in some A/C you can click on a 3x way switch with the RMB and it will cycle all the settings so it doesn't matter if you RMB click or LMB click as long as you just click a lot but in another A/C the switch will only switch on or one direction and stop then you have to LMB to turn the switch off or flip it the opposite direction (I really like this). There is also an issue with dials, IMO. In most of the modules the scroll wheel will turn things up in value, and reverse scroll will turn them down (which I really like). Then the F4U-1D came out and you can't move any dials at all (like the trim) with the mouse scroll, you have to click and drag to get them to move in value. There seems to be no standard across all A/C, which also makes sense to me because ED does their modules differently than say a 3rd party module and vise versa, but it can be kind of frustrating if you are going for muscle memory.

Edited 23 hours ago by Pribs86

[Prime]

Got it consistently inconstant.