Switch cover operation

[PanelBuilder]

In another thread, Death-17 asks

How do you get the toggle switch safety cover to work?

There's 2 options:

 

!. Install them for operational realism but don't wire them up.

 

To me this is the most realistic option. They're not wired to anything in the real cockpit so why would they be wired to anything in your cockpit.

 

The lua implementation of this option is quite simple. If you send a position command to a switch with a closed cover -- even if the switch is already in that position -- the cover will open.

 

So if what you want to do replace the simulated cockpit with a physical cockpit, your problem is solved. Other folks however want to see the simulated cockpit mimic their physical cockpit, which brings us to option 2:

 

2. Install the covers and connect them up using say micro switches.

 

Bear in mind that these covers have 3 steady states: open, closed, and partially closed resting on the switch handle.

 

The covers toggle through these positions, so it's quite easy to get a situation in the sim where the cover is totally closed and the switch handle is sticking right through it, and I don't mean through the little hole.

 

You might have to read the the position of the cover in the sim before you attempt to move it.

 

Cheers,

Colin

Edited October 6, 2010 by PanelBuilder

[talisman]

i have a nice simple solution to this - i use xpadder for toggles on leos bu0836 boards.

 

cover open has a key stroke - so does cover closed. so........ make a macro.

 

when i hit a toggle to on xpadder sends the keystroke to open the cover - pause - then flip the toggle - pause then close the cover.

 

when i flip it down same happens - cover open -pause - flip switch - pause - cover closed.

 

easy.

 

makes some great noises as well - hit a toggle and the sim goes thunk - thunk - thunk.