HELIOS without interface help?

[dooom]

Hi,

 

I'd like to create a HELIOS panel for my 10"iMO... because 99% of my flying in online, i do not want to use an interface as it requires export.lua access.

 

That said, I am pulling my hair out on how to bind a simple keyboard output to a HELIOS button.

 

Please if anyone could give a guy a hand here... my dyslexic mind is really struggling with the HELIOS user guide in this regard.

 

Here's what I do:

 

1 I created my CDU for the 10" and positioned all bttons on monitor #2

2 Click on "SYS" button of CDU to create binding.

3 goto OUTPUT Action window>INTERFACE>Send Keys to setup binding for foreground window (application)

4 Drag Keyboard "Send Keys" from interface to "Pushed" under "bindings"

5 Enter " {LALT}{RALT}' " as a static value.

 

... and it doesn't work.

 

Am I doing something wrong? Any help out there?

 

thanks!

[Gadroc]

That should be correct. As a quick test just create the binding for as "a" so it types just a plane a. Then open notepad in the foreground and click your button. That is the easiest to test if Helios is sending keys.

 

A possible problem is if you are running DCS as admin but not Helios. In that case DCS will ignore keyboard input from Helios. Try running Helios as an admin.

[dooom]

Thank you Gadroc... It really is criminal that you do not have more rep power than you do. You are a great asset to the community.

 

I wasnt running helios as admin... will try that now.

[dooom]

just ran control center as admin and fired up my test CDU... nothing from that SYS button yet. Is my binding code correct for lalt,ralt,' as {LALT}{RALT}'

 

also - the control centre itself is always displayed on top of dcs so i hit the pwr switch to minimize it... could that be screwing me up?

[dooom]

:doh:

 

 

... i was misreading the tilde key for apostrophe .. i needed {RALT}{LALT}` not {RALT}{LALT}'

 

3 pixels makes a huge difference.

 

 

thanks again Gadroc. :music_whistling:

[Mule]

Doom do you still have the cdu images? if so could i use them because i also have a 10 inch touchscreen and would like to have it as the cdu.

[TEMPEST.114]

That should be correct. As a quick test just create the binding for as "a" so it types just a plane a. Then open notepad in the foreground and click your button. That is the easiest to test if Helios is sending keys.

 

A possible problem is if you are running DCS as admin but not Helios. In that case DCS will ignore keyboard input from Helios. Try running Helios as an admin.

 

THANK YOU

 

All night I've been pulling my hair out because I could get notepad to see the key presses but not my game!

 

Arrggh! Never twigged that the game was running in Admin mode. You have just fixed my problems!

 

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

[FSFIan]

because 99% of my flying in online, i do not want to use an interface as it requires export.lua access.

 

What has flying online to do with Export.lua? My touchscreen Helios profile works perfectly fine in multiplayer. (Unless something has changed, I have not flown for a few weeks.)