How to get TM Warthog working in 1.1.1.1?

[GregP]

Apologies in advance if I'm overlooking something obvious. I only yesterday finally installed 1.1.1.1 (new full install) as I hadn't had the time back in December.

 

I spent quite a bit of time months ago modifying my "Thrustmaster Combined.lua" file such that I could get all the buttons and switches working the way I wanted. My need to do this was necessitated by the fact that:

 

1) I want to program my WH via TARGET, so that I can make use of its advanced programming functionality

 

2) I want to be able to use TARGET to pass in DX button/axis codes to DCS, which I then manually assign to sim functions within the corresponding lua file, like this:

 

[196] =

{

["combos"] =

{

[1] =

{

["key"] = "JOY_BTN4",

}, -- end of [1]

}, -- end of ["combos"]

["up"] = 576,

["name"] = "HOTAS MIC Switch Forward",

["category"] = "HOTAS",

["down"] = 575,

}, -- end of [196]

 

So, with 1.1.1.1 I copied my controller lua files back into the correct folders, start up DCS, go into a flight ... and my throttle doesn't work. When I go back out to the GUI, I see that the axes somehow never got assigned. I assign them, go back in-sim, and now the throttle works but no buttons on the throttle work. I then exit the game, go look at my Thrustmaster Combined.lua file, and I see that it's overwritten everything I had in there (yes, of course I had a backup :)), and now there's nothing but lines like this:

 

{down = iCommandPlane_Altimeter_ELECT, name = "AAP CDU Power Switch", category = "AAP"},

{down = iCommandPlane_AAP_CDU_Power, name = "AAP CDU Power Switch", category = "AAP"},

{down = iCommandPlane_AAP_EGI_Power, name = "AAP EGI Power Switch", category = "AAP"},

 

With no obvious way of assigning DX buttons/axes to functions.

 

So obviously my question is, how is this done? Clearly something big changed in 1.1.1.1.

[GregP]

No one else has run into this problem? Everybody else has just copied their 1.1.1.0 Warthog lua file over to 1.1.1.1 and it runs with no problems?

[GregP]

OK so I've had a look at somebody else's example file, for a different joystick, and indeed there are "combos" lines further down that allow assignment of specific DX buttons to specific commands. But the entire structure has changed from 1.1.1.0 ... ED, I love your sims, but damn these sweeping undocumented changes are REALLY getting irritating.

[tintifaxl]

As far as I understood there were major changes in the input config. I think this was documented in the readme of the patch.

 

Of course my .lua stopped working, too. So I took this as incentive to scrap TARGET and use the provided .lua's for my Warthog. I then remapped the keyboard to produce UFC and CDU input without using any modifiers and that is a major improvement for me.