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by d1049
Mon Feb 18, 2019 4:42 pm
Forum: Hardware Specific Questions
Topic: [RESOLVED] Joystick second slider not detected
Replies: 1
Views: 5609

Joystick second slider not detected

Solution: in the setup menu, under "Controls", at the bottom, there is a section "Other" where a radio button "INPUT METHOD" allows to select "DirectInput" rather than "Raw Input". "DirectInput" makes the second slider work normally (named ...
by d1049
Sun Feb 17, 2019 10:01 pm
Forum: Hardware Specific Questions
Topic: [RESOLVED] Joystick second slider not detected
Replies: 1
Views: 5609

[RESOLVED] Joystick second slider not detected

Compared to FSX, P3Dv4 supports not only 32 buttons per joystick, but 132 (as X-Plane 11 does); presumably DirectInput’s DIJOYSTATE2 is used instead of the previous DIJOYSTATE. This is good news, it allows me to use the 132 channels of my home-made joystick board. But there are also bad news: only 7...
by d1049
Sun Feb 17, 2019 9:17 pm
Forum: SimConnect Interface Questions
Topic: Non MS Visual Studio user
Replies: 1
Views: 12378

Non MS Visual Studio user

Unfortunately, no 64-bit SimConnect DLL is provided in the P3Dv4 SDK, but a static library compatible with MS Visual Studio 2017. Too bad, when you are not a user of this development environment; note that Dovetail Games provided a 64-bits DLL with the late Flight Sim World. My favourite IDE is Emba...