@-Ice:

Glad to have helped. I know you initially went for Rogue’s profile but give Weepop’s profile a try as well. His current profile is an improvement over my old profile so compare that with Rogue’s work and see what you like.

I’ll be releasing my new profile soon but it’s designed for a 2-touchscreen setup… I may release an updated 1-screen setup after that, but not sure yet.

Cool beans M8! I’ll give Weepop’s a whirl.

Also, I’ve recently added my GTX1080. I’m planning to move beyond my 39" primary & 22" touchscreen. I’m thinking about a 4 monitor setup. 🙂

thanks again!

-Jav

@Opihi:

Hi y’all I’ve tried all the links to download these items here on this thread and it doesn’t work. Do you have another links that work? If not could you y’all please remove these links out of this thread, or lock this thread so we all don’t use these links that are in this thread!..
Thank you

Hmm, seems Touchdown doesn’t exist anymore. I have found an old version in my backups. Here’s the file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/vi12c966yycrkgo/TouchDown.zip?dl=0

Dropbox has changed it’s policy on shared folders it seems. First post updated with newly generated urls to v5 to v8.

Do note, this is not under development or maintenance anymore as I have teamed up with Roccio for YAME64 (www.yame64.com) which also includes same logic as this but better (but that part is still under development, focussing on other parts of the software first).

@JaguarIV:

Another thing that I tried a couple of years ago is to have Helios, instead of rendering to a display, to instead start an HTTP server and render the controls as a web page. This allowed the iPad to use Safari to connect to Helios and show the controls in the web browser. This worked pretty well but was a bit laggy. I haven’t really used it since. I could dig this code up if anyone is interested in it. Maybe someone with better web development expertise could make it more responsive.

how laggy?
can you elaborate a bit?

@Snail:

Nope, FreeFalcon never had an MFD export possibility.

But I found this PDF.(http://www.checksix-forums.com/download/file.php?id=16688, Falcon MFD Extractor v0.2.0.2 User Manual)

It say it can export Free Falcon’s 2D cockpit, it is possile?

No, callbacks were mapped as press only and should’ve acted as press-and-release, not press-and-release-and-press-and-release.

Helios is still available from the creator’s website.

Also, check out my profile or Weepop’s version of my profile to see what you can do with Helios.

As a direct answer to your question, yes, it directly complements MFDE although I would recommend YAME64 based on my testing.

7"

Hornet became better in 4.33. But, cant get MPCD and EFD panel export….Anyone can solve it?

Nvm I got that,now its using the same identity number as one of the other monitors.

I realize I will also need a way for Helios to get data from the main PC for things like the Master Caution light and other indicators.

So is the need for speeeeeed. I mean, summertime got me sidetracked from the BMS (moving etc) so my rig is now in pieces, but still complete.
Now, subj, and i am thinking of rebuilding the rig +.
It is now comprised of stuff in signature mainly.
Thing is, what i remember, i was pretty pleased with every aspect BUT MFD extraction.
I used MfdE + a networked PC tabet. Don’t have ipads/androids. It had decent picture quality but laggy and affected sim as well (tgp extracted e.g.).
What am i looking for is more ‘modern’, advanced mfd extractor.
I’ve seen posts about some java one and one more.

Any input on that? What people use nowadays in this config (networked pc client)?
Tips?
Thanks!
ps. of course U2 release fired me right up.
ps2. looking for sharedmem extractor rather than directx extractor. Flying FS.

take a look at my hotlist

I mean that even if i change in setup the keys assigned to the action “AUDIO1: MSL Knob - Volume Incr.” in BMS and then i open the key file in Helios the callback doesn’t appear.
So as it doesn’t appear to do this action in BMS with an Helios switch i have assigned a keyboard send key to “position one entered” in the output bindings of the switch.

so, the reason the increment and decrement scripts didnt work is the same reason - the rotary variable isnt shared between the scripts. If I knew how to fix this reset button, Id know how to make the increment and decrement talk to each other. Sorry I cant help with that.

Ice,
My FPS and Smoke buttons work as intended.
Pika

All

I am about to embark on a journey to make an F18 Helios Profile. Just curious if anyone has had any luck with exporting the Digital Fuel Guage/ Eng instrument panel yet? That will be the missing piece. Even if thats not possible to do, i am pressing anyways and will figure something else out.

@-Ice:

I’m getting slightly lost in the exchange, but here are two points:

1. Helios will work with BMS even if BMS is in fullscreen mode.
2. If having a “touchable main screen” is so easy, how can we do it in BMS?

The reason I’m saying it can’t be done in BMS is because this issue came up a few years ago IIRC and one of the devs confirmed it wasn’t possible.

Well , 1, for the fullscreen … I guess in that kind of setup , BMS is not using touch screen for display, right, ? It is only displayed fullscreen on the main monitor.

(there are workarounds even for ordinary mouse , like return to the main screen after touch event to regain window focus … etc…, that’s too technical for this scope, but not hard )

When using touchscreens, we know target application exe name in memory, even process ID. , So we can activate focus of any window from touch-application., especially of
that which we want to, trick 🙂

From the touchbudy.cfg (similar tricks are used probably im Helios)

#=====================

Some games prevent the mouse cursor from leaving the game window area. Enabling this option allows TouchBuddy to try to release the cursor (Note: This option does not work on all games!)

clip_cursor = 1

this is another way to try to unlock the game mouse, but it does cause a LOT of problems. I highly recommend you do not use this unless you absolutely have to!!

release_capture = 0

#=====================

In Local mode, when you press on the TouchBuddy window, the mouse/cursor will move to the area of the button, but after pressing the button, the cursor will stay there. By defining the following value, TouchBuddy will move the mouse/cursor to the defined position after a button press. If its defined as “centre”, the mouse/cursor will be moved to the centre of the currently active window. If its defined as “previous”, the mouse-cursor will be moved to where TouchBuddy saw it last time round its 1 second timer loop (this option works remarkably well from my limited testing!)

#mouse_position_after_press = 320,240
#mouse_position_after_press = 800,600

or

#mouse_position_after_press = centre

or

mouse_position_after_press = previous

Try to understand this config. Everything will be clear.

2. Well, how is tough question, there are so many types of setups… You people wouldn’t believe. 🙂
There isnt ‘easy’ answer on this, depends on your configuration, mostly, and what you want to achieve.

Cheers

You will want to check out Lightning’s MFDE or roccio’s YAME64. Links to proper download sites should be there as well.

Huh??

Thanks for letting me know!!

I’ll be integrating my 22" and 24" screens on my next pit. That way, I may be able to “stretch” the front console vertically (I already stretched it horizontally) and relocate the CMDS and landing gear panels on the secondary screen.