Falcon BMS Alternative Launcher (Easy Setup, Keep Joystick Assignments)
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I don’t know how touch screen works with bms but does it send DX button signal?
Let me compare your BMS-FULL.key with AL1.52 and AL1.51Ok, Currently in place in the “Config” folder as BMS - Full.key (I assume) would be the 1.51 version as that is what I am using. In the “Config/Backup” folder is it always the original or the AL 1.52 version that was replaced by 1.51? If thats the case, how do I get an original back… if not, do you want me to run 1.52 again and that will put 1.52’s keyfile in place? Also, convert them to text files for upload here or do you want me to email them? Thanks!!
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Launch BMS in AL 1.51 and copy BMS - FULL.key as BMS - FULL151.key
Launch BMS in AL 1.52 and copy BMS - FULL.key as BMS - FULL152.key
compare BMS - FULL151.key and BMS - FULL152.key with WinMerge or something else. -
Launch BMS in AL 1.51 and copy BMS - FULL.key as BMS - FULL151.key
Launch BMS in AL 1.52 and copy BMS - FULL.key as BMS - FULL152.key
compare BMS - FULL151.key and BMS - FULL152.key with WinMerge or something else.Done, the only differences I see are for some reason the hat assignments are different even though I have the same Setup.v100.CH XXX USB files in both. Ran BMS with 1.52, no touchscreen response, ran 1.51 again, all back to normal, touchscreen buttons work.
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@Chihirobelmo: I would like to thank you explicitly for the amazing job in this launcher. I recently changed HOTAS and suddenly F4 was not saving anymore my axis settings for some reason beyond comprehension. Then I tried your launcher for the first time and it worked very nice without any issues. Saved my day! Keep the good work!
I was wondering why the BMS did not reach out to use your launcher as the official one?!
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@Icer
Try running Bin/x64/Falcon BMS.exe directly and load
1. BMS - FULL151.key
2. BMS - FULL152.key
and see what happens for each key file.I was wondering why the BMS did not reach out to use your launcher as the official one?!
I’m waiting for the answer Dee-Jay
https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?37502-Huge-Mistake/page2&p=521239#post521239
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@Icer
Try running Bin/x64/Falcon BMS.exe directly and load
1. BMS - FULL151.key
2. BMS - FULL152.key
and see what happens for each key file.Ok, replaced the current BMS FULL.key with BMS - FULL151.key (renamed) and Touchscreens work fine. Then I replaced BMS FULL.key with BMS - FULL152.key (renamed) and Touchscreens work fine…. so the only difference is running AL 1.51 vs 1.52. Is it possible the minor change made in the code has anything to do with it? I’m fine with running 1.51 for now either way.
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Has anyone tried using the BuddyFox UFC with Alternative Launcher and gotten it to work correctly? It has 35 or 36 buttons, so I’m not sure if AL can get around the DX 32 button limitation or not. I’m interested in buying it for BMS and DCS, but it’s not worth it if I can’t use it with Falcon.
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Has anyone tried using the BuddyFox UFC with Alternative Launcher and gotten it to work correctly? It has 35 or 36 buttons, so I’m not sure if AL can get around the DX 32 button limitation or not. I’m interested in buying it for BMS and DCS, but it’s not worth it if I can’t use it with Falcon.
You can always get around the DX32 button limitation by using vJoy to generate virtual devices and Remap your physical Device with JoystickGremlin. Then use the virtual devices to map with AL to BMS
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That’s true, if not a bit clunky. I could do that, or get something like Joytokey to emulate keyboard presses since they’re all mapped by default. If there’s no other sleeker solution, then I suppose that’ll do. Thanks!
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“BMS - Full.key” file encoding question…
First, I wish to thank Chihirobelmo for the “Alternate Launcher”. Very Helpful for those with Warthog TARGET DeviceSorting problems…
I’ve download AL v1.5.3 from Github, but when running this program, I’ve AL version 1.5.1 displayed on screen…My question is:
With Notepad++, I’ve two different file encoding (ANSI for the BMS Original file and UTF-8-BOM with AL) for “C:\Falcon BMS 4.34\User\Config*BMS - Full.key*”.
I don’t know if this is my setup or not.I’ve included an image here and you could see that no degre ° is indicated in the commented version of AL but appear in the original version of the .key file. It is what you have, or I messed up whith my original file encoding?
Thanks !
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Spyder, I also encountered encoding differences when I started using AL. You can just change encoding within the editor if you want to read the file as it was originally intended to look with the special characters like degree sign. I work in development and some have a good habit of naming files including the name of the required encoding, eg. “textfile-from-somewhere-UTF8.txt”
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Some help needed…
How can I assign [[COLOR=#800080]ScrollLock] on the MSD button on the Throttle to activate Teamspeak Push-To-Talk with AL ?
I already know this functions is a 3rd party software (Teamspeak) and is locked by default via the “Full BMS.key” option ans locked (green) inside Alternate Launcher also.
Should I have to hardcoding the SCROLLLOCK keystroke somewhere?For TrackIR I can use an existing callback in BMS (re: RecenterTrackIR):
RecenterTrackIR -1 0 0XFFFFFFFF 0 0 0 1 “SIM: TrackIR Recenter (additional)”There is a callback for “Teamspeak PTT” somewhere that I can use?
Thank you so much for your help!
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Not sure if you can do that with the AL. Have you tried Voice Attack or joystick gremlin to bind to scroll lock directly?
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Some help needed…
How can I assign [[COLOR=#800080]ScrollLock] on the MSD button on the Throttle to activate Teamspeak Push-To-Talk with AL ?
I already know this functions is a 3rd party software (Teamspeak) and is locked by default via the “Full BMS.key” option ans locked (green) inside Alternate Launcher also.
Should I have to hardcoding the SCROLLLOCK keystroke somewhere?Don’t use AL for these, here is what I did -
In TrackIR Advanced Settings I assigned Re-center and Pause to DX button presses, easy peasy. For the TS3 PTT I run JoyToKey and assigned ScrollLock to a DX button press. It’s all I use JoyToKey for at the moment, the one button assignment, works perfectly. Maybe TS4 will allow you to program PTT to a DX button, but it will not work in TS3…
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I struggling to get the Alternative Launcher to install correctly. After Install of the utility I selecting the launcher from within the Hub. This brings up a much smaller display locked in position at the top left hand of my monitor. It is very difficult to work in eight inches of space on a 50 inch monitor off to the top left. Correcting this is beyond my software knowledge. I would appreciate any assistance from anyone. Seldomseen56
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I struggling to get the Alternative Launcher to install correctly. After Install of the utility I selecting the launcher from within the Hub. This brings up a much smaller display locked in position at the top left hand of my monitor. It is very difficult to work in eight inches of space on a 50 inch monitor off to the top left. Correcting this is beyond my software knowledge. I would appreciate any assistance from anyone. Seldomseen56
Make the “Command Line:” Button for “WINDOW” Dark (off) and 2D will be close to full screen (stretched, so resolution will suffer). You will get a warning the ALT-TAB may cause a crash but I believe other than that it works fine… Those buttons are all just F4 Command line parameters, White = enabled, Dark Gray = Not enabled…
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Icer,
It worked. Thank you so much. Seldomseen56
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Hi, S.
Another way to get around AL issues like you describe is to enter via AL only if you have changed a keybind, etc. I have a problem where the throttle axis’ “drift” when I set them in AL and launch from there. AL wants to override the UI So, if I’ve changed nothing in AL I go in via the UI. -
Can Alternative Launcher set a certain AM (Affinity Mask) for Falcon BMS.exe? Otherwise is it difficult to implement?
Thanks.
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Chihirobelmo - any chance of allowing a 4 position POV hat on a device other than the main Stick/Throttle to be assigned keystrokes?