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You now have an emergency profile to use if you have problems. | You now have an emergency profile to use if you have problems. | ||
== What the software does == | |||
It simulates keystrokes. You can assign different keystrokes to a specific yoke button for each mode. If you don't assign a keystroke to a yoke button in a particular mode, then the keystroke assignment in the Fallback Mode will be used. If there is no keyboard assignment at all, then the button action will be according to the yoke's xml file. | |||
This is why we have created the emergency profile - select it and your yoke will behave according to the xml file. | |||
== Mod-Key style of use == | |||
In this style of use you make Mode 1 behave as if you are not pressing any of the '''Shift, Ctrl or Alt''' keys. Then you assign Mode 2 and 3 to simulate using the keyboard '''Shift, Alt or Ctrl''' keys ''while you activate a yoke button''. | |||
Let us assume that you assign Mode 2 to '''Shift''' and Mode 3 to '''Ctrl'''. If you are in Mode 1 and you press the T1 button, FG will respond to whatever you have coded in the yoke xml file. If you are in Mode 2 and press the T1 button, FG will respond to whatever you have coded in the yoke xml file for the <mod-shift> state. '''If you have nothing coded, nothing will happen'''. | |||
This is important. If you use this style of operation you must code '''ALL''' the <mod-shift> and <mod-ctrl> operations, even if they are just copies of the unmodded code. This makes for a lot of copy and paste, with the possibility of an error | |||
Note that you only have to do the 2 shiftstates that you have assigned. Here it was '''Shift''' and '''Ctrl''', if you use say '''Shift''' and '''Alt''' you will have to code the <mod-shift> and <mode-alt> actions. | |||
If you want to avoid all the coding, to use '''Shift-T1''', you select Mode 2, press T1, and then immediately go back to Mode 1. | |||
=== Programming this style === | |||
Create a new profile - click the '''New''' button on the toolbar. | |||
To assign Shift, Ctrl ar Alt to a mode,in the column for that mode, in the row where it says '''Click to add shift command (optional)''', which is the 3rd. row, click the little right-arrow in the top of the cell and select '''New key presses...'''. It will take you to the top row, of that column where you can rename the column from Mode x to whatever you want. Ignore it and click in the big cell below it (which is actually the 3rd. row.) Now tap the key that you want - Shift, Ctrl or Alt. Then click the green tick. Repeat for the other mode. | |||
You '''MUST''' now click the Profile. | |||
Then you can save, giving this profile a suitable name. | |||
== Individual key style of use == | |||
Here you assign different keyboard short-cuts to buttons for each mode. Don't touch Mode 1, leave it to behave according to the yoke xml file. Read the documentation about how to program. Remember, the keyboard short-cut must exist in either the keyboard.zml or multikey.xml files. You can assign a string of keypresses. | |||
'''Don't forget to create a new profile before fiddling, and don't forget to click the Profile key'''. | |||