[Bill Clark]

WBK,

As per your suggestion, I'm going to PM all the FS9/FSX users who have posted on your site. Also, I plan to post a similar message on the major Microsoft flight sim forums to see if I can get some help or ideas from the general community.

Do you have any suggestions as to wording or anything else?

Bill

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Hi,

Wild Bill Kelso, the TouchBuddy forum administrator suggested that I PM you and others to see if you have experienced similar issues regarding TouchBuddy use with either FS9 or FSX.

The crux of my problem is that I have been unable to send elevator up/down trim commands to FS9 or FSX. When I do send a command, all that happens is that the view changes or flickers, but the trim wheel does not move at all (when viewed in the virtual mode with the view).

To move the trim wheel in manual mode, via a standard keyboard, all that is necessary is to do the following:

1) Turn off the Num Lock pressing Num Lock key (if Num Lock light is on)
2) Press either Num Pad 1 or Num Pad 7 to cause the trim wheel movement.
3) Turn on the Num Lock by pressing Num Lock key (if Num Lock light was previously on)

I have tried the following TouchBuddy commands both in the Client-Server and Local modes without success:

Example 1 (type = button)

macro = rawkey:NUMPAD7, EXTENDEDKEY
macro = rawkey:NUMPAD7, EXTENDEDKEY | KEYEVENTF_KEYUP

Example 2 (type = button)

macro = predef:SHIFT, KEYDOWN
macro = predef:NUMPAD7
macro = predef:SHIFT, KEYUP

Example 3 (type = hold)

macro_select = predef:SHIFT, KEYDOWN
macro_select = predef:NUMPAD7, KEYDOWN
macro_deselect = predef:NUMPAD7, KEYUP
macro_deselect = predef:SHIFT, KEYUP

Here is what works, Num Pad keys work with Falcon 4.0 Allied Force

Here is what I think, if any of you have been able to make the trim function work, then I have to suspect there is a issue with my FS9 or FSX configuration or add-on causing this issue.

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So what I'm looking for from you as help:

1) Have you experienced this before, if so, is there a solution or workaround?

2) Any suggestions as to any other command sequence(s)?

3) Any ideas on how else I can better troubleshoot this?

Bill