I installed LINDA today (because I can't handle FSUIPC on its own) but now I get a LINDA console onscreen everytime AND a LUA message that LINDA has loaded.

 

There MUST be a way to get rid of this all? I want that console to start minimized and I don't want that LUA message at all. Anyone knows how to get that done?

 

EDIT
Just discovered a LINDA forum on AVSIM: posted the question there too...

Linda great but for a simple yoke, pedal and throttle setup why isnt FSUIPC good enough? The only thing I used Linda for was complicated hardware like MCU's or GPS hardware. I can do assighn buttons much simpler with FSUIPC alone.

FSUIPC is Easy to use.........read the instructions and experiment with it.........Don`t just give up........

Creating compound button assignments in FSUIPC can only be achieved by editing the fsuipc4.ini by hand, it is quite a complex process especially for a beginner. Linda can achieve the same thing extremely easily via its GUI with local and global shift button modifiers. That's why Jeroen in using Linda instead, on my recommendation

 

As for the question about suppressing the messages, I believe FSUIPC has an option on one of the pages to hide single line messages or something like that, I may be wrong though and it may not work for LUA displays. You will likely need to ask the Linda devs to remove the message.

Andy, can you provide an example of a compound button assignment ?

In the manual for FSUIPC there are instructions, there is a whole section on compound button programming. I'm not at my FS PC so cannot provide the ones I use myself, but lets put it this way for one of the aircraft I use there are at least 50 lines just for compound buttons in the fsuipc4.ini.

 

 

can you provide an example of a compound button assignment

 

In case you didn't mean the actual code of how to do it but a reason why you might want to use the option: I have two buttons on my joystick I use for trim: it moves the trimwheel in the default regular steps. Those steps are rather big though, making trimming sometimes hard. I now also have a 'shift'-key on my joystick and when I press and HOLD that key and THEN press the trim buttons, it moves in a lot smaller steps: this is ideal for finetuning the trim. The same for moving the heading bug: I have the bug assigned to my hat switch (left and right) and it moves the bug in steps of 1 degree. However, when I press and hold the shift-key, I change the bug with big steps.

In these examples I used the same buttons for two similar commands, but you can of course also use the same buttons for completely different commands.

 

BTW I can't say FSUIPC is the best addon I ever bought but being able to change the trim in small steps (smaller than is possible with the mouse in the VC or by assigning keys in the sim itself) is nice. Autosave is nice too. I have to say though that at this time I am really searching for useful things to make it feel the money on FSUIPC was well spend so I was happy to discover those small trim settings options. And I totailly disagree that it is easy to use. I even reassigned all axes using the sim itself because I couldn't figure it out with FSUIPC. (And also because the LINDA manual said that was easier to do.) But maybe (probably) it's just me: somehow the FSUIPC manual isn't my kind of manual: it doesn't click LOL

 

 

 

That's why Jeroen in using Linda instead, on my recommendation

 

And thanks again because without LINDA I would have had a very bad first day of the year... ^_^

Thanks for those examples Jeroen, that is exactly what I was trying to understand.

FSUIPC is indeed the most valuable addon for FSX and Pete Dowson's work is brilliant and essential!

 

It is not FSUIPC's simple essential options (multiple aircraft options, calibrating, etc etc) but also such fixes like the G3D.dll crash which was "resolved" by Pete. There are countless more innovations and possibilities with FSUIPC.

 

The LUA stuff is also brilliant for more "advanced" cockpit building and mainly for making advanced addons work for your hardware (e.g. try to assign the lights of the 737 NGX to your joysticks without LUA)

 

 

LINDA is just a GUI with a bunch of LUA scripts behind which tries to make some things easier and more comfortable then working with bare LUA scripts.

Great cudos to Artem Crum!!!