Hi Scot. I keep running into an issue with a variable within a function that I can solve but I do not like the solution. I use a Saitek Yoke and throttle with the switch panel and I set each button/switch with 2 tasks. To call one or the other, i use button 1 on the yoke to select the second task and when not pressed, the first task is called within each function a signed to different switches, every one of my functions are in the action.lua file inside my aircraft folder. Here is an example of what I am doing.

 

-- asigned to an unused button on the switch pane.

function InitVars ()

BShift = 0

end

 

-- Use On Press Button 1

function BShiftOn ()

BShift = 1

end

 

-- -- Use On Release Button 1

function BShiftOff ()

BShift = 0

end

 

--and then I have all of my functions in the action.lua file as below

 

function PropSyncSW_or_PropGovTestSW ()

    if BShift == 0 then
    
        ipc.control(66287)        -- Toggle Prop Sync Switch
        ipc.control (65823, 1)     -- knob sound
        ipc.control (65823, 0)     -- knob sound
        
    
    elseif BShift == 1 then
    
        local PropGov = ipc.readLvar("B200propgov_sw")
        if PropGov == 0 then
            ipc.readLvar("B200propgov_sw",1)
            ipc.control (65823, 1) -- knob sound
            ipc.control (65823, 0) -- knob sound
        elseif PropGov == 1 then
            ipc.readLvar("B200propgov_sw",0)
            ipc.control (65823, 1) -- knob sound
            ipc.control (65823, 0) -- knob sound
        end
    end
    BShift = 0  -- this is what I do not want to do.
end

 

At times, the BShift variable gets stuck to a 1 and stays at that value. I have to run InitVars where BShift = 0 to get it working again. To solve this issue I have to put BShift = 0 at the end of each function but that means I have to release and repress-press button one when I am using multiple functions in a row where BShift needs to be a 1. Any ideas as to why when I release button 1 the BShiftOff function is not run on On Release of button 1 or is there a better way of calling 2 differant tasks/functions for each button? An example would be paging through differat views and using button 1 to change direction back to the first view, the VC.

 

Thanks

I solved this issue by taking, I believe a better approach. Instead of relying on a variable within a function I wrote a 1 to offset to 66C0 when button 1 is pleased and a 0 when released. I created a function to read the offset address and called that function in the beginning of each 2 task function.

 

-- Use On Press Button 1

function BShiftOn ()

ipc.writeDD(0x66C0, 1)​

end

 

-- -- Use On Release Button 1

function BShiftOff ()

ipc.writeDD(0x66C0, 0)​

end

 

function BShiftRead ()

BShift = ipc.readDD(0x66C0)

end