long-press + double-press (TripleUse.lua) in LINDA GUI

[joeherwig 1]

Hi ScotFlieger, hi devs,

I was fiddling around with Pete Dowsons "TripleUse.lua" which allows to assign also functions to single press, release like in LINDA and also doublePress and longPress functions.

As i found that thread and figured out, that it is not possible to contribute via Fork + PR, i'd kindly ask whether adding those double-press and long-press functions for assignment in LINDA as it would be ways more convenient than doing that in lua scripts.
Do you think that might be a future feature?

Best regards,  Joe

[ScotFlieger 280]

I was not aware of the TripleUse.lua and it is not something that has been requested to date. I can see that such a change would require a major redesign of the GUI to allow the additional actions to be assigned.

With 3 active versions of LINDA to support different FSUIPC/Flt Sim combinations, I have no plans to do any major code changes such as this. 

[joeherwig 1]

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for your reply anyway.

But probably you can give me a hint, how i can access the functions defined in LINDA\lib\lib-msfs.lua from other lua scripts.
See https://forum.simflight.com/topic/82630-problem-with-tripleuselua/?do=findComment&comment=553730 for details.

I'm trying to avoid copy-paste-cloning of code as it is never a good idea.
So if i could access "your" msfs functions from my TripleUse.lua directly it would help me a lot. And probably others as well.

Best regards to Scotland and have a great new year!

Joe

Edited December 29, 2020 by joeherwig

[ScotFlieger 280]

Any LINDA LUA function can be called from elsewhere by inserting the function name into you code followed by round brackets. eg. myFunction(). Note that LUA is case sensitive and it must be typed as written.

[joeherwig 1]

Hi Andrew,

I had tried that before of course...
Finally i only had to include two of your files in my TripleUse.lua:

dofile([[.\LINDA\libs\lib-msfs.lua]])
dofile([[.\LINDA\system\common.lua]])
...

did the magic. 🙂

[joeherwig 1]

In case, you're interested in what i did...

https://github.com/joeherwig/msfs-fsuipc-lua-scripts