Hi guys, I am sooo happy to be back into MSFS after a twelve months absence. I'm enjoying the PMDG 737 more than ever! However, at the moment I'm rather frustrated and bemused. I have the Stream Deck XL which works really nicely with 99% of profiles I use, and at the moment I'm adding some of my own assignments such as different sound files and so forth. But for some reason, which is a total mystery, I can't assign the Ctrl+T assignment to a button for ATC. I have tried for hours, different ways of doing this. It's odd, but some weeks ago it seemed to work, but now, nada. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

Hi,

do you use AAO or FlightTrackerSteamDeck (https://github.com/nguyenquyhy/Flight-Tracker-StreamDeck)?

 

Best regards,

 

Kalle 

9 minutes ago, kalle999 said:

Hi,

do you use AAO or FlightTrackerSteamDeck (https://github.com/nguyenquyhy/Flight-Tracker-StreamDeck)?

 

Best regards,

 

Kalle 

Hi Kalle, sure, it's A&Ohs. Like I say, everything works fine, it's just this one single assignment I'm having the problem with.

Hi Howard,

 

I assume that you deleted the default key binding for CTRL+T (Toggle Autopilot Altitude Hold)?!?

 

I use AAO mostly with some scripts from some colleagues, i.e. I am not an expert on the one hand side. On the other hand side I use FlightTrackerSteamDeck often. Which ATC function do you want to use? I can try it with FlightTrackerSteamDeck...

 

Best regards,

 

Kalle

P.S. I found two events in the documentation (https://docs.flightsimulator.com/html/Programming_Tools/Event_IDs/Aircraft_Instrumentation_Events.htm#ATC_MENU_OPEN ), but these don't work. 

The default key mappings shouldn't be a problem if you use AAO and events. Please forget my question 😉

59 minutes ago, kalle999 said:

P.S. I found two events in the documentation (https://docs.flightsimulator.com/html/Programming_Tools/Event_IDs/Aircraft_Instrumentation_Events.htm#ATC_MENU_OPEN ), but these don't work. 

The default key mappings shouldn't be a problem if you use AAO and events. Please forget my question 😉

Thanks for your help Kalle, but I've given up! Unsure what the problem is, but no big sweat 'cos I've assigned a button on the yoke, which in fairness is probably preferable. The only thing is I had to sacrifice a view which was assigned to the button, but no probs, at least I get away from having to go for the mouse when I want to call up ATC.

35 minutes ago, Rockliffe said:

Thanks for your help Kalle, but I've given up! Unsure what the problem is, but no big sweat 'cos I've assigned a button on the yoke, which in fairness is probably preferable. The only thing is I had to sacrifice a view which was assigned to the button, but no probs, at least I get away from having to go for the mouse when I want to call up ATC.

TMBK InGame panels cannot be called up through SimConnect events. There even is a special event for the ATC window listed in the MSFS SDK documentation, but it doesn't work.  

I did something similar recently with the virtual mouse in AAO, but I'm not sure that is for you? This is basically a script that positions your mouse cursor over the in-game menu in MSFS, opens it, and then clicks on the icon (=you can open and close any panel with that technique). This script can be assigned to any external button.

Edited November 21, 20223 yr by Lorby_SI

11 minutes ago, Lorby_SI said:

TMBK InGame panels cannot be called up through SimConnect events. There even is a special event for the ATC window listed in the MSFS SDK documentation, but it doesn't work.  

I did something similar recently with the virtual mouse in AAO, but I'm not sure that is for you? This is basically a script that positions your mouse cursor over the in-game menu in MSFS, opens it, and then clicks on the icon (=you can open and close any panel with that technique). This script can be assigned to any external button.

I solved this by using vjoy. In Stream Deck, you can use the vjoy plugin to assign virtual joystick button to a key, and in MSFS I can use that virtual joystick button to open the ATC window, or any other function that isn't explosed through Simconnect. It works fine but I'd prefer if Asobo would allow us to do this directly.
Off course, one can also do this without Vjoy by using a keyboard combination but then, MSFS needs to be in focus.

17 minutes ago, orchestra_nl said:

I solved this by using vjoy. In Stream Deck, you can use the vjoy plugin to assign virtual joystick button to a key, and in MSFS I can use that virtual joystick button to open the ATC window, or any other function that isn't explosed through Simconnect. It works fine but I'd prefer if Asobo would allow us to do this directly.
Off course, one can also do this without Vjoy by using a keyboard combination but then, MSFS needs to be in focus.

That is true, and a good option as well. AAO also has vJoy and ViGEm interfaces built in to do the same thing. But both these items are yet another thing to install on the computer, and not everybody wants to go there.

Edited November 21, 20223 yr by Lorby_SI

1 hour ago, Lorby_SI said:

TMBK InGame panels cannot be called up through SimConnect events. There even is a special event for the ATC window listed in the MSFS SDK documentation, but it doesn't work.  

I did something similar recently with the virtual mouse in AAO, but I'm not sure that is for you? This is basically a script that positions your mouse cursor over the in-game menu in MSFS, opens it, and then clicks on the icon (=you can open and close any panel with that technique). This script can be assigned to any external button.

Ah, thanks for the input, appreciated.

Setting a steamdeck key for "Tab" works for me on my streamdeck.

Edited November 21, 20223 yr by Waldo Pepper