Switches and MSFS

[centuryseries]

So in FSX and P3D three-way switches can be coded so that you left click the switch turns left, right click back to centre and right click again and the switch goes right. An example is a Taxi/Landing light switch - Taxi - off - Landing.

In MSFS if you right click it drags the mouse around If you scroll wheel you zoom in and out. So how are we supposed to code three way switches in a nice sensible way rather than left clicking 3 times to get to Landing light in the above example. Even worse for dimmable back lit gauges!

Sorry just wanted to throw this out there!! Seems a little step backward in functionality. I guess you can turn off right click mouse drag views but the default zoom in is not that nice IMHO.

 

[Bomber_12th]

The default A320 has some 3-position switches, such as the landing light and taxi light switches and the ADF switches, and several others. With those, a little arrow pops up pointing in either direction, depending on where you put the mouse over the switch, to left-click it in either direction. The mouse wheel also works. If it has reached the maximum point of its travel in one direction, it will show a little crossed-out symbol for that direction of travel.

 

[centuryseries]

The default A320 has some 3-position switches, such as the landing light and taxi light switches and the ADF switches, and several others. With those, a little arrow pops up pointing in either direction, depending on where you put the mouse over the switch, to left-click it in either direction. The mouse wheel also works. If it has reached the maximum point of its travel in one direction, it will show a little crossed-out symbol for that direction of travel.

Thanks, I'll have to have a look at that! I guess Xbox users would need that to be dumbed down a bit for the controller!

 

[Tom Clayton]

The mouse wheel rolls dials like the VOR radial if the pointer is on that dial, otherwise, it reverts to zoom. The issue is that even with camera shake turned off, there's still some movement, so the dial moves out from under your mouse and you end up zooming one way or another. You can mostly avoid this by just zooming in tight on the instrument, but that can be a pain too. It gets easier to do with practice though...

 

[FlyingsCool]

The mouse wheel rolls dials like the VOR radial if the pointer is on that dial, otherwise, it reverts to zoom. The issue is that even with camera shake turned off, there's still some movement, so the dial moves out from under your mouse and you end up zooming one way or another. You can mostly avoid this by just zooming in tight on the instrument, but that can be a pain too. It gets easier to do with practice though...

.... while your plane starts to spin downward out of control.... but I got the VOR radial tuned in!