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Triggering xml event with a hardware button instead of mouse

Hello. Glad you appreciate it. I have a typo above; should be:
<Element><Select><Value>
(L:AlphaChar, number) 1 == if{ 'A' (>C:fs9gps:IcaoSearchEnterChar) }
(L:AlphaChar, number) 2 == if{ 'B' (>C:fs9gps:IcaoSearchEnterChar) }
etc.

I saw a picture of your CDU. Are there anymore of those available, is so how could a person obtain one?
 
flythesimskies said:
Hello. Glad you appreciate it. I have a typo above; should be:

(L:AlphaChar, number) 1 == if{ 'A' (>C:fs9gps:IcaoSearchEnterChar) }
(L:AlphaChar, number) 2 == if{ 'B' (>C:fs9gps:IcaoSearchEnterChar) }
etc.

I saw a picture of your CDU. Are there anymore of those available, is so how could a person obtain one?
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Sorry, the CDU i made was a one off. I did make one other for somebody else but it was so time consuming i had to halt it there. Best of luck with your own.

Stinger

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Wow, you made it. That's pretty good. If I may ask, how did you get the pieces for the buttons? I bought a GCU 1000 from ebay and of course the seller wasn't honest. Apparently, the seller couldn't use it either. The original manufacturer (Noble Flight Sim) uses a teensy (it's like an arduino) processor and output an ASCII code that I couldn't use easily. This CDU was made specifically for its NFS CDU for its SR22. I wrote the original manufacturer and suggested he make it so it could be used by any aircraft within FS - in that he might sell more of them. I have no idea if he ever did. So I assembled some joystick boards and wired the buttons to them - took quite awhile. So now I use that for my FS.
 
I made the buttons from balsa, then once shaped i hardened them with wood hardener. The number buttons came from an old tv remote . The hardest part was cutting all of the holes in the aluminium plate for the buttons to go in. There is a Leo Bodnar board inside powering it.


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Well, it's very good work. Yeah, I had to use a Leo Bodnar board as well and another, I can't recall the the name, that converted buttons to keys as well. It might have been easier to use more Leo boards but I can use the GCU as a regular keyboard for other apps. FSUIPC allows key strokes to access FS offsets as well. I threw out the teensy board. Take care.
 
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