Neue FSUIPC 2.88 erschienen

[Nikolai]

Seit gestern (10.8.02) gibt es die neue Version der FSUIPC hier zum Download. Die Neuerungen im Überblick:

 

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">Zitat:</font><HR>- Added extensive joystick button programming facilities, converting button presses/releases into keypresses or FS controls, handled through a new page in the options dialogue. Whilst this is particularly suited to EPIC users, it is not EPIC-specific and so can be useful for any joystick system with ‘spare’ buttons, provided these are visible through the Windows joystick interface (e.g. Game Controllers applet in the Control Panel). The range of FS controls assignable exceeds those which can be assigned in the FS CFG file, and fixed parameter values can also be supplied with them so they can be used to set (fixed) values as well as operate switches.

- Added a facility for smoothing visibility changes supplied by external Weather programs. This is defaulted off. The user can control the speed of changes by setting a time when selecting the option in the Visibility page.

- Fixed a problem whereby changes made in the FS weather dialogue would not take effect with certain FSUIPC options enabled. This affected wind settings when wind transitions are enabled, and visibility when graduated visibility is enabled. (This problem actually dates right back to 2.83 and was due to the changes made for NT/2K/XP systems where saving flights could not be detected in order to restore the weather first).

- Fixed the Joystick calibration section for four separate mixture levers so that the centering (“idle”) action works correctly.

- The “fix control acceleration” facility for FS2002 is now defaulted off instead of on. It turns out that this facility can adversely affect the keyboard control of some third party panels. Those panels affected (one notable example is the DreamFleet 737) continuously send controls to FS, several every second, and these trigger FSUIPC’s “fix control acceleration” action when enabled. This actually does no harm to those controls, in fact it helps, but the fact that the acceleration timer is reset each time actively prevents keyboard controls from accelerating at all. FSUIPC cannot “fix” those as the keyboard controls do not go through the same interception mechanism.

- Added a facility for an external program to supply “KeySend” codes in the FSUIPC address space, for use with Wideclient.

- Dynamically adjusts the visibility layer base for places below sea level.