Is it possible to write a toolbar panel addon that responds to custom key events? I would like to create what are effectively macros for common flows, and trigger them from the keyboard (or a joystick button, ideally).
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Look into leveraging inputs.js.
It enables you to register an InputsListener, which allows you to poll for input states.
As an example you could look at the updateInputs() method in MapInstrument.js in asobo-vcockpits-instruments in the official packages.
Be aware that this doesn't allow to mask inputs. So it will still trigger bound key events with the sim.
Thanks this works. Here is a small snippet of code that prints "2" when the water rudder key is pressed:
setInterval(() => {
console.log(GetInputStatus("PLANE", "KEY_TOGGLE_WATER_RUDDER")); },
500);
How do you figure out the magic strings for each key? Many of them are in the XML files in this directory:
C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_1.17.3.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\Input
Take a look on those pages in the docs
https://docs.flightsimulator.com/html/index.htm#t=Programming_Tools%2FSimVars%2FLegacy_Event_IDs.htm
Also since you are looking into intercepting key events (i thought just characters). Take a look at this new API feature too (but in your case you shouldn't mask events)
P.S.: I think SU5 will have an update to inputs.js which will allow a more event based approach instead of polling for it
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