Press the "/" key or it should also be a menu option.
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Derrick Washington <ddwas...@gmail.com>wrote:
> "As far as I can tell this will require some code modifications if you want
> to use direct serial communcation."
>
>
> Yeah I figured that, hmmm I'm not very familiar with FG's source code at
> all, and I downloaded the exe, can any of you make a suggestion as to what I
> might attempt to correct?
>
> "What properties are you importing into FlightGear? You can open up the
> property browser and check to see if they are being changed as you expect."
>
>
> I included the xml file I am using in the email, and I'm afraid I don't
> know how to open up the property browser, but I'll look at the documentation
> and check.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Curtis Olson <curtol...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Right, as you noticed, it doesn't appear that the "generic" interface code
>> is setup to transmit and receive at the same time. You can't open up the
>> same device twice, so you two command line options won't work either. As
>> far as I can tell this will require some code modifications if you want to
>> use direct serial communcation.
>>
>> Another option might be to write a thin glue layer that talks to
>> FlightGear over the network, and talks to your hardware over a serial port
>> and then does all the appropriate data translation as required.
>>
>> What properties are you importing into FlightGear? You can open up the
>> property browser and check to see if they are being changed as you expect.
>>
>> Curt.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Derrick Washington
>> <ddwas...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> So I tried it with the joystick unplugged and nothing changed, FG will
>>> transmit, and it will receive just not at the same time, no matter how I try
>>> to trick it, I can't even get it transmit on one port and receive on another
>>> (using serial). Is it possible that someone can create a fix for this?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Derrick Washington
>>> <ddwas...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> OK
>>>>
>>>> So I believe I've got it to work on COM27 by using the \\.\COM27syntax.
>>>> I still have a problem sending and receiving at the same time, FG
>>>> will not allow me to open up multiple generic serial protocols to the same
>>>> COM port for in and out, only one at a time and bi directional doesn't seem
>>>> to be supported.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Gene Buckle <ge...@deltasoft.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 7 Aug 2011, Frederic Bouvier wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> > Gene,
>>>>> >
>>>>> >> Unless you've got 26 other serial ports on that machine, I'd
>>>>> strongly
>>>>> >> suggest researching what caused Windows to assign COM27 to your
>>>>> device.
>>>>> >> It's NOT typical behavior.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > You can assign any number you want to a COM port when it is driven by
>>>>> > a USB-to-COM or Ethernet-to-COM adapter. Simply go to the Device
>>>>> Manager
>>>>> > and set it between 1 and 255.
>>>>> >
>>>>> I know that, but most of the time you don't specifically set a COM port
>>>>> number by hand - you let Windows pick the next un-used port #.
>>>>>
>>>>> g.
>>>>>
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