Thrustmaster Top Gun Fox 2- Can't map buttons?

BadAnimal · Post by **BadAnimal** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 2:32 am

Subject kinda says it all. Do I need to 'bind' them in the conf file?

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I guess I should say this is on WinXP home.

I might try it on my son's linux machine.....

BadAnimal · Post by **BadAnimal** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 5:31 am

The last time I used the joystick in a flight simulator, the buttons and all worked. (Not BZflag related, but that wasn't in my first post, either.)

The buttons don't work in BZflag. Is that related?

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 5:36 am

yes it is, the lasts poster did not understand, his comments were removed..

you have to go into the keymaping ( I know it's not intutive ) and set what you want each button to do. There is a limit to how many buttons BZ will see ( 32 IIRC ), I know that some of the buttons on my Saitek X52 HOTAS setup are not seen by bz. Also If I recall, the linux builds that use SDL will see even less buttons then windows ( 16 if memory serves ).

if you can't set them in the input then you may have some other software from thrustmaster that is geting in the way, you would want to see if you can turn it off.

as a last resort, yes you can use the config to bind the items to actions.

BadAnimal · Post by **BadAnimal** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 6:26 pm

Your comment about the keymapping being unintuitive made me go back and try it again. I didn't know you had to hit 'enter' to select an item before changing it.

Got it working. Not sure I like the joystick for BZ, though.

Thanks for your help!