First of all let me congratulate you on (what I consider anyway) a very good and innovative product. My only issue with this addon at the moment is that my button 1 on my joystick will not fire weapons. The space bar works fine  I have flicked through the sdk but can not see anything that might help me.  Any ideas?  For info I have CH products - Combat stick, pro throttle and pedals.

Thanks for the info Boeing 247 and yes it was me that asked for the helo. Thanks for the quick reply on that. However your fix for my joystick did not work   Could it be that I have multiple input devices?

boeing247 wrote on Feb 26^th, 2011 at 7:55pm:

My brakes and the firing of guns/rockets are both mapped to Button 1 on my Logitech Extreme 3D Pro joystick. It works fine set like that. I just need to make sure that the Weapon is turned OFF if I need to use the brakes. I have ended up firing guns or rockets after landing and applying the brakes.

Mark

With multiple input devices there is a good chance that your joystick is not set to device 1, which is what the weapon.xml looks for. For instance, I have a joystick, yoke, throttle quadrant and gamepad all plugged in, and my joystick is actually joystick 3. so try playing around with the numbers in this line:

<Action name="fire" control="joystick:3:button:0" />

On one of the aircraft that you have installed the weapon in, open the csweapon.xml and look for the above line.

Leave button:0 alone, and just change the numbers on the joystick. Try them in sequential order, 0,1,2,3,4 etc. until you find the one that works. You will have to manually change that line in each aircraft that you have installed the weapon in. In order to fix it for new installs, once you figure out which number to assign your joystick, then you can edit the master .dat file with notepad to assign it to the correct joystick for all new installs. But, unless you know what you are doing, I would recommend leaving the master .dat file alone, and just editing future installs. One character out of place, and all new installs will be hosed.

Glad it's working. If the problem returns (though something like this generally doesn't), just make another post. 

Close flight simulator, open the XML file, make the change, save and close the XML file, and open flight simulator. The change should be there (if it's not, experiment and find the correct joystick number and button).

For future reference, if you mess with something in the fsx folder, you'll need to do it with FSX closed. You see, when FSX opens, it loads the files in the various folders which it draws from and doesn't load them again until you close and reopen it.