What are people using for programing macros (i.e. predetermined messages to be sent by Hot Key)

Sylow

Sylow
My X-56 software allows me to bind macros to buttons and the slider.
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The slider is bound to press the "pause" key when being activated. Pause is one of the two buttons in ED which are bound to be Flight Assist Off. (Set to "hold". ) So when I need FAOff for just a moment, I press the button on my stick. If I want FAOff for longer. I use the slider on the throttle.
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Then I have macros on two of the 4-way switches. The "reset to default" doesn't need a macro, so I actually have seven macros there. All of them reset the energy settings, then add a few quick keypresses to get the energy settings I want. So no matter if I want 4 pips to shield and 2 to engines, or 4 to weapons and 2 to shields, it's bound there. It's not much faster than doing it by buttons. (The macro needs a delay between keypresses. If I remove those delays, ED ignores some keypresses. ) But it's much more convenient than tooling pips around by hand.
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GreyAreaUK

GreyAreaUK
Sylow said:
My X-56 software allows me to bind macros to buttons and the slider.
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The slider is bound to press the "pause" key when being activated. Pause is one of the two buttons in ED which are bound to be Flight Assist Off. (Set to "hold". ) So when I need FAOff for just a moment, I press the button on my stick. If I want FAOff for longer. I use the slider on the throttle.
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Then I have macros on two of the 4-way switches. The "reset to default" doesn't need a macro, so I actually have seven macros there. All of them reset the energy settings, then add a few quick keypresses to get the energy settings I want. So no matter if I want 4 pips to shield and 2 to engines, or 4 to weapons and 2 to shields, it's bound there. It's not much faster than doing it by buttons. (The macro needs a delay between keypresses. If I remove those delays, ED ignores some keypresses. ) But it's much more convenient than tooling pips around by hand.
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I may be wrong but I think the OP meant a quick way of sending text comms. By the time you've typed out "Oh, hello, I'll be your pirate for the day. Now, if it's not too awfully inconvenient would you mind dropping 10t of those lovely, lovely Low Temp..." you then have to type "...oh...he's buggered off...."
 

sollisb

Banned
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Allt he above and many more. The benefit of Voice Attack is that you can use their macro, create your own and have voice confirmations. You can also control/issue intructions to VA from other software or electronics. (Arduino)
 

Sylow

Sylow
GreyAreaUK said:
I may be wrong but I think the OP meant a quick way of sending text comms. By the time you've typed out "Oh, hello, I'll be your pirate for the day. Now, if it's not too awfully inconvenient would you mind dropping 10t of those lovely, lovely Low Temp..." you then have to type "...oh...he's buggered off...."
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Hmm. I saw it as more general, with text messages being just an example.
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