Continued Macro Ticks Changing
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2018 21:10
OK so I've waded into the macro tab and figured some things out that IMO aren't all that obvious and have had success in making some macros for commands in a game (Aces High) that aren't able to be mapped to a simple button command. I'd made a simple one first that allowed me to exit flight, [/.ef]. That was macro 1. As I went on I made others to govern weapons salvo number. I couldn't figure out why my second one wasn't showing up on the button I'd mapped it to but the third one was! The light bulb went off yesterday when I figured out that the actual number of the macro is the number in the left column where that macro starts. My first one had spanned into the 2nd row so my second macro actually started in row 3 making it macro 3 not 2. I'd been changing the box next to that one that I now know governs the time set. I thought it was a group number until I got to my 9th one! Ain't no 9 so it must be the time thingy---and it was. Another light bulb. This area overlaps on the macro screen making it hard to decypher. The column for Time Set is only marked Set. I thougth that was the macro group if it spanned rows. Not intuitive. Maybe make that area of the macro screen a little bit wider so the columns match up would be better? Anyway no worries now as I've figured it out. Now onto my next problem and this might be a bug.
Once the wheels started clanking I went on down the screen making more macros for other random commands I thought I might map in the future. Might as well make macros for them all since I have the screen open and have all the dot commands printed out in front of me! Things were going along just great. I'd saved my macros as I went along. This is how I laid the fist bunch out:
Looks good and works exactly as intended, mapped to the buttons I wanted--no problem!
The problem crops up as soon as I scrolled the macros up or down to see past row 16. The continued macro tick boxes start moving around on their own! This is what I get scrolling down:
And then back up again!!:
It's like playing whack a mole! I put em back but as soon as I scroll up or down they reshuffle! If I load the originally saved file they go back right (at least those I can see initially)--until I scroll again. Consequently only the macros I can see--that first bunch down to row 16--are correct. The others are a jumbled mess of macros that aren't supposed to be attached to each other.
If I scroll down to change the ticks on the rows below 16 and save it--the upper ones have changed so I have to re-edit those and save again! but now the ones I can't see are messed up.
Just bringing this to your attention as a possible bug. Since I have them working right otherwise I wouldn't think I was doing something wrong but it wouldn't be the first time for that!
My Required Info:
Gunfighter MkI w/MCG-Pro
V1/91E
Stock Springs and Cams
VKBDevconfig: v0.83.96
Once the wheels started clanking I went on down the screen making more macros for other random commands I thought I might map in the future. Might as well make macros for them all since I have the screen open and have all the dot commands printed out in front of me! Things were going along just great. I'd saved my macros as I went along. This is how I laid the fist bunch out:
Looks good and works exactly as intended, mapped to the buttons I wanted--no problem!
The problem crops up as soon as I scrolled the macros up or down to see past row 16. The continued macro tick boxes start moving around on their own! This is what I get scrolling down:
And then back up again!!:
It's like playing whack a mole! I put em back but as soon as I scroll up or down they reshuffle! If I load the originally saved file they go back right (at least those I can see initially)--until I scroll again. Consequently only the macros I can see--that first bunch down to row 16--are correct. The others are a jumbled mess of macros that aren't supposed to be attached to each other.
If I scroll down to change the ticks on the rows below 16 and save it--the upper ones have changed so I have to re-edit those and save again! but now the ones I can't see are messed up.
Just bringing this to your attention as a possible bug. Since I have them working right otherwise I wouldn't think I was doing something wrong but it wouldn't be the first time for that!
My Required Info:
Gunfighter MkI w/MCG-Pro
V1/91E
Stock Springs and Cams
VKBDevconfig: v0.83.96