I made a macro to end flight and assigned it to the red button. Wasn't hard once I figured out the numbering of the macro is the line it starts in! Gotta make the macro before you can assign it.
Goes like this. On the macro tab there are 118 rows of 4 columns each. Start at the top left box. They all say no function until you assign something. Click on the first box, another dialog box will appear. There's a drop down on that. Select keyboard from the list. Hit the slash key on your keyboard. You'll see the button assignment appear. Hit the right arrow key on that dialog to move to the next character. Next box dot, and so on. Now... This command is 5 characters (/.ef[enter])long so to continue it to the second row hit the tick box at the end of row 1 and put the 5th character, enter, in the first box of row 2. Don't put anything else in row 2 and don't tick the box at the end of the row. That isolates the macro from continuing. Hit the set button on the macro screen just to the right of the boxes you're filling. That sends the macro info to the stick. It won't work until you assign it to a button whether physical or logical.
Now, since that 1st macro ended in row 2, the next macro won't be macro 2, it'll be macro 3--since you will have started that one in the 3rd row. That had me scratching my head. Just so ya know! The macro number is the row it starts in. I was changing the numbers in the boxes to the left of the row. The light bulb went off when I got to the 9th one. Those boxes correspond to the time sets. There are only 8 of them which is why those boxes only go to 8! Who knew? Hehe
OK so what I did to assign a macro to a button was first--identify which one is which! Go to the profile screen, physical tab. Check the poll box. This will light up when you hit a button so you know where it's at. Make note of the button number that lights up. Go to the logical tab and look for the button number. Click on it. Another dialog box. From the drop down select macro. Select the number of the macro you want that button to be. Click on the right arrow key on the dialog box. Now click set on the actions tab up top. This sends the change in profile of button from a straight button press to a macro to the stick. It'll use the macro info you sent earlier.
To test it click on info at the bottom. Click anywhere on the field and press the assigned button. It should type /.ef out.
I have toe brakes on my pedals so I didn't need that brake lever for that. I fly a P-38L. What I did with it was to map the dive flap to it in AH. I used map controllers and assigned the dive flap to max travel for slider 1(the brake lever axis) . It's down near the bottom. I squeeze the brake lever, it toggles the dive flap.
There isn't a selection you can assign for end flight on the map controllers screen. That would have been easy! Have to use the dot command and so had to go the macro route. But you can basically do the same thing in the vkb software. Look in section 3.7 of the manual. Tells you how to use parts of an axis travel as button presses.
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