Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Revvin on December 12, 2002, 03:18:52 PM
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I've edited my Cougar profile and swapped a few things round such as moving the trim functions to Hat 3 and the original Hat 3 functions to Hat 4, also added the bombsight calibration marker to the T10 position as well as on Hat 2 in the down position. I've also updated the graphical layout and the readme that accompanies the profile to explain the mouse view control on the mousestick. Managed to reduce the size of the main package to 315k which includes the graphical overlay or a smaller version without the graphical overlay that weighs in at 5k. You can grab the files from my webspace at the following links:
Aces High Profile with graphical overlay (http://www.no9squadron.com/files/Aces_High_TMCougar.zip)
Aces High Profile without graphical overlay (http://www.no9squadron.com/files/Aces_High_TMCougar_Small.zip)
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Thanks Revvin I will check it out.
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Hi Revvin. Did you have any problems upgrading your cougar software to 2.02? One or two probs on the bulletin boards. I havn't tried it yet.
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Only problem I had was the intially, my Cougar wasn't recognized. After the reboot and replugging it back in, it came up. Haven't had any of the problems that some of the people have mentioned on the Cougar World Forums.
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I tried the upgrade and after a number of failed attempts at getting HOTAS recognized I re-installed original software and upgraded to version prior to this latest one. What a nightmare with this latest upgrade, previous upgrade and flash was a snap.
Psyco
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No I had no problems upgrading. I edited my initial post about the new drivers at the request of James Hallows who would prefer those downloading the files to read the instructions first. Of course with a wide range of system specs and connection types (hubs etc) there will be some problems but I fear many were caused by people not reading the instructions before installing hence James asking me to just supply a link to the download page which held the instructions and not the direct links I posted.
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Yes absolutely. Most of the probs are related to spare inf files in Windows/inf. seemingly. I'll do it at the weekend.
Must confess both drivers/software and Foxy are working fine anyway. What improvements are there?
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Following changes were made:
Cougar Control Panel (CCP)
Version 2.01 - Released 4th December, 2002
- Addition: Show the actual values of the axis during manual calibration.
- Recompile to fix the WinME problem communicating with the device
- Improvement: Manual calibration data improvements
- Fixed bug: Ability to save a profile as the default.tmc profile.
- Addition: Ability to run the HOTASView application directly from the CCP.
Compiler
Version 2.01 - Released 4th December, 2002
- Fixed bug: The statement: BTN TG1 CTL SHF 1 CTL SHF 2 does not produce the correct KD/KU key presses
- Fixed bug: Combination USE KEYBOARD AZERTY and type 3 axis statement caused compiler error, and with the ^ (null) character.
- Recompile to fix the WinME problem communicating with the device
- Fixed bug: Repeating a MOUSEROTATE statement more than 8 times causes a compiler crash
- Fixed bug: Having a digital axis statement with UMD modifiers and more than 49 regions causes a crash, ex: "ANT /U 2 50 TRIM (JOYY…".
- Fixed bug: Displays an error message when defining Xflags greater than X32
- Fixed bug: Can not configure the same axis number twice in the following statement: USE AXES_CONFIG (1, JOYX), (2, JOYY), (3, THR), (4, RDDR), (1, RNG)
- Improvement: Increase the number of Xflags to 48
- Fixed bug: Ordered of chorded keys is reversed when put on a shift statement, ex: BTN S1 /I SHF 1 /O 1
- Fixed bug: Unable to state an Xflag great than 32 inside of an
- Xflag definition, ex: DEF X20 H1U AND X40
- Fixed bug: Having a LOCK and UNLOCK statement in a digital axis statement would cause an error
- Fixed bug: Having two consective Xflags or DirectX commands in a digital axis macro would only cause one of the commands to work.
Cougar Update (for flashing Firmware)
Version 2.01 - Released 4th December, 2002
- Fixed bug: Corrected a problem with some axis jumping from minimum to maximum range.
- Recompile to fix the WinME problem communicating with the device
- Fixed bug: TRIM, CURVE, REVERSE functionality has been patched from the previous version for all throttle and rudder axes.
- Fixed bug: Keyboard implementation has been changed so that multiple KD's only require one KU to cancel the pressed key.
- Fixed bug: The trim to current function was not working properly.
- Improvemnt: After flashing the joystick, the program deletes the calibration.ini file.
Foxy
Version 3.0 - Released 4th December, 2002
- Added support for David's compiler, to highlight an error in the macro file when detecting macros using reserved words in their names.
- Added support for new statement: USE CHORDED_FDFU and updated manual/help file on this statement.
- Improved search and replace ability to deal with larger files.
- Added to Composer, USE PROFILE section, ability to insert without AUTO or CUSTOM, and updated manual/help file on this statement.
- After a download, Foxy and the Launcher can now ensure that NumLock is on.
- Added to Cougar menu HOTAS View, MultiDevices and HOTAS Cleanse.
- Added support for THR_RANGE to Composer.
- Fixed some display issues on XP.
- Improved mode detection after reboot/computer startup. This feature can be turned off from the Unsupported Options application. Added ability to resynchronise mode detection - useful with multiple Cougars connected to one computer. Added to Launcher as well.
- Split up installation into 2 files - an install for Foxy and an install for the flight sim joystick and macro files. There are advantages from a software point of view regarding the installer in doing this, and significantly reduces the download size if they were combined.
- Manual has been split up and manuals can now be added by users without needing a main software update. Useful if other users want to develop their own manuals, eg. A Hardware manual.
- Foxy will now look for layouts and readme files associated with the USE FOXY GRAPHIC and README statements in a joystick file, in the same directory as the joystick file.
- Added a "Print selection" menu item to the File menu in Foxy and the Template Editor. This will not only print just a selection of text, (or all of the text if none is selected) but also uses a different printing routine to fix an issue seen by some with the ordinary printing routines (see this thread).
- A bug when applying profiles from Foxy and for the Launcher is fixed.
- Fixed bug in Composer when inserting RPT and DLY statements - these were always inserted on a new line.
- Fixed bug in Slash window swapping /H and /A, and also missing slash modifier on Korgy.
- Added a couple of other files to support FS2002 and F4 SP3. Slight changes made to the USAF file. New IL2 file added. These files are in the Flight Sim Support Pack.
- Added coding to try and prevent characters being added to a joystick file directly after a download before the key tester window appears. Sometimes a file might get modified directly after a download when the Cougar generated characters.
- Revamped template Editor/Readme file editor. Added ability to align text, bullets, easier assignment of fonts and sizes.
- Added to graphical layout editors ability to align text - also added to the Formatter Window and easier management of fonts and sizes.
FoxyGUI - Version 3.0
- Fixed bug preventing Hat 1 from being programmed with simple statements
- Fixed bug where hat button statements were still being added to a file where there were hats assigned with USE HAT statements
- Fixed bug preventing hat corner positions being programmed properly
- Improved mode detection after reboot/computer startup.
- Fixed bug whereby FoxyGUI would always check small fonts settings even if you'd turned this off.
- Fixed a problem whereby the Hat 3 up position couldn't be programmed.
- Added ability to turn off menus (except Exit) from Key Tester
FoxyMFE - Version 3.0
- Added support to highlight an error in the macro file for David's new compiler.
- Added ability to turn off menus (except Exit) from Key Tester
Launcher - Version 3.0
- After a download, Foxy (and the Launcher) can now ensure that NumLock is on.
- Improved mode detection after reboot/computer startup.
- Added ability to perform a reset after a delay on startup.
- A few minor issues fixed.
Foxy's Windows Joystick Analyser - Version 3.0
- Added ability to show axes as % values - useful when writing statements that require these values (eg. LOCK (THR, 75%)) or for determining where the détentes are. This is selectable from a menu although is always on by default.
- A few minor issues fixed.
Foxy's DX8 Joystick Analyser - Version 3.0
- Allowed 32767 and 32768 as centre green values
- Special version created you can run in the game to analyse your joystick X and Y values, for responsiveness and effects of calibration.
- Fixed a problem whereby if you don't have a joystick attached/set up properly, an error message appears to tell you that there's a problem. Unfortunately when you try to close that error message window, it keeps reappearing and you have to Ctrl Alt Delete to close it down.
Foxy's DX8 Mouse Analyser - Version 3.0
- Fixed issue with drawing mouse rotation statements.
Foxy's DX8 Key Tester - Version 3.0
- Changed default display colour for a button press as it's not clear on default XP colour scheme.
- A few minor issues fixed.
Unsupported Options - Version 3.0
- Support for a few more features.
- A few minor issues fixed.
Foxy's Help file - Version 3.0
- Many changes correcting errors and additions made to improve soem explanations, as well as documenting new features in the software and firmware.
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Well, thanks Revvin! I thought they would have posted that on Cougar World.
Suffice to say theres no panic to upgrade as most of the fixes are for very sophisticated programming glitches.
Cheers:D
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Where do you think I got that information?
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:o