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SENDS


Purpose:

SENDS assigns keyboard-based game commands to a button.

Used with:

All ThrustMaster DirectConnect devices

What SENDS does when assigned to buttons:

SENDS causes a keyboard character to be sent to the game software when a button action is detected.

Entry:

button_control SENDS key_sequence .

where button_control is a button label, and key_sequence is the keyboard keypress(es) that is to be sent to the game when the button is pressed. A period terminates the statement.

Button control labels

Keystroke sequences

Examples

Technical notes:

  1. Each button that is set up to generate keyboard output with SENDS becomes "disconnected" from its default DirectInput mapping. You may "reconnect" a button or position control to its default DirectInput position (or any alternative position) using the IS statement. The control can then issue keyboard commands and be seen as a DirectInput joystick control simultaneously.

  2. The buttons on the ATTACK throttle's dogfight switch require special handling with SENDS. Since buttons S9 and S10 stay "pressed" until they are moved back to center, a special code ( /N for no repeat) is used to prevent assigned keystrokes from continuously repeating.


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