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Hello. Good afternoon.
First of all congratulate the great work you do with the mobiflight program. It's great. Fantastic.
I am starting to build my homemade cabin and I have already been able to make some examples and so far everything is fine.
My next step is to put a potentiometer on the flaps lever in the pmdg 737 but I don't see anywhere in the forum someone who has done it. On the contrary... it seems that it cannot be done at the moment.
Is it possible to make the different steps of the flaps work with a potentiometer? and how?
Thank you and forgive my English.
Translated with google translate.
happy flights

Hi

Technical YES .... But not as you expect.

The Poti support was implement to make "easy" things like the Volume Selectors for the Radio or the Brightness Selectors for the Virtual Backlights.

What you expect is something like the FSUIPC UI where you can define e.g. 9 different "Areas" to a Axis and you fire 9 different Commands to the Sim when the Axis is reach one of this Areas.

As i said.... Those complex things was never our target.... And we not planed for this with the Argument " There is still a Software that allow this, so we not need to copy a thing, a user can already do somewhere else".
Additional.... Flaps Gauges are done for most users with Push Buttons and not with a Poti ( Like in the Real Aircrafts and all Professional Sims also)


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Solution:
You CAN do this with a verry complex System of 9 Input Configs ( one for each Input Command) and formulas and Preconditions that define that each Config only should work if the readout of the Poti is within a special value range where this command is currently needed.

Whatever i would say... Use a Standard Joystick instead of a MF Poti .... OR use Buttons in MF. Thats much more easy !

thanks for your quick response. I think he gave me the idea with the josttick. I will try. Thank you