I see a lot of great activity and great programming from Alan Dyers, which convinced me to purchase a Phidget Mini-Dual Axis Joystick and an 8/8/8 board to see if I could get it to work in MSFS as a small portable joystick. I travel a lot which takes me out of the real cockpit, but want to keep proficient in the cockpit. I have decided if I can get the mini joystick to work, then I would expand it to do other controls for basic filght. I have installed the phidgets library (v21) fs2phidgets 4.3.1.5, and fsuipc (v4.5). My joystick and 8/8/8 board will arrive on the 21st. If I can get the joystick to work, I am planning on using other phidget items to give basic flight control, like flaps, carb heat, fuel mixture, and rudder control. My goal is to make a mini console for basic flight. I will be using vrInsight Micro ProPit for the gauges.
I have a good laptop (Asus G50V) for flight sim, but want to get rid of hte bulky joystick.
Just to see what is working for Phidget operation, I started to try to run installed items..... I can see the Phidget control panel running, and I can run the fsvariable program. But when I double click the 4.3.1.5 exe it gives me an runtime error 76 path not found. I saw some post on the runtime error, but did not understand what the solution was.
What am I missing, or do I have to wait for the two phidgets to come before this error goes away?
Any help is appreciated.
Paul
