Mode Switch on Pro Throttle USB?

[daloon]

Newbie here. I have tried to figure out how to use CM3.o to use shift and or Mode changes to increase the number of commands per PT USB key. Must I have another CH product (joystick) to do this? What do the red, green and yellow LED's on the throttle mean and how are they changed? I am using a MS stick with the Pro Throttle. Does this nullify shifting keys for second uses within the same game? Read CM help to no avail. I am trying to simulate shifts similar to the Nostromo Pad. Help me Shift please.

[Bob Church]

For shift, just pick any button on any of the CH device(s). Up at the top there's a check box for "Shift Button". Check the box and that button becomes the Shift Button for the whole map. You can only have one checked.

The LEDs indicate which Mode the Control Manager is in if the device with the LEDs is tagged as the Mode Control Device. That can be either the ProThrottle, the FighterStick, or the CMS script (no LEDs with the script). To set which one controls the mode, click on the leftmost tab, the one marked "Program Settings". There's a drop-down list that says "Mode Control" where you can select which of the three you want to use. When you do, you'll get 3 or 4 tabs on the right side of the screen instead of just one.

For the device that's controlling the Mode, the LEDs tell you which mode you're in. They're hardware, though, so if you change Modes with one device, LEDs on other devices don't track. If you pick the Pro Throttle as the Mode Control, you'll get three tabs, and you can switch between them by pushing straight down on the ministick actuator (by down I mean push it straight into the throttle, not the "down" of "up", "down", "left", and "right" fame). The LEDs will change and the function will switch to be whatever is programmed for that Mode tab.

If you use Modes, be sure you put something in Mode 1 as that sets the default for Modes 2..4 if they're not otherwise programmed, e.g. if you set Mode 1 to send "a" and Mode 3 to send "b" and leave Modes 2 and 4 blank, the "a" will come out in Modes 1, 2, and 4, the "b" only in Mode 3. If you want Mode 1 to send nothing but still need to use the other Modes, then set Mode 1 to send "NULL". If you don't program Mode 1, the whole button will be ignored.

- Bob

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