Key your mic with CHProducts Manager

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For anyone interested that has a CHProduct Yoke, this is a step by step way to assign a key stroke to your yoke button for the mic. This is just a option to the other options out there.

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MAKING A BUTTON A KEY STROKE WITH CONTROL MANAGER
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In order to turn a button into a keystroke(s) from your keyboard, you will need to use our software Control Manager.

You can find the Control Manager 4.2 (for windows xp and earlier) or 4.3 (for Vista) through the “USB Downloads” link below my signature in this email. Please be sure to have ALL your CH Products joysticks connected to your PC while installing Control Manager and go through all the "new hardware found wizards" that pop up after it, selecting not to search for updated drivers AND when asked for installation media, select “install software automatically” (you will repeat this several times). With windows vista you will not get these windows the program will just install automatically.

You may want to print out this email message for ease of use and future reference. Alternatively if yo can't print it out, you can "Task Switch" between this message and other windows, by pressing and holding the "Alt" key and tapping the "Tab" key on your keyboard.

To make any button emulate a keyboard stroke, do the following:

1) Open the Control Manager, click "add" button on the Tool Bar. If you put your mouse pointer over the buttons at the top of the Control Manager window, a label for the button you are pointing at will appear. It is the fifth button to the left, with the picture of a joystick and green plus sign.
2) Select a controller to add from the list that comes up and click Okay. The picture and information for that controller will then appear in the main program.
3) Repeat step 2 for all of your CH controllers.
4) Now to map a button to send a keyboard stroke or strokes, Press the button on the controller that you want to map to the keyboard key, the focus should change to the information for that button and a yellow arrow should point to the button in the main picture on the screen. On the right of the screen you should see the information for that button. The heading at the top of the information to the right should indicate the button number and bellow that all the info about that button.
5) Uncheck "DirectX mode" on the right, then RIGHT click in the "Press" field and select "Record Keystrokes" from the pop up context menu. A black window pops up.
6) Press the keyboard key or key combination you want to assign to this button (it will show it twice per key) then click "exit". You should now see the keyboard key you pressed in the "Press" field. Remember if you pressed a shift key and another key, there may be a symbol in the field, such as a ‘@’ or something similar, this will still work.
7) Click the "Save " to save your map, it is the second button to the left on the Tool Bar at the top of the Control Manager window. Name your map and save it to the location it is already in when the “save” window appears (it is similar to saving any document in Windows).
8) Program the other buttons you wish to assign keyboard keys to like you did in steps 5 & 6 and remember to Save when done.
9) When complete and ready to play the game, click the "Download" button. It is the button almost in the center of the Tool Bar at the top of the Control Manager window, it has a green arrow and joystick picture on it. This compiles the map and sends it to Windows.
10) Close Control Manger when it is done “downloading”
11) Go into the game and you will may have to reassign the other buttons you didn’t make into key strokes. You will also have to assign axes (sometimes) such as throttle or rudder and others. This time you will see that the joysticks are listed as CM Device 1, CM Device 2 and CM Device 3 under joystick type, CM Device 1 is the first device on your map (the one on the left) CM Device 2 the second ect...

You can also download profiles/maps that other Control Manager users have configured for different games and joystick combinations at the CH Hangar : www.ch-hangar.com

Each time you boot your computer you will have to start Control Manager, load the map, “download” the map, close Control Manager and start the game. Remember this map is specific to the game you made it for. If you wish to use your joysticks for other games you can make other maps and down load them, OR, start Control Manager and click the Tool Bar button labled “Direct Mode”, it is the button on the right side that has three yellow dots connected by black lines to a blue bar. Putting it in direct mode takes the controllers out of mapped mode and puts them back into Direct X mode (normal controls).

I hope this has helped. Thank you for your interest in CH Products. If you wish to delve deeper into Control Manager or find out more about it’s features, you can download some easy to follow instructions at the forums of CH Hangar ( http://www.ch-hangar.com/ ). Just go to the forums, general discussions, and then the programming forum. The down load is accessed through a sticky topic at the top of the topic list titled, "Control Manager Tutorial". Open the message and just click the underlined word "here" in the text "You can download the tutorial here (8MB)" in the forum message to begin the download of the document. The document is in Adobe Acrobat format, you will need to have Adobe Acrobat installed on your system to read the document.

Adobe Acrobat Reader is available here --> http://www.adobe.com/

Thank you.




Steve Lister
Tech Support
CH Products