Auto panning does not always work about msfs-popout-panel-manager HOT 4 CLOSED

Hi Yves,

Are you using current MSFS release version SU9 or the latest SU10 beta?

A little background. How Pop Out Manager's auto panning works is it first executes a built-in keystroke of Ctrl-Space to center cockpit view before executing Alt-0 to overcome a MSFS design bug that Alt-0 does not always return you to custom camera view if your viewpoint is somewhere else before. You can trigger this issue by hold down right mouse button and move to a different view, and then press Alt-0. Sometime it does not return you to your predefined custom camera.

Since SU9, MSFS key binding became glitchy to set the custom camera view. SU10 beta release 1 seemed to fix it and it became glitchy again in the last 2 beta releases. That is what you're seeing when the screen tries to pan and it glitches back.

I've found that setting keyboard control bindings a certain way for above 2 keystrokes help alleviate the glitch. The issue is keystrokes will get mess up if there are multiple bindings to the same game function or if your main key assignment is on the 2nd column in the binding.

In screenshot 1, search for the keystroke Ctrl-space in keyboard setting and make sure there is nothing in the 2nd binding column. I believed I had "F" bound to the 2nd column and I removed it.

In screenshot 2, search for the keystroke Alt-0 and make sure there is nothing in the 2nd binding column also.

Since I've also experienced this problem myself, I'm already in the process of implementing different ways to send keystrokes to overcome this issue and my latest code seems to work better. I'll be releasing this change in next release of Pop Out Manager probably this coming weekend or early next week and hopefully it will permanently fix your issue. I'm also going to keep up with this issue and wait for SU10 official release later this month to see if I have to make further adjustment.

You can test your keyboarding binding fix actually works by manually pressing Ctrl-Space then Alt-0. No matter what viewport you're currently at, the sequence of the above 2 keystrokes should always return you to the custom saved camera view to be used by auto panning.

Please let me know if the above fix works for you.

Best regards,
Stanley

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Hi Yves,

Glad you have your issue resolved. I'm in the process of testing v3.4.2 release and it should go out sometime this weekend. I'll also continue to monitor this issue in upcoming SU10 release (hopefully on August 23rd) and will retest my app again in the final SU10 release against this particular issue.

Stanley

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Updated code to extend auto panning timing in v3.4.2. Hopefully with this code change and using in conjunction with the above control setting fix, it will overcome current MSFS bug (as of SU10 Beta 1.27.16.0) that loading custom camera does not work consistently on command.

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