Calling all lateral thinkers - I have controller question

[MadBlaster]

Originally Posted by matsher

Hi gents,

A quick summery -
I bought a Saitek throttle quadrant and its a great tool, it also has a great clamp
to attach it to my desk, I also have a USB PS3 game pad which I have attached to
the saitek unit... they work great together... Now before all you jokers tell me to
get an X52, I can't / won't because I'm left-handed and no damned manufacturer
makes a HOTAS for a left handed person... I think the reason for that is because they are all right-handed facists ... apologies, I digress...
Anyhoo, so here is my question...

Is there anyway I can assign axies's to the 2 thumb sticks and get them to act as NON-constant input levers?
ie: If I assign left thumb stick y-axis to elevator trim and x-axis to rudder trim,
is there a way to get the inputs to stay there when I release the thumb stick
and NOT return to the neutral centred value.

I hope I am making sense ...

ie ie: So. lets say I assign an engine throttle to the left thumb stick y-axis...
can I push the thumb stick up (throttle to 100%) release the thumb stick and have the engine stay
at 100% and not return to 50% (being the centre position % value)?

Please help me crack this one, its driving me mad and I don't want to waste a potential extra 4 axis'seses.
The only use I have come up with for them so far is independent L/R wheel brakes...

I've attached a pic so you can understand what I mean better.

Thanks in advance.

yes u can using Glovepie/PPJOY. you must write a script. but need to clear something up.

the left ministick on the gamepad controls x and y axis
the right ministick on the gamepad controls roll and z axis.

So, this is what i did for elevator trim. I post below.

when I move the left ministick down in the y axis direction, an audible "click" is made and my elevator trim is adjusted by 10% for climb. If I keep holding the stick, 1 second later another audible "click" is heard and my elevator trim is adjusted to 20%....and so on and so on until I release my ministick. Now, I want to neutral my elevator trim...so I press the button on top of the x/y ministick and my elevator trim is now neutral. Now, I want to trim for dive, I move my ministick up....and it's the same way as for climb. See my other posts for glovepie on this board to figure other stuff out. I go take nap now.

*ELEVATOR TRIM
if (said("nose up",5) or helddown(joystick2.Pov1=180.00,.1 second)) and var.etlock<1 then
var.etlock=var.etlock+.1
say"click"
wait .25 second
elseif (said("nose down",5) or helddown(joystick2.Pov1=0.00,.1 second)) and var.etlock>-1 then
var.etlock=var.etlock-.1
say"click"
wait .25 second
elseif said("elevator trim neutral",5) or said("all trims neutral",5) or said("neutral",5) or released(joystick2.Button11)
var.etlock=0
say"elevator trim neutral"
elseif said("climb",6)
var.etlock=.4
say"climb"
elseif said("dive",5)
var.etlock=-.4
say"dive"
elseif said("full elevator trim",5)
var.etlock=1
say"full elevator trim"
endif
if var.etlock>1 then
var.etlock=1
elseif var.etlock<-1 then
var.etlock=-1
endif

*OUTPUT TO GAME AXIS
PPJoy1.Analog7=joystick1.y+var.etlock/*Joystick3+AXE_RY=1trimelevator*/