I'm sorry, but I don't follow the suggestion "Have you tried setting the parameter for that control to the door number, instead of leaving it default to 0? " There is only one option that I see for selecting an exit, rather than a series of choices for each exit number (but perhaps I misunderstand). Also once it occurs even closing all add ons and WideFS doesn't solve it.
However, even when I had the "select item 2" assigned to a joystick button (as in button-6 rather than a macro) the problem occurs. I can not really say it doesn't happen without RADAR Contact, but maybe I'll try some flights with default ATC to see. But now that I think about it, it does seem to happen for sure once I start RADAR Contact, which does use the normal keyboard number keys for "response selections" (even across WideFS). The problem persists even with the default panels. (The rate makes for some realistic movement effects, for some add ons it controls stairways instead of doors etc.) There is an "exit rate" in the cfg file that controls the rate of opening or closing but has no effect on this issue.
You are correct in that it is a sequence of keys - the exit key plus the number of the exit for anything other than the first (actually labeled. Several of the default aircraft have second exits now, including the 737, 747, and 777 (cargo doors in each case). If none of them do, how would I add multiple doors to one of the defaults without importing a whole cockpit? To check this, tell me which aircraft in the defaults in FS have multiple doors and I can test it here. Otherwise, if the sequences are supposed to work, but don't, do you think this might be a symptom on some panels which send loads of controls all the time - the same problem that causes some A/P and other values to be accelerated all the time? If one of those controls intervened between the two parts of your sequence, it would certainly mess it up (same as using any other control between the Shift+P for Pushback and the 1 or 2 for selecting direction messes the latter up). Have you tried setting the parameter for that control to the door number, instead of leaving it default to 0? I'm not saying that will work, but the parameters have been known to be used in some such circumstances, so it is worth a try. I assume this is the one? Are you saying that you follow this with a keypress, 1, 2, 3 et cetera to select which door it is, a bit like engine selection after E? I've just scanned through the list of FS controls, and I see "Toggle Aircraft Exit". I take it that there are now doors in some aircraft that can be opened and closed, and that this is done by a sequence of keys rather than a single control? This is a whole new side of FS I've never heard of! I've never used any exits in my cockpit, except the one to the kitchen to make a brew! :) As a consequence I really have little idea of what you are talking about. Well, I'm wondering if you have anything in your bag of magic tricks that could help solve a problem with exits in FS9. Not sure if there is anything you can recommend or do, but thought I'd throw it out for consideration. Using the keyboard "default method" of press "exit key" press "2" rarely works in any press/ release sequence. Some luck, but not complete using a macro of "press-u, press-2, release-2, release-u", other combinations were less successful. I also tried assigning key presses in my CH throttle for a button press. I had better luck, but still not reliable then assigning a joystick button to "select item 2", and then pressing the exit key immediately followed by the joystick button. First, I have the exit key selected to a "non" shifted, alt or ctl key. Once it starts happening closing the add ons and WideFS does not solve the problem. It is a regular occurrence, and seems to happen once I start running add ons through WideFS (ActiveSky or FS Meteo, RADAR Contact and FDC). I then am either forced to fly with the cargo doors open (ha ha), or, go into the main menu and reselect the aircraft which puts all exits in the closed position. It normally works at start up, and at some point after I have gone through pre-starts and am ready to close everything up the ability to select the second exit fails. The selection of any exit other than the default one works intermittently, at best. But I have a repeatable, so far unsolvable problem. This problem has plagued me in FS2k2, FS9, and on two different computers.Ī lot of add on AC now have multiple exits, which is great.