Click spots on the overhead panel

[mgeiss]

This is not an important issue for me, more a suggestion for some optimization in a future update when the bugs are taken care of.

When using some switches on the overhead panel, I often find myself accidentally toggling the switch next to it. Most of the time this happens with switches that are sitting next to each other in rows (lights, window heat, elec/hyd pumps etc.).

I have the feeling that this could be because of the location of the click spots, which seem to be sitting towards the base of the switches. Naturally, I tend to click on the end of the switch (the white "hat"), just like you would do it in the real world. I don't know if it's even possible to have a click spot towards the end of the switch, which then also changes it's position when the switch is moved. But I would like to inquire about a possible optimiation to the click spots.

But the again it might be just me having some little issues with that ( talking about bean counting ).

Edited May 11, 2016 by mgeiss

[Litjan]

Moin Matthias,

from one bean-counter to the other : You are right and it happens to me, too. I think we were trying to make it a bit easier if the clickspots don´t move with the switches, because often you will then have them move in front of other clickspots... especially when looking from an oblique angle. So the logic was like this: Moving click+drag for those switches that have more than 2 positions, clickspots at the "base" for those that only have two positions (click-to-toggle).

Once you get used to this (and memorized which ones are 2 vs 3 position) it works pretty well - especially if not trying to click from an acute angle. But I agree that it is not 100% intuitive.

We will see what we can do in the future - but we´d have to update all switches at once, not only a few, because it would get even more confusing...

Jan

 

[mgeiss]

Hallo Jan,

no problem, it's probably something I'll get used to after some more flights. But it's nice to hear that you are considering some optimizations.