Reading this thread inspired me to try using Keygrabber with my Saitek AV8R-01 joystick. Prior to this, I've been using Art's joystick plugin but it allows me to only control the X and Y Axis.
The AV8R joystick has a usb connection and five axes of control: Joystick axis 1 - left & right motion, Joystick axis 2 - up & down motion of the stick, Joystick axis 3 - left throttle, Joystick axis 4 - right throttle, and Joystick axis 5 - clockwise & counter clockwise twist of the stick.
I set up axis 1 to control the X-axis, axis 2 to control the Y-axis and axis 5 to control the Z-axis. Saved the settings and started Mach3 from within Keygrabber. All was good (well almost). The joystick controlled the axes as expected. However, when I restarted Mach3 through Keygrabber, the axis 5 setting was reset to "disabled". I did check the time & date stamp on the default.grab file and it corresponds to the time that I changed it. I went back and reassigned axis 5 and axes 3 and 4, saved and restarted Keygrabber. Axes 1-4 were as assigned, axis 5 was again reset to "disabled" Anyone have a clue why this is happening and how to get around it?
The second problem that I encouter ed was with jogging more than one axis simultaneously. With the plugin, I could move the X and Y simultaneously. With Keygrabber, I can only jog one axis at a time. I checked that the slow jog rate is set to 100% Any suggestions here?
As a reference, I'm running Mach3 Rev R3..042.029 under XP. The version of Keygrabber.exe 4.0.0.11.
Any suggestions or comments would be greatly appreciated.
Andy