AAO version 4.55 build 26 has been released today. This version is mostly "quality of life". One big item is the new option to load a configuration or a template at any time by clicking on the aircraft name label at the top - even when you are connected to the sim. This makes it easier for example to edit linked templates.

• Change: General: added option to load a config or template when connected to the sim
• Change: General: added feature to restore a specific automated database backup
•  Change: General: added option to change the Axis Min/Max of vJoy and ViGEm axis
• Change: General: added Checklist Creator dialog to create and compile web/audio checklists more easily
• Change: General: the AAO installer program will look for an updated version of vJoy on the computer and makes sure that AAO uses the DLLs from that.
• Change: General: Event and Variable selection dialogs will remember the last selected tab
• Change: RPN: added (VARSEQ:) AAO command (shortcut for the iseq RPN operator)
• Change: RPN: added "irng" operator
• Change: RPN: More options to remove the Edition from RPN scripts, deflating the database
• Change: RPN: added nonlin{  }map operator
• Change: Gauges: added <OpacityMask> Tag
• Change: SaitekPanels: added option to delete unused configurations (those can appear when Windows decides to apply a different GUID to the panel)
• Change: SaitekPanels: Saitek panels not automatically set to disabled when they are disconnected
• Change: MSFS20/24: Updated MSFS 2020 and 2024 SDK events, variables and SimConnect library dlls
• Change: MSFS24: added the new MSFS 2024 flight plan file format (SimBrief export).
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• Bugfix: Gauges: WebFIPs were not processing Rotation + Shift correctly.
• Bugfix: Bring AAO message boxes to the front
• Bugfix: joystick value not reset properly when using the filter option, causing a shift of the value range
• Bugfix: when split between linked template and current config, fast/slow turn cancel each other out
• Bugfix: template merge disregards linked templates, instead it applies all buttons and axis as unique items.
• Bugfix: Event selection treelist not setting radio buttons correctly

AAO 4.54 build 08 has been uploaded to the shops.

This fixes the problem that InputEvents (IE:) wouldn't work with MSFS 2020

AxisAndOhs version 4.53 build 19 has been released today. Here is the changelog:

• Change: Axis: Axis Filter can be set to progressive or linear average
• Change: Axis: Added "gated" detents
• Change: Buttons: Added option to send the incoming button number to a script for processing
• Change: Mouse Flight Controls: added AAO commands to center the flight control axis
• Change: Scripting: RPN: Arrays/Lists: added ccap (change capacity) and rmv (remove entry) operators
• Change: Scripting: added additional error output to WSH scripts
• Change: Scripting: Export Scripts now using the group name as part of the file name
• Change: MSFS: InputEvents: added option to use IE with up to three parameters "1 (>IE:", "1 1 (>IE:2", "1 1 1 (>IE:3"
• Change: MSFS: Added menu option to reset InGame Panel URL to WebFIPs
• Change: MSFS: improved clarity - relocated the invented BVars as sub-nodes of their InputEvents in the Event Treelist.
• Change: XPLANE: added option to read out the FMS datarefs (for WebFMC)
• Change: Global: updated all libraries
  
  
• Bugfix: Scripts: saving/updating scripts would take a long time on large databases because the temp file was written multiple times
• Bugfix: Scripts: CAPTURETOFIP/WINDOW...: taking too long to identify a window by title. Substring queries must now be declared with ~PART.
• Bugfix: XPLANE: Test 0/ Test 1 buttons not working on the command selection treelist
• Bugfix: XPLANE: fixed handling of string datarefs
• Bugfix: Mouse Flight Controls: when AAO was disconnected and reconnected, the mouse yoke wouldn't work again
• Bugfix: fixed trouble when mixing SPEAK and SPEAKTOFILE commands
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Based on the improvements with CAPTURETOFIP, a package of new WebFMC has been released as well. This now contains CDUs from aircraft where this has been impossible before (for example the iniBuilds planes). The package can be downloaded for free from the axisandohs.com website and on flightsim.to

Today version 4.52 of AAO has been uploaded to the shops

• Change: MSFS2024: aircraft config loaded too early
• Change: MSFS2024: Added MSFS 2024 modular simobject methods
• Change: MSFS2024: Added logic to update MSFS 2024 flight plan file data with geographical locations
• Change: MSFS2024: added L:1: variable processing (read and write)
• Change: MSFS: Added option to call BVars with multiple parameters (>B:2: to (>B:5:
• Change: MSFS: When IEs are collected, AAO will automatically add the most common BVars (Inc, Dec, Toggle, Set)
• Change: RPN: scripts/scriptfiles calling other scripts will now be parsed for variables recursively, to avoid extra initialization code
• Change: RPN: Added (CAPTURETOFIP:) command to stream desktop windows to AAO gauges (to use for example in VR on your tablet/phone)
• Change: MIDI: added channel priority option to MIDI OUT
• Change: Axis and Buttons: added option to use a Combo LVar (a value of 0/1 will disable/enable the control)
• Change: Axis and Buttons: added option to override linked template assets with local assignments
• Change: Buttons: optimized internal processing, reduced the delay between key press and action
• Change: Axis: added option to shift the output value (for example to utilize center and deadzone on a slider to skew the response curve)
• Change: WebFIPs: added option to make the WebFIP load a specific font file
• Change: added extra logging of disconnected or invalid joysticks
• Change: Template export: added "check all" box
• Change: Import Scripts always active, but will disconnect when used during flight
• Change: Added dialog to observe script values (type S:)

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• Bugfix: WebAPI: button events not split into separate up and down actions
• Bugfix: MSFS2024: using BVars in Offline Mode (DCS Bridge!) not working.
• Bugfix: Speech Recognition: the mic timeout was in minutes, not seconds when using the TOGGLE event
• Bugfix: Using (S:group-title) to make scripts return values wasn't working for WebAPI calls
• Bugfix: AAO can't handle more than one POV controller on a device
• Bugfix: Axis Label can't be changed
• Bugfix: Axis right edge wrong when using non-linear dead zone
• Bugfix: Control Layer change not applied correctly when using the click label
• Bugfix: prevent Layer change on linked assets

CameraPositionX, CropDusterX, FireFighterX and AiTrackerX have been discontinued effective immediately. They are no longer on sale in the shops. The update path is still in effect, and bug fixes will be provided to existing customers if required.

Please note that this does not mean that these apps are free- or abandonware now.
​The license terms are still in effect - which includes a ban on all commercial or government use.

AITracker X
CameraPosition X

AAO version 4.51 build 09 has been released today. This update is mostly about bugfixes and improved compatibility with MSFS 2024
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- Change: MSFS 2024: Autostart with the sim tested and enabled
- Change: MSFS 2024: Merged MSFS 2024 SDK definitions for Variables and Events
- Change: MSFS 2024: BVars can be used again
- Change: Added (L:SimVersion, String) which contains the simulator version string that the app is connected to

- Bugfix: MSFS: IEs not working properly anymore in the MSFS 2020 variant of AAO 
- Bugfix: MSFS: when selecting an MSFS Input Event from the variable treelist, the (IE: string was missing
- Bugfix: When loading Templates in Offline Mode they can cause a CTD
- Bugfix: Database Restore had to be executed twice to have an effect
- Bugfix: Change Button dialog switching events to MAN when an IE was assigned. 

Hello @ll,
Version 4.50 of AxisAndOhs has been released today. This includes a new/additional variant for MSFS 2024.
Here is the changelog
- Change: WSH: Added "real" Javascript scripting
- Change: Added sound device mapping to numerical IDs
- Change: RPN: Added feature buffer length to HIDDEVICE information
- Change: RPN: Added methods to reposition and restyle any app windows in Windows
- Change: RPN: added Logging options to RPN, AAO Commands and WSH scripting
- Change: RPN: added rpnnumval, rpnstrval to AaoCmd in WSH 
- Change: RPN: additional _TOGGLE commands for Control Layers
- Change: RPN: additional commands to switch both button and axis control layers at the same time (AAO_CONTROL_LAYER_SET, AAO_CONTROL_LAYER_TOGGLE)
- Change: Scripting: added (CREATENONATC:), (CREATEPARKED:), (CREATEENROUTE:), (GETDATA:), (SETDATA) and (SENDKEVENT:) commands for AI aircraft operations.
- Bugfix: Keyboard button used as Toggle Combo doesn't release
- Bugfix: Keyboard hook didn't pick up system keys (Alt)
- Bugfix: Buttons: P3D-Versions: MAN type incorrect when reopening a button assignment
- Bugfix: Events: Custom aircraft SDK events were not displayed when re-opening an axis assignment using them
- Bugfix: Buttons: green LED weren't working the same with or without "Find Button" active
- Bugfix: Script Editor: Fixed missing scroll bar when resizing the editor window
- Bugfix: RPN: EXECBAT not working properly
- Bugfix: Axis: trigger mode did not repeat when assigned to simulator events.

Hello @ll,
the new version 4.40 of AxisAndOhs has been uploaded to the shops and they are in the process of deploying it.
This version is mostly about bugfixes and compatibility with the latest PMDG releases.

• Change: Redesigned Event and Variable selection dialogs
• Change: Redesigned Add/Change Button dialogs
• Change: RPN: Added (SIMVAL: command
• Change: WSH Integration: added getnumval, setnumval, getstrval, setstrval options to AaoCmd

• Bugfix: Template import disregarded Combo buttons when reassigning the hardware
• Bugfix: Axis: duplicate Axis assignments not processed correctly
• Bugfix: PMDG 777: MSFS data structure updated
• Bugfix: PMDG 737: MSFS data structure updated

AAO version 4.30 build 12 has been deployed in all the shops now.
This is just a small version update, the PMDG 777 "happend" right in the middel of the normal development. There is also a new 777 WebCDU for MSFS to go with it.
Changes in AxisAndOhs version 4.30

• Change: PMDG 777 MSFS integration
• Change: added (HIDDEVICES) command, added indexes to (HIDWRITE/READ)
• Change: MIDI: added option to send fully customized SysEx messages F0 xx ... zz F7
• Change: RPN/MIDI: added (MIDIOUT: AAO command (so you can use %s1 etc.)
• Change: JScript: setInterval and setTimeout can have parameters now
• Bugfix: Axis: when a filter is set, the axis was not updated when the joystick stopped sending data (=the edges could not be reached).
• Bugfix: CONVERSATION: a running conversation could only be paused by supplying the full path name of the file

AAO version 4.20 has been uploaded to the shops today. Please allow them a couple of hours until they deploy it.
Changelog:
MSFS SU15 compatibility update
XP 12 Beta compatibility update

• Change: Axis: "High sensitivity mode" for joystick axis operation
• Change: Axis: when assigning an event or variable with a value range greater than 2, Rounding is preset to "int"
• Change: Axis: redesigned and simplyfied the Axis Trigger Mode
• Change: Voice Recognition: added an error log message when a grammar can't be loaded
• Change: Voice Recognition: added an optional setting to prevent AAO voice recognition reactig to text-to-speech output
• Change: Voice Recognition: added Windows Voice Typing ("Cortana") online voice recognition option.
• Change: Voice Recognition: added option to parse a dictation into button events.
• Change: Scripting: REXEXSPLIT can escape pipe symbol
• Change: Scripting: added "(>>" increment/concatenation operator to RPN for numerical and String LVars
• Change: Scripting: Editor remembers font and size
• Change: Gauges: added option to implement scrolling text
• Change: Gauges: added <Visible> tag to Input element
• Change: XPlane: made AAO more resilient against invalid entries in the default DataRefs.txt and Commands.txt
• Change: XPlane: optimized the scan process for XP files
• Change: XPlane: RPN parser accepts AAOs internal K-Events
• Change: MIDI: added processing of MIDI SysEx messages as 0xF0-CHN-EVT-VAL-0xF7. CHN, EVT, VAL are single byte values for channel (0-255), event-ID (0-255) and value (0-127)
  
  
• Bugfix: NOAA weather API has changed
• Bugfix: Axis/Buttons: attaching an XBox controller and another device that registers as a gamepad, then one of the two won't work.
• Bugfix: Axis/Buttons: updating labels when a script is renamed
• Bugfix: Axis/Buttons: AAO would crash when a game controller was disconnected in a layered button/axis configuration
• Bugfix: Axis/Buttons: When a joystick is initialized before connecting, switch-type buttons that are in the "ON" state were not processed correctly when switched off again
• Bugfix: Axis/Buttons: when scripts were assigned to an axis it would only transmit integer values, regardless of what the rounding was set to. Float rounding has been limited to 4 digits in this case 
• Bugfix: Wear&Tear was missing the option to edit the title of a template
• Bugfix: MSFS: One Shot Autoscripts starting more than once
• Bugfix: MSFS: controls were not disabled in Clone mode
• Bugfix: Gauge Editor: fixed problem with resizing the background image
• Bugfix: Scriptfiles: syntax checker shows multiple choice checklist commands as errors
• Bugfix: Scripting: missing updates in buttons when renaming script groups or scripts
• Bugfix: Saitek Panels: Some buttons not processing ON/OFF correctly when overridden with custom events or scripts (upper row on the Switch Panel)
• Bugfix: CAN: floating point numbers incorrectly "reduced" to the neighboring integer

In addition, AAO 4.20 now has another option for voice recognition.
On the axisandohs.com website, section "DOWNLOADS" you will find the new "Cortana Bridge". This is a plugin for AAO that lets you utilize the Windows Online Voice recognition system. This is way better than the default offline variant but still not as powerful as using the Azure option. The Cortana bridge doesn't requite additional accounts with an online AI provider, it works "out of the box".