Release 1.6.6030.1

User Notes

This release has a focus on viewports with a new control to allow adjustment of viewport images using the Screen Exporter control. These image adjustments are similar to the latest release of Iris Screen Exporter which also now has the ability to adjust image characteristics. Iris Screen Exporter now has improved documentation. The DCS Monitor Setup interface has new helper functionality which aids the creation of the configurations needed by Iris Screen Exporter.
The Control Center now has the ability to transfer control to another profile, as well as improvements to the command line options. Profile Editor also has improvements to the command line.

The new Mirage 2000C profile from @Soyouz2000 exposed bugs and omissions in the interface which have now been addressed and new gauges have been added. Patches for the F-5E RWR & RADAR have been added along with new viewports, and some minor bugs have been resolved in the F-15E functionality.

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Developer Notes

Profile Editor, Control Center & Controls

Iris configuration Helper for DCS to assist with the creation of the configuration files for Iris Screen Exporter

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While not mandatory, it is strongly recommended that the following steps are performed on Profile Editor on the computer running DCS. This reduces the number of manual changes needed to the Iris configurations following the creation of the Iris Partial configurations.

The Iris client runs on the remote computer where the Helios profile will be running in the Control Center. The Iris client needs a configuration which tells Iris where to render the viewports it receives over the network.
The Iris server runs on the computer where DCS runs. The Iris server needs a configuration which tells Iris where to capture the viewports exported from DCS and also the IP address where to send the captured viewport data.
Start by opening the Helios profile which will be run in Control Center on the remote computer
and selecting "The current Profile will be run on the remote computer running Helios"
from the dropdown. This will result in a partial Iris configuration being
created for the remote computer in the folder %userprofile%/Documents/Helios/Iris_Partial_Configs/. It will also create a "compact profile"
containing only the viewports needed on the DCS (local) computer in the folder %userprofile%/Documents/Helios/Profiles/.
Open the compact profile in profile editor, and "Reset Monitors" ensuring that
"No Scaling" is also specified.
A second partial Iris configuration will be
produced when "The current profile contains viewports for the computer running DCS"
is selected in the dropdown. This partial configuration is written to the folder %userprofile%/Documents/Helios/Iris_Partial_Configs/. This is used on the DCS (local) computer and
this will match the Monitor Setup file which is also configured in this interface.

Profile Chaining as submitted by @finbarlay in #760 which is a new output binding on the Profile interface which allows Control Center to transfer control from one profile to another

ProfileName Lua global variable made available to Lua Script binding values

Active Profile Name trigger added to the Helios Information interface
Allow Control Center to loop round the profiles using the Prev / Next buttons rather than stopping at the first / last
Add in new darker versions of the standard wheel images.
Fix for the Inverted Vertical processing for the linear potentiometer.
Exposed the Inverted Vertical and Inverted Horizontal as checkboxes in the behaviour for the linear potentiometer.

Adjustable Screen Replicator control added to allow image adjustments to be made to screen captures such as viewports.

Fix for problem where Viewports incorrectly showed the ability to rotate in Profile Editor Layout. "Simulator Viewport" & "DCS Monitor Setup Script Appender" controls no longer display "Rotation" in the Layout section. #767
#755 Profile Editor and Control Center command line improvements

Help text improved and Usage examples added.
Attempt is made to find the profile specified on the command line of the Control Center and Profile editor in the Profile directory and secondary profile directory as taken from the HeliosSettings

F-15E Strike Eagle

-Minor changes to F-15E interface and controls to fix problems with WSO Caution Panel and UFC Reject toggle switch.

F-5E Tiger II

F-5E Patches for RWR and RADAR. Viewports for these also.

M-2000C

M-2000C Interface corrections from @Soyouz2000, Also addition of more missing values from the interface
Fix for M-2000C HSI Mode Selector knob not changing the Mode needle to move correctly in the composite control.
Changes to the interface calibration of the 397,398,399 and LOx.
Auto binding M-2000C Clock / Stopwatch gauge completion.
Auto Binding of the Backup ADI for M2000C
Auto binding Accelerometer Gauge
VVI Gauge
Templates for M-2000C gauges.