Hi guys,
First post here. Like all of you, I'm loving flight simming now. I hadn't touched FSX for about five years until I tried and then bought this great program.
I've encountered a problem that doesn't seem to have been mentioned on the forums. I've tried searching "typing" and "focus" and "typing vatsim" with no luck.
The problem is that to type into a VATSIM chat window, or its Flight Plan clipboard, I have to place the FlyInside FSX dot in the text entry field and click or double click and then type. No problem so far but what happens is that within seconds focus is lost and any further typing is useless until I repeat the process. This is, as you can imagine, quite tedious and time consuming even while stationary on the ground. There should be a way to lock focus in a text entry field. Maybe by double clicking in it? Then, to break focus, the Tab key might be a good choice. Not Enter as one might want to do a line break within the message.
I've tried tilting my head up so that I can see my monitor and type in the VATSIM windows there but that doesn't work. I can't type at all in those windows while their twins are floating inside the cockpit. If I could, for the few times I'll need to be typing that would be fine. A bit immersion breaking but heck... there's no way I'm going back to flying staring at a monitor.
I hope this problem can be solved. I mean I hope it's possible to implement some sort of focus lock.
Thanks and cheers,
JB