The website have not yet cought up with the ftp site
But in my sneakiness I have been tracking their web and ftp site the couple of days
ftp.thrustmaster.com
Username: anonymous
Path: Accessories/PC/HOTAS/software/TARGET/
Folder contains:
T.A.R.G.E.T software
User manual
Script manual
The Gui crashes on my pc, but the script editoir runs and it can see my Cougar.
I have been tinkering with the software since I downloaded it, in order to convert my IL2 file so I will be ready to fly when I get it.
I have been unable to get the GUI part to work. It keeps crashing. I have been so lucky to get help from one of the Warthog development team to solve it, but still without luck.
The GUI part where not really the focus of my interest since I have been making joystick files for my Cougar since 2003. The (Warthog) “Target GUI”
are meant for beginners and average users. But long time TM F22 and Cougar owners will be spending 90% of their development time in the “Target Script Editor ver. 1.3”.
As a Cougar owner tend to compare the editor to Foxy. For those of you unfamilar with the Thrustmaster Cougar, Foxy are the script studio/application. It is an application with a lot of automated functionality, tools and help system that makes it easier and faster to make you joystick files.
The “TARGET Script Editor”
The application are made in black background with a dark picture of what looks like a hangar.
The menues are made with a combination of icons and descriptive green text in order to look like the nightlight you get on the throttle.
An irritating feature are that the icons are not clickable. You need to hit the text. Like in the Cougar, the manual states that it is possible to make macrofiles, but the editor cannot. The option are simply not there:w00t: I had to go into the scriptfile directory through Windows and make a txt file with the right extension.
The application are not made in standard windows format. Which result in a cumbersome feeling. Since the menues are not accessible by the usual Windows shortcuts like ALT+ menukey. The usual doubble click on the top does not attach or detach the window. The help manual are a simple pdf. document. The document feels very brief and there are no help on slash or bracket modifiers (example: /H) for people converting from Foxy.
The author uses USB codes in the manual, but there are no reference to the format. To make insult to injury the author recommend that the users get to learn the programming language C :mad:
Summery
The application and manuals seems made in haste and without knowledge of how to structure a manual. In my estimate the Script editor is a step backward and I think the Author of Foxy might have a businees oppotunity in selling a conversion of his application.
I have a long history with Thrustmaster top products. In the F22 the issues where Script editor and pots. In the Cougar it was the gimbals and pots. I guess that the Warthogs Accilies heel will be the Script editor and the script manual.
Pros
- The script language seems to be even more flexible and complex that the Cougar.
Cons
- Script application
- Helpfile
- Manual