Postby Flip » Thu Mar 26, 2015 10:19 pm
I do it with VoiceAttack (triggering it with a button on my HOTAS because I don't like voice commands).
First, make sure you have keys defined to open the navigation panel, switch to the next tab, move the selection down, and validate the selection. Then it's all a matter of having the program you're using playing the keys required to execute something like: open the navigation panel, pause, switch to the next tab, pause, switch to the next tab, pause, move the selection down, pause, move the selection down (you should then have Request Docking selected), pause, validate the selection, pause, move to the next tab, pause, move to the next tab.
This is from memory, so it can be slightly wrong here and there, but you should get the idea. And the pauses are required, otherwise the UI cannot keep up, but they can usually be as short as 500 or 250 milliseconds.
The only problem is that you have to start from the first tab. Thankfully, that's always the tab selected by default after you exit supercruise, so that's usually OK. And instead of staying on the contacts tab after the request, I have mine ending by another couple of tab switching to select the navigation tab again.
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