Resizable and movable DCS World in-game Scratchpad for quick persistent notes - especially useful in VR.
Copy the Scripts folder into your DCS Saved games folder.
- Toggle the scratchpad with
CTRL+Shift+X - Use
Escto remove the text field focus, but keep the scratchpad open
Some settings can be changed in your DCS saved games folder under Config/ScratchpadConfig.lua (if the file does not exist, start DCS once after mod installation):
hotkeychange the hotkey used to toggle the scratchpadfontSizeincrease or decrease the font size of the Scratchpads textarea
The Scratchpads content is persisted into Scratchpad\0000.txt (in your saved games folder; if the file does not exist, start DCS once after mod installation/upgrade). You can also change the file in your favorite text editor before starting DCS.
When DCS starts, the Scratchpad looks for all text files inside the Scratchpad\ directory (in your DCS saved games folder that do not exceed a file size of 1MB). If there is more than one, it will show buttons (←/→) that can be used to switch between all those text files. The file Scratchpad\0000.txt, where the content is persisted into by default, can be freely renamed, it is not necessary to use the 000x naming scheme.
This is unfortunately only available for servers (the client hosting a server, or in singleplayer). If you are the server, there will be a + L/L button below the text area of the Scratchpad that can be used to automatically append the coordinates of all currently existing mark points (the mark labels that can be added in the F10 map) to the currently opened page.
- to DCS-SimpleRadioStandalone which acted as a good reference of how to setup a simple window in DCS