I thought I remembered a simple way (as in a single function) to tell if a weapon is currently zoomed, or in "aim mode" (I don't care about a scope here). If nothing else, I know I can use FOSE functions to check if the right mouse button is pressed, but like I said, I thought there was a simpler way. Am I dreaming?

I have used "iscontrolpressed 6" without problems. I don't know of an easier way to do this.

Either
http://geck.gamesas.com/index.php/GetAnimAction
or
http://geck.gamesas.com/index.php/GetLastPlayerAction
can probably do it.

Thanks guys. I guess IsControlPressed is actually the easiest way. For some reason I thought I was going to have to do something more complicated with it.

I had to create a work arond for somethign like this in my sim program for displaying messages. I used a variable to determine if the weapon equipped has a scope(which you mentioned that you didn't need), and then used the isPlayerAction = 9(?) command to see if the player is aiming down the ironsights.