Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG1000 Status Update

[Stuart B. <stu...@gm...>]

Hi All,

Over the Christmas break I've been doing some further work on the
FG1000 implementation.  Key changes are:

1) Using Emesary to link between the MFD and underlying simulation
state.  This should make it easy to run the MFD on a separate FG
instance, and provides a good demarkation between the individual
aircraft systems and the FG1000 itself.

2) Create various underlying classes to support UI features -
highlighting, editing.  The idea here is that one can create the UI as
an SVG file, and these are used to control it.  For an example of this
in use, see the Airport Information page.  Press the CRSR knob to
create a cursor on the ICAO airport ID, then use the inside FMS knob
to start editing the ID.  This should make creating most of the rest
of the pages far easier.  See
http://wiki.flightgear.org/Canvas_MFD_Framework for details of the
elements now supported.

There's still a huge number of pages to write, and the pages around
route planning will likely be particular "fun", but it should be far
faster now these blocks are in place. The FG1000 wiki page
(http://wiki.flightgear.org/FG1000) shows the pages that have been
created so far (4 out of 28!).

I'm pretty happy with the overall architecture now, so if anyone wants
to create some of the pages they are very welcome to do so!

-Stuart