[Opengc-devel] OpenGC / FlightGear

[Damion S. <dam...@ho...>]

> FG and OpenGC are connected. The "interface" module is called
> ogcFGDataSource.cxx/hxx. This replaces the ogcFSUIPCDatasource files in
> OpenGC.

Very cool! You've managed to demonstrate how the DataSource interface was
intended to be used, and it's nice to know that it actually works. Hopefully
the SimGear UDP interface will work for X-Plane as well, assuming it's
primarily a matter of describing the datagram format.

> Probably need to create a tar install file with the libraries and a small
> README doc and urls for the two font libraries (freetype and gltt). the
gltt
> source and library will be included in the tar files. Getting it to work
was
> a little troublesome, no need  for others to suffer that pain, the install
> will create a working copy. Right now the source will load and build under
> /usr/local/OpenGC with a file structure that mimics FG. Build is gnu-ish :
> aclocal, automake, etc etc.

I'll stick the new class in the CVS repository. I think it's now obvious
that we need file based initialization, to having to set data source type
(and gauge type, window size, etc.) at compile time. We also need a
transparent way to build OpenGC in a cross-platform fashion. I've got a few
ideas, but input is welcome. One of the next major changes to OpenGC will be
to reorganize code in a hierarchy so that platform configurations are
separate from base code.

Anyway, great job. I look forward to giving it a try.

-Damion-