On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 06:14:03PM -0000, Jim Wilson wrote: > Harald said: > > > - it's an external application because there is no need to put it in FG > > code and there would be some complication with the display and keyboard > > part ;
I like the idea of a FMC system. :-) > It would actually be very nice to have a FlightGear subsystem for this. Even > nicer if it was possible to configure features via an xml config file (since > not all FMCs are exactly the same). You can still manipulate data through the > property system. I know that it would have some advantages if the FMC were part of flightgear, however I tend towards an seperate program like Harald is planning. It could be easily networked so you could use an older computer with a small monitor to put the FMC/CDU on. The FMC program wouldn't even have to provide a text/graphics output necessarily. Would it work to have one node in the property tree that would contain the text on the CDU display ? The 3D cockpit could listen for changes to this node and when one happens, update the CDU display in the 3D cockpit... > It should be very easy to use the NewGUI feature (xml gui) to present a > display with buttons as well as pc keyboard input. How about the setup in a B747-400 with 3 CDUs (and AFAIR also 3 FMCs). For those building cockpits at home, having more than one CDU, each displaying different pages would be nice :-) Regards, Manuel _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
