Hi Claus, adding support for more complex cockpit instruments, like the CDU, indeed sounds very exciting! And I think we have a lot of users here who enjoy advanced and realistic cockpits. So any help in this area is highly welcome!
I'll hopefully find some time during the next days to test and look at your CDU. The only thing which generally concerns me about larger Nasal additions are some unresolved performance issues. Will be interesting to see what impact the new CDU module has. Anyway, performance issues might also be topic for the next few days at LinuxTag. I hope to see a lot of active FGers in Berlin. Anyone else: don't forget, it starts tomorrow/today - and a visit is worth it: http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=11881 cheers, Thorsten On 09.05.2011 23:50, Claus Christmann wrote: > Good Day everybody, > > first of all, let me introduce myself: My name is Claus, I am an aerospace > student at GeorgiaTech and recently got into FlightGear in relation to one of > my research projects. I have been not so good on reading the FG-devel email > list, but have had quite some interactions on the FG IRC chat with other FG > enthusiasts. > > For my research project I need(ed) a somewhat functional Boeing style CDU. > So I got into contact with Gijs de Roy and started to learn about his CDU > project, then still in this git repo for the 744. > > I started to make a wiki writeup for Gijs CDU > (http://wiki.flightgear.org/Howto:_Development_of_the_CDU, not up to date > anymore) to learn about how Gijs implemented the CDU. > > As I needed the CDU to be fairly "flexible" - particularly in respect to [ages > outside the currently implementation - I decided to change from a XML approach > to a more Nasal based approach. > > I have finished a first draft of my code and started to write some > documentation for it in the FG wiki. > > I would like to ask for some dev's to check out my code and make any > suggestions for improvements. As I have the clearance to release the code > under GPL v2, I also would like to offer to merge this into the main FG > repository. > > You can find my code at > https://gitorious.org/~hcc23/fg/hcc23s-fgdata/commits/cdu-development > > The docu is contained in these two wiki pages (and will be expanded) > http://wiki.flightgear.org/Nasal_CDU_Framework > http://wiki.flightgear.org/Howto:_Coding_a_Boeing_CDU > > I am very much looking forward to hearing back from you, particularly with > comments and improvement suggestions. > > Regrads, > > Claus > > PS: for those of you active in IRC, my nick there is hcc23 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
