On Sunday 12 October 2003 23:03, David Megginson wrote: > I've been hacking around with Java Swing classes during free moments > over the Canadian Thanksgiving weekend, and I have managed to come up > with a minimally-used FlightGear airport viewer. I'm using JDK 1.4, > but 1.3 might work as well (if it has the Java2D graphics API > bundled). To try it out, follow these steps: > > 1. Copy $FG_ROOT/Airports/basic.dat.gz and > $FG_ROOT/Airports/runways.dat.gz to some other location and unzip > them. > > 2. Download http://www.megginson.com/flightsim/apteditor.jar (14K). > > 3. Type "java -jar apteditor.jar basic.dat runways.dat" to start. > > You can also add a fourth argument containing the ID of the default > starting airport, as in > > java -jar apteditor.jar basic.dat runways.dat KSFO > > I'm going to try to make this into a proper editor, but for now, it > just makes for a cute, minimalist viewer. I'll package up the source > code when I have time -- so far, it's not commented or even sorted > into packages. > > > All the best, > > > David
Neat:) I can see a new addition to my favourites drawer. LeeE _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
