Don Lafontaine writes: > Hi Curtis and gang > > Is there a way yet to send flight data to external programs? I'm > thinking of linking my freefd gauges to flightgear, and have yet to > dive into your source code. > > Don Lafontaine > http://www.avsim.com/hangar/utils/freefd
Hi Don, There are several ways to export information across the net (or even via a serial port or to a file) depending on your needs. We have several pre-defined structures that are already supported. If certain fields you need are missing, you might be able to talk us into adding them. It's also possible with a little code hacking to define your own specialized structure that has just the fields you need. Here are some structures that are currently available. FlightGear can blast these out via UDP at any rate you want (limited by frame rate.) http://cvs.flightgear.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/source/src/Network/net_fdm.hxx?rev=1.7&cvsroot=FlightGear-0.9&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup http://cvs.flightgear.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/source/src/Network/net_ctrls.hxx?rev=1.6&cvsroot=FlightGear-0.9&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup http://cvs.flightgear.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/source/src/Network/net_gui.hxx?rev=1.5&cvsroot=FlightGear-0.9&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup We've developed the current structures to meet our current needs, but we expect that we will expand them over time as new needs are identified. There is also a mechanism to grab a specific value (or change it remotely) when ever your external program wants to. For instance if you want to support setting radio frequencies, adjusting autopilot, dial in your vor, etc. all in your external code, that's pretty straightforward to do. Best regards, Curt. -- Curtis Olson HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities curt 'at' me.umn.edu curt 'at' flightgear.org Minnesota http://www.flightgear.org/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
