The latest version of TaxiDraw is now up at: www.nottingham.ac.uk/~eazdluf/TaxiDraw-0p0p6-preAlpha-w32bin.zip - Windows Binary (statically linked) [317K]
www.nottingham.ac.uk/~eazdluf/TaxiDraw-0p0p6-preAlpha-src.tar.gz - source and makefile for Linux [55K], requires wxGTK-dev. Summary of changes from 0.0.5 to 0.0.6: Implemented undo/redo. Implemented copy/paste. Runways can be edited, but this is locked by default - use 'u' to allow editing of runways. Runway properties can be viewed at any time though be right clicking on a rwy even when locked and not selected, since this is useful for aligning taxiways to the same heading. Work in progress can be saved and reloaded from a .twy file. 'w' to write a .dat file is now depreciated. A 5 arcsec grid overlay as used on the CAA aerodrome charts is on by default. Use Ctrl+G to toggle this. A centerline is displayed on the selected taxiway by default. Use Ctrl+L to toggle this feature. New taxiways are added at the view center, not the airport center. Ctrl+Shift+(j/k) increases the rotation resolution to 0.01 degrees compared to the default of 0.1 degrees for (j/k), allowing any 2 decimal place heading to be set. Possibly a few other bits and bobs I can't remember! A few notes on the above might be in order - Undo / Redo only works on single taxiways that have been moved, added or deleted. It won't work if you've moved all taxiways at once using the keyboard with none selected. It's very useful though to be able to disassemble a bit of an airport to see how it's put together and then reassemble it exactly as it was before, and useful to have a backup if accidently moving a taxiway. Copy / paste should work both Windows style into a buffer and unix style select and middle click. It only copies and pastes to a local buffer within the same program - NOT to the OS buffer. Only one taxiway at once can currently be pasted - sorry Jon! Ctrl-C doesn't seem to work as a shortcut for edit->copy on Linux, but the menu entry itself does. When runways are not locked, they can be moved with the mouse but not rotated. That is deliberate, to encourage the correct runway heading to be looked up, and entered via the properties box. Runways are locked by default to prevent accidental moving - one should be very sure what one is doing before messing with the runway positions! File saving and all that. File->new is the same as the current load raw airport - it asks for an ICAO code and loads it from runways.dat. Work in progress can now be saved to and opened from a .twy file, which stores the airport in the same format as runways.dat. Currently no export function to runways.dat exists - you'll need to copy and paste from the .twy file, but I'll add an export function at some point. DON'T save the work in progress to runways.dat, or all other airports will be wiped out! Currently save doesn't notify if you save to an existing file name, but since it defaults to ICAO.twy there shouldn't be too much change of getting into trouble. Also, the program can be shut down with changes outstanding with no save warning whatsoever. You have been warned! The 5 arcsec grid is what is overlaid on UK civil (CAA) aerodrome charts. If anyone is working from charts with a different overlay then just shout and I'll add it. Have fun, report bugs and suggestions either directly or to the list, Cheers - Dave _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
