On Wednesday 10 May 2006 04:34, Major A wrote: > Now here's is a quick hack I've done overnight, and it's nowhere near > complete of course: > > http://homepage.univie.ac.at/andras.major/PFD1.png Looks good.
> Question 1: what flightdeck is it going to be? (there are two correct > answers...) The flightdeck is going to be analogue for this version of A300, but I will leave that for someone else to do. I might come back and work on the -600 series a month later, which would have a hybrid cockpit. > Question 2: I did that with Python and GTK (pango and cairo, to be > exact). Since it's sooooo easy to do things like this in cairo, would > it be possible to actually incorporate support for cairo in FG? > There's even a cairo backend that renders to OpenGL using Glitz, so we > can even re-use the code for 3D cockpits. How about that? We can even > extend the idea and make it possible to define instruments in SVG > embedded in XML, which is then rendered by cairo through glitz > directly into OpenGL :) > > Andras That idea have been thrown around, but nothing was done about it. On the other hand, there is this: http://flamebunny.homelinux.net/svg2ac.php The only problems are that the placement is incorrect for some reasons, and that there is the convex-polygon issue. Ampere ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
