I've been fiddling around with the Generic protocol and managed to connect a few addons meant for Aerowinx PS1 to an instance of FlightGear.
Screen's here: http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j282/Stoney3K/ps1fg.jpg The connection was made letting FlightGear pretend as an instance of PS1, which worked flawlessly for the standby instruments but the PFD and ND are still work-in-progress, since they rely on IRS data from PS1 (which FlightGear may not directly provide). But that's not much of an issue, I do have a few concerns with the generic protocol. * The 'generic' protocol doesn't define an action for an initial handshake procedure. Normally Broker applications communicate in plain ASCII and register themselves first before transmitting or receiving data. Since I didn't have the option here, FlightGear stayed 'Unknown' to the Broker. * The line and variable separator strings are at the moment a little, obscure. What I wanted was to put a full data frame with all variables on a single line, and start the new line with the word 'put'. But since the tags only accepted a 'newline' keyword for the CR-LF character or a custom string of characters (not including the CR-LF in C-style '\n', haven't tried HTML yet), this was impossible and it took a big hit on the overhead and consequently the framerates of the instruments. But the thing worked, and I think that's a pretty cool achievement for an hour's worth of spent boredom :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
