Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: >On Sunday 01 July 2007 17:16, pebble garden wrote: > > >> Here's a picture of what I'm talking about: >> >>http://userimages.imvu.com/userdata/00/01/03/89/userpics/apStickDeflection_ >>0.jpg >> >> Users could disengage the autopilot anytime they like, but it'd be no >>trouble at all to move the joystick box over to the AP stick position >>before disengaging. >> >> Just a thought. >> >> > >Another thought is to have a "ghosted" (50% transparent or something like >that) yoke showing the position of the joystick. When the autopilot is >desengaged the ghosted yoke would for example be disabled by a simple select >animation. > > > > I really like this idea. It seems very intuitive to me, to the point where I'd expect a fairly new user who knew enough to engage the autopilot would almost instantly recognise what the "ghost yoke" represented when they saw it.
Now, how does one go about implementing that? It seems like at least part of it would have to be done by the person building the aircraft model. -- Reagan Thomas CEAT Labs 323 Engineering North Oklahoma State University (405) 744-5735 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
