John Denker wrote: > 5) Using textranslate to implement the frequency digits on a digital radio is > still a > kludge. The xml required to do this is long-winded, to say the least. The > patches > presented here do not remove the pressure for a nicer api. Some sort of > sprintf and > substr "expressions" seem like the obvious way to go.
If I understand this correctly I think FlightGear already provides a way to do that. I've recently attached a 2d-panel text animation to a 3d model to display all sorts of text information in an Data Entry Display (DED). See FlightGear/data/Aircraft/f16/Models/ded-display.xml for more details. If I remember correctly it would be easy to use a different font to render 7 (or more) segment led displays (I believe such a font is already in the base package). The only drawback is that one needs to define a background texture (in this case I had to use a transparent texture to remove it) A better approach would be to not use a background polygon when no background texture is defined). Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
