(Moving this discussion the the mailing list!) On 20 Sep 2012, at 10:24, Stuart Buchanan wrote:
> One thing I noticed is that the performance has taken quite a hit from > adding the taxiways, as each taxiway segment is being drawn as a > separate object. Thomas - any chance we could have a draw mode to > allow a set of Quads to be defined? Right, don't forget we can build Canvas elements from C++ - we could have helper methods on the Nasal API which create a map layer automatically from an ICAO code. I may end up doing this for the route-path in the map widget, depending on performance. >> related - 'best-runway' is selected, show what the selection is - or is that >> not information not available? Actually no, this needs some extensions to >> airportinfo() I think. > > Correct. We don't have that information available. > >> bonus feature: a wind indicator arrow showing the wind direction and speed >> based on current environment. > > While that's useful for the current location, I don't think it's all > that useful for airports elsewhere, which is a particular use-case for > the dialog. > > If we could enhance the airportinfo() to include the actual METAR (or > indeed expose a metar() call via Nasal), we could usefully display the > current METAR for the selected airport, as well as show a wind arrow > and the best-runway. I think I should go the full way here, and make a NasalMetar object that can be initialised as a location, and fires a Nasal callback when its data changes, i.e when it loads. We have all the pieces for this already, and glueing them together in this way would allow lots of interesting FMS and other features. I'll try to get that done in the next few days. James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;258768047;13503038;j? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
