Re: [Flightgear-devel] wish list
Justin Smithies wrote: Would it really be that much of a problem to code to make FG accept an option like --dual-head= ( numerical value in pixels ) Which would tell FG to redraw the last half of the screen ( no pixels from halfway in ) on the next half of the screen. This would fix the display issue and it would be tatally adjustable depending on your monitor sizes. FG would only do this if the above option was selected. Surely that wouldn't cause too much of an issue ? Issues: This would require two cull/draw render loops, reseting the view parameters before each draw. It would also require some investigation into how to draw to just part of a window in opengl/sdl and also has field of view and aspect ratio implications. This isn't necessarily hard, but it's likely to touch many parts of the code, and will add a lot of overhead for the second cull/draw pass. You need to think about how you will configure each set of window parameters. How much gap between each view? Do you want to support different monitor sizes and placement? While we are at it, we should support putting one monitor (out the window view) above another (cockpit view.) But how do you configure all this? Again, not necessarily hard, but a lot of work that would touch many parts of the code. So the technical side of this is probably not all that hard. But getting all the details right, not breaking anything, accounting for all the possibile monitor configurations, figuring out how to define the views in a reasonable way and propogating that through all the code ... that could be very tedious and time consuming. Regards, Curt. -- Curtis Olsonhttp://www.flightgear.org/~curt HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org Unique text:2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=103432bid=230486dat=121642 ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
[Flightgear-devel] wish list
For dualhead displays i feel or rather need this feature adding. My two screens are setup as one virtual screen over 2048*768. ( 2 x 1024*768 ) ( Running Linux , nvidia 5200 dual head )) I would like an option to be added to the FG command line that would remove so much of the screen on the right so where my two monitors join its like having the window strut seperators. At the moment you can end up seeing 2 runway marker lines as the screen goes off one to the other. Anybody else agree ? Is this possible say --dual-head ??? Regards, Justin Smithies --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=103432bid=230486dat=121642 ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] wish list
Justin Smithies wrote: I would like an option to be added to the FG command line that would remove so much of the screen on the right so where my two monitors join its like having the window strut seperators. You'd be better off just running a separate FlightGear instance on the second monitor and slaving it. The whole idea behind having a multiple screen setup like twinview is that it mimicks a continuous area with no boundaries. Putting those screen boundaries back in when the video subsystem has worked so hard to eliminate them is a metaphor collision and a design problem. And on a practical level, those screen boundaries aren't visible to software anyway. Trying to intuit the geometry of the user's desktop (literally!) is never going to work well. Andy --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=103432bid=230486dat=121642 ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] wish list
Would it really be that much of a problem to code to make FG accept an option like --dual-head= ( numerical value in pixels ) Which would tell FG to redraw the last half of the screen ( no pixels from halfway in ) on the next half of the screen. This would fix the display issue and it would be tatally adjustable depending on your monitor sizes. FG would only do this if the above option was selected. Surely that wouldn't cause too much of an issue ? On Saturday 11 February 2006 18:02, Andy Ross wrote: Justin Smithies wrote: I would like an option to be added to the FG command line that would remove so much of the screen on the right so where my two monitors join its like having the window strut seperators. You'd be better off just running a separate FlightGear instance on the second monitor and slaving it. The whole idea behind having a multiple screen setup like twinview is that it mimicks a continuous area with no boundaries. Putting those screen boundaries back in when the video subsystem has worked so hard to eliminate them is a metaphor collision and a design problem. And on a practical level, those screen boundaries aren't visible to software anyway. Trying to intuit the geometry of the user's desktop (literally!) is never going to work well. Andy --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=103432bid=230486dat=121642 ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=103432bid=230486dat=121642 ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
