Harald JOHNSEN wrote: > Josh Babcock wrote: > >> Slightly off-topic. Is anyone working on or thinking about improving the >> ability to do MFDs and glass cockpit type displays? Someday it would be >> really nice to have an easy way to display text on a screen >> > You could write your text in a texture and then use that as a regular > instrument texture. If you > are displaying some interessant texts then it can even be a generic > reuseable text source.
I was thinking of something a little more flexible. Piecing text together from individual letters is extremely tedious. > >> , have a >> plugin generate an image to display on a screen (like a moving map) > > not sure what you are talking about Imagine being able to display Atlas-like output in an instrument in FG. Similarly someone could write code that could display a weather map, or terrain avoidance maps, or maybe some systems management stuff like the glass-cockpit heavy metal planes have. A plugin API would not have to do much, but would enable someone who can do a little coding to do some neat stuff. > >> or >> have a touchscreen where the hotspots can change on the fly. > > Isn't this called panel hotposts ? No, panel hotspots are static. It would be nice to have something that can change as things move on the display or the display changes modes. I started thinking about this because I'm building a super-secret model that has panels that can move. It would be pretty silly to move the panel away and still have the hotspots hovering in mid-air. > >> Maybe just >> have a plugin system that passed screen touches and properties in one >> direction and an image in the other. >> >> Josh >> >> >> > Like 2D instruments with hotspots and conditional layers ? > > Harald. > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d > _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
