Previously on the first call to display an FG1000 PFD/MFD from
the Debug menu worked, because only one index was used, which was
subsequently deleted when the window was closed.
Now a new PFD/MFD instance is created each time the Debug menu is used.
This isn't ideal, and probably exposes Nasal memory issues if used
many times, but is fine for the moment.
METAR description is too big to fit in 'Weather Conditions' window.
Also moved the description of item selected in the popup (Live data, Manual
input, ... etc.) so it is immediately below the popup. Used to be the other
side of the METAR info, which was a little confusing.
Consolidate the two nasal sections into one (only one nasal section would be used).
Make controls work properly and accurately reflect status.
Remove OK and Apply as enable/disable takes effect immediately.
Comment out unsupported "Download other data files" checkbox.
Revised logic of AI Traffic to reflect status; added button to force update (normally AI Traffic update is only performed during startup)
PTT now in
/controls/radios/comm-ptt as an int; non zero indicates which comm radio to use
/comm-radio-selected is the default comm channel to use. This should usually be the same as will be set by PTT into /controls/radios/comm-ptt
NOTE: that PTT will switch the FG comm inbound and outbound frequency to whichever radio was PTT'd.
Patch by Daniel Wickstrom, requires a corresponding FLightGear change
to extend the special search function used by this dialog to add
support for a type-prefix.
Big rework of the Adjust LOD ranges dialog to hopefully make it easier to understand, and harder to setup so that models aren't visible by accident.
All range entry is now via sliders.
The sliders are deltas from the previous value.
There is now the option to specifically choose either low detail or high detail AI/MP models. *NOTE* that for models without a fallback index the low detail model will be the blue yellow glider.
There is now clear indication of what happens for the Meters or Pixel modes.
Added a defaults button that will restore a reasonable set of default values.
The properties that were used have been renamed to ensure that sensible defaults will be picked, ideally we'd have a way to migrate things like this but I don't think we do, so this is a reasonable alternative.
Since we mutate the (cached) definition properties on each call to
clone(), we need to reset these values back, or the non-clone()-ed
instance gets confused paths to its input and list widgets.
https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/codetickets/2044/
This will only work for valid VORTAC or TACAN stations.
Not all frequencies can be mapped to VOR frequency range. These will be displayed (and entered) without a decimal place to differentiate them.
Realistically 768 pixels is the minimum height for most displays these days, so 500 is a reasonable figure for all displays, and it does make it easier to operate.
- added extra bindings
- reworked the view axis (usually bound to the hat); to move at a better rate.
- trim to elevator position. When selected this will remember the current position and when the joystick is centered it will apply this as the trim. Very useful for carrier approaches; and also it helps to do something that is much easier with loaded controls when you can feel the pressure being reduced by the operations of the trim switch
By setting /sim/model/fallback-model-index, an MP model
can transmit an index into the AI/Aircraft/fallback_models.xml
file which will be used if the aircraft model cannot be found
in other instances Aircraft or AI/Aircraft directories.
GUI and default property for /sim/multiplay/use-detailed-models
to indicated if we prefer to use detailed models from Aircraft (true)
or simpler models from AI (false).
Checklists now support grouping by placing a group of checklists
under a <group> node.
e.g. /sim/checklists/group/checklist
The group can have a <name>, which is used by the checklist dialog
and can be used by other interfaces, such as the FG1000.
- Engines control now use the same axis methods as the flight controls; which allows for these to have an inverted checkbox.
- Change the axis combo boxes to instead show a popup dialog (much like the button config). This is better because the items can be grouped sensibly.
- Changed the way that the "all engines" controls work - the dialog binds these to a "engines/XXXX-all" for which there is a listener in controls.nas which propogates over all engines.
- Added extra bindings to both the buttons and the axis dialogs.
- moved the "None" button to the bottom and renamed it to the more comprehensible "Remove assignment"
Change /sim/multiplay/transmit-only-generics to /sim/multiplay/transmit-filter-property-base, which can be 1 to transmit only generics, or a number greater than 1 to indicate the start index to transmit (e.g. 12000 for new emesary mp bridge properties)
SVG files from Michat on the forum:
Sat Jan 13, 2018 7:36 pm
Me, Michat. I donate the so called garmin1000B.svg file created by me using GPL Inkscape software to FlightGear, the Free Flight Simulator as a present to the flightgear.org. Since now I derived all legal rights to FlightGear via two active developers representatives on this forum topic: Stuart and hooray. They will proceed to upload the file to the FG repository, choosing the best license in order to protect FlightGear from any scammer simulation software, if is possible. Having account the nature of the Flightgear project as public well.
The 13TH of January 2018 in Madrid Spain.
Michat.
- Add new Emesary notification type for NAV/COM data
- Create Update/Publish interfaces using Emesary from properties
- Use interfaces to drive updates to EIS and NAV/COM frequencies
- Change the PageGroupController to a "proper" MFD page
Change fonts; make use of the new feature to allow fonts to be specified using property from dialog xml.
Ensure that all fonts are defined within the style.
Change to use the ports defined in the property tree when connecting from the dialog.
Ensure properties for ports are set to a valid (non zero, not null) value on dialog initialisation.
Add ability to change receive port from dialog firstly to see what it is and secondly to allow multiple fg sessions
As suggested in
<https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/35580843/>, use
$FG_HOME/Export rather than $FG_HOME as the default directory for the
file selector dialogs popping up when loading or saving a flightplan
from the route manager dialog. This is because $FG_HOME/Export will not
trigger the "this path is not authorized for writing" refusal added in
280cd523686fbdb175d50417266d2487a8ce67d2, whereas $FG_HOME normally
will.
Since a typical (and suggested) allowed directory for saving flightplans
from the Route Manager dialog is $FG_HOME/Export, it makes sense for the
Load and Save file selection dialogs to open in at least $FG_HOME. And
since $FG_HOME is a hidden dir by default on Unix systems, it is more
user-friendly to display hidden files and dirs in these dialogs as well.
Note: when hidden files/dirs are not displayed, it *is* possible, at
least in the QtFileDialog, to type .fgfs and get inside when
browsing $HOME, but that is probably not obvious to everyone!
The value of "/environment/moonlight" is now automatically set based on the phase of the moon.
Therefore the Moonlight option and slider in the PUI Environment Settings window have been deleted.
Needs a lot of testing, but aircraft can be installed / changed and
location adjusted from within the sim. After some number of times the
sim will crash.
Allow multiple, space-separated waypoint specifications to be added to a
route, rather than having to type each one and press the add button
each time.
If no waypoint is selected as the insertion point, show a message
and leave the waypoint input intact, rather than just clearing it.
Update the help label to reflect the change and include a note of how to
create offset waypoints using a radial and distance.
At the suggestion of Gilberto AGOSTINHO, add
button bindings for throttle, mixture and prop
to the joystick configuration dialog.
Specific use-case is users of game-pads, but also
useful to users with a single throttle axis on their
joystick.
This follows from http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.games.flightgear.devel/78650 and
resolves the sign bug https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/codetickets/1778/ .
Combined with a matching change to the flightgear repository, this changes the
HUD formats from the current set of 3 (note that the text in brackets is not
shown in the HUD preferences PUI dialog, but is show here for reference):
0) Decimal degrees (37.618890N -122.375000W)
1) Degrees, minutes (37*37.133N -122*22.500W)
2) Degrees, minutes, seconds (37*37 08.0 N -122*22 30.0 W)
to (here the text in brackets is shown in the PUI dialog):
0) DDD format (37.618890N 122.375000W)
1) DMM format (37*37.133'N 122*22.500'W)
2) DMS format (37*37'08.0"N 122*22'30.0"W)
3) Signed DDD format (37.618890 -122.375000)
4) Signed DMM format (37*37.133' -122*22.500')
5) Signed DMS format (37*37'08.0" -122*22'30.0")
6) Zero padded DDD (51.477500N 000.461389W)
7) Zero padded DMM (51*28.650'N 000*27.683'W)
8) Zero padded DMS (51*28'39.0"N 000*27'41.0"W)
9) Trinity House Navigation (51* 28'.650N 000* 27'.683W)
Add valid ranges for day based on selected month and year taking into account leap years.
With this change it should no longer be possible to enter an invalid date.
Added combobox for the month (using name).
Added sliders for all date components (year is between 1971 and 2037 to avoid invalid values in time_t).
Relabelled easing, added a bit of layout context with some ruling.
Magnetic declination being "the direction of the horizontal component of
the magnetic field measured clockwise from north" according to
MagneticField(1), it must be substracted, not added, from true bearings
in order to obtain the corresponding magnetic bearings.
Example illustrating the bug:
Start at KSFO, open Equipment -> GPS Settings, enter KHTH as the
destination and click on "Search". Before the bug fix, the dialog
gives a bearing of 85, whereas the correct magnetic bearing is 58.
Digging a bit further, the true bearings/azimuths for the shortest
path (geodesic line) from KSFO to KHTH are approx. 71.5 at KSFO and
73.8 at KHTH. This can be verified with two independent libraries
(GeographicLib and PROJ.4):
% echo "37d37'08N 122d22'30W 38d32'45N 118d38'00W" | \
GeodSolve -i
71.44943076 73.75785283 343987.398
% echo "37d37'08N 122d22'30W 38d32'45N 118d38'00W" | \
geod +ellps=WGS84 -I -f '%0.3f'
71.449 -106.242 343987.398
(-106.242 + 180 = 73.758: -106.242 is the "back azimuth" at KHTH for
this path)
The bearing of 85 given by the code in gui/dialogs/gps.xml before
this commit is indeed 71.5 + magnetic declination at the starting
point (KSFO), whereas it should be 71.5 - magnetic declination.
Another, more experimental way:
Start FlightGear with:
fgfs --aircraft=ufo --disable-real-weather-fetch \
'--metar=KSFO 070956Z 36000KT 10SM FEW023 11/07 A2977 RMK AO2 SLP080 T01060067' \
--lat=37.61867421 --lon=-122.37500761 --heading=71.45931
(just in case wind influences the ufo, I have no idea whether this is
the case or not...)
During your flight, progressively increase your heading (as seen in
the HUD, i.e., true heading) so that it smoothly changes from 71.5 at
KSFO to 73.8 at KHTH. You should arrive pretty close to KHTH, whereas
the initial heading of 85 given by the GPS Settings dialog is way too
high, be it interpreted as a magnetic heading (which was visibly the
intention---it would be nice to write that in the dialog BTW) or as a
true heading (in which case the result is even further from the
correct value).
