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This article is meant to be a collection of self-contained code snippets for doing Nasal/Canvas coding without having to spend too much time working through APIs, documentation and existing code - the idea is to provide snippets that contain comments and explicit assumptions, so that these snippets can be easily adapted by people without necessarily having to be very familiar with Nasal/Canvas coding | This article is meant to be a collection of self-contained code snippets for doing Nasal/Canvas coding without having to spend too much time working through APIs, documentation and existing code - the idea is to provide snippets that contain comments and explicit assumptions, so that these snippets can be easily adapted by people without necessarily having to be very familiar with Nasal/Canvas coding. | ||
Canvas itself is designed to be front-end agnostic, meaning that it doesn't matter where a Canvas is used/displayed - this is accomplished by so called "placements", which determine where a Canvas texture shown. Thus, the back-end logic can remain the same usually, so that GUI dialogs may show avionics, but also so that avionics may show GUI widgets, which also applies to HUDs, liveries and even placements within the FlightGear scenery. | In the long term, we're hoping to grow a library of useful code snippets to cover most use-cases, while also covering more complex scenarios, e.g. using Canvas-specific helper frameworks like [[Canvas MapStructure]], the [[NavDisplay]] or the recent CDU work. | ||
Canvas itself is designed to be front-end agnostic, meaning that it doesn't matter where a Canvas is used/displayed - this is accomplished by so called "placements", which determine where a Canvas texture is shown. Thus, the back-end logic can remain the same usually, so that GUI dialogs may show avionics, but also so that avionics may show GUI widgets, which also applies to HUDs, liveries and even placements within the FlightGear scenery. | |||
We encourage people to use the snippets listed below to get started with Nasal/Canvas coding, but also to provide feedback on extending/improving this article to make it even more accessible and useful. Equally, if you're aware of any Canvas-related efforts that may contain useful code snippets, please do feel free to add those snippets here. Even people who don't have any interest in coding itself are encouraged to get involved by helping test the snippets listed below, for which you only need to the [[Nasal Console]], and while you're at it, please also help provide/update screen shots for each code snippet. | We encourage people to use the snippets listed below to get started with Nasal/Canvas coding, but also to provide feedback on extending/improving this article to make it even more accessible and useful. Equally, if you're aware of any Canvas-related efforts that may contain useful code snippets, please do feel free to add those snippets here. Even people who don't have any interest in coding itself are encouraged to get involved by helping test the snippets listed below, for which you only need to the [[Nasal Console]], and while you're at it, please also help provide/update screen shots for each code snippet. | ||