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== Instantiating a MFD Dialog ==
== Instantiating a MFD Dialog ==
{{Main article|Howto:Creating a Canvas GUI dialog file}}
{{Main article|Howto:Creating a Canvas GUI dialog file}}
<syntaxhighlight lang="nasal">
var (width,height) = (640,480);
var title = 'Canvas MFD/Emesary Bridge';
var window = canvas.Window.new([width,height],"dialog").set('title',title);
##
# the del() function is the destructor of the Window
# which will be called upon termination (dialog closing)
# you can use this to do resource management (clean up timers, listeners or background threads)
#window.del = func()
#{
#  print("Cleaning up window:",title,"\n");
# explanation for the call() technique at: http://wiki.flightgear.org/Object_oriented_programming_in_Nasal#Making_safer_base-class_calls
#  call(canvas.Window.del, [], me);
#};
# adding a canvas to the new window and setting up background colors/transparency
var myCanvas = window.createCanvas().set("background", canvas.style.getColor("bg_color"));
# creating the top-level/root group which will contain all other elements/group
var root = myCanvas.createGroup();
</syntaxhighlight>




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