FlightGear Newsletter September 2012: Difference between revisions

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As a first proof of concept, Stuart has added a Canvas-based map to the airport selection dialog, and Hooray has demonstrated that the same technique could be used to add a map widget to the route manager dialog - so that airport selection and route planning could become more intuitive using the [[Canvas]] system. For additional info, please see: [http://flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=17625].
As a first proof of concept, Stuart has added a Canvas-based map to the airport selection dialog, and Hooray has demonstrated that the same technique could be used to add a map widget to the route manager dialog - so that airport selection and route planning could become more intuitive using the [[Canvas]] system. For additional info, please see: [http://flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=17625].
=== Flightplan access via Scripting ===
James has added a new "flightplan" extension function to the [[Nasal]] scripting interpreter, which makes it possible to retrieve a hash representation of the flight plan stored in the route manager.
With these changes in place, it is already possible to directly show a SVG image for each waypoint and connect them using OpenVG paths, even without separate "icon" support.


=== High Level Architecture ===
=== High Level Architecture ===
=== FlightGear On Android ===
=== FlightGear On Android ===


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