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This is exactly the reason, why we've been working towards an aircraft and GUI agnostic abstraction layer using MVC design concepts - so that reusing and integrating such stuff is really straightforward, without people having to come up with their own custom maps and layers from scratch. | This is exactly the reason, why we've been working towards an aircraft and GUI agnostic abstraction layer using MVC design concepts - so that reusing and integrating such stuff is really straightforward, without people having to come up with their own custom maps and layers from scratch. | ||
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|<nowiki>Today, just the MapStructure framework is under 1k lines of code, and is making roughly 9k-15k lines of C++ code obsolete in FlightGear (agradar,groundradar,wxradar,map dialog), unifying the whole shebang in the process, which also ensures that more modern OSG/OpenGL can be used, i.e. better performance in the long-term. | |||
This all has taken place in under 24 months actually (MapStructure just being 6 months old now actually) - whereas hard-coded instruments (wxradar, agradar, navdisplay,kln89 etc) are usually 5+ years old, and things like the Map dialog even older - in comparison, these were all "easier" to come up with in the first place, but obviously don't scale as well as a Canvas-based solution. Gijs NavDisplay framework is already better accessible and more feature-rich than the original ND code. | |||
But this kind of work isn't exactly fun, it comprises lots of refactoring and is more about talking and coordinating things than actually coding stuff - because the implementation may very well just be a fraction the size of all the manifestations that are hopefully replaced over time.</nowiki> | |||
|{{cite web |url=http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?p=209465#p209465 | |||
|title=<nowiki>Re: scaling instruments in xml</nowiki> | |||
|author=<nowiki>Hooray</nowiki> | |||
|date=<nowiki>Wed May 14</nowiki> | |||
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If you'd like to help in one way or another (no programming skills needed, Inkscape artists also needed!), please get in touch with F-JJTH or Hooray on the forum. | If you'd like to help in one way or another (no programming skills needed, Inkscape artists also needed!), please get in touch with F-JJTH or Hooray on the forum. | ||