Emesary MFD bridge

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Objective

Document ongoing talks and ideas about using the Emesary framework to provide a sane interfacing mechanism for Canvas based avionics (and lower-level MapStructure building blocks]] using Richard's Canvas MFD Framework.

Background

Over time, the NavDisplay code has become a huge mess - it is far from being easily maintainable, yet it is the most widely used Canvas-based MFD in use today. So there are some lessons to be learnt from the whole experience.

Design Goals

The NavDisplay code is structured to support:

• truly indenpendent instances (an arbitrary number of them)
• styling of ND layers/components according to aircraft specifics (think Boeing vs. Airbus ND)
• encapsulate aircraft/system specifics (think differences between fdm, autopilot and route manager)

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