FGQCanvas

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James has spent some of his time since FSWeekend 2016 figuring out how he might drive some ‘real’ CDU hardware from the in-aircraft CDU options, and went for a slightly ambitious approach: he's written an analogue of FGPanel for the canvas.

Analogue is actually not quite correct - unlike FGpanel this connects at the view level (canvas properties), it doesn’t run the canvas ‘model’ locally, since that would be very tough (Nasal + whole property tree needed).

This distinction was unimportant for the canvas up until now, but it’s going to become important he expects. This was prompted by his intention to buy something like this: http://www.flightdecksolutions.com/components/b737ng/b737ng-mipmain/fds-b737ng-pro-mx-cdu-color-vga/ Which means James needs the CDU screen running on its own screen/device nicely.

And he already wrote a page-based Canvas CDU over a year ago, it’s just sitting on Gijs’ hard-drive awaiting being merged.

This is currently proof-of-concept quality, but already works quite nicely:

• uses a websocket to send an entire property sub-tree (a canvas, but in principle could be anything) to another process / machine
• render the canvas at arbitrary sie/resolution
• it’s ten source files and very simple code

It looks like this: (see the linked image)

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