Plan-zakalawe

Task List

Short term plans

Areas

General areas I'm working on, or planning to work on

Core properties and subsystems

• Create a property benchmark (reading / writing / tied properties / listeners)
• Create a prototype multi-threaded property implementation
  • Track per-thread property state
  • Synchronise property tree structure changes (adding / removing nodes)
  • Define synchronisation points between threads to update property data

GUI / renderer

• Migrate PLIB GUI into our source tree, and convert to a set of custom OSG drawables
  • Convert event handling code to use OSG event adapters natively
  • Ensure all state changes occur via update callbacks, and hence mark the GUIs as static
  • Replace puValue with an SGProperty? i.e allow widgets to be directly bound to a property node
  • Convert all text display to use osgText drawables
  • Make layout support native to widgets?

• Convert '2D' panel node to manage its own picking (removing the currently ugly hack for 2.5D panels)
• Make the pure 2D panel am FGPanelNode attached to the GUI camera
• Convert 2D panel text to use osgText

• Clean up renderer scene (especially the GUI camera children) once all its children are nodes which manage their own picking

FGPositioned

• Re-investigate caching data in a binary format to accelerate startup time (avoid reading nav.dat, apt.dat on launch, and scenery airport data repeatedley)

GPS / FMS / Route-planning

• Extend the GPS code to support more flight-plan functions and en-route information
  • Climb/descent computations, based on some aircraft performance data
  • Compute distances along the route path, including as offsets from any waypoint (this will allow aircraft authors to compute sane top-of-climb / top-of-descent locations, for example)

• Allow performance data to be specific per-aircraft
  • Initially, basic information such as cruise speed, best climb rates, and so on
  • Weight/balance tables
  • Vspeeds computations
  • Minimum runway length would allow lots of filtering to be smarter, replacing various hard-coded guesses in the NavDisplay and GPS

NAV Display

• Improve API based on feedback from aircraft authors!
• Tested support for custom symbols specified via properties

Miscellaneous

• command to load a property-tree XML from a web-service (TCP host + port). Initially to be sued to dynamically retrieve a server list from a server
• HUD configuration improvements