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Task List
Core properties and subsystems
- Work with Thorsten to re-write re-init to be a normal sim-startup
- USB-HID support, support for more HID devices (also see issue #619)
- Add a hidapi backend to event-input code
- Write a loader to use existing joystick configs with event-input
- Remove PLIB JS dependency
- Migrate Nasal geo.Coord to be implemented in C++, and hence agree with SGGeodesy functions for courses, distances and so on.
Usability
The following all relate to testing and feedback:
- Show shader / rendering errors somewhere so we can trap shader compile errors more easily
- Log out various strings and the /sim/rendering sub-tree, eg shader quality level settings, MSAA level
The following relate to interaction feedback:
- Tooltips, both on mouse-hover and when interacting with a pick control
- Customisable cursors on mouse-move, especially for pickable items. (This could potentially make the yellow highlight effect obsolete, which would simplify the pick scene-graph)
- Change default mouse interaction modes to be spring-loaded so users don't get trapped
Data / deployment
- Finish libSvn replacement code
- Support a list of 'hangar' repositories and synchronising aircraft from them
- Investigate making other optional base-package data be dynamically loaded - AI-models, high-res textures, winter textures, DDS vs uncompressed textures, ATC chatter
GUI / renderer
- Adapt the 2D panel code to build Canvas nodes
GPS / FMS / Route-planning
- Make a 'GPS receiver' instrument which models the physical GPS instrument
- Make an 'IRS' instrument which models an inertial reference platform
- Make a radio-positioning module (DME triangulation)
- GPS Restructuring
- Make the current 'GPS' instrument use a selectable position source - sim position, GPS, or INS.
- Break the C++ GPS into various discrete modules, which can be selected or combined from Nasal
- Bug-fix the various LNAV path controllers (DME arcs, DME intercepts)
- Move many current C++ GPS functions to Nasal (searching for waypoints, etc)
- Make a VNAV module for FMS use (compute climb and descent profiles)
Using the above, more real-world GPS and FMC units can be created with Nasal to combine C++ core modules.
- Create a generic Boeing CDU instrument, using the existing keypad model, but with the Canvas for the content. Various people have done parts of this, it's mostly a collating and refactoring job to get a solution that will scale to the 747-400, 777 and 737NG. Once that's done should discuss with Scott about any Airbus MCDU overlap (but likely not much is possible)
Instruments / displays
- Port NavDisplay to use the Canvas internally