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testing my SVGs in Flightgear

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testing my SVGs in Flightgear

Postby pommesschranke » Sun Feb 23, 2014 4:17 pm

thank you, Hooray
for the code to test our svg files:

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    var CanvasApplication = {
     ##
     # constructor
     new: func(x=300,y=200,file="/gui/dialogs/images/ndb_symbol.svg") {

      var m = { parents: [CanvasApplication] };
      m.file=file;
      m.dlg = canvas.Window.new([x,y],"dialog");
      # you can change the background color here
      var color = {WHITE:[1,1,1,1],BLACK:[0,0,0,1]};
      m.canvas = m.dlg.createCanvas().setColorBackground(color.BLACK);
      m.root = m.canvas.createGroup();
      m.update();
      return m;
     },
     
    update: func() {
    var svg_symbols = me.root.createChild("group", "navaid");
    canvas.parsesvg(svg_symbols, me.file);
    svg_symbols.setScale(0.35); # resize the image so that it can be  fully seen (30%)
    #symbol_navaid.setGeoPosition(navaid.lat, navaid.lon);


    },
     
    init: func() {
     var filename = "/Aircraft/Instruments/gyro.xml";
     
     }, # init
    }; # end of CanvasApplication
     
     
    var SVGMapPreview= {
     new: func(x,y,svg) {
      var m = CanvasApplication.new(x:x, y:y, file:svg);
      return m;
     },
     
    };
     
    var preview= SVGMapPreview.new(x:400, y:400, svg:"Nasal/canvas/map/boeingND.svg");
     
    print("SVGPreviewer loaded ...!");



I'm a Nasal newbie and just learned from experimenting that the parameters to CanvasApplication.new()
are all optional, so in this example If I leave away the file:svg then ndb_symbol.svg gets displayed.

this is also very helpful:
http://wiki.flightgear.org/Howto:Debugg ... up_Profile

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Re: testing my SVGs in Flightgear

Postby Hooray » Sun Feb 23, 2014 4:31 pm

No problem, you are welcome - thank you very much for your work, and for helping Michat with those SVG files for the new Map dialog, it's really appreciated - and you've both done a great job with TQPanel, it's really looking very good!

Regarding Nasal, whenever a function's signature uses the equal sign, the parameters have default values:
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new: func(x=300,y=200,file="/gui/dialogs/images/ndb_symbol.svg")


This means: add a new function, named new with three parameters: x,y and file - and assign a default value to each of these, so that they're all optional.
Full explanation at: http://wiki.flightgear.org/Using_Nasal_ ... _arguments

Normally, we could change the code to automatically show a file-selection dialog so that you can select the SVG file, but IIRC there's a bug preventing multiple instances of the dialog from working correctly, and I don't think that's been solved yet (admittedly, also not a priority for me...)
Please don't send support requests by PM, instead post your questions on the forum so that all users can contribute and benefit
Thanks & all the best,
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