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Announcing Comete Gauges for FlightGear

Postby alni » Thu Jun 16, 2011 8:46 am

As I have posted in the thread for Alni FlightGear Control, I have started a project named Comete Project.

Comete Project is open source licensed under the GPLv3 license. Project home can be found at http://code.google.com/p/comete/

Up until now the only sub-project was Comete for FlightGear. But now a new sub-project is nearly ready for the source to be public. This sub-project is called Comete Gauges for FlightGear (CG FGFS). CG FGFS displays gauges in a instrument like panel. The textures of the gauges in taken from the FlightGear FS project.

Here follows a screenshot:
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All the gauges is fully functional. You may notice that the bottom row is missing the side-slip gauge, this is due to that the side-slip gauges requires more work and fine-tuning than the others.

CG FGFS is meant to be running from an android device with a large screen, preferable ~7" or greater. (It runs great on a Galaxy Tab :) )

By the end of this week I will upload the source code for CG FGFS, and also publish a test version to the Android Market.
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Re: Announcing Comete Gauges for FlightGear

Postby Hooray » Sat Jul 02, 2011 3:05 pm

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Re: Announcing Comete Gauges for FlightGear

Postby Oby » Sun Jan 29, 2012 10:02 pm

Eagerly looking forward to the Android market release of this :D Now all we need is a good map application - preferrable with links to charts and other information.
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Re: Announcing Comete Gauges for FlightGear

Postby Gijs » Sun Jan 29, 2012 10:11 pm

Huh, how could i have missed this topic?! I guess it's because I didn't have an Android phone back then.

Sadly Alni seems to have left the forum, but there have been recent updates to the source code, so I have hope that he'll release it one day! I'll send him an email.
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Re: Announcing Comete Gauges for FlightGear

Postby Hooray » Mon Jan 30, 2012 4:02 pm

FWIW, regarding the telnet/props interface, we also used this for the j661 project, but we added a little twist to it by adding new commands to send properties conditionally using new subscribe/unsubscribe commands. So rather than continuously polling all properties, you can subscribe to certain properties in order to get update notifications:

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diff --git a/src/Network/props.cxx b/src/Network/props.cxx
index 7240d5c..bd014db 100644
--- a/src/Network/props.cxx
+++ b/src/Network/props.cxx
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 #include <simgear/misc/strutils.hxx>
 #include <simgear/props/props.hxx>
 #include <simgear/props/props_io.hxx>
+#include <simgear/structure/exception.hxx>
 
 #include <sstream>
 #include <iostream>
@@ -45,6 +46,12 @@
 
 #include "props.hxx"
 
+#include <map>
+#include <vector>
+#include <string>
+
+#include <boost/functional/hash.hpp> // for property hashing (should probably be replaced eventually)
+
 using std::stringstream;
 using std::ends;
 
@@ -55,7 +62,7 @@ using std::endl;
  * Props connection class.
  * This class represents a connection to props client.
  */
-class PropsChannel : public simgear::NetChat
+class PropsChannel : public simgear::NetChat, public SGPropertyChangeListener
 {
     simgear::NetBuffer buffer;
 
@@ -75,6 +82,7 @@ public:
      * Constructor.
      */
     PropsChannel();
+    ~PropsChannel();
 
     /**
      * Append incoming data to our request buffer.
@@ -89,10 +97,38 @@ public:
      */
     void foundTerminator();
 
+    // callback for registered listeners (subscriptions)
+    void valueChanged(SGPropertyNode *node);
 private:
+
+    typedef std::vector<std::string> ParameterList;
+
+
     inline void node_not_found_error( const string& s ) const {
         throw "node '" + s + "' not found";
     }
+
+    void error(std::string msg) {  // wrapper: prints errors to STDERR and to the telnet client
+       push( msg.c_str() ); push( getTerminator() );
+       SG_LOG(SG_GENERAL, SG_ALERT, __FILE__<<"@" << __LINE__ <<" in " << __FUNCTION__ <<":"<< msg.c_str() << std::endl);
+    }
+
+
+    bool check_args(ParameterList tok, unsigned int num, const char* func) {
+       if (tok.size()-1 < num) {
+          error(string("Wrong argument count for:")+string(func) );
+          return false;
+       }
+       return true;
+    }
+
+    std::vector<SGPropertyNode_ptr> _listeners;
+    typedef void (PropsChannel::*TelnetCallback) (const ParameterList&);
+    std::map<std::string, TelnetCallback> callback_map;
+
+    // callback implementations:
+    void subscribe(const ParameterList &p);
+    void unsubscribe(const ParameterList &p);
 };
 
 /**
@@ -104,6 +140,67 @@ PropsChannel::PropsChannel()
       mode(PROMPT)
 {
     setTerminator( "\r\n" );
+    callback_map["subscribe"]    =    &PropsChannel::subscribe;
+    callback_map["unsubscribe"]   =   &PropsChannel::unsubscribe;
+}
+
+PropsChannel::~PropsChannel() {
+  // clean up all registered listeners   
+  for (unsigned int i=0;i< _listeners.size(); i++)
+    _listeners[i]->removeChangeListener( this  );
+
+}
+
+void PropsChannel::subscribe(const ParameterList& param) {
+   if (! check_args(param,1,"subscribe")) return;
+
+   std::string command = param[0];
+   const char* p = param[1].c_str();
+   if (!p) return;
+
+        SG_LOG(SG_GENERAL, SG_ALERT, p << std::endl);
+        push( command.c_str() ); push ( " " );
+        push( p );
+        push( getTerminator() );
+
+        SGPropertyNode *n = globals->get_props()->getNode( p,true );
+   if ( n->isTied() ) {
+      error("Error:Tied properties cannot register listeners");
+      return;
+   }
+    if (n) {
+         n->addChangeListener( this );
+    std::stringstream hashcode;
+    boost::hash<std::string> string_hash;
+    hashcode << "id:" << string_hash(n->getPath()) << getTerminator();
+    // push( hashcode.str().c_str() );  // not yet very useful
+    _listeners.push_back( n ); // housekeeping, save for deletion in dtor later on
+         }
+         else {
+       error("listener could not be added");
+         }
+
+
+}
+
+void PropsChannel::unsubscribe(const ParameterList &param) {
+  if (!check_args(param,1,"unsubscribe")) return;
+
+  try {
+   SGPropertyNode *n = globals->get_props()->getNode( param[1].c_str() );
+   n->removeChangeListener( this );
+  } catch (sg_exception &e) {
+     error("Error:Listener could not be removed");
+  }
+}
+
+
+//TODO: provide support for different types of subscriptions MODES ? (child added/removed, thesholds, min/max)
+void PropsChannel::valueChanged(SGPropertyNode* ptr) {
+  SG_LOG(SG_GENERAL, SG_ALERT, __FILE__<< "@"<<__LINE__ << ":" << __FUNCTION__ << std::endl); 
+  std::stringstream response;
+  response << ptr->getPath(true) << "=" <<  ptr->getStringValue() << "\r\n"; //TODO: use hashes, echo several properties at once, use proper terminator
+  push( response.str().c_str() );
 }
 
 /**
@@ -160,7 +257,7 @@ PropsChannel::foundTerminator()
     const char* cmd = buffer.getData();
     SG_LOG( SG_IO, SG_INFO, "processing command = \"" << cmd << "\"" );
 
-    vector<string> tokens = simgear::strutils::split( cmd );
+    ParameterList tokens = simgear::strutils::split( cmd );
 
     SGPropertyNode* node = globals->get_props()->getNode( path.c_str() );
 
@@ -292,7 +389,7 @@ PropsChannel::foundTerminator()
                     if ( !globals->get_commands()
                              ->execute( "reinit", &args) )
                     {
-                        SG_LOG( SG_NETWORK, SG_ALERT,
+                        SG_LOG( SG_GENERAL, SG_ALERT,
                                 "Command " << tokens[1] << " failed.");
                         if ( mode == PROMPT ) {
                             tmp += "*failed*";
@@ -357,7 +454,7 @@ PropsChannel::foundTerminator()
                     if ( !globals->get_commands()
                              ->execute(tokens[1].c_str(), &args) )
                     {
-                        SG_LOG( SG_NETWORK, SG_ALERT,
+                        SG_LOG( SG_GENERAL, SG_ALERT,
                                 "Command " << tokens[1] << " failed.");
                         if ( mode == PROMPT ) {
                             tmp += "*failed*";
@@ -386,7 +483,14 @@ PropsChannel::foundTerminator()
                 mode = DATA;
             } else if ( command == "prompt" ) {
                 mode = PROMPT;
-            } else {
+            } else if (command  == "subscribe" || command == "unsubscribe") {
+         TelnetCallback t = callback_map[ command.c_str() ]; //FIXME: use map lookup for condition
+         if (t)
+                 (this->*t) (tokens);
+         else
+            error("No matching callback found for command:"+command);
+       }
+       else {
                 const char* msg = "\
 Valid commands are:\r\n\
 \r\n\
@@ -400,7 +504,9 @@ prompt             switch to interactive mode (default)\r\n\
 pwd                display your current path\r\n\
 quit               terminate connection\r\n\
 run <command>      run built in command\r\n\
-set <var> <val>    set <var> to a new <val>\r\n";
+set <var> <val>    set <var> to a new <val>\r\n\
+subscribe <var>      subscribe to property changes (returns hash code for property)\r\n\
+unscubscribe <id>  unscubscribe from property changes (id must be the property hash as returned from subscribe command)\r\n";
                 push( msg );
             }
         }
diff --git a/src/Network/props.hxx b/src/Network/props.hxx
index e55f7c1..09b5a09 100644
--- a/src/Network/props.hxx
+++ b/src/Network/props.hxx
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@
  * FlightGear properties.
  */
 class FGProps : public FGProtocol,
-      public simgear::NetChannel
+      public simgear::NetChannel,
+      public SGPropertyChangeListener // for subscriptions
 {
 private:
 
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