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Re: any way to get instrumentation details on screen?

Postby Johan G » Tue Feb 16, 2021 2:04 pm

Warty wrote in Mon Feb 15, 2021 10:24 pm:https://github.com/John-Bray/2D-Panel-example
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If you want to take it further, Hooray has tracked down some good references.

agathosdaimon wrote in Mon Feb 15, 2021 11:44 pm:[...] what about for Detlet Fabers BF109?

I think they might be trying to tease you into giving it a try yourself. Hint, hint, wink, wink. ;)

By looking at existing examples and the documentation you could likely make your own in a few evenings. :)
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Re: any way to get instrumentation details on screen?

Postby Hooray » Tue Feb 16, 2021 6:21 pm

Once people understand how to use the property tree and PropertyList XML files, 2D panels/instruments really are very simple.
Indeed, it would even be possible to create a simple Canvas based 2D panel/instrument editor using just Nasal. We already have support for mouse/keyboard event handling (drag & drop), and we also have a directory() API to load instruments/panels from a set of directories - so that we could show a library of existing panels and instruments and even offer to use those as templates to create new panels/instruments from scratch.
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Re: any way to get instrumentation details on screen?

Postby agathosdaimon » Wed Feb 17, 2021 1:15 am

okay thanks - well i think i will be happy with just getting some internal properties showing in screen i dont need gauges and all especially if its going to take too much time having to learn things like xml stuff, which already stresses me just by looking at such
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