Canvas displays on different screens / devices

[flycanarias]

Hello guys,

I am not sure if this feature already exists, and if not, if it can be made...

Can the Canvas Displays be displayed on different screens or in a browser, and can they work according to a running instance of FGFS ?
I would be interested to use them in a multi monitor setup for a, well, small and cheap solution for a home cockpit...

Kind regards,

flycanarias

[Hooray]

Hi just briefly, it's posisble to do this - e.g. see:

http://wiki.flightgear.org/Read_canvas_image_by_HTTP


if you aren't interested in doing any coding yourself, there is basically 2 options:

• Using Torsten's Phi/mongoose work and patching fg/sg to live-stream the canvas texture over httpd (mongoose) using a patch created by ThomasS: http://wiki.flightgear.org/Read_canvas_image_by_HTTP
• Using James Turner's FQCanvas, which is however not using the built-in Canvas system to render the texture, but uses a separate/different back-end, which is not exactly compatible with the built-in system: http://wiki.flightgear.org/FGQCanvas

A 3rd option involving coding would be modifying fgfs itself to start a subset of the subsystems to selectively sync/replicate Canvas related high-level state to antother fgfs process, as per:

• http://wiki.flightgear.org/FGCanvas
• http://wiki.flightgear.org/Initializing_Nasal_early