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Re: Piper PA28 Warrior II

Postby Robertfm » Sun Aug 23, 2020 9:30 pm

It was the link you posted, the one above the screenshot.
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Re: Piper PA28 Warrior II

Postby Robertfm » Sun Aug 23, 2020 9:35 pm

I've looked at the other 2 git links and still have no idea how to down load it even if I wanted to.
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Re: Piper PA28 Warrior II

Postby Hooray » Sun Aug 23, 2020 9:44 pm

For FGQCanvas, see: https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/ma ... /36724213/

Otherwise (using just a browser):

- enable mongoose (Phi)
- start flightgear
- start your browser
- open Phi via the browser
- edit the URL to append /canvasimage?type=png&canvasindex=0
- change the index as needed, i.e. by navigating to the /canvas location via the property browser

PS: This may still not be the perfect tool for the job, especially when dealing with complex avionics like the FG1000 - like I said, it's "streaming" the raster image over http - FGQCanvas works differently, i.e. by copying/replicating state over http and re-rendering the underlying primitive.
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Re: Piper PA28 Warrior II

Postby Robertfm » Sun Aug 23, 2020 9:47 pm

Thank you I will try tomorrow.
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Re: Piper PA28 Warrior II

Postby Hooray » Sun Aug 23, 2020 9:52 pm

At least on a single computer, Jules' windowBuilder approach is likely to be very much superior in comparison - simply because it's under 50 lines of C++ code that could be either executed as a fgcommand, or added as a dedicated "canvas placement", and it's hardware-accelerated too - i.e. using native OSG/OpenGL, without re-rendering the Canvas as per FGQCanvas, and without "streaming" anything.

So, people wanting to render a canvas outside the main fgfs window (on a single machine, possibly using multiple GPUs/screens) will be better served using the WindowBuilder/compositeviewer option.

Furthermore, it would be a good test bed to continue prototyping CompositeViewer support, without being restricted by scenery/terrain issues (our pager wasn't designed with this use-case in mind, but a canvas is conceptually a separate scene graph anyway).
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Re: CompositeViewer, Canvas and windows outside main window

Postby Robertfm » Mon Aug 24, 2020 11:02 am

Tried to add to 8080 as suggested and got an 404 error. I then added it keeping MAP in URL and it took me to aircraft page in Phi. I looked in the browser/canvas/index/Textures x4. But no reference to panel.
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Re: CompositeViewer, Canvas and windows outside main window

Postby Hooray » Mon Aug 24, 2020 5:09 pm

keep the port number as is, after the port number change the URL like I said.
Use the property browser to determine a valid index, or simply use 0 or 1 for testing purposes.

To be honest though, getting this to work isn't very complicated, so you must be making rather trivial mistakes - in other words, you might be better off sharing screen shots detailing your exact steps, because it seems unlikely that we can guess what you are doing differently.
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Re: CompositeViewer, Canvas and windows outside main window

Postby Robertfm » Mon Aug 24, 2020 5:43 pm

Why don't you understand the written word. When I put the extension to the URL you posted I got 404 error message . This is what the URL was localhost:8080/canvasimage?type=png&canvasindex=0 Then I tried it with the #Map in situe which is when it went to the Aircraft tab of the Phi.

There was nothing clearly related to the panel in Property Browser canvas index there was x 4 textures.

So what did I do wrong.

Edit: just changed 0 to 1 and got same 404 error message.
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Re: CompositeViewer, Canvas and windows outside main window

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