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Don't round up OSGtext, any way to do this?

Postby Octal450 » Wed Jan 11, 2017 11:07 pm

I have to take my instrumentation/altimeter/indicated-altitude-ft and do a /100 on it, so it shows the altitude from the hundreds place only. But the number is now rounded when I put it into the OSGtext for my PFD.
How I can fix this?

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setlistener("/instrumentation/altimeter/indicated-altitude-ft", func {
   setprop("/instrumentation/altimeter/indicated-altitude-ft-pfd", getprop("/instrumentation/altimeter/indicated-altitude-ft") / 100);
});


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   <text>
      <name>osgtext-green</name>
      <offsets>
         <x-m>0.0010</x-m>
         <y-m>0.0553</y-m>
         <z-m>0.0002</z-m>
      </offsets>
      <alignment>right-center</alignment>
      <axis-alignment>yz-plane</axis-alignment>
      <type type="string">number-value</type>
      <format type="string">%3.0f</format>
      <property>/instrumentation/altimeter/indicated-altitude-ft-pfd</property>
      <truncate type="bool">false</truncate>
      <font type="string">helvetica_bold.txf</font>
      <draw-text type="bool">true</draw-text>
      <draw-alignment type="bool">false</draw-alignment>
      <draw-boundingbox type="bool">false</draw-boundingbox>
      <character-size>0.007</character-size>
      <font-resolution>
         <width type="int">32</width>
         <height type="int">32</height>
      </font-resolution>
   </text>
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Re: Don't round up OSGtext, any way to do this?

Postby PINTO » Wed Jan 11, 2017 11:34 pm

So you don't want the altitude rounded? Just remove the '-pfd' from your property.

edit: also it's probably not a great choice to do a setlistener() on the indicated altitude property. I'd definitely recommend a timer there.
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Re: Don't round up OSGtext, any way to do this?

Postby Octal450 » Wed Jan 11, 2017 11:36 pm

You misunderstand me.
I need the altitude number to read ONLY from the hundreds place. But, that leaves decimals. Since I set my OSG to %3.0f, it doesn't display the decimals, so it rounds up the first number. the -pfd prop just has the altitude / 100ed.
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Re: Don't round up OSGtext, any way to do this?

Postby PINTO » Wed Jan 11, 2017 11:39 pm

Do another property then. On mobile so forgive me not typing out the properties.

rounded_altitude = math.floor(indicated altitude / 100) * 100

Also, you shouldn't use a listener there but a timer instead.
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Re: Don't round up OSGtext, any way to do this?

Postby PINTO » Wed Jan 11, 2017 11:40 pm

Or even cheaper,

math.round(indicated altitude,100)
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Re: Don't round up OSGtext, any way to do this?

Postby Octal450 » Wed Jan 11, 2017 11:47 pm

I'll give it a go.
I use a listener because It needs to update constantly, as I am using it as the main altimeter.
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Re: Don't round up OSGtext, any way to do this?

Postby sanhozay » Thu Jan 12, 2017 12:25 am

If it's updated constantly, presumably at FDM rate, wouldn't you be better with a property rule?
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Re: Don't round up OSGtext, any way to do this?

Postby Octal450 » Thu Jan 12, 2017 5:01 am

Probably.

But that still won't solve my problem ;)
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Re: Don't round up OSGtext, any way to do this?

Postby sanhozay » Thu Jan 12, 2017 11:58 pm

I suspect it will if you can express your requirement correctly in expression syntax.

I have read this thread several times and I'm still not 100% sure what the problem is. If it was a simple rounding issue you would have accepted PINTO's advice. My best guess is that you want to truncate the fractional part of the decimal after dividing by 100, e.g.

10550 / 100 = 105.5, expressed in %3.0f format is 106.

In this case, if you want 105, you need a floor or int on the 105.5 before formatting it. You can do that with an expression in a property rule. You can also do it in Nasal if you insist, but firing a listener off an FDM generated property is not a good idea.

http://wiki.flightgear.org/Expressions
http://wiki.flightgear.org/Nasal_library#int.28.29
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncation
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Re: Don't round up OSGtext, any way to do this?

Postby D-ECHO » Sat Jan 14, 2017 8:04 am

Just a short note, as I saw OSGtext in the title, maybe it's not a good idea to use this at all, as it breaks the rain animation, IIRC
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Re: Don't round up OSGtext, any way to do this?

Postby Octal450 » Sat Jan 14, 2017 4:37 pm

[offtopic]Can you explain more?

I use OSGtext on all my glass gauges.[/offtopic]
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Re: Don't round up OSGtext, any way to do this?

Postby D-ECHO » Sat Jan 14, 2017 5:28 pm

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Re: Don't round up OSGtext, any way to do this?

Postby zakalawe » Wed Jan 25, 2017 3:22 pm

Please don't use a listener OR a timer for this, but rather an XML rule - this is much cheaper for a continuously updated value than nasal, zero allocations and hence no Nasal GC issues. You can use the <expression> syntax to scale and clamp the value, there might even be built-in rounding support, I forget.
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Re: Don't round up OSGtext, any way to do this?

Postby Hooray » Wed Jan 25, 2017 3:26 pm

zakalawe wrote in Wed Jan 25, 2017 3:22 pm:Please don't use a listener OR a timer for this, but rather an XML rule - this is much cheaper for a continuously updated value than nasal, zero allocations and hence no Nasal GC issues. You can use the <expression> syntax to scale and clamp the value, there might even be built-in rounding support, I forget.


That is exactly why Torsten suggested originally to expose the property rule/autopilot system to Nasal space and make it accessible for such purposes:

Subject: 2 Questions: vacuum & electrical
Torsten wrote:I think, performance of Nasal code and XML based property rules is pretty close. The big advantage of the property rules is that they don't produce garbage that a garbage collector has to clean up. But as nothing in life comes for free (except FlightGear, of course) XML tends to be much more verbose - as you correctly stated.

My personal guideline for using one or the other system is:
  • Computing properties from a well defined set of other properties once per frame: use a property rule.
  • If there is no other way to get it done: use Nasal.
I have recently committed some code to allow runtime loading of <strike>autopilots</strike> property rules and have a Nasal binding for that in mind. This _might_ end up in something like
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myPid.Kp = 0.2;
myPid.input = "/foo";
myPid.reference = "/bar";
myPid.output = "/baz";

etc, etc.

But that's probably a little off topic now.



Note that this is one of the most common suggestions (porting Nasal update loops to become property rules), and until the corresponding SimGear/FlightGear APIs are exposed to scripting space (e.g. using cppbind), we will certainly continue to see such problematic implementations.
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Re: Don't round up OSGtext, any way to do this?

Postby Octal450 » Wed Jan 25, 2017 9:34 pm

Good idea.
A property rule much better fits this.

I've been testing a bunch of configs, will report soon.
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