August 15, 200619 yr I've been working on this piece of software for quite some time now...The concept is an open framework on which developers can build gauges in the form of DLL files (similar to the FS2004 concept) with an OpenGL backend. The DLL files have one or a few callbacks which define the behaviour or the appearance of the gauges, and the gauge arrangements are customizable in a configuration file. Which makes it somewhat of a version of X-Panel working with FSUIPC, and, in the near future, a native network API with a higher data throughput.The reason I'm making this is the lack of market for regional jet and small aircraft software which run externally. Project Magenta offers some packages, but they are all very limited and relatively expensive. My first endeavours are with the Honeywell Primus 1000 avionics suite, as found in the Embraer ERJ-145 and Learjet 45 aircraft, and the navigation display is almost complete, short of the MFD menu pages and flight plan loading.I'm currently working on expanding the functionality of the ND, and the PFD will be completed shortly as the individual components have already been worked on in an earlier version. I will put up a web page this week with a ZIP file of the binaries and the documentation and source files needed to write your own gauge files. Anyone with basic OpenGL anc C programming skills should not have a problem building their own gauges, and I've successfully made an altimeter, an ADI and an airspeed indicator on the same API in less than an hour each. (Which was for a Fokker 28 sim project)
August 16, 200619 yr Look forward to it!Does your OpenRJ software able to write complicate system like Honeywell Primus EPIC or Rockwell Collins Pro Line 21 ?Alkit
August 16, 200619 yr >Look forward to it!>>Does your OpenRJ software able to write complicate system like>Honeywell Primus EPIC or Rockwell Collins Pro Line 21 ?>>AlkitShould be possible. The only thing in the DLL is a procedure that gets called back every time someting happens. Like a keyboard event, something arriving from the network, or a screen redraw. It is up to you to write some rendering code that does something useful, from an attitude indicator all the way to a full-blown scenery display system, it's all possible. Primus EPIC and Pro Line 21 are pretty straightforward packages and my Primus 1000 line is almost completed. Making Primus EPIC work is a matter of reworking the existing code, and the Pro Line 21 can be based on Pro Line 4.
August 17, 200619 yr This is great! I see EPIC and Proline 21 as a trend of many businessjet aircraft. They provide situational awareiness level even higher than many other airliner's current cockpit. I do not have program writing skill. I will wait for your coming up release and try it in my EICAS screen. Can it take the most use of 1280 X 1024 resolution? Able to view all graphic in very high resolution and smooth edge even for the digit display.www.alkit.nethttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/154290.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/154291.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/154293.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/154297.jpgThe EIDS that I most want for my FOUR engines cockpit's center EICAS panelhttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/154294.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/154295.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/154296.jpg
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