fr. Bill, ah well eh eh, just like the way my gauges look......

Jan,

 

 

In the real F16 MFD you see the waypoints as white circles with the active one flashing. Is this possible and how to tackle this if it is so?

 

Slammer

 

 

Jan,

 

 

In the real F16 MFD you see the waypoints as white circles with the active one flashing. Is this possible and how to tackle this if it is so?

 

Slammer

 

Hi Slammer,

 

While I am not Jan, I will take the liberty of answering this especially given the fact that what I know is do in tremendous part to Jan.

 

What you want to do is certainly possible. Below is an example taken from one of my gauges:

 

<Element>
<FormattedText X="100" Y="70" Font="Calibri" FontSize="20" Color="#FF00FF" Adjust="Left" Bright="Yes">
<String>
%((@c:FlightPlanActiveWaypoint) (>@c:FlightPlanWaypointIndex)
(L:FMC-IRU-POS-LAT-CURRENT,degrees) (>@c:GeoCalcLatitude1,degrees)
(L:FMC-IRU-POS-LON-CURRENT,degrees) (>@c:GeoCalcLongitude1,degrees)
(@c:FlightPlanWaypointLatitude,degrees) (>@c:GeoCalcLatitude2,degrees)
(@c:FlightPlanWaypointLongitude,degrees) (>@c:GeoCalcLongitude2,degrees)
(@c:GeoCalcBearing,degrees) (>L:ND-RTE-BRG1,degrees)
(@c:GeoCalcDistance,nmiles) (L:ND-RNG-FACTOR,number) * (>L:ND-RTE-DST1,nmiles)

(@c:FlightPlanWaypointMagneticHeading,degrees) (A:GPS MAGVAR,degrees) + (>L:ND-RTE-HDG1,degrees)
(@c:FlightPlanWaypointDistance,nmiles) (L:ND-RNG-FACTOR,number) * (>L:ND-RTE-SEG1,nmiles))
%((@c:FlightPlanWaypointIdent))%!s!
</String>
<Axis X="-10" Y="-5"/>
</FormattedText>
<Element>
<Position X="-25" Y="-25"/>
<Image Name="ND-RTE-ACT.bmp" Bright="Yes"/>
<Clip Left="0" Right="560" Top="0" Bottom="585"/>
</Element>
<!--====================SHIFT-X====================-->
<Shift>
<Value>(L:ND-RTE-BRG1,radians) (A:PLANE HEADING DEGREES TRUE,radians) - sin (L:ND-RTE-DST1,nmiles) *</Value>
<Nonlinearity>
<Item Value="-25" X="010" Y="0"/>
<Item Value="-20" X="064" Y="0"/>
<Item Value="-10" X="172" Y="0"/>
<Item Value= "0" X="280" Y="0"/>
<Item Value="10" X="388" Y="0"/>
<Item Value="20" X="496" Y="0"/>
<Item Value="25" X="550" Y="0"/>
</Nonlinearity>
</Shift>
<!--====================SHIFT-Y====================-->
<Shift>
<Value>(L:ND-RTE-BRG1,radians) (A:PLANE HEADING DEGREES TRUE,radians) - cos (L:ND-RTE-DST1,nmiles) *</Value>
<Nonlinearity>
<Item Value="40" X="0" Y="082"/>
<Item Value="30" X="0" Y="190"/>
<Item Value="20" X="0" Y="298"/>
<Item Value="10" X="0" Y="406"/>
<Item Value="0" X="0" Y="514"/>
<Item Value="-10" X="0" Y="622"/>
</Nonlinearity>
</Shift>
<Clip Left="0" Right="560" Top="0" Bottom="585"/>
</Element>

 

You don't really need the geocal stuff to display just the waypoint symbol but I have it also because you need it to appropriately position the flight plan segment lines (rectangles with height varying on segment length). This code results in this.

 

You should also be able to make this blink without trouble by adding a visibile tag and inserting blink code dependent on whether it is the active waypoint or not.

 

Best of luck.

Hi,

 

I use for the symbols:

 

<Visible>
(@c:FlightPlanWaypointRemainingDistance,nmiles) 5 <
(@c:FlightPlanWaypointRemainingDistance,nmiles) 0 > and
if{ (P:absolute time, number) 1 % 0.5 >  }
els{ 1 }
</Visible>

 

and text:

 

%((@c:FlightPlanWaypointRemainingDistance,nmiles) 5 <
(@c:FlightPlanWaypointRemainingDistance,nmiles) 0 > and)
%{if}\{blnk}%{else}\{nr}%{end}%((@c:FlightPlanWaypointIdent))%!s!

 

Mind that flashing will stop sooner when altitude increases!

Thanks all, going to try it.

 

Slammer