Electronic Flight Bag for VR (WIP)

[Spit40 197]

I'm making some progress on a feature I've been after for a while. It needs a bit more work but I think you get the idea. Based on this excellent project. https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/re-release-extra-toolbar-buttons-windows-template/349316

 

 

Edited January 17, 2021 by Spit40

[Lobaeux 3]

Very cool

[Rene_Feijen 125]

Looking great!

[Spit40 197]

Thanks. Now got each image filling the full window area with zoom and drag scroll working with mouse. Just images so far. PDFs and TXT need a slightly different approach, but both could be saved to JPG as a stop gap.

Edited January 17, 2021 by Spit40

[Booms 43]

This is great!! Well done.

Are you able to share this? Been looking for the same thing myself. I have littlenavmap working but still need a way to view charts.

Thanks in advance!

[Booms 43]

This is great!! Well done.

Are you able to share this? Been looking for the same thing myself. I have littlenavmap working but still need a way to view charts without having to pin a window in WMR.

Thanks in advance!

[Spit40 197]

45 minutes ago, booms_sys said:

This is great!! Well done.

Are you able to share this? Been looking for the same thing myself. I have littlenavmap working but still need a way to view charts without having to pin a window in WMR.

Thanks in advance!

I made more progress today. It basically works like a web page which is an environment I'm used to. I've now got PDFs, TXT files and JPGs working wth zoom and drag. I've done the latest development in a normal web browser and will test in-sim tomorrow. If all good I'll release it tomorrow.

[Booms 43]

13 minutes ago, Spit40 said:

I made more progress today. It basically works like a web page which is an environment I'm used to. I've now got PDFs, TXT files and JPGs working wth zoom and drag. I've done the latest development in a normal web browser and will test in-sim tomorrow. If all good I'll release it tomorrow.

That's amazing, can't wait to try it 🙂

[Jetman67 517]

wow this is great thank you

[Spit40 197]

Sorry guys, it's going to take a little bit longer. The MSFS viewer can't view PDFs directly, so I'm making a little pre-process BAT file that uses https://www.ghostscript.com/ to convert any PDFs into JPG images that MSFS can view. The process would be.

1) Stick all your JPGs, TXTs and PDFs into a folder "ebag" that you place somewhere

2) Click a "prepare_images" BAT file to convert the PDFs to JPGs

So, not too fiddly. There will be a download to go into the Community area to set up the tab and it will read from the ebag folder. My viewer will let you step through the PDF pages now as images with a next/last button thing as well as zoom in/out and drag scroll.

[leec 12]

Is it possible to have a window that is just a webpage so can view navigraph charts for example? Otherwise have to import a window from WMR and tab between them. Thanks

[Spit40 197]

Yes you can view a webpage but if the webpage returns a PDF then it won't cope with the PDF

[Spit40 197]

EBAG V1

Anybody want to beta test it before I upload it somewhere appropriate? https://authentikit.org/msfs/ebag_v1.zip

Screen recorded in 2D, but works in VR. Icons a little small for my taste in VR - just trying to work out a better sizing logic. I think I also need a rotate feature. Any more requests?

 

 

Edited January 22, 2021 by Spit40

[Booms 43]

Thanks @Spit40 I will give this a try in VR! Are you able to a blank page/notepad to be able to make notes (vatsim in VR)?

[Spit40 197]

49 minutes ago, booms_sys said:

Thanks @Spit40 I will give this a try in VR! Are you able to a blank page/notepad to be able to make notes (vatsim in VR)?

I included some demo files to show what is possible. I think you'll have what yoiu need.