ab-tools wrote:
1. are there more people that would be interested in a device with a larger screen (mountable on other Saitek devices) to show the navigation map (or whatever other information that needs more space)?
I currently use a 10.4" Touchscreen to show the GPS Map. (poorly done by moving a floating gps-windows to that monitor). I know of others that attached a real GPS-mapper to FSX.
ab-tools wrote:
2. @c0nnex: would it be possible for you at all to get the map from FSX/Prepar3d as image/bitmap to be displayed on an external device (if API to this device is known, of cource)?
Well nothing else the FIP of Saitek is doing. The "driver" (SaiFlightSimX.exe) creates a Gauge-Bitmap in-Memory and transfers it to the FIP to display. The FIP is technically nothing else than an (utterly expensive) pictureframe with buttons.
( Am currently evaluating some normal pictureframes, if I can feed them with pictures via SPAD.neXt
)
Basically SPAD.neXt can support any USB or NetworkAttached-Device, no matter what kind of. Easy if the specs of the device are known, some try-and-error etc. when not. (like for all saitek devices)
What do you mean by map exactly?
Assuming you mean the GPS-map:
For getting a map to the device, the first problem is to get that map.
Basically there are three options:
a) Screen-Copy the FSX GPS-Window and push it out. Slow and Ugly ( if you want something like this:
https://fsxtimes.wordpress.com/2015/05/ ... o-the-fip/ )
b) implement the gps map calc yourself. Doable but huge load of work. You can just unpack the g1000.cab from FSX\Gauges (7zip) and look at the xml-definitions etc. I am analyzing this, but as it looks like it will be easier to do something on my own, than trying to support all that special stuff they use.
c) Implement something completely on you own. That's the way I will follow most likely. Starting with just grabbing the images from google earth, analyse airac datas, and shown plan position and flight-route.
Long way to go though....
-Ulrich
