Sunday, July 5, 2009

Some work on the Mac ATC client

After many months of having no time to devote to the Mac radar client, I had a little bit of time over the weekend.

To properly set expectations on where things stand, right now it's just loading the sector file and drawing it. I had been having problems with zooming and panning that were bugging me, but those have been resolved.

However, despite my warnings of the rudimentary state at which we're at, I can't resist a small teaser:

lax_mac_client.jpg

That boys and girls, is KLAX from the ZLA sector file. (Only airports, runways and geo's are being drawn in this example.) The colors no doubt need adjusting, but any ZLA controller will certainly feel at home looking at that diagram.

So what's up next?

Before I get too far, I need to optimize the drawing routines, so that's probably next. Then I'll start wiring up the interface to allow the enabling / disabling of drawing of all the various sector file elements without having to change code. After that I'll start working on the text system (chat windows and such). Once all that is done, we'll be ready to start delving into networking and making planes move.

1 comment:

  1. Hey, Looks Great!
    I know you've probably got lots of help offers, but if you need anything at all, I would be more than happy to help you :)

    Keep it up
    Felix

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