Flight Plan Editor - Revision history

Esden at 01:04, 10 March 2011

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	== Flight Simulation ==		== Flight Simulation ==
	Complex flight plans should always be carefully tested prior to flight. See the [[Simulation\|simulation]] page for details.		Complex flight plans should always be carefully tested prior to flight. See the [[Simulation\|simulation]] page for details.

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Agaeb: Link to examples

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Link to examples

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	The GCS can be launched with the <tt>-edit</tt> option which adds an ''Edit'' menu. A simple layout is displayed with only two parts, the map and the XML view.		The GCS can be launched with the <tt>-edit</tt> option which adds an ''Edit'' menu. A simple layout is displayed with only two parts, the map and the XML view.
			See [[Flight Plan Examples\|here]] for some flight plan examples.
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	[[Image:gcs_editor.png\|Flight Plan Editor]]		[[Image:gcs_editor.png\|Flight Plan Editor]]
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	Note that the map displays only the waypoints and the safety area. Trajectories (circles, segments, ...) do not appear and are editable only through the XML description.		Note that the map displays only the waypoints and the safety area. Trajectories (circles, segments, ...) do not appear and are editable only through the XML description.

	== XML ~~editior~~ ==		== XML editor ==

	The XML window is a syntactic editor which follows the grammar of a flight plan (from the DTD description). It is divided into two columns for elements and attributes. The elements are displayed as a tree while the attributes are displayed a list of pairs name-value.		The XML window is a syntactic editor which follows the grammar of a flight plan (from the DTD description). It is divided into two columns for elements and attributes. The elements are displayed as a tree while the attributes are displayed a list of pairs name-value.

Jeremy at 00:42, 14 December 2006

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	Waypoints can be created from the XML editor or directly in the 2D map with CTRL-Left-Click. The waypoints are movable (click and drag) and editable (single click).		Waypoints can be created from the XML editor or directly in the 2D map with CTRL-Left-Click. The waypoints are movable (click and drag) and editable (single click).

			== Flight Simulation ==
			Complex flight plans should always be carefully tested prior to flight. See the [[Simulation\|simulation]] page for details.

Jeremy at 19:43, 13 December 2006

2006-12-13T19:43:37Z

New page

The GCS can be launched with the <tt>-edit</tt> option which adds an ''Edit'' menu. A simple layout is displayed with only two parts, the map and the XML view.
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[[Image:gcs_editor.png|Flight Plan Editor]]
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The ''Edit'' menu offers to load a flight plan or to create new one from scratch. In the latter case a simple template flight plan is loaded after filling in some entries in the toolbox (geographic reference, name, etc).

[[Image:new_flight_plan_editor.png|New flight plan dialogue]]

Only one flight plan is editable at a time. It must be saved in the <tt>conf/flight_plans</tt> directory.

Note that the map displays only the waypoints and the safety area. Trajectories (circles, segments, ...) do not appear and are editable only through the XML description.

== XML editior ==

The XML window is a syntactic editor which follows the grammar of a flight plan (from the DTD description). It is divided into two columns for elements and attributes. The elements are displayed as a tree while the attributes are displayed a list of pairs name-value.

Navigation in the tree is done in the standard way. Elements can be dragged across the tree, with the constraints of the grammar (a <tt>waypoint</tt> element cannot be dragged in a <tt>block</tt>). Elements are added with a right-click which pops up a contextual menu related to the pointed element. Deletion is done with this popup menu or with the DEL key.

The attributes of the selected element are displayed in the right column. Each value is editable. Right-click also gives a popup menu containing the allowed attributes for the current element.

== Waypoints ==

Waypoints can be created from the XML editor or directly in the 2D map with CTRL-Left-Click. The waypoints are movable (click and drag) and editable (single click).