GCS Configuration

Control Panel

The control panel is launched with the following command:

./sw/supervision/paparazzi.pl

and is used to launch individual portions of the GCS (Programs) or the entire GCS (Sessions) with the modem and map settings defined in /conf/control_panel.xml

Video plugin

The -mplayer option of GCS allows to the user to display a video stream in a window of the GCS. The video window can also be exchanged with the map by clicking anywhere inside the frame. Use the following line in your /conf/control_panel.xml to enable the video window.

path_to_ground_segment/cockpit/gcs -mplayer rtsp://localhost:7070/video

Layout

The layout of the different components (map, strips, ...) of the gcs is configurable through a style XML file located in conf/gcs/. The specification is done via a combination of rows and columns. The default layout is given in the horizontal.xml file:

<!DOCTYPE layout SYSTEM "layout.dtd">
<layout width="1024" height="768">
<rows>
 <widget size="500" name="map2d"/>
 <columns>
  <rows size="350">
   <widget size="120" name="strips"/>
   <widget name="alarms"/>
  </rows>
  <widget size="400" name="aircraft"/>
  <widget size="00" name="plugin"/>
 </columns>
</rows>
</layout>

Default size (1024x768) of the whole window is specified in the root of the tree. The window is then divided in two rows:

• the map2d with a requested height of 500
• a set of columns containing
  • a set of rows of width 350 divided into

    the strips frame of height 120

    the alarms frame

  • the notebook frame (aircraft) of width 400
  • the video plugin frame

This second example (left_col.xml) sets the map and the notebook on the right and the other frames in a left column:

<!DOCTYPE layout SYSTEM "layout.dtd">
<layout width="1024" height="768">
<columns>
  <rows size="360">
     <widget size="120" name="strips"/>
     <widget size="300" name="plugin"/>
     <widget name="alarms"/>
  </rows>
  <rows>
    <widget name="map2d"/>
    <widget name="aircraft"/>
  </rows>
</columns>
</layout>

This layout file is chosen with the -layout option:

path_to_ground_segment/cockpit/gcs -layout left_col.xml