Re: gui interface

[Gerry Creager N5JXS <gerry cs tamu edu>]

mike_phillips urscorp com wrote:
> 
> I see this evolving from two different angles,
> 
> 1) A nice gui to plan flights, lookup airport detail etc.
> 
> and
> 
> 2) Something that will produce a knee board output we can use in flight.

*Yes*
 
> For airport information something similar to the AOPA airport directory
> would be nice.

But how to get it cheap/free?  I think DiFAF is still going to provide a
big chunk of the data.
 
> If we're into adding new features, how about an interface to duats ?
> There's standalone duats Windoze app does all sorts of nice stuff simply
> using an automated telnet script. It shouldn't be that hard to come up
> with the interface to it. (I'm not sure about going the whole way and
> supporting filing flight plans though :)

Starting with an EXPECT scripting shouldn't be too hard...

> >So far, it doesn't do anything yet; I've only just started on
> >the gui front end.
> 
> Maybe its time to set something up with CVS access and some defined areas
> where willing developers can work on ?

Sounds good to me.

gerry
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