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Text-labels in FSX

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The program FSDiscover from Flight1 provides FSX with small textlabels over different POI (Points Of Interest). These points (= locations) is created via the program and saved in a simple textfile where each line has the name of location, latitude and longitude.
I would like to create a program which makes FSX show text-labels from a list of small towns in my danish scenery.
I guess I have to explore the FSX SDK and maybee the SimConnect part of it. But I do not know much about this and wonder if somebody could give me a hint about where to look??

/Lars :)
 
Hi Lars,

I never did this myself but here are a few tracks that you might try. You will need C++ or C# programming.

You can create a transparent gauge that covers all the screen and write strings where you want.

You will find an example here:
http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/ES...ReleaseId=1640

That was the easy part. What is difficult, IMO, is to compute where the label must be displayed.

First you must know the position and axis of the camera. I am not sure SimConnect provides that sort of data. If you limit the gauge to the 2D cockpit, the camera will be in the position and axis of the plane. And this information is available from SimConnect. You will also need the zoom factor.

Then you will have to do the computation in order to determine the position on the screen where the label must be displayed. If you love Maths and trigonometry, you are going to have a great time !

Alternatively, here is a dirty but much simpler method to do it : create an AI
non ATC Aircraft using SimConnect. Place this aircraft at an altitude of 2000 ft over the place you want to label. Using the freeze options you can make the aircraft fixed. Give to this plane the name of the place and FSX will display it for you. You can create an aircraft model that is invisible ... and it is done.

Patrick.
 
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