ADDED: APM Mission Planner enhancements! Colored backgrounds and UNITS in the FlightData labels...
2012-11-24 MV to All:
I've only just joined the ArduPilot-Mega Opensource Project, and am only just beginning to dig into the codebase.
My goal is to implement a host of enhancements to our beloved APM Mission Planner application.
My cloned repository is named "markevogt-pcl-experimenting".
My first enhancements have now been coded, tested and pushed up to my repo:
1. Flight Data Panel: each of the (6) quickView panels now has black text on a colored background - far easier to see when outside than thin, colored text against a black background;
2. Flight Data Panel: each of teh (6) quickView panels now has UNITS dynamically queried from the MainV2.config[] array, which in turn is dynamicall populated from the APM > Configuration screen. This too is handy when you wish to switch from feet to meters, or from fps to mph !...
Again, this is just a newbie way to start contributing swiftly - work on simple stuff to learn the overall codebase, then progressively tackle more complex enhancements.
Next up: adding the Mission Planner Screen's lovely (large) Zoom Slider control to the Flight Data Screen, so the act of zooming is consistent across The Application...
Feedback is welcome!
Cheers,
-MV
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Tags: APM, Data, Flight, Mission, Planner, ardupilot-mega, enhancements, quickView, units
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Comment by Marcelo Gomes on November 25, 2012 at 4:50pm -
@Michael,
I have directx 11 in my system, needed to downgrade to run it??
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Comment by Vince Hogg on November 28, 2012 at 4:50am -
Thanks for those enhancements.
Might I add a short ‘wishlist’.
1 A wind direction arrow in the corner of the map display.
2 Some form of amp/power display in the gauges tab.
3 Tlog graph- I would like to highlight part of the graph and get min/max/ave for the data in highlight.
Thanks.
Keep up the good work.
Vince
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Comment by Simon on December 1, 2012 at 3:27am -
Hey michael: thanks for adding the auto hide buttons feature in the latest mission planner version! This is going to be a great help in the field on a laptop/netbook with a small screen.
Best
-S
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Comment by Robert Spiteri on December 23, 2012 at 12:54pm -
Excellent work - however I cannot seem to find the cloned repo "markevogt-pcl-experimenting". I am completely new to this repository thing and Graham mentions that the changes are there but have could not make out how to find changes for a release.
It would be extremely helpful if someone could explain in detail for newbies like me how to find the the details of a specific release - I think there are many facing the same problem as myself.
Also a Wiki specifically dedicated to the Mission Planner and its functionality would be a great help.
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Distributor Comment by RC Tech.se on January 26, 2013 at 12:25pm -
Maybe wrong thread but Michael Obornes excellent "top menu smaller/collapsible fix" seems to be gone from 1.2.32 or do i activate it somewhere?
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Developer Comment by Michael Oborne on January 27, 2013 at 4:13pm -
right click the header. and you shall find it
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Moderator Comment by Graham Dyer on January 27, 2013 at 10:35pm -
All these hidden gems! Likewise lamented it's disappearance. Is there a updated list somewhere?
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