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The Flight Indicators Plugin allows you to display high quality flight indicators using html, css3, jQuery and SVG images. The methods make customization and real time implementation really easy. Further, since all the images are vector svg you can resize the indicators to your application without any quality loss !
Currently supported indicators are :
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Attitude (artificial horizon)
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Heading
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Vertical speed
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Air speed
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Altimeter
Source: sebmatton.github.io
1. INCLUDE CSS AND JS FILES
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/flightindicators.css" />
<script src="js/jquery.js"></script>
<script src="js/jquery.flightindicator.js"></script>
2. HTML
Create a <span> section to put an indicator in :
<span id="attitude"></span>
3. JAVASCRIPT
when the span is ready in the DOM (maybe you need to wait for document ready), you can run the indicator function :
var indicator = $.flightIndicator('#attitude', type, options);
Where the first argument is the selector, the type value specify the indicator type and the options overwrite the default settings.
To display the most simple indicator, as for example the attitude indicator, we use :
var indicator = $.flightIndicator('#attitude', 'attitude');
The type may be attitude, heading, variometer, airspeed or altimeter. If the type is not correct, the default type will be attitude.
4. OPTIONS
Initial settings can be modified using the options parameter. Here are the valid options and the default settings :
var options = {
size : 200, // Sets the size in pixels of the indicator (square)
roll : 0, // Roll angle in degrees for an attitude indicator
pitch : 0, // Pitch angle in degrees for an attitude indicator
heading: 0, // Heading angle in degrees for an heading indicator
vario: 0, // Variometer in 1000 feets/min for the variometer indicator
airspeed: 0, // Air speed in knots for an air speed indicator
altitude: 0, // Altitude in feets for an altimeter indicator
pressure: 1000, // Pressure in hPa for an altimeter indicator
showBox : true, // Sets if the outer squared box is visible or not (true or false)
img_directory : 'img/' // The directory where the images are saved to
}
5. METHODS
Some methods are used to update the indicators, giving the opportunity to create realtime GUI !
The way to use it is really simple.
var attitude = $.flightIndicator('#attitude', 'attitude');
attitude.setRoll(30); // Sets the roll to 30 degrees
Here are the valid methods :
indicator.setRoll(roll); // Sets the roll of an attitude indicator
indicator.setPitch(pitch); // Sets the pitch of an attitude indicator
indicator.setHeading(heading); // Sets the heading of an heading indicator
indicator.setVario(vario); // Sets the climb speed of an variometer indicator
indicator.setAirSpeed(speed); // Sets the speed of an airspeed indicator
indicator.setAltitude(altitude); // Sets the altitude of an altimeter indicator
indicator.setPressure(pressure); // Sets the pressure of an altimeter indicator
indicator.resize(size); // Sets the size of any indicators
indicator.showBox(); // Make the outer squared box of any instrument visible
indicator.hideBox(); // Make the outer squared box of any instrument invisible
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