Rami’s thread on "I forgot how much fun driving a bus can be... " made me think of something that popped into my head a while back. In the quiet moments away from my current project I can’t help but wonder what is next. One idea, and there are many, is could a gauge be made for Lorenz type navigation. I know enough now about gauges that I am convinced it could be faked in code. It is of course a no brainer to detect the direction of a given NDB. The problem is, to make it act like a Lorenz signal, it should be pointed at something. Worst case some value could be passed from the gauge in the panel.cfg file via the very last and usually unused argument. The down side of this approach of course is that for every different target the panel.cfg would have to be edited. There is another possibility but it’s a way out one. Some things I’ve seen in the SDK makes me think it might be possible to detect what mission is being flown. If, and I strongly emphasize the "if", then the gauge could read an ini type file to retrieve the target.
Such thoughts though bring up a more fundamental question - a question that needs to be answered first. I suspect the answer is no but here it is. Can something be done in SCASM/bgl where I could read the target (a vector – a line) directly?
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