From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,75dbd5a0f0ce9808 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-06 11:31:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.airnews.net!cabal11.airnews.net!cabal1.airnews.net!news-f.iadfw.net!usenet From: "John R. Strohm" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Need some help Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 13:27:42 -0800 Organization: Airnews.net! at Internet America Message-ID: <2E51CA88FB933F21.8491F341309CE248.DBA75CE0B298BDC7@lp.airnews.net> X-Orig-Message-ID: References: Abuse-Reports-To: abuse at airmail.net to report improper postings NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library1-aux.airnews.net NNTP-Posting-Time: Sat Apr 6 13:30:18 2002 NNTP-Posting-Host: !b^gE1k-W\Vj'+c (Encoded at Airnews!) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22179 Date: 2002-04-06T13:27:42-08:00 List-Id: On the one side, you have the airplane Interface Control Document, that tells you what information is available from the rest of the airplane. On the other side, you have the hardware spec for the HUD itself, that tells you how to set up graphics and such on the HUD. (If you're simulating a HUD on a PC, then you have the PC graphics library, or maybe X-Windows. Whatever.) The mechanization group should be telling you what they want displayed and how, and what the controls should do. Additionally, your systems engineer should have written a requirements specification. The rest is a Simple Matter of Programming. SERIOUSLY: Liberate yourself a copy of the user's manual for an existing HUD, and figure out CONCEPTUALLY how you'd do it. TRADITIONALLY, you're going to have vertical scales for altitude and air speed, maybe with annotations and extra markings to show "interesting" values, a horizontal scale for heading, a flight path marker to show exactly where the aircraft velocity vector is going, and horizon lines (one for the horizon, then lines above and below to give convenient markings for various climb or descent angles. ALTERNATIVELY: Buy a copy of the latest version of "Falcon", the computer game. It will give you a very good introduction to the F-16 avionics, including the HUD. If any of the terms "altitude", "air speed", or "heading" gave you any trouble, you need to get some basic education in flying. "achour ait hamou" wrote in message news:mailman.1018071842.14444.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org... > Hi every one; > > Really, what I need is modeling a problem of Head Up Display in Ada then to > code it. Specifically, I'm looking for papers about this topics for the > first time. After, I will need to know how to program tasks and GUI > (graphical user interfaces) in Ada. I thank you for your help, I visited > adapower.com, it's a very nice site. > > ------------------ > achour Ait Hamou > > -----Message d'origine----- > De : comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org > [mailto:comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org]De la part de Marin David Condic > Envoy� : 5 avril, 2002 06:15 > � : comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org > Objet : Re: Need some help > > > Are you asking about how to learn Ada programming in general or is there > something specific about Heads-Up Displays you had in mind? > > If you're just trying to learn Ada well enough to get your job done, you can > find lots of books available at: http://www.adapower.com/ (See the "Books" > tab) There are also on-line books/tutorials there as well. (See the "Learn > Ada" tab) If you want help on some specific piece of Ada code that you have > trouble with, post a code snippet here and chances are someone will answer > you. > > Try to be a little more specific with your question & maybe we can be more > helpful. > > MDC > -- > Marin David Condic > Senior Software Engineer > Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com > Enabling the digital revolution > e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com > > > "achour ait hamou" wrote in message > news:mailman.1017983642.5481.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org... > > > > I'm a beginner in Ada programmation. I need to code a software for > aircraft > > Head Up Display system, so I don't know if someone have any idea how to do > > it in Ada. I'll appreciate your help, even if you can send me some papers > or > > publications in this field. > > > > > >