navigraph integration on the starship
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any plans of integrating navigraph on the starship's tablet? since the gps units can't display the charts, would be nice to access them on the tablet like other planes.
i'm sure navigraph has a suite of api's to allow for easy integration.
thanks!
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While this is no excuse, since I haven't shied away from hard work in the past...
I approached Navigraph at Flight Sim Expo last year with this inquiry, and I was quite surprised by their response. I was essentially told, "we don't offer any resources to developers beyond the API, so you have to figure out how to program it in your tablet from scratch. That's what everyone else has done. Maybe go talk to PMDG over there." That's their prerogative, and I can certainly understand prioritizing other things, but it obviously wasn't the answer I was hoping for. I told them that I thought they could do a lot to encourage smaller developers by creating a basic framework for WASM and HTML instruments for developers who don't have an extensive web development background, like myself.
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While this is no excuse, since I haven't shied away from hard work in the past...
I approached Navigraph at Flight Sim Expo last year with this inquiry, and I was quite surprised by their response. I was essentially told, "we don't offer any resources to developers beyond the API, so you have to figure out how to program it in your tablet from scratch. That's what everyone else has done. Maybe go talk to PMDG over there." That's their prerogative, and I can certainly understand prioritizing other things, but it obviously wasn't the answer I was hoping for. I told them that I thought they could do a lot to encourage smaller developers by creating a basic framework for WASM and HTML instruments for developers who don't have an extensive web development background, like myself.
@Black-Square Well at least that explains why Simbrief integration is so sporadic. I always thought it was odd how many complex planes that most users would nearly exclusively fly on IFR with proper flight plans lack it, when PMDG has had it for so long working so well.
You clearly have a pretty close relationship with JustFlight, you should see if they can give you the rundown. It'll still likely be fresh knowledge as it's one of the new features in the RJ update that's just about to come out.
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@Black-Square as jasmits said, your publisher justflight is experienced with the tablet, its pa28 has a tablet with ofp and navigraph functions.
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@Black-Square as jasmits said, your publisher justflight is experienced with the tablet, its pa28 has a tablet with ofp and navigraph functions.
@flying_drunkard Unfortunately, all their tablets are WASM, while mine is HTML/JS, so their knowledge is not as applicable as one might think. I have talked to them about it in person before, but I will bring it up again with the lead developer sometime soon to see if we can come up with any new ideas.
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good luck!
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Well that explains why your products don't lock up...no WASM, lol. I've never had a WASM crash with the RJ but out of all the lockups in the sim, WASM seems to be the most common culprit.
@Orlaam That is one of the reasons I prefer HTML/JS to WASM for my purposes. It's relatively hard to cause performance problems with JS, at least without knowing what probably caused it. It's almost impossible to cause a CTD, unless the issue lies within the simulator itself, and not your code (I have encountered about a dozen of those in MSFS over the years).
