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Some more detail including different colors for different surfaces and the start of being able to draw taxiways. The more I work on this stuff the more I appreciate what a great job Lee did with AFCAD. There are still a number of things he managed that I currently have no idea how to handle :o
 
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No one said it was going to be easy ;)

Lee did an extraordinary job.

George
 
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You may have to do it the way Lee did it.

What I mean is the very first version of AFCAD (FS2002) only added parking spots, sized them and link them to a runway.

He would then release that version so everone could try it.

The next version would add something else which is the same as the way you release SDE.

Lee used the old PAI AFCAD web site as his way of releasing different versions to everyone for feedback. AFCAD was a on going project and never was fully completed.

AFCAD was a FS2002 program and it used symbols for the graphics. The GUI is not showing the actual taxiway or a runway but a representation of one with a simple link line. That would say the art work in the GUI is actually owned by AFCAD and not FS.

When FS2004 came out he kept the art work in place and applied XML to it.

I will e-mail you a very early AFCAD document that shows the GUI symbols used by AFCAD in its design stages for FS2002.
 
Thanks Jim. I would very much appreciate the documentation.

I am planning to release a version of ADE shortly. At the moment it is display only so not selecting, reading porperties, moving, deleting and so on.

My Graphics engine can handle all those things but first I want to be sure that I can draw the airport elements in their correct relation and to an accurate scale.
 
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