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Reset Display Heading command

Mr.Crocodile

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Hi all again.
Just a quick question related to the "Reset Display Heading to North" command (space).
I do not understand why every time I use this command the center of the display is set apparently to a random position around the airport instead of remaining in the last current position. This behaviour forces to use the zoom to find out where the new position is and to come back to the last used position and is a little bit uncomfortable.
Is there any technical reason for it or is it just a little "bug"?

Ciao
 
When you rotate your airport project in the ADE design space you are rotating around the airport's location as defined in the airport properties. There is a small marker which marks this location. When you use the command (space) you are rotating the project back to true north and centering the project at the airport's location. It's not per se a bug but just the way that ADE works. You can see the latitude and longitude of the airport location by clicking on File/Airport properties.

Ed
 
Hi Ed, thanks for your answer. I know what and where is the ARP. But as I explained above, it seems that the command does not center the project in the ARP but randomly in different places around the airport
 
I need to check the code that handles this. It may reset around the cursor position
 
After a quick check I believe that the cursor position does affect the reset. I was placing the cursor on the airport location point yesterday when I was testing.
 
I need to dig in further. Certainly if mouse cursor is returned to the reference point then resetting to North will do that around the reference point. Otherwise it gets messy it seems. The code used is in the third party graphics engine which makes it a bit harder to find exactly what happens.

A workaround is to use the Right Click Menu > Center on ARP before using the space bar. Of course that may still not be where the user want to be. However you will know where you are

There are three factors involved
  • The point around which the display is rotated
  • The Airport Reference Point and
  • The location of the mouse when the space bar is pressed
 
Hi guys, if it can help, I made a few quick tests and it seems that the rotation to go back to north is made around the ARP and not around the mouse (cursor position). So obviously if the zoom is big after the rotation the new position is quite random... Even if I select some object (just to be sure that the cursor is some place different from the ARP, the rotation is made centering the ARP.

Anyway, I think this is a "nice to know" before use this useful command.

Have a nice evening.
Ciao
 
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