Analysis software

[Michael Cooper]

Hi All—

 

I’ll shortly be starting a new project—hoping to put together some improved/free analysis software for FlySight data files. As usual, the source code will be completely open.

 

I initially considered starting with Tom’s excellent work, but one of my main goals is to make the software cross-platform—something I think may be made more difficult by starting with Windows-centric software. What I have in mind is to build the software around C++/Qt.

 

I have a few initial goals for the software. First, I’d like to duplicate the functionality of the existing OS X FlySight Viewer—the ability to display simply plots—but I’d like to make a few changes:

 

-          Ability to display more than one plot at the same time.

-          Horizontal and vertical views of the flight trajectory.

-          Ability to highlight a point in one of the views, and have that point reflected in the other views.

 

Initially, the idea is just to create a straightforward and fast way to analyze FlySight logs after a jump.

 

Looking forward, there are a couple other things which people have asked about, and which I would like to incorporate into the software:

 

-          A way to modify the configuration file more easily/visually.

-          A way to generate a sound track given a FlySight log file.

-          Possibly, a way to synchronize that sound track with video, though that’s on the long-term list at the moment.

 

Ultimately, there are two main goals I’d like to accomplish here:

 

-          Make it easier to change settings on the FlySight.

-          Make it easier to debrief immediately after a jump.

 

Any thoughts/ideas would be appreciated. Thanks!

 

Michael

[Tom van Dijck]

Qt + C++ is a good combination for cross platform development. I chose C# mostly because it is a very effective language on windows and you get fast results with little effort. In c++ your productivity is generally a lot lower.

That said, my program works fine on Mac/Linux too if you install the mono toolkit, but it's not ideal.

However, at this point the majority of your customers use paralog, which is one of the reasons why I am no longer spending any effort on improving my app. Apart from just the lack of free time. 

Tom.

[Solutions Mann]

Have you considered using a program called Livecode by RunRev , looks very promising and is fully cross-platform

 

 

 

Frank