group members: Shilo Ulman, Tal Ben-Zvi, Shaked Winder, Roy Tamir
When the app is first oppened the user sees a window where he can upload a flight .csv file. this page has a "start" button that takes the user to the applications main window.
We used the MVVM design pattern to create the application's main window. The main window shows the flight using the Flight Gear application and also has a few user controls. The main window's user control are the control bar, the data bar and the joystick. Each of these user controls have there own view model.
The backbone of the main window is the model which provides the application's main functionalies. The model communicate with the main window through the user controls' view models.
In the starting window the user need to choose CSV file to enter to the application. The CSV file needs to contain data of the flight the user wants to watch in the application. Also, the user needs to choose an xaml file, that contains information about the the data in the CSV file, and the order of this data in the CSV file. After that, the flight can start
the model is the logic part of the application. every change in the data Behind the Scenes is in the model. the model can notify to other parts of the application that there were changes in the data, and then they will know to ask for these changes. if the user change something in the GUI, (the view), it will annonce the model to change the logic according to it.
The Control Bar is a user control in the controls folder that displays information about the flight display such as speed and place. The Control Bar not only displays this information but also allows the user to change and control them. ControlBar.xaml is the Control Bar's view and ControlBar.xaml.cs is it's code behind. ControlBarViewModel.cs is the Control Bar's view model which is observed by the view. ControlBarModel.cs is the Control Bar's model which is obseved by the view model.
The databar is a dash Board that display some flight data of the plane. The dash board contain:
- Altimeter
- Air speed
- Flight direction ("heading")
- Pitch
- Roll
- Yaw
We built it as a UserControl and with the MVVM design pattern, so the view and the model does not know each other.
Show the direction of the flight in every moment, with other important data.
thr graph is present a chosen data from the csv code and show a graph of the values- (the values in csv is y_exis and the time is x_exis). in addition, the graph show the most pearson data. graphView.xaml and graphView.xaml.cs is the view- they create and show the buttons and the graph. graphViewModel.cs is the view model that control everything. graphModel.cs is the model that calculate the graph need to be shown
Anyone who want to use our application, must download FlightGear. You can download Flightgear here: https://www.flightgear.org/download/ After download FlightGear, open it. You need to enter some definitions to it. Open the cmd, and write there: --generic=socket,in,10,127.0.0.1,8081,tcp,playback_small --fdm=null This will be enough for first time using the eapplication. for more Features, look here: https://www.flightgear.org/
Now, you can run the application in the cmd (you need to compile before trying to run it), or open your IDE (we recommend visual studio), build the app, and run it.
Click here (https://youtu.be/yviwDCsSGtI) for a tutorial video on how to use the app
you can find here a UML diagram of our project: https://github.com/ullmans/FlightApp2/blob/main/UML%20Diagram.pdf