5. Contribute

Wanna contribute?

Our Repo is a community repo. It is not only for but also by the community managed. Your contribution is highly welcome to get things done.

How to contribute?

Easiest entry is you fork the repo and send us your pull request when done and tested.

Available Resources

LINDA uses FSUIPC7 for MSFS for all communication between the module and the aircraft running on MSFS. Functions should follow the naming conventions below. Full use should be made of Lvars (totally over 1200) and FSUIPC Offsets (list in FSUIPC7 documentation) for reading and setting values together FSUIPC Control, Hvar and .EVT events. It is recommended that, for general user purposes, use of MobiFlight events should be avoided.

Naming conventions

As changing names of variables, events and functions is one of the main pain points for developers and users we want to ensure that the functions, etc close to a standardized naming schema.

That also reduces the effort you - and the other maintainers of this nice open source freeware module need to spent for instance on PRs.

So we decided to identify

• aircraft
  • panel (UPPERCASE)
    • subpanel (UPPERCASE)
      • button/switch (UPPERCASE)
        • action eg. on, off, toggle, cycle, inc, dec, auto, brt, dim (lowercase)

The identifiers are combined with an underscore. And should be as short as possible without loosing the ability to get the semantics. So for instance instead of OXYGEN it should be enough to be identified with OXY. The reason for it is that the space for displaying functions in LINDA is limited.

See following examples:

Rear overhead

Forward overhead center row

1. A32nx_OVHD_EXTLT_
2. A32nx_OVHD_APU_
3. A32nx_OVHD_SIGNS_
4. A32nx_OVHD_INTLT_
5. A32nx_OVHD_AICE_
6. A32nx_OVHD_PROBE_
7. A32nx_OVHD_PRES_
8. A32nx_OVHD_ACON_
9. A32nx_OVHD_ELEC_
10. A32nx_OVHD_FUEL_
11. A32nx_OVHD_HYD_
12. A32nx_OVHD_FIRE_

Forward overhead left row

13. A32nx_OVHD_WIPERL_
14. A32nx_OVHD_CALLS_
15. A32nx_OVHD_OXY_
16. A32nx_OVHD_RCDR_
17. A32nx_OVHD_GPWS_
18. A32nx_OVHD_EPWR_
19. A32nx_OVHD_EVAC_
20. A32nx_OVHD_FCTLL_
21. A32nx_OVHD_ADIRS_

Forward overhead right row

22. A32nx_OVHD_WIPERR_
23. A32nx_OVHD_ENG_
24. A32nx_OVHD_VENT_
25. A32nx_OVHD_CSMOKE_
26. A32nx_OVHD_CVENT_
27. A32nx_OVHD_FCTLR_
28. A32nx_OVHD_NAV_
29. A32nx_OVHD_AUDIO_

Glareshield

30. A32nx_GLSD_FCU_
31. A32nx_GLSD_EFISL_
32. A32nx_GLSD_EFISR_
33. A32nx_GLSD_ATTNL_
34. A32nx_GLSD_ATTNR_
35. A32nx_GLSD_DIM_

Main panel

36. A32nx_MPNL_LTCTLL_
37. A32nx_MPNL_LTCTLR_
38. A32nx_MPNL_PFDL_
39. A32nx_MPNL_NDL_
40. A32nx_MPNL_PFDR_
41. A32nx_MPNL_NDR_
42. A32nx_MPNL_ECAM1_
43. A32nx_MPNL_ECAM2_
44. A32nx_MPNL_SBYATT_
45. A32nx_MPNL_DMEVOR_
46. A32nx_MPNL_LDG_
47. A32nx_MPNL_ABRK_
48. A32nx_MPNL_CLOCK_
49. A32nx_MPNL_CPDLCL_
50. A32nx_MPNL_CPDLCR_

Pedestal

51. A32nx_PED_MCDUL_
52. A32nx_PED_MCDUR_
53. A32nx_PED_COML_
54. A32nx_PED_COMR_
55. A32nx_PED_INTLTL_
56. A32nx_PED_INTLTR_
57. A32nx_PED_RDR_
58. A32nx_PED_TCAS_
59. A32nx_PED_SWCTH_
60. A32nx_PED_ECAM_
61. A32NX_PED_THROT_
62. A32nx_PED_ENG_
63. A32nx_PED_SBRK_
64. A32nx_PED_FLAP_
65. A32nx_PED_CDOOR_
66. A32nx_PED_RTRIM_
67. A32nx_PED_PBRK_
68. A32nx_PED_EGEAR_