Taxiway Maker

Taxiway Maker (TWM in short) is a graphical tool for the creation and editing of airport taxiway scenery for use with Taxiway for PS1.

07 Mar 2001: 2nd Beta version of TWM now available for testing.
This is a working version with almost complete functionality. Bugfixes include the crash on File/New, and AirportInfo. New features include the ability to move the whole line, rather than moving point by point. (Press Ctrl + drag Left button). Areas requiring still more work include:

  1. File I/O user interface. Does not prompt to save your work on exit.
  2. Online help.
  3. Integration of Airport Adder functionality.
Not a very long list, eh ? ;-)

Screen layout:
Status bar at bottom of screen shows, from left to right:

Mouse interface:
Right click and drag to scroll around.
Left click on a line to highlight (in red).
Left click on highlighted line ends (red squares) and drag to move around.
Press Ctrl + left click on red squares to move entire line around.

Keyboard interface:
Arrow keys highlight next/previous line.
Page Up/Down zoom in/out.
Ctrl-G to show/hide gridlines.
Ctrl-R to show/hide PS1 runway positions.
Insert to toggle insert mode.
Delete to delete highlighted line.

Insert mode:
While in Insert mode, click and drag the left mouse button to draw new lines. Press or click Insert again to exit Insert mode.

File I/O:
You can read and write both ProController .SCT and Taxiway .TWY files.
Reading: you can select multiple files of either type. .SCT files can only contain data for one airport; .TWY files can contain data for multiple airports.
Writing: you can write in 3 formats:

  1. Save single airports in .SCT file
  2. Save single airports in .TWY file
  3. Save all airports in .TWY file

Windows Registry entries:
The following key is created by TWM at the first run:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Taxiway
The following two name/value pairs are the default values. You can modify these using RegEdit to suit your local configuration:
path.ps1 = "C:/PS13/"
path.twy = "C:/PS13/TWY/"

This is how TWM looks like currently (1 Feb 2000):
Sample screenshot 1 Feb 2000

While you are here, why not look at some newly scanned airplane pics ?
This one shows me in a 744 jumpseat.

Ivan Ngeow
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