On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 12:32:41 +0100, Roy Vegard Ovesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My motivation for setting the serviceable property to true in the source code > was that now that the instruments are configureable they can have an > arbitrary name in the property tree. The compass could for example be > named /Instrumentation/magnetic-heading-indicator-thingy. As I understood it > the serviceable property used to (actually still does) be set to true in > preferences.xml, where it is set for all instrumentation. If the source code modules force the property to true, it will override any settings provided by the user at startup or in a configuration file. It needs to be possible to start FlightGear with the mag compass U/S for some scenarios, just as we can start with the vacuum pump or alternator U/S. > So setting it to true in preferences is would not be a good solution when (not > if) aircraft designers decide to change the name of the instrumentation, > remove instrumentation that are not applicable to that aircraft, and add more > instrumentation for for example redundancy. Making the compass serviceable should be part of that. If the setting is in preferences.xml (or a separate startup config file), it can be overridden on the command line; if it is hard-coded in the C++, it will be set after the options have been read, and cannot be overridden. All the best, David -- http://www.megginson.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
