Quoting Erik Hofman: > Frederic Bouvier wrote: > > > I forgot this one. It is not an improvement though, rather a fix ;-) > > The scenery scan is done every time and is very long although it is > threaded and > > doesn't prevent you to launch flightgear. Curt suggested to show all the > content > > of apt.dat.gz and check the availability afterward. I am now thinking to > check > > only against the first level of directories to see if they lie in an > existing > > 10x10 chunk ( eventually with special case for the 2 1x1 chunks of the base > > package ). And rely more on the refresh button already present than a > > systematic scan. > > Now that we use apt.dat (X-Plane format) it would be possible to walk > the list and get the lat/lon of the aircraft (first two parameters of > the runway definition if I'm not mistaken). This allows you to search in > for the proper directory right away instead of checking every airport in > every directory.
As scenery are packed by chunked of 10x10 degrees, it seems useless to check deeper inside the scenery tree. And at least we could start at heliport locations that are in apt.dat but not in the scenery. -Fred _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
