On Friday, 21 January 2005 14:59, 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.
Why not store the results of the scan and allow the user to rebuild the DB manually at a later stage? New users will 99% of the time run FG without installing extra scenery so the initial DB build will be VERY quick. Then when users add more scenery at a later stage they can build a new DB manually. I wrote this functionality into an app I was busy coding before I got sidetracked with other projects. http://surgdom.hollosite.com/flightgear/fg_central/index.html Paul _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
