Melchior FRANZ wrote: > Could be, but I wasn't talking about that, but about a wrong XML > statement. Roberto presumably used something like <red-prop>1.0</red-prop>. > But the "-prop" in the tag wants to say us that it expects a property path: > <red-prop>/path/to/a/number</red-prop>. And the material animation, like > all other animations, doesn't check the validity of the property path, but > hands it over to SimGear. SimGear checks, isn't happy, throws an exception, > and this should issue an error message and exit. If the exception is > unknown to main(), then it simply says: > > Unknown exception in the main loop. Aborting... > > and aborts. Some people say it "crashes". It doesn't. But I've changed that > now in fgfs so that it says at least: > > Fatal error: name must begin with alpha or '_' > > Someone with sg access may want to write a better fix for simgear > (replace string with an exception class).
Ah, thank you so much for fixing that. This error message has thrown me off far too many times. Josh ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
