* Melchior FRANZ -- Monday 12 June 2006 13:53: > Of course, this is a bad example, as those extensions make the format > basically useless for any other purpose than for the AI subsystem. No > other subsystem in fgfs can load them, which is why I would rather get > rid of this sooner than later [...]
Again, this would much less apply to an apt.dat extension. But for the AI/Traffic system it's an artificial barrier for future improvements, and a violation of the FlightGear Way[TM]. It's beyond me how this could be accepted into cvs. The XML format in FlightGear has been chosen such that tag attributes are only used to describe the node properties (data-type, read-only, etc.). They are deliberately *not* used for *information*, because this couldn't be cleanly mapped to the property system. I was about to add a feature to the UFO editor that would have allowed to load AI files, to visualize the waypoints, to edit them, to assign vehicles etc. One would have been able to create paths by clicking on the tarmac, defining curve radii, etc. Finally, one could have saved the result into a ready-to-use AI file again. But all this doesn't work, because of this braindead decision. m. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
