Hi All, Here's just a quick heads up regarding some future plans. I've been planning to work on a revamped traffic manager for quite some time now. Yesterday, with a big thunderstorm rolling in, I figured I had a good excuse to stay indoors and get some coding done.
So what is traffic manager II? Well the main difference is that it will become a lot easier for users to develop their own traffic. Instead of going through a complicated procedure of compiling a sequence of flights into an xml file, the new version just requires a plain text file that specifies which aircraft are available and which flights are required to be operated. Traffic manager than automatically assigns flights to aircraft. In essence, the strict one-to-one coupling of Aircraft and routes is no longer there, but determined dynamically. The biggest advantages of this approach are twofold: 1) Easier User configurability, and 2) increased flexibility. At this stage, I cannot tell wether traffic manager II is going to be backward compatible with the currently existing xml files. I hope to be able to do that. I'm cross posting this message to both flightgear-devel and flightgear-users, because I know there are quite a few flightgear-users subscribers working on developing traffic plans. I will certainly take a few more weeks (maybe even a few months) before this will be production ready. However, if you are interested in the new format, feel free to drop you a note, and I'm happy to make a concept of the new format available. Many thanks go out to Gabor Toth, in this respect, for laying out the ground work for the new traffic format. Cheers, Durk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
