* Curtis Olson -- 11/3/2008 4:46 PM: > - If it was me doing this, I would suggest something like: > Airports/L/LO/LOX/LOXA.xml (just the one file per airport)
As I wrote previously, if we drop the requirement to have separated files per airport, then I'd go with Curt's layout. Of course, this makes work for the scenery people somewhat harder, but I think we can easily handle that: o conversion of all custom (non-PropertyList-) XML files to PropertyList format. This could easily be done from within FlightGear. A Nasal script (that I would be willing to write) could scan the respective AI/ dirs, suck in each parking.xml etc. file (io.readxml()), do some renaming, and write it out again as PropertyList. (I'd suggest standard property names as much as possible, floating point numbers for coordinates, instead of "N48 23.345" format, etc.) If that makes files too big, then we can still consider to use *.xml.gz, though that would make loading slightly slower. The original custom format files would remain and the AI/traffic code would keep using those old files until it has adapted to the new way. Of course, Durk would have a say in that. Finally the old files could be removed. o merging of PropertyList files from various sources (converted AI files, hand crafted new files etc.): This could easily be done by a little tool that links against libsgprops.a and just does multiple readProperties() followed by a single writeProperties(). I would be willing to write that as well (just a few lines -- 30 min job :-). The automated scenery generation process could then do all the merging without much pain. (Maybe a property attribute 'remove="y"' would be desirable, so that a PropertyList merge could remove nodes, something that we could also use in 3D animation overlays.) m. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
