I think this is Good, been wanting this feature for some time, I can't say how often I have been filming and got the perfect shot only to realise I got the menubar and wanted ot out of shot.
Aerotro snip > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:50:28 -0600 > From: Curtis Olson <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Automatically hide/show the menubar > To: FlightGear developers discussions > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Torsten Dreyer wrote: > > > Hi, > > I just committed a featurette for the menubar which is disabled by default > > but > > can be enabled by setting /sim/menubar/autovisibility/enabled to true. > > > > If enabled, the menubar is invisible and pops up when the mouse in mode 0 > > hits > > the upper edge of the fgfs window. It stays visible until the mouse clicks > > somewhere outside the pui elements. Nothing new for x-plane users... > > > > Previous F-10 behaviour is untouched. > > > > Hope you like it. If so, it might be enabled by default in preferences.xml > > some day. > > > > Hi Torsten, > > Here's another random thought. I don't know if it would be any better or > not, but might be interesting for some situations. Right now we hide the > mouse pointer after 10 seconds of no mouse motion. It might be interesting > to hide the menu at the same time? This may not be optimal for those who > fly with the mouse, but could be useful for many other usage modes. > > It might make sense to make the F10 toggle work in partnership with the > auto-hider feature rather than keeping the functions totally separate? If > the auto-hide is turned on and the menu has become hidden, what happens when > someone presses F10? Should this make the menu visible and turn off the > auto-hide feature (at least for a while)? > > I'm worried that if auto-hide is enabled and someone presses F10 to toggle > the menu off, will the menu then not appear when you move the mouse to the > top of the screen? If someone inadvertently presses F10 and doesn't realize > it, the menu could be lost to them. I only worry about this because I got a > different keyboard about a year ago and I'm still forever missing my > intended key and hitting the wrong one ... especially when I'm trying to > focus on too many things at once ... like when I'm flying. :-) > > Thanks! > > Curt. > -- > Curtis Olson: http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/ > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > > ------------------------------ snip ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
