Hi James, This is superb work. I've just taken a flight in the c172p to try out the new features, and I'm very impressed.
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:48 AM, James Turner wrote: > - made a 'right-drag to look' mouse mode, which I think should be on > by default (with the current behaviour available for people who prefer it). > Also there is now visual feedback when changing the mouse mode 'statefully', > which is still available via the TAB key in addition to right-clicking. Though I'm a dyed-in-the-wool mouse-looker who continually switched between cursor and mouse-look, I'm completely converted to this way of looking - way more intuitive IMO and really easy for users to learn. One minor suggestion - I used the mouse wheel field-of-view control a lot when in look mode. Having it change the field of view while the right mouse button is pressed would be good. > - made dedicated animation components for knobs / sliders, with > unified handling of buttons / mouse wheel / dragging. I particularly like how this reduces XML file complexity. > - added tooltips, and hover-feedback for pickable areas in cockpits I'm seeing some bugs in this, in particular after hovering over some control in the c172p (possibly the alitmeter?) I got "Aircraft Help" displayed as all tooltips, and the following errors in the console: Nasal runtime error: nil used in numeric context at /home/stuart/FlightGear/data/Nasal/geo.nas, line 241 called from: /home/stuart/FlightGear/data/Nasal/canvas/tooltip.nas, line 167 called from: /home/stuart/FlightGear/data/Nasal/canvas/tooltip.nas, line 119 called from: /home/stuart/FlightGear/data/Nasal/canvas/tooltip.nas, line 91 called from: /home/stuart/FlightGear/data/Nasal/canvas/tooltip.nas, line 270 called from: /home/stuart/FlightGear/data/Nasal/canvas/tooltip.nas, line 313 geo.normgeg should probably be more robust.... As a "bonus" function, for multi-mode toggle switches, it would be great to be able to define labels for different values (e.g. 0=OFF, 1=ON) > For more complex aircraft such as the Constellation, Concorde or 747, adding > tooltips will be a lot of work, but greatly assist in figuring out what > everything does. Well, such is the price of progress. -Stuart ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
