RE: [Flightgear-devel] Beyond presets

2003-09-20 Thread Norman Vine
David Megginson writes: Tony Peden writes: /sim/startup/init/position-type : (latlon|airport|navaid|runway) /sim/startup/init/altitude-type : (msl|agl|glidepath) /sim/startup/init/orientation-type : (rph|runway) /sim/startup/init/time-type : (utc|local|sunpos)

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Beyond presets

2003-09-20 Thread David Megginson
Norman Vine writes: Not really -- the difference is that the actual values (lat/lon/alt/hpr/airport/navaid/etc.) live in the main property tree, and these tell us only where we should look for them. Sounds to me like what is needed is a way to do $MY_TREE = which branch I want

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Beyond presets

2003-09-20 Thread Norman Vine
David Megginson writes: Norman Vine writes: Not really -- the difference is that the actual values (lat/lon/alt/hpr/airport/navaid/etc.) live in the main property tree, and these tell us only where we should look for them. Sounds to me like what is needed is a way to do

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Beyond presets

2003-09-19 Thread Curtis L. Olson
David, I'm open to something more sensible, but let's proceed with caution. I have a side project that is critically wired into the current presets arrangement and I can't afford to have that broken, at least not for very long. Hopefully if you do make changes you are willing to work with me to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Beyond presets

2003-09-19 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: David, I'm open to something more sensible, but let's proceed with caution. I have a side project that is critically wired into the current presets arrangement and I can't afford to have that broken, at least not for very long. Hopefully if you do make changes you are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Beyond presets

2003-09-19 Thread Tony Peden
On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 13:00, David Megginson wrote: Unfortunately, while the presets hierarchy brought some benefits, it also broke saving and restoring flights. I think that it's time to consider doing away with the presets hierarchy, and trying something like this: 1. Make an in-memory

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Beyond presets

2003-09-19 Thread David Megginson
Tony Peden writes: /sim/startup/init/position-type : (latlon|airport|navaid|runway) /sim/startup/init/altitude-type : (msl|agl|glidepath) /sim/startup/init/orientation-type : (rph|runway) /sim/startup/init/time-type : (utc|local|sunpos) This sounds awful close to