Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-17 Thread Andy Ross
Jonathan Polley wrote: > I think this is more along the lines of my not what is important to > each FDM when it comes to configuration. If I wanted to configure a > Boeing 707 model by modifying a 747 model, what is needed for each > FDM type? When I look in YASim, I see quite a bit of inform

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-17 Thread Jonathan Polley
On Sunday, March 17, 2002, at 09:53 AM, Jon Berndt wrote: >> Some of the other XML files are rather easy to figure out (i.e,. >> keyboard. >> xml), but others are not (i.e., the FDM specific files). Does anyone >> have >> anything written that describes these? The materials.xml file has quit

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-17 Thread David Megginson
Jonathan Polley writes: > Some of the other XML files are rather easy to figure out > (i.e,. keyboard. xml), but others are not (i.e., the FDM specific > files). YASim and JSBSim each uses its own XML format, which is different from the XML format used by the rest of FlightGear. For YASim,

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-17 Thread Jon Berndt
> Some of the other XML files are rather easy to figure out (i.e,. keyboard. > xml), but others are not (i.e., the FDM specific files). Does anyone have > anything written that describes these? The materials.xml file has quite a > nice description at the top. Can you let us know what is unclear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-17 Thread Jonathan Polley
> Just to start, the property tree has nothing to do with Metakit -- we > use Metakit only to hold airport and navaid data. I will make that change. >Aircraft/c172/Panels/c172-vfr-panel.xml > This tells FlightGear where it can find the configuration > information for the aircraf

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-17 Thread David Megginson
Jonathan Polley writes: > I have made an attempt to describe the contents of 'preferences.xml.' > Could someone knowledgeable in the properties list and preferences.xml > file let me know if I am understanding things correctly? Also, is there > any information about what each component

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-16 Thread Jonathan Polley
I have made an attempt to describe the contents of 'preferences.xml.' Could someone knowledgeable in the properties list and preferences.xml file let me know if I am understanding things correctly? Also, is there any information about what each component of FlightGear needs from the propert

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-11 Thread David Megginson
Wolfram Kuss writes: > BTW, in your list you forgot the *-dpm.xml files, which are of most > interest to me and which are currently the only ones that I really use > :-). With the little time I currently have, I am glad if I manage to > have a nice 3D model at the correct place in fgfs. Ah,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-11 Thread Wolfram Kuss
David wrote: >Wolfram Kuss writes: > > > The XML files get IMVHO more and more confusing. > >I think that it would be more accurate to say that FlightGear is >getting more sophisticated -- there's more to learn if you want to >customize things, but that's only because there's so much more that >y

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-11 Thread Wolfram Kuss
John wrote: >set == set of components, Ah! Ok, I should have realised that. Bye bye, Wolfram. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-11 Thread David Megginson
Cameron Moore writes: > [ Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard? ] Jane, n'est-ce pas? All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgea

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-11 Thread Cameron Moore
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Megginson) [2002.03.10 10:47]: > Jim Wilson writes: > > > Hehe. Yep. Didn't notice that one. Actually I don't know why > > that would be in the preferences.xml. Anyone know why that isn't > > in the panel or at least aircraft-set xmls? > > A cleanup and reorg is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-11 Thread David Megginson
Wolfram Kuss writes: > The XML files get IMVHO more and more confusing. I think that it would be more accurate to say that FlightGear is getting more sophisticated -- there's more to learn if you want to customize things, but that's only because there's so much more that you can customize. The

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-10 Thread John Check
On Monday 11 March 2002 02:32 am, you wrote: > choose a FDM, panel etc, inputs it into the XMLs, generates a small > batch file to call everything, etc. > The set files do what said batch file would do. They are the top level aircraft config. ___ Flig

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-10 Thread John Check
On Monday 11 March 2002 02:32 am, you wrote: > Sounds like a worth while (sp?) project! > The XML files get IMVHO more and more confusing. > Maybe lets do the big reorg that Dave speaks about first, with the > hope that things won't change often afterwards. When doing the python > scripts to gener

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-10 Thread Wolfram Kuss
Sounds like a worth while (sp?) project! The XML files get IMVHO more and more confusing. Maybe lets do the big reorg that Dave speaks about first, with the hope that things won't change often afterwards. When doing the python scripts to generate the very very rudimentary plane xmls on my website

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-10 Thread John Check
On Sunday 10 March 2002 08:50 pm, you wrote: > Jonathan Polley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > The preferences file is not FDM specific at all. The contents of > > > preferences.xml in the base package are for the most part self > > > explanatory, > > > > I have to beg to differ on this one. For

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-10 Thread Jonathan Polley
On Sunday, March 10, 2002, at 08:04 PM, Alex Perry wrote: > Another sneaky bonus of XML over LISP is in the bracketing. Instead of > having fifteen close parentheses stacked up at the end of the function, > you get to say etc. While this is a pain in the > butt to type, at least the compiler

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-10 Thread Alex Perry
> > If you know LISP (CommonLISP, InterLISP, Scheme, E-LISP, or what-have > > you), you're most of the way there. > Now I am going to have nightmares ). LISP and I were not the best of > friends in college (things like caadaddaddr gives me chills). Actually, I think they're referring to nested

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-10 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson writes: > Hehe. Yep. Didn't notice that one. Actually I don't know why > that would be in the preferences.xml. Anyone know why that isn't > in the panel or at least aircraft-set xmls? A cleanup and reorg is long overdue; same for keyboard mappings. All the best, David --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-10 Thread Jim Wilson
Jonathan Polley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > The preferences file is not FDM specific at all. The contents of > > preferences.xml in the base package are for the most part self > > explanatory, > > I have to beg to differ on this one. For those few command line arguments > that I have used,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-10 Thread Jonathan Polley
On Sunday, March 10, 2002, at 07:02 PM, David Megginson wrote: Jonathan Polley writes: I have some experience with Tkinter. but my GUIs tend to be a bit "functional" (OK, ugly), and I will be learning XML at the same time. Any, and all, help will be greatly appreciated. If you know LISP (Commo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-10 Thread Jonathan Polley
On Sunday, March 10, 2002, at 06:52 PM, Jim Wilson wrote: > Jonathan Polley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> Does anyone have some documentation on how to build the preferences.xml >> file? I would like to write a "preferences manager," if such a tool does >> no already exist, to make it easier t

re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-10 Thread David Megginson
Jonathan Polley writes: > I have some experience with Tkinter. but my GUIs tend to be a bit > "functional" (OK, ugly), and I will be learning XML at the same > time. Any, and all, help will be greatly appreciated. If you know LISP (CommonLISP, InterLISP, Scheme, E-LISP, or what-have you), yo