RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: xml property documentation

2003-02-10 Thread Norman Vine
David Megginson writes: > > I agree that we need documentation, but no one has stepped forward and > volunteered to write any. I disagree with Norm that all FlightGear > development should stop until that documentation is written -- if we > used that rule, we wouldn't have ATC, 3D cockpits, runw

re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: xml property documentation

2003-02-10 Thread David Megginson
Erez Boym writes: > Well, I'm new to FlightGear tweaking, but I find it > strange that to use flight gear (Add objects, add > aircrafts etc.) you have to search the source files, > just to find these xml properties that will enable me > to do that work. You can also examine the tree live in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: xml property documentation

2003-02-10 Thread Jonathan Polley
I tried adding comments to the preferences.xml file, but they were not rolled into CVS. The problem, and I believe why my edits didn't make CVS, is that commenting each attribute causes diff to believe the entire file has changed. This makes it difficult for those people who have tailored .xm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: xml property documentation

2003-02-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Erez Boym wrote: HI, Well, I'm new to FlightGear tweaking, but I find it strange that to use flight gear (Add objects, add aircrafts etc.) you have to search the source files, just to find these xml properties that will enable me to do that work. In my inexpert eyes it's something we must mainta

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: xml property documentation

2003-02-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Norman Vine wrote: David Megginson writes: Martin Spott writes: > > As far as I know, no one has started documenting the propperly, mainly > > because they tend to change rather quickly. > > You probably hit the nail ;-) Aside from that, there will probably be a major restructuring when we

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: xml property documentation

2003-02-10 Thread Norman Vine
David Megginson writes: > > Martin Spott writes: > > > > As far as I know, no one has started documenting the propperly, mainly > > > because they tend to change rather quickly. > > > > You probably hit the nail ;-) > > Aside from that, there will probably be a major restructuring when we

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: xml property documentation

2003-02-10 Thread David Megginson
Martin Spott writes: > > As far as I know, no one has started documenting the propperly, mainly > > because they tend to change rather quickly. > > You probably hit the nail ;-) Aside from that, there will probably be a major restructuring when we add multi-vehicle support. All the best,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: xml property documentation

2003-02-10 Thread Martin Spott
> As far as I know, no one has started documenting the propperly, mainly > because they tend to change rather quickly. You probably hit the nail ;-) Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! ---

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: xml property documentation

2003-02-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Erez Boym wrote: Hi, Did anyone start to document these properties in another way, or do we have no documentation about these xml properties ? The documentation is scattered around a bit. Most of it lives in the FlightGear source under FlightGear/docs-mini But FDM speciffic propperties are (m