Re: [Flightgear-devel] Starting / stopping MP in-sim

2012-01-06 Thread James Turner
On 6 Jan 2012, at 00:02, Stuart Buchanan wrote: > AFAICT it's main relevance is to the HUD, so I've created some radio > buttons in the HUD Configuration dialog to control this and cleaned up > the commented out menu items in menubar.xml. Tangental thing - I thought the 'set a group of radio bu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Starting / stopping MP in-sim

2012-01-05 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Stuart Buchanan wrote: > On a related note I noticed that the menu option to change the lat/Lin format > has been removed. Given how useful it is to have a decimal degrees read out > for scenery development that seems somewhat strange. Was this intentional ? > Or

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Starting / stopping MP in-sim

2012-01-04 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Gijs de Rooy wrote: > menu option is greyed out when MP is not enabled on startup (via > commandline/fgrun). > maybe add a note like "Individual servers can be down"? Could even add a > button to open > the mpstatus website. People don't Read That Fine Manual, so we

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Starting / stopping MP in-sim

2012-01-04 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 9:51 AM, James Turner wrote: > Right now setting an empty host is the way to disconnect it. A separate > 'connect' boolean input to the code could be arranged, which triggers > connection & disconnection when set - but obviously this also needs to keep > compatibility with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Starting / stopping MP in-sim

2012-01-04 Thread James Turner
On 3 Jan 2012, at 23:44, Stuart Buchanan wrote: > 1) I've included location information for the servers, so they > can be used sensibly by users to determine the correct MP server > to connect to. So our instructions for new users can hopefully be simply > to open the dialog, select a server clos

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Starting / stopping MP in-sim

2012-01-03 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Hi Stuart and James, nice work on the dialog updates. Works much better now :) Some comments: menu option is greyed out when MP is not enabled on startup (via commandline/fgrun).maybe add a note like "Individual servers can be down"? Could even add a button to open the mpstatus website. People

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Starting / stopping MP in-sim

2012-01-03 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:40 PM, James Turner wrote: > > On 3 Jan 2012, at 21:34, Stuart Buchanan wrote: > >> OK. I'll make the appropriate hardcoded changes for the moment and >> update The Manual to describe using the dialog for connecting to the >> MP environment. I'll leave references to using

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Starting / stopping MP in-sim

2012-01-03 Thread James Turner
On 3 Jan 2012, at 21:34, Stuart Buchanan wrote: > OK. I'll make the appropriate hardcoded changes for the moment and > update The Manual to describe using the dialog for connecting to the > MP environment. I'll leave references to using other methods for users > wanting to connect to private or n

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Starting / stopping MP in-sim

2012-01-03 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 1:36 PM, James Turner wrote: > > On 3 Jan 2012, at 12:54, Stuart Buchanan wrote: > >> I noticed the MP Settings dialog which I'm sure has been there for ages >> without me seeing it.  Should this now be documented as the standard way to >> enable MP, abs should there be a c

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Starting / stopping MP in-sim

2012-01-03 Thread James Turner
On 3 Jan 2012, at 12:54, Stuart Buchanan wrote: > I noticed the MP Settings dialog which I'm sure has been there for ages > without me seeing it. Should this now be documented as the standard way to > enable MP, abs should there be a checkbox allowing the MP server to be set > without MP bein

[Flightgear-devel] Starting / stopping MP in-sim

2012-01-03 Thread Stuart Buchanan
Hi All, I'm going through the GUI to update the Manual with the correct menu items for the upcoming release. I noticed the MP Settings dialog which I'm sure has been there for ages without me seeing it. Should this now be documented as the standard way to enable MP, abs should there be a che