Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Usability

2012-09-03 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Gijs de Rooy wrote: >> This is now checked in as the new Joystick Configuration item under >> the Help menu, which replaces the Joystick Information dialog. > > I think you forgot to add it to the menu? Whoops. You are correct. I'll correct that when I get the cha

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Usability

2012-09-02 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Hi Stuart, > This is now checked in as the new Joystick Configuration item under > the Help menu, which replaces the Joystick Information dialog. I think you forgot to add it to the menu? I was able to open the dialog via fgcommand, and from what I've tested so far (a very quick test with a si

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Usability

2012-08-24 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Stuart Buchanan wrote: > 2) Joystick configuration. All of the people reading this list are > more than competent to write their own joystick XML config file, but > it's something that I see huge numbers of posts about on the forum, > from people who do not have eno

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Usability

2012-08-13 Thread Martin Spott
James Turner wrote: > On 12 Aug 2012, at 20:44, Martin Spott wrote: > >>> But it's not an either/or. There could be an FGCom binary that uses the >>> same >>> code as the built-in FGCom. >> >> Which environment would be set up to build this separate binary ? > > The fgfs one, but I don't think

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Usability

2012-08-13 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 4:48 PM, James Turner wrote: > On 11 Aug 2012, at 22:52, Martin Spott wrote: >>> 3) Scenery. Terrasync is now built into FG, and we have nice UI to >>> configure it in-sim. However, it still requires users to set up a >>> separate directory and configure FG_SCENERY before

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Usability

2012-08-13 Thread James Turner
On 12 Aug 2012, at 20:44, Martin Spott wrote: >> But it's not an either/or. There could be an FGCom binary that uses the same >> code as the built-in FGCom. > > Which environment would be set up to build this separate binary ? The fgfs one, but I don't think that's a particularly onerous requi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Usability

2012-08-12 Thread Martin Spott
Stefan Seifert wrote: > On Sunday 12 August 2012 16:07:18 Martin Spott wrote: > >> Whereas there's little use of TerraSync without the FG flight sim, >> there are plausible usage scenarios for FGCom _without_ FlightGear, >> let's say for ATC. Therefore, while it makes sense to package FGCom >> al

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Usability

2012-08-12 Thread ys
Hi James Am 12.08.2012 um 17:48 schrieb James Turner : > > On 11 Aug 2012, at 22:52, Martin Spott wrote: > >>> 3) Scenery. Terrasync is now built into FG, and we have nice UI to >>> configure it in-sim. However, it still requires users to set up a >>> separate directory and configure FG_SC

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Usability

2012-08-12 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Sunday 12 August 2012 16:07:18 Martin Spott wrote: > Whereas there's little use of TerraSync without the FG flight sim, > there are plausible usage scenarios for FGCom _without_ FlightGear, > let's say for ATC. Therefore, while it makes sense to package FGCom > alongside with FlightGear for th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Usability

2012-08-12 Thread Martin Spott
James Turner wrote: > Usability was the main reason for making terrasync be available as > in-process option, and I'm strongly considering doing the same thing > for fgcom, although that has a few extra complications. Whereas there's little use of TerraSync without the FG flight sim, there are pl

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Usability

2012-08-12 Thread James Turner
On 11 Aug 2012, at 22:52, Martin Spott wrote: >> 3) Scenery. Terrasync is now built into FG, and we have nice UI to >> configure it in-sim. However, it still requires users to set up a >> separate directory and configure FG_SCENERY before it can be used. It >> would be great if the standard in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Usability

2012-08-11 Thread Martin Spott
Stuart Buchanan wrote: > 3) Scenery. Terrasync is now built into FG, and we have nice UI to > configure it in-sim. However, it still requires users to set up a > separate directory and configure FG_SCENERY before it can be used. It > would be great if the standard installers created an > $FG_RO