-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 K. Hoercher wrote: > On 9/18/07, Csaba Halász <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Thanks for reporting this. >> I think it would be better to explicitly check for "runway" type >> instead of checking for "not taxiway". Any comments? > > Whatever you see fit. I checked in the fix using == "runway", as suggested by Csaba, but if anyone encounters the problems about which you speculate below we'll revisit the issue.
Thanks, Tim > > !taxiway was just the last hack after playing around with different > possibilities. Reasons as far as I remember were: > > 1. Not to mess with some possible(?) "helipad" or seaplane port > equivalent of a runway. That would of course be invalidated by the > existence of any other ground structures that are not runways like > apron, whatever (apt.dat version 850) but I did not intend to rewrite > the whole runway class just for that fix and so didn't really check > into it deeply. > > 2. I guesstimated, probably mistakenly, that checking for something > not being equal to a given string might be a tiny bit faster, esp. as > there would be a lot more taxiways than actual runways on every > airport. I had some vague suspicion that some part of the infamous > "stuttering every couple of seconds" I sometimes experienced might be > related to the ai aircraft trying to search their runways but further > testing was inconclusive on that. > > hth > K. Hoercher > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG9tNueDhWHdXrDRURAoTvAKC1z9G3H9rQVPNINV2SegEtD+ahsgCgh8Qn 8Juqr4zikexAPSi6yY+1KKw= =dj4W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
