David Megginson writes: > > Norman Vine writes: > > > We really need a dictionary of the 'known' property 'nouns', > > 'verbs', 'adjectives' and 'adverbs' and *require* that this list is > > updated before a new 'word' is introduced into the XML. > > That would be nice, but it would require a committed project manager > willing and able to enforce it; if that manager were not extremely > energetic, program development would soon start to drag down and stop.
Well we certainly have a 'comitted' 'energetic' 'visionary' 'programer' with CVS commit privilige that has created the requirement :-) This requirement is especially true in that 'the FGFS properties' is a 'one-of-a-kind' system > I agree that documentation is a good > thing, but it's necessary to accept that it will always lag a little. I am willing to accept a little lag but one can of course take the 'exteme-programming' approach of writing the documentation first before you code :-) > Right now, I've documented all of the built-in commands inside > src/Main/fg_commands.cxx, but that's not all that useful for > non-programmers. Here's a quick list for the documentation people, if > anyone wants to beautify it (some of these are obviously deadwood and > should be purged as soon as possible): Documenting the commands is *great* and I hope the documentation folks pick up on your list but I believe that what we need is a more abstract level of documentation. A 'property' is a *very* abstract concept and I want to try to 'formalize' a bit ie 1) what is property, 2) how to define one 3) what the allowable operations on one are. Here is what I gleaned from your listing of the commands towards this end a property has the following methods assign < this, < value or 'other' > > toggle < this > 'will create non existing property if necessary < constructor >' swap < this, other > adjust < this, step, offset, factor, min, max, mask, wrap > multiply < this, factor, min, max, mask, wrap > scale < this, setting, offset, factor > < this > always == (sgPropertyNode *) Hmmm... seems like we want to introduce 'class fgProperty' Cheers Norman _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
