Re: [Flightgear-devel] tutorial news

2007-03-22 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* AJ MacLeod -- Tuesday 20 March 2007: I'm looking forward in particular to the lookat thingy, that should be a very nice touch... Yeah, it is. :-) That's now implemented and already added to the Lightning's startup tutorial. It's animated such that the pilot's view is directed at the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] tutorial news

2007-03-20 Thread AJ MacLeod
On Tuesday 20 March 2007 00:35, Melchior FRANZ wrote: I've started to overhaul Stuart's (excellent!) tutorial system. See the Lightning's startup tutorial for a marker example. It draws a nice blinking, magenta colored marker circle around the switch that the user is supposed to press. :-)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] tutorial news

2007-03-20 Thread Stuart Buchanan
--- AJ MacLeod wrote: On Tuesday 20 March 2007 00:35, Melchior FRANZ wrote: I've started to overhaul Stuart's (excellent!) tutorial system. See the Lightning's startup tutorial for a marker example. It draws a nice blinking, magenta colored marker circle around the switch that the user is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] tutorial news

2007-03-20 Thread Melchior FRANZ
I just committed some changes. Among other things, one can now also open the tutorial marker adjustment dialog by typing tutorial.dialog() in the Help-Nasal-Console, so people don't have to bother defining key bindings. It's not such an often used feature. * Stuart Buchanan -- Tuesday 20 March

Re: [Flightgear-devel] tutorial news

2007-03-20 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Stuart Buchanan -- Tuesday 20 March 2007: 1) A distance-to function, that would evaluate to true when the user was within a given distance to a point (expressed in lat/long). This would be more useful than the current work-around that forces the tutorial writer to define a box with given

[Flightgear-devel] tutorial news

2007-03-19 Thread Melchior FRANZ
I've started to overhaul Stuart's (excellent!) tutorial system. The main changes are: - regular conditions (as described in $FG_ROOT/Docs/README.condition) instead of a limited tutorial-only condition system - make timeofday setting actually work - no abortion on exit with JSBSim aircraft :-)