Hi,

Just discovered Flight Gear last night, and it installed relatively well,
apart from the missing fs_os.cxx problem which I finally tackled by using
the file from CVS (before I had the chance of reading Erik's comment on
the tarball hickup)... Anyway, great work you guys have already done!

But I'd be interested to know if there has been work, support or
propositions to make a GUI application to generate and pass command line
options to fsgs... Not that I'm not used to command line parameters, but
sometimes, you just want to hit ENTER and jump into the action.

So I figured that making either an ncurse and/or X/KDE/gnome front end
user interface to generate parameters, like selecting the airport from a
list instead of typing it manually, same with airplanes, and also to
enable or disable certain options would be appreciated by "the public".

The way I see it, I'd do a wrapper which would generate the appropriate
command line $options, call "fsgs $options", and depending on how we see
it's use, it could kill fsgs and restart it with new $options if the users
wishes so...

This is similar to what M$ FS2X does, with a welcome splash screen where
you can set the weather, flight plans, aircraft, fuel, airport, etc. Then,
you call the flight environment itself.

Any ideas? If not for others, I'll do it for myself in ncurses...

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