> From: "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: FlightGear developers discussions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 06:08:51 -0600 > To: FlightGear developers discussions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Flightgear-devel Digest, Vol 20, Issue 45 > > Jon Stockill wrote: > >> Thomas Förster wrote: >> >>> I also thought about this as an option for a GUI. The main advantage >>> would be that this approach ensures there's no GUI code in FG and >>> there is a well designed API/Protocol to it. Writing alternative >>> GUI's should be easy using that API/Protocol. Having the GUI >>> seperated also makes it easy to distribute the apps across machines, >>> i.e. having a simulator with an instructors workplace (changing >>> weather, fail engines...) >> >> >> With the added advantage of not bloating the simulator - gets my vote. >> > > For what it's worth, I think that some sort of minimal built in gui for > FG is still a good idea. FG already provides a lot of support for > developing an external gui (i.e. for an operator/instructor station.) > I have done exactly this for the ATC flight sim single engine trainer > and it works quite well. > > The only issue is that for single PC, home users who aren't immensely > computer savey, starting up multiple apps concurrently can be a bit > tricky ... especially in a multiplatform / portable context. > > Curt. > > -- > Curtis Olson http://www.flightgear.org/~curt > HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ > FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org > Unique text: 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
But cross platform support gets more difficult. This is somewhat demonstrated by the issues that someone is having right now getting fgrun to compile and build. By keeping a single application there is a bunch of support, and a bunch of drive to keep the code base working across platforms. If the code splits into a bunch of different applications then people are needed to build/test/support each separate app. on each platform. In theory that should not be that hard, but in reality, I believe, no one has yet built fgrun for the Mac... --Adam _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
