Quoting Martin Spott : > Frederic Bouvier wrote: > > > Comments welcome > > Great ideas, just one little concern: What measures are applied to > identify which airports should show up in the selection list ? Consider > a user has installed most of the world scenery, is FGrun then going to > parse the whole scenery to see which airports are present ? I don't > think so, because it will take too much time. > To my impression FGrun looks at the base scenery directories and > decides which airports lie in the present scenery areas (according to > the airport database). Now what about those airports that are present > in the airport database but not part of the senery - as all those > helipads that, as you told, are now excluded from the scenery ? > When I tried the 0.9.8 Win32 package I chose Alcatraz from the list in > FGrun and noticed, that the field is actually not present in the > scenery - this could be fixed,
I forgot this one. It is not an improvement though, rather a fix ;-) The scenery scan is done every time and is very long although it is threaded and doesn't prevent you to launch flightgear. Curt suggested to show all the content of apt.dat.gz and check the availability afterward. I am now thinking to check only against the first level of directories to see if they lie in an existing 10x10 chunk ( eventually with special case for the 2 1x1 chunks of the base package ). And rely more on the refresh button already present than a systematic scan. -Fred _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
