Hi Curt,
"Curtis L. Olson" wrote:
> Martin Spott wrote:
>>Indeed this sounds interesting. Does it mean that FG will get a modern,
>>full-featured and stable interface for external FDM's ?
> Sounds like you probably have something more specific in mind than
> can be expressed in a single sentence. The particular adjectives
> you've chosen could be loaded with additional meaning (or not.) :-)
Well, I prefer you to understand it as well-meant lobbying, driven by
the strong feeling that FG needs this - not for me but for others who
could do much more by connecting an external FDM to FG than I ever
could.
Just have a look at the CIGI "Interface Control Document", they do care
very much about defining the low-level protocol. Although CIGI isn't
adequate for being used as FDM interface for FlightGear I find it very
interesting to see how they approach the goal to offer a reliable
interface to the developer.
When I became aware of FG I first started looking for something like a
"remote FDM interface definition", but I was put off by the "simply
copy the struct" way that I would have had to go. As I was quite
uneducated in mangling other people's C++ code I grounded my project
after a while. As you know I'm not the only one who felt offended by
the mentioned 'interface'. Other people who actually _did_ interface to
FG decided not to follow the ongoing changes and stick to old FG
versions as long as there is no 'official' interface definition that
they can expect to be stable and platform independent.
Now as you aim to interface to a quite unrelated FDM I had the hope an
interface definition that matches the forementioned attributes might
evolve as a side effect.
> As with any feature request, you are welcome to code something up
> yourself if the collective group isn't moving fast enough for you.
> :-)
I'll see, after never having coded in C from scratch before I now
started this weekend to investigate how things would do - don't expect
me to meet the speed of the moving group very soon .... ;-)
Cheers,
Martin.
--
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