Stuart wrote > Sent: 28 November 2007 10:18 > To: FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Keyboard reorg > > > Hi All, > > I've added the key assignments currently defined in > keyboard.xml to the wiki page, so that we can easily see what > assignments people think are missing, and any inconsistencies: > > http://wiki.flightgear.org/flightgear_wiki/index.php?title=Key > board_function_priority_list > > Note that this only lists the key assignments for the > functions that people have added to the wiki. It doesn't list > all the current key assignments so shouldn't be used to work > out which keys are available :) > > I think it might be worth making a couple of small changes > for the 0.9.11 release to make the key assignments more > consistent, and to define which blocks of keys we want to > reserve for aircraft designers, and which we will reserver > for user's own custom assignments. That way we have a > strategy going forwards, and designers of new aircraft will > have some confidence that they will not be treading on other > peoples toes. > > >From looking at the list, one thing that looks worth > resolving are the > >speedbrakes, spoilers and slats assignments. The current key > assignment > >for Speedbrakes assumes that the brakes are on/off, and at > least in the > >case of the Vulcan, they have multiple positions. I don't > fly big iron > >much, but I'd guess that slats can similarly have multiple > positions. > >Anyone care to comment?
A similar situation to the Buccaneer - I retained ctrl B to toggle the airbrake (aka speedbrake) but also use j/k to step the airbrake through predefined detents. Luckily, it doesn't have spoilers as well. The A4F does, so that option wasn't available, so I stuck with the default keys. Hmm - the A4F has an automatic deployment option for the spoilers - must do that sometime. But how will I do the wing/flap/aileron blowing system? Haven't even thought about that yet. > It might be worth adding a new list to the wiki page of the > current functions for which there is a keyboard assignment we > no-longer need. For example, the time warp and simulation > rate key assignments which we will no-longer need once > someone commits my Time of Day dialog changes ;) I've already re-used t/T for the auto-trim facility in the Buccaneer - but there's no reason to make that a permanent or default assignment Vivian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
