On mercredi 08 octobre 2008, AJ MacLeod wrote: > Hi all (aircraft developers in particular), > > As you might have noticed from the commits list, there was a "wrapper > function" added to controls.nas last night for braking chutes. > > As things stand, it is practically impossible to asssign braking chute > functions to a joystick or other controller because every aircraft model > handles the chute in a different way (since the Lightning was the first one > in FG to model a braking chute I take no blame for this - though perhaps if > I'd done it in a sane way others would have copied it :-) ) > > PLEASE modify your aircraft to use the controls.chuteDeploy function - > override it to your heart's content in your own model. All you need to > ensure is that controls.chuteDeploy(1) deploys the chute and > controls.chuteDeploy(-1) jettisons the chute (if appropriate). > > It only took a few minutes to convert the Lightning to use the wrapper (and > the Lightning's chute control stuff is a real mess - well designed models > will be even easier ;-) but it should make life a lot easier for people > writing controller configs and avoid the need for clumsy aircraft-specific > commands in controller config files. > > Cheers, > > AJ
Hello AJ Thanks What about SpeedBrake, which could be used instead of it with some particular Aircraft (BlackBird) won't it be better to have a wrapper too ? Cheers -- Gérard http://pagesperso-orange.fr/GRTux/ J'ai décidé d'être heureux parce que c'est bon pour la santé. Voltaire ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
