John Denker a écrit : > On 12/20/2008 01:59 AM, Erik Hofman wrote: > >> Syd wrote: >> >>> John Denker wrote: >>> >>>> 46:: Capitalization: Example: As of rc2, on the command line, when >>>> specifying --aircraft=dhc2W, the "dhc" must not be capitalized, while >>>> the "W" must be capitalized. This does not seem user-friendly. From >>>> the user's point of view, this does not make any sense. >>>> >>>> >>> I'm open to suggestions.... would a dhc2-wheels , dhc2-floats make more >>> sense ? >>> >> I think John is thinking of using non cases-sensitive aircraft names. >> > > I was ... but Syd raises a couple of other good points: > > It wouldn't hurt to make the --aircraft=... option > a) insensitive to hyphenation, and > b) accepting of unique abbreviations > as well as > c) insensitive to case. > > Example: If the "official" name is DHC2-wheels, then dhc2w would > automatically be an acceptable synonym. > > This seems like an obvious step in the direction of user-friendliness. >
Well, and what about using a graphical aircraft chooser. I know a good one ;-) -Fred PS: fgrun if you didn't get it. -- Frédéric Bouvier http://my.fotolia.com/frfoto/ Photo gallery http://fgsd.sourceforge.net/ FlightGear Scenery Designer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
