Stuart Buchanan wrote > -----Original Message----- > From: [mailto:stuart_d_bucha...@yahoo.co.uk] > Sent: 16 November 2009 12:44 > To: FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ignoring MP pilots > > Pete Morgan wrote: > > > Seperate ports are gonna be a problem with firewalls. > > > > Is there a way to create a group using the callsign? eg > my_group:callsign ? > > > > just a thought. > > > > Pete > > My personal preference is to simply to expand the Ignore option to hide > the AI > model on the client-side. Should be pretty straightforward to do and > doesn't > require any messing around with the MP connection. > > Adding an additional check-box to the pilot dialog to hide the model > separately > from the chat feels a bit overly complicated. If I want to ignore someone > on chat, > chances are I don't particularly want to see them either, so a single > checkbox > on the pilot dialog could serve both purposes. > > On a related note, I believe Jester finished the work that I had > originally intended > in the MP chat to provide per-frequency chat, rather than a single global > frequency. > Now that we have FGCom, I suspect there's a lot less need for this than > there was, > but it would be a nice addition, and a simple way to ignore all the MP > chat traffic at > KSFO ;) > > If we feel that groups are a good idea, an enhancement to Pete's > suggestion above > would be easy to implement and provide a very flexible function if we have > client-side > ignore: > > 1) Each client transmits a /sim/user/group property over MP > > 2) A dialog backed by some Nasal allows selection of your group > (freeform/dropdown) > and selection/deselection of specific groups to display or ignore. > > 3) As new MP clients join, the Nasal code ignores them automatically based > on their > group and your rules. > > This would allow very flexible filtering for a number of useful scenarios: > 1) People wanting to fly in a specific group without any other MP people > can simply create > an ad-hoc group and select to display only that group. > 2) Some pre-defined groups (FGCom, ATC, Beginners, Default) would allow > standard > groups to be displayed/ignored easily >
My understanding is that Csabá didn't get that to work. I wanted to use it for Carrier Controlled Approaches, but had to (mis)use the Approach Channel instead. Vivian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
