I committed some code a few days ago, to change how aircraft data files are loaded - if you're running the latest code, you may have noticed the paths used for each data file are now logged. This is a transitional feature - it will help if someone reports problems with particular data files not being loaded; once the code has had sufficient testing, I'll remove or downgrade the message.
The good news is, FG now supports --fg-aircraft=some/path/;another/path syntax for loading aircraft data; you should be able to place development aircraft or similar outside data/Aircraft and have everything work as expected (right now you still need to have an 'Aircraft' dir, so I do: --fg-aircraft=/foo/my-aircraft, and then have /foo/my-aircraft/Aircraft/MD-81/MD-81-set.xml, and so on). data/Aircraft is still checked as a location, too, of course - this keeps generic Aircraft resources (such as the standard AP) and shared instruments working, though these could also be located in a separate dir - the code check the current aircraft's direction, then the --fg-aircraft paths in order, and finally data/Aircraft. This will hopefully simplify life for aircraft developers, packagers and release maintainers in the near future, but in the short term it would be great if people could try the feature out, and report any issues or problems. BTW, the more verbose logging of file paths does reveal some latent places where a file was missing / not-found (including in the C172 effects files, due to a confused path), but this fact was not previous reported. James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
