Well seeing as no-one has said they absolutely hate this, can we get it merged into git, please?
http://gitorious.org/~willief/fg/williefs-fgdata/commits/new-menu On 09/09/10 10:17, willie wrote: > A quick clarification re the keybord shortcuts - I I simply want to > display them on the menu, NOT assign new shortcuts. I am aware that we > are running out of keys for functions. > Doesn't work too well in text but I changed > > |Autopilot| > |Autopilot Settings| > > to > > |Autopilot| > |Autopilot Settings F11| > > > in an effort to make people more aware of the these shortcuts so they > actually get used instead of being keys that developers are prevented > from using but actually get little usage. > > Also, not yet in my git repo but I intend displaying the little-known > ':' syntax > > as in :Dc will bring up the Clouds dialog. > > > so menu entry under Environment for clouds becomes > > |Clouds :Dc| > > > Try pressing ':' to enter this dialog. Then <Tab> toggles some help. > Perhaps we should set the default for ':' to bring help up automatically > on first use. > Certainly the key-sequence ':aht345' is faster than going through the > menu to set Autopilot True Heading to 345deg -- and there is progressive > help so no great feats of memory are required. > THe : syntax help is not perfect, the last item in each menu appears to > be broken or I did not grasp the syntax but overall I'd say its a very > useful and little-known feature. > > > > > On 08/09/10 19:34, willie wrote: >> I've done some work to tidy up the menu, removing redundant entries, >> commenting out stuff that doesn't work right now and generally moving >> stuff around into more logical(IMHO) positions. >> >> Initial ideas are at >> >> http://gitorious.org/~willief/fg/williefs-fgdata/commits/new-menu >> >> Still plenty to be done, I need to add keyboard shortcuts to all >> relevant entries and the Help section in particular needs more work. >> >> I'd like to move the Tutorial entries to the aircraft-specific tab for >> consistency but this would require changes to every aircraft so may not >> be feasible right now. >> >> All comments welcome. >> > > -- Best Regards Willie Fleming 0141 637 6443 07799 67 88 15 <a href="http://www.uwdcvideos.co.uk/index.taf?exref=174007&v=1"; target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.uwdcvideos.co.uk/images/b1.gif"; border= "0" width="468" height="60"></a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
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