Willie wrote > > 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. > >> > > > > >
I think this is a useful piece of work; nothing controversial here that I can see. Users of the property browser might find it a little strange to find it under "debug", but that's probably where it belongs (/ brings it up). I'll merge it into git. Perhaps there will be some further comments, or suggestions for improvements then. Vivian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
