I haven't tried the latest Git, but just in my opinion, if using Flightgear on a laptop, holding-down right-click to pan around can be bit of a pain. I would personally rather have the click-move-click method.
Then again, not that many people probably use Flightgear on a laptop, and I haven't tried the latest Git. Saikrishna Arcot On Thu 11 Apr 2013 04:29:09 PM CDT, Stuart Buchanan wrote: > Hi James, > > This is superb work. I've just taken a flight in the c172p to try out > the new features, and I'm very impressed. > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:48 AM, James Turner wrote: >> - made a 'right-drag to look' mouse mode, which I think should be on >> by default (with the current behaviour available for people who prefer it). >> Also there is now visual feedback when changing the mouse mode 'statefully', >> which is still available via the TAB key in addition to right-clicking. > > Though I'm a dyed-in-the-wool mouse-looker who continually switched > between cursor and mouse-look, I'm completely converted to this way of > looking - way more intuitive IMO and really easy for users to learn. > > One minor suggestion - I used the mouse wheel field-of-view control a > lot when in look mode. Having it change the field of view while the > right mouse button is pressed would be good. > >> - made dedicated animation components for knobs / sliders, with >> unified handling of buttons / mouse wheel / dragging. > > I particularly like how this reduces XML file complexity. > >> - added tooltips, and hover-feedback for pickable areas in cockpits > > I'm seeing some bugs in this, in particular after hovering over some > control in the c172p (possibly the alitmeter?) I got "Aircraft Help" > displayed as all tooltips, and the following errors in the console: > > Nasal runtime error: nil used in numeric context > at /home/stuart/FlightGear/data/Nasal/geo.nas, line 241 > called from: /home/stuart/FlightGear/data/Nasal/canvas/tooltip.nas, line 167 > called from: /home/stuart/FlightGear/data/Nasal/canvas/tooltip.nas, line 119 > called from: /home/stuart/FlightGear/data/Nasal/canvas/tooltip.nas, line 91 > called from: /home/stuart/FlightGear/data/Nasal/canvas/tooltip.nas, line 270 > called from: /home/stuart/FlightGear/data/Nasal/canvas/tooltip.nas, line 313 > > geo.normgeg should probably be more robust.... > > As a "bonus" function, for multi-mode toggle switches, it would be > great to be able to define labels for different values (e.g. 0=OFF, > 1=ON) > > >> For more complex aircraft such as the Constellation, Concorde or 747, adding >> tooltips will be a lot of work, but greatly assist in figuring out what >> everything does. > > Well, such is the price of progress. > > -Stuart > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced > analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building > apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use > our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! > http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
