Ampere K. Hardraade wrote:
On October 21, 2004 04:49 pm, C Sanjayan Rosenmund wrote:
Someone mentioned the ability of installing and uninstalling aircraft,
and possibly loading them as modules. This brought up (for me) the idea
of moving back the starting point when the program loads. Instead of
starting in the aircraft itself, start at a "rental desk" where you
could select the aircraft you wish to fly from a list of installed
aircraft (and only the most stable are included in the release package,
everything is included in the CVS), then you hit "load" and the program
fades to the cockpit and the rest is as is, with the exception of the
option of going back to the selection desk.
Isn't that what fgruns does?
well, functionally - pretty much yes I'd say, visually certainly not -
while I personally don't really like that fancy stuff - to be honest,
I usually don't even cope with it in the first place, I know some
applications (also flight simulators like "Fly II") that provide
such visual means to simplify the usage ...
The gains are not really that significant from my opinion - while
everything looks neat and colorful, it's many times quite a task
to find out where exactly a function is hidden.
So apart from the integrated "desk" functionality, fgrund does already
feature aircraft selection and preview, I remember a discussion about
one month ago where Erik mentioned that it wouldn't yet be really
possible to change Aircraft "on the fly" (literally !), so probably
it's not only a matter of shifting some code fragments within the
source files, but rather some more thinking/rewriting seems to be
involved.
On the other hand it's of course true that most counterparts do feature
such an integrated mechanism ...
So it's probably not a matter of IF, but rather WHEN the code is
revamped accordingly ... having fgrun as a viable and working
alternative for most scenarios, it doesn't sound like a high-priority
feature !?
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Boris
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