On October 22, 2004 04:41 am, Boris Koenig wrote: > 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. It depends on the design of the interface. If the layout is logical, then you shouldn't have any problem coping with it.
For example, it will help to order the buttons/menu in such a way that the important and most used functions are presented first, and functions that are least used (ie. the config button) or least desired (ie. the exit button) are presented last. It will also help if there is a simple graphic (like line) that catches the user's attention and direct his/her focus from the top-left corner of the screen to the menu. Other important points that one will need to remember are: - All menu pages must have the same coherent design, so the users won't get confused. - Each menu page shouldn't have more than five options. - There shouldn't be any background image. If there is, it should be well blended in with the background color. > 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 !? Ampere _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
