Re: [Flightgear-devel] Property Picker

2001-11-14 Thread David Megginson
Mally writes: > I'm going to complain, mainly because I'm intrigued as to what the > 7th-century Insular Latin version would be like: Frightening (classicists need to be monitored closely in case they go into shock). I recommend Aldhelm's De Virginitate as a starting point; unfortunately, I c

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Property Picker

2001-11-14 Thread Mally
> > An other idea could be to add a description to every property. So the > > user can figure out what each of those are good for when browsing the > > tree. And when we would change our command line options to be property > > entries we cuold automatically create the --help option which will

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Property Picker

2001-11-14 Thread David Megginson
Christian Mayer writes: > > - is readable? (already implemented) > > - is writable? (already implemented) > > - is archivable? (already implemented) > > - data type (already implemented) > > - list of allowed values > > Wouldn't a check for that slow the properties down? Or would it only

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Property Picker

2001-11-14 Thread Christian Mayer
David Megginson wrote: > > All Properties > -- > > - is readable? (already implemented) > - is writable? (already implemented) > - is archivable? (already implemented) > - data type (already implemented) > - list of allowed values Wouldn't a check for that slow the properties down?

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Property Picker

2001-11-13 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson writes: > "Ranges" and "Value lists" would be good. I was thinking of > enforcing rules defined in xml in the prop_picker, but it sounds > like your saying that should be in the property manager code. > Which makes sense. It'd be good to have a error return code(s) > from the pr

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Property Picker

2001-11-13 Thread Jim Wilson
This is what asking about earlier, then we got into the discussion about xml menus (which I'm still thinking about working on, but have been spending what little time I have available right now learning Ac3d enough to build a 3D panel--figuring along the way I'll eventually learn how the panel cod

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Property Picker

2001-11-13 Thread Jim Wilson
Semi-static: click on the . (current directory dot) file entry and it refreshes. Best, Jim "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > David Megginson writes: > > Jim Wilson's new property picker is great -- I encourage everyone who > > hasn't done so already to try it out. I'd also be int

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Property Picker

2001-11-13 Thread Jim Wilson
Norman Vine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > One thing we could use are the dimensions and the x and y size > of the property picker exposed as properties so that one could > easily position it where desired. > That would be easy enough. Almost getting back to the xml gui idea. For the time bei

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Property Picker

2001-11-13 Thread David Megginson
Norman Vine writes: > >I encourage everyone who > >hasn't done so already to try it out. I'd also be interested in > >hearing what enhancements to the property manager (such as > >constraints) would be useful for the property picker's future > >development. > > One thing we could use are

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Property Picker

2001-11-13 Thread Norman Vine
David Megginson writes: > >Jim Wilson's new property picker is great -- Indeed ! >I encourage everyone who >hasn't done so already to try it out. I'd also be interested in >hearing what enhancements to the property manager (such as >constraints) would be useful for the property picker's future

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Property Picker

2001-11-13 Thread Curtis L. Olson
David Megginson writes: > Jim Wilson's new property picker is great -- I encourage everyone who > hasn't done so already to try it out. I'd also be interested in > hearing what enhancements to the property manager (such as > constraints) would be useful for the property picker's future > developm

[Flightgear-devel] Property Picker

2001-11-13 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson's new property picker is great -- I encourage everyone who hasn't done so already to try it out. I'd also be interested in hearing what enhancements to the property manager (such as constraints) would be useful for the property picker's future development. All the best, David --