Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-17 Thread David Megginson
Jonathan Polley writes: I have made an attempt to describe the contents of 'preferences.xml.' Could someone knowledgeable in the properties list and preferences.xml file let me know if I am understanding things correctly? Also, is there any information about what each component of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-17 Thread Jonathan Polley
Just to start, the property tree has nothing to do with Metakit -- we use Metakit only to hold airport and navaid data. I will make that change. path Aircraft/c172/Panels/c172-vfr-panel.xml/ path This tells FlightGear where it can find the configuration information for

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-17 Thread Jon Berndt
Some of the other XML files are rather easy to figure out (i.e,. keyboard. xml), but others are not (i.e., the FDM specific files). Does anyone have anything written that describes these? The materials.xml file has quite a nice description at the top. Can you let us know what is unclear in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-17 Thread David Megginson
Jonathan Polley writes: Some of the other XML files are rather easy to figure out (i.e,. keyboard. xml), but others are not (i.e., the FDM specific files). YASim and JSBSim each uses its own XML format, which is different from the XML format used by the rest of FlightGear. For YASim,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-17 Thread Jonathan Polley
On Sunday, March 17, 2002, at 09:53 AM, Jon Berndt wrote: Some of the other XML files are rather easy to figure out (i.e,. keyboard. xml), but others are not (i.e., the FDM specific files). Does anyone have anything written that describes these? The materials.xml file has quite a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-16 Thread Jonathan Polley
I have made an attempt to describe the contents of 'preferences.xml.' Could someone knowledgeable in the properties list and preferences.xml file let me know if I am understanding things correctly? Also, is there any information about what each component of FlightGear needs from the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-11 Thread David Megginson
Wolfram Kuss writes: The XML files get IMVHO more and more confusing. I think that it would be more accurate to say that FlightGear is getting more sophisticated -- there's more to learn if you want to customize things, but that's only because there's so much more that you can customize. The

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-11 Thread Cameron Moore
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Megginson) [2002.03.10 10:47]: Jim Wilson writes: Hehe. Yep. Didn't notice that one. Actually I don't know why that would be in the preferences.xml. Anyone know why that isn't in the panel or at least aircraft-set xmls? A cleanup and reorg is long

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-11 Thread David Megginson
Cameron Moore writes: [ Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard? ] Jane, n'est-ce pas? All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-11 Thread Wolfram Kuss
David wrote: Wolfram Kuss writes: The XML files get IMVHO more and more confusing. I think that it would be more accurate to say that FlightGear is getting more sophisticated -- there's more to learn if you want to customize things, but that's only because there's so much more that you can

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-11 Thread David Megginson
Wolfram Kuss writes: BTW, in your list you forgot the *-dpm.xml files, which are of most interest to me and which are currently the only ones that I really use :-). With the little time I currently have, I am glad if I manage to have a nice 3D model at the correct place in fgfs. Ah, yes

re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-10 Thread David Megginson
Jonathan Polley writes: I have some experience with Tkinter. but my GUIs tend to be a bit functional (OK, ugly), and I will be learning XML at the same time. Any, and all, help will be greatly appreciated. If you know LISP (CommonLISP, InterLISP, Scheme, E-LISP, or what-have you), you're

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-10 Thread Jonathan Polley
On Sunday, March 10, 2002, at 07:02 PM, David Megginson wrote: Jonathan Polley writes: I have some experience with Tkinter. but my GUIs tend to be a bit "functional" (OK, ugly), and I will be learning XML at the same time. Any, and all, help will be greatly appreciated. If you know LISP

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-10 Thread Jim Wilson
Jonathan Polley [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The preferences file is not FDM specific at all. The contents of preferences.xml in the base package are for the most part self explanatory, I have to beg to differ on this one. For those few command line arguments that I have used, I can

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-10 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson writes: Hehe. Yep. Didn't notice that one. Actually I don't know why that would be in the preferences.xml. Anyone know why that isn't in the panel or at least aircraft-set xmls? A cleanup and reorg is long overdue; same for keyboard mappings. All the best, David --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-10 Thread Alex Perry
If you know LISP (CommonLISP, InterLISP, Scheme, E-LISP, or what-have you), you're most of the way there. Now I am going to have nightmares ). LISP and I were not the best of friends in college (things like caadaddaddr gives me chills). Actually, I think they're referring to nested

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-10 Thread Jonathan Polley
On Sunday, March 10, 2002, at 08:04 PM, Alex Perry wrote: Another sneaky bonus of XML over LISP is in the bracketing. Instead of having fifteen close parentheses stacked up at the end of the function, you get to say /a/b/c/d/e/f etc. While this is a pain in the butt to type, at least the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-10 Thread Wolfram Kuss
Sounds like a worth while (sp?) project! The XML files get IMVHO more and more confusing. Maybe lets do the big reorg that Dave speaks about first, with the hope that things won't change often afterwards. When doing the python scripts to generate the very very rudimentary plane xmls on my website

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-10 Thread John Check
On Monday 11 March 2002 02:32 am, you wrote: Sounds like a worth while (sp?) project! The XML files get IMVHO more and more confusing. Maybe lets do the big reorg that Dave speaks about first, with the hope that things won't change often afterwards. When doing the python scripts to generate

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-10 Thread John Check
On Monday 11 March 2002 02:32 am, you wrote: snip choose a FDM, panel etc, inputs it into the XMLs, generates a small batch file to call everything, etc. The set files do what said batch file would do. They are the top level aircraft config. ___