Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cannot specify --aircraft in system.fgfsrc

2002-12-20 Thread Brandon Bergren
$USERPROFILE on WinNT shold resolve to the root of the "users" home directory. $SYSTEMROOT should resolve to the operating system root directory. If I remember right, there is a portable way to find the "my documents" folder. (ie, win9x&nt, any language.) I know the BZFlag project is able to fi

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Cannot specify --aircraft in system.fgfsrc

2002-12-05 Thread David Megginson
The Tone'ster writes: > IMHO, it would be nice to see "default" config file names and > locations be names that would work across all platforms and to see > that they land in places on a given OS that have analogies to each > other. > > Better, IMHO, would be to keep "default" configuration

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cannot specify --aircraft in system.fgfsrc

2002-12-04 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Geoff McLane writes: > PS: Curt, did you not get my README.msvc6? Or you do > not feel it should be in the CVS just yet? Hmmm, I don't recall, you probably want to send it again. If I did get it, it is now very buried in my email pile. Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program Fl

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cannot specify --aircraft in system.fgfsrc

2002-12-04 Thread Geoff McLane
Dear All, oops, pardon moi ... RE:MSVC6 Update - continued ... This i added, explicily, to fg_init.cxx // Next check the 'root' for a system.fgfsrc file if ( aircraft.empty() ) { // Check for $fg_root/system.fgfsrc SGPath config( globals->get_fg_root() ); config.appen

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Cannot specify --aircraft in system.fgfsrc

2002-12-04 Thread The Tone'ster
--- David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The idea was that system.fgfsrc is system-wide, while .fgfsrc is > per-user. For Windows, perhaps we should look for fgfs.cfg in My > Documents or wherever (is there any concept of separate user > directories yet?). $USERPROFILE on WinNT shold reso

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Cannot specify --aircraft in system.fgfsrc

2002-12-04 Thread David Megginson
Michael Basler writes: > Personally I've got most of my user's files just on a separate > partition (and all the FlightGear stuff on yet another partition > and FS2002 on yet another one and so on). From my POV the mechanism > we had with just a single system.fgfsrc in $FG_ROOT would be > suf

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Cannot specify --aircraft in system.fgfsrc

2002-12-04 Thread Michael Basler
David, > The idea was that system.fgfsrc is system-wide, while .fgfsrc is > per-user. For Windows, perhaps we should look for fgfs.cfg in My > Documents or wherever (is there any concept of separate user > directories yet?). Win XP and 2000 allow management of separate user directories under the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cannot specify --aircraft in system.fgfsrc

2002-12-04 Thread Norman Vine
David Megginson writes: > > Paul Deppe writes: > > > It looks like it is not possible to specify an --aircraft in system.fgfsrc > > because the aircraft model is loaded before system.fgfsrc is processed (see > > program output below). Is this the intended behavior? I thought the > > processi

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Cannot specify --aircraft in system.fgfsrc

2002-12-04 Thread David Megginson
Michael Basler writes: > > We were planning to drop system.fgfsrc -- I thought we already had, > > but I guess it's still lurking. The processing order, from memory, is > > > > $FG_ROOT/preferences.xml > > $HOME/.fgfsrc > > command line > > I don't fully understand this. Until now,

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Cannot specify --aircraft in system.fgfsrc

2002-12-04 Thread Michael Basler
David, > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David > Megginson > We were planning to drop system.fgfsrc -- I thought we already had, > but I guess it's still lurking. The processing order, from memory, is > > $FG_ROOT/preferences.xml > $HOME/.fgfsrc > command l

re: [Flightgear-devel] Cannot specify --aircraft in system.fgfsrc

2002-12-04 Thread David Megginson
Paul Deppe writes: > It looks like it is not possible to specify an --aircraft in system.fgfsrc > because the aircraft model is loaded before system.fgfsrc is processed (see > program output below). Is this the intended behavior? I thought the > processing order was supposed to be 1) prefere