Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft config files and .fgfsrc

2001-12-30 Thread David Megginson
Erik Hofman writes: > Hmm, you've got a point there. I didn't think of that one yet. > But I still don't think the properties thing (--prop:) is the way to go. I was thinking of that as a magic string inside ~/.fgfsrc. From the command-line itself, a --panel option might be a good idea eventu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft config files and .fgfsrc

2001-12-30 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: > Erik Hofman writes: > > > First of all, I doubt if many *users* would want to change the panel, > > etc of already exsisting aircraft. This is probably just for (aircraft) > > developers of FlightGear. > > Certainly they won't as long as every aircraft, panel, etc.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft config files and .fgfsrc

2001-12-30 Thread David Megginson
Erik Hofman writes: > First of all, I doubt if many *users* would want to change the panel, > etc of already exsisting aircraft. This is probably just for (aircraft) > developers of FlightGear. Certainly they won't as long as every aircraft, panel, etc. is in the base package, but I can ima

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft config files and .fgfsrc

2001-12-30 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: > The current aircraft config-file approach is a major improvement over > what we had before, since the user can use a single option, > --aircraft, to get the right aero, panel, sounds, etc. However, it is > not easy for the user to provide aircraft-specific overrides. Fo

[Flightgear-devel] Aircraft config files and .fgfsrc

2001-12-29 Thread David Megginson
The current aircraft config-file approach is a major improvement over what we had before, since the user can use a single option, --aircraft, to get the right aero, panel, sounds, etc. However, it is not easy for the user to provide aircraft-specific overrides. For example, c172-set.xml has