From: Erik H. <er...@eh...> - 2006-04-18 07:57:47
|
James Turner wrote: > I'm plotting to add support for startup GUIs in FlightGear itself, > spurred on by recent issues with Mac GUI. My approach is to twiddle the > order of initialisation so that at a critical point during the > idle_state progression, the NewGUI subsystem is up, config options have > been parsed, and the nav data has been read, but everything else is > still 'off'. With the exclusion of nav-data, this point is reached very > quickly, and I believe other work can improve the 10-20 seconds it takes > to read the nav data. > What do people think? I can have a patch for SimGear that adds support, > and one for fg_init that establishes the existing behaviour, done in an > hour or two. If you can get this working properly then this would be a great contribution. The startup sequence has always proved to be rather tricky to get right, this might solve some of that. Erik -- http://www.ehtw.info (Dutch) Future of Enschede Airport Twente http://www.ehofman.com/fgfs FlightGear Flight Simulator |