[Flightgear-devel] Property Browser: old dog, new tricks

[Melchior F. <mf...@ao...>]

I've hacked the property browser a bit:

- it unselects entries after editing is finished (i.e. after the small edit
  window has disappeared)

- doesn't scroll the list back to top after editing value (which was very
  annoying)

- makes bool entries toggle on Ctrl-click. This could almost be made default
  (without Ctrl), but would probably cause occasional unintentional toggling.

- if /sim/gui/dialogs/property-browser/show-flags is set to true, shows
  the following property flags:

    r ... read protected
    w ... write protected
    A ... archive
    U ... userarchive
    T ... tied

  An entry would then look something like this:

    foo = '123.456' (double; AT)

  r & w are a bit unintuitive for Linux/Unix users, as they actually mean
  the opposite of the "ls" command output: r means that reading it *not*
  allowed (which probably keeps that very flag from working ;-). T is 
  important, as it shows which values are "tied" and can, thus, not be set
  other than by the C++ code that owns them. This also means that attached
  listeners will never get triggered.

Now, try with going to /sim/gui/dialogs/property-browser/show-flags and
Ctrl-clicking on it.

m.  :-)