Re: [Flightgear-devel] startup menu option

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

* Durk Talsma -- Sunday 25 November 2007:
> On Saturday 24 November 2007 21:32, Melchior FRANZ wrote:
[alternative startup location entries in apt.dat]

> All very good reasons why I opted not to use this information directly,
> but can it into the AI related "parking.xml" file.

And how do those help us with placing the pilot's aircraft at
such a position at startup?



> I realize you also have some objections against the particular forma
> of this file [...]

Yes, and you know why. This was one of the really bad decisions in this
project. Some project leader should have stopped this. FlightGear uses
a particular format for XML files: <PropertyList>. It has tools for
loading them into a tree, and for writing them from there, it has methods
to deal with the nodes in C++ and Nasal. Our life would be a lot easier
if all parts worked together, and not every little subsystem had to
invent its own methods. It takes a lot of extra code to make some sense
out of these alien files.

m.