Re: [Flightgear-devel] about /gear/launchbar/state","Engaged"

[Vivian M. <viv...@li...>]

gerard robin wrote

 
> A question, may be to Vivian.
> 
> About one carrier feature  <property>/gear/launchbar/state which is wanted
> by
> the JBD animation.
> i wonder if it won't be possible to replace the text constant value
> "Engaged"
> with a boolean value,  into the carrier program  ?
> 
> Working with JSBSIm  FDM which don't like  text constant value, it is
> unable
> to process it.
> So from the boolean  value coming from JSBSim   i have to listen it,  and
> to
> convert with a specific Nasal script , which is tricky.
> ===>
> from
> /fdm/jsbsim/launchbar/launch-bar-state  ( 1 or 0 )
> to
> /gear/launchbar/state  (Engaged or Disengaged)
> <====
> 
> This only necessary for animation, nothing else  :)
> 

YASim launchbar status is "Engaged"/"Launching"/"Completed"/"Disengaged" so
I don't think a change to Bool is trivial. YASim does use the status.
However a nasal listener is simple and quick to implement. Don't see a
problem with that as a solution, particularly as it is only for animation. 

Vivian