Re: [Flightgear-devel] [IMPORTANT] questionable extension to the property system planned: compound property types

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

* Frederic Bouvier -- Sunday 22 March 2009:
> >>       <specular type="vec4d">
> >>         .4 .5 .7 1.0
> >>       </specular>

> Is it the whole file ? Are we talking about ten lines or tons of them ?

Not even tons of that would justify breaking the internal property
representation. If lines are *really* an issue, then do this:

  <specular><r> .4 </r><g> .5 </g><b> .7 </b><a> 1.0 </a></specular>

Hey, that's now only one line instead of three! And stuff like that
is already done now in a few cases. Look into material.xml:

 <glyph> <name>A</name> <left>0.03418</left> <right>0.05469</right> </glyph>
 <glyph> <name>B</name> <left>0.05469</left> <right>0.07178</right> </glyph>

m.