[Flightgear-devel] Reworked launcher aircraft UI

[James T. <jam...@kd...>]

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> this works but seems a little clumsy... i have to go into the craft details to see if this is the craft i want to use... if it is not, i have to go back and find the other one in the list... if there's more than one, i gotta find them, too... i don't know what to expect, really... i did like the popup tool tip with the directory... i didn't have to guess and hope which craft i was selecting... just hover and boom! there it was... that's the craft, now select it and look at details or let's go fly it…

Okay for this use the tooltip is better, I’ll see if I can re-add it (tooltips are kind of out of fashion these days since they don’t work on touch-screen UIs!)

(But maybe the sections thing below makes this less needed)

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> it would be good to be able to change the filters when looking at the installed list... maybe have a button called "filter" that both lists show... when you select the filter button, then your existing box pops up but go ahead and put the sliders in there instead of having another box to open…

Well it’s already live (updated in real time) - the dialog it replaced was a modal dialog so this is already a good improvement. I don’t want to make a floating window to be honest, that will complicate code using this UI inside the sim.

> switching to the browse list for the first time since updating and attempting to build the new code, i see the filters are reenabled and reset to the right of middle of their travel... i turned off the list and it appears that all my craft are being shown along with all of their entries in the FGAddon hanger list... this would be another place where a counter would be nice...
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> showing 142 out of 1080 available (551 installed, 529 installable)
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I could display that at the top of the list somewhere? Don’t want to take up too much screen real-estate however. SO maybe just below the filter settings, or even inside the same box? yeah I’ll try that.

> when looking at an installable craft's details, change the "local file location" to read "remote location" and list the hanger and path...
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> Remote Location: Joe's Hanger /Aircraft/GPL/schmoomoo
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> or whatever... t'would be nice to group by hanger, too, if that's not already done... or filter to see only certain selected hangers (checkboxes?)... this info would need to be available in the installed list, too, to make it easy to see only joe's hanger craft because we like his schmoomoo more than the one in fred's hanger but fred has been working on his so we fly that one sometimes when it is updated…

Grouping by hangar is something I could add now, it should also be possible to make a hangar collapsible, i.e click a button to hide all aircraft from a hangar or aircraft path. It’s definitely not a high priority however, I’m focused on getting feature parity with the previous UI first.

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> here's another question for you... i know that you have some sort of RPN domain naming thing that you use for the hangers to keep their craft separated... can i just create that RPN domain directory and move all my already downloaded craft into it and continue to maintain them outside of the sim and launcher?

Basically that won’t work in terms of live updating. You can copy the directory, and add the path just like any other aircraft dir via —fg-aircraft of course - but it won’t work like a hangar, it will just be a frozen snapshot of whichever aircraft you had downloaded for that hangar at the point you made the copy.

(Which maybe is exactly what you want!)

But, I wouldn’t ‘officially’ recommend this, there’s probably at least one thing that will screw up. Maybe. :)

James