Re: [Flightgear-devel] Auto-saving of autosave and aircraft-data

[<isa...@gm...>]

Hi all,

I'd prefer an option to save manually (e.g. File > Save flight) and an
option (in some menu) to enable autosave and define the number of minutes
(with a text box or a slider) between two autosaves, like it's done in many
games. In that way, the user keeps total control and (auto)saving is only
done when the user wants it.

Kind regards,

Isaak

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Michael Danilov <mik...@gm...>
> Verzonden: maandag 6 september 2021 16:55
> Aan: FlightGear developers discussions <flightgear-
> de...@li...>
> Onderwerp: [Flightgear-devel] Auto-saving of autosave and aircraft-data
> 
> Dear users and developers,
> 
> I and James are discussing how to flush autosave and aircraft-data --
> simulator and aircraft settings and statistics that are saved between
sessions
> -- without exiting FG properly (through the Exit dialog, rather than e.g.
> Control-C).
> 
> The possibilities of doing this are:
> - flush every 5 minutes (but it will miss the settings that have
>   changed since the last flush);
> - on some events like settings dialog closing (but then it will not
>   save the changes done silently by the internals, for example some
>   internal variable of aircraft systems that is being saved);
> - only flush on user command (for which menu items will be added).
> 
> Which would you prefer? Maybe there are other options?
> 
> I, personally, would prefer the manual way, but only because I often rely
on
> Control-C to terminate FG without saving anything, when debugging. This
> way I can be sure that no changes get carried over to the next try. Could
we
> make a command line switch like --ignore-autosave, but that disables only
> the saving of settings without affecting the loading?
> 
> Kind regards,
> Mike
> 
> 
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