Re: [Flightgear-devel] loading aircraft-data/foo.xml or not...

[TheFGFSEagle <the...@gm...>]

Well, you always can read the data file outside the aircraft.data mechanism
by using io.read_properties.

Am Fr., 30. Juni 2023 um 17:48 Uhr schrieb <wki...@gm...>:

>
> is there some way to read a property (eg: aircraft-version) from the
> aircraft-data/foo.xml file before deciding to load it in its entirety, to
> load
> certain specific properties from it, or to ignore it completely?
>
> the reason i ask is that sometimes when craft get updated, there may be
> properties (or missing properties) in the file that cause problems for a
> craft
> that has been updated... in all the cases i'm aware of, the fix was for
> the user
> to go behind the scenes and manually delete this file so the craft could
> start
> clean... but that's not always a GoodThing<tm> because there may be data
> in the
> file that is desirable (eg: hobbs clock) and doesn't cause problems...
>
> my idea is for the craft to somehow be able to handle this situation
> itself
> without the user having to get involved behind the scenes or maybe think
> the
> craft is just broken and go complaining about it... or not...
>
>
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