Re: [Flightgear-devel] Helipad thresholds

[Florent R. <f.r...@fr...>]

Hi,

David Megginson <dav...@gm...> wrote:

> That sounds like the right plan, Florent. If scenery has overridden an
> airport in a custom apt.dat, then only supporting files (thresolds, etc)
> from the same place should apply.

AFAIK, the supported types of XML files in this context are:

  groundnet, ils, procedures, runway_rename, threshold, twr

I'm wondering whether to apply the rule to all of them or if, say,
“procedures” would be better with an exception. I assume a few people
have $FG_SCENERY like so:

   some_custom_sceneries:procedures:terrascenery

with the “procedures” folder containing a gazillion *.procedures.xml
files (possibly obtained from Navigraph). If we strictly apply the
proposed rule, said procedure files wouldn't be used for airports that
have an apt.dat snippet in some_custom_sceneries. Of course,
some_custom_sceneries could ship appropriate procedure files, though.

Would it make sense to let XMLLoader::findAirportData() work as it does
now for the special case of procedure files? That would be a bit more
complicated, of course...

Regards

-- 
Florent