When holding the gear key or button down (as a kind of modifier) and after
left-clicking on the terrain, teleport the UFO to the click position.
Keep heading if no model is active, otherise look there. Keep altitude-agl.
(but disabled) by default. You won't notice any difference, unless you
place, let's say, an A-10-model.xml in the scenery. Some of the A-10's "select"
animations unselect the fuselage and other parts, when they thinks the A-10
is in cockpit view, not knowing that it's actually the *ufo*, which is in
cockpit view.
A camera tool for making fgfs videos (heavily used by Michelle) and for
tracking MP and AI aircraft. It's planned to include this into the regular
ufo, but for now it's better to keep them separated. Comes with its own
panel, which (hopefully) is self-explaining.
Shouldn't be announced on the fgfs page as separate aircraft (if that's
possible). Work in progress ...
At the moment only the range can be changed via panel click action
(click on the range numbers). Weather radar can be turned on in
/instrumentation/radar/display-controls/WX. ai/mp display to come.
For those who miss the old 2D panel, just use an aircraft with a decent
panel and add --fdm=ufo for the same effect.
algorithm (needed for the file selector and useful for other purposes, like
assembling lists of livery or screenshot files etc.)
- io.nas: move fixpath to string.nas (it's not only useful for file paths
but can also be used for property paths)
- screen.nas: move trim to string.nas (used by screen.nas and nasal-console.xml)
- gui.nas: add pattern matching to FileSelctor
- ufo.nas: use patterm matching (only *.ac and *.xml files shall be listed)
a cursor, after all, and the term "cursor" is already used for the startup
model. That one should really be called "model", but can't, because this is
already used for the ufo 3D model property ... sigh. :-]
- replace lon/lat adjustment with more predictable nearer/farther/left/right
adjustment (i.e. movements relative to the UFO position)
- add key bindings to move objects
- if the selected model is the sign placeholder (Aircraft/ufo/Models/sign.ac;
first entry in the m-key dialog), then the export writes an OBJECT_SIGN
entry with the legend as contents (rather than the path).
Note that the input field for legend/comment is invisible if it doesn't
contain any text. You find it if you click right over the status line
entry in the lower left corner. Usability bug by design. :-)
(The dialog can also be dragged to another place.)
load the export file directly into fgfs via --config option:
--config=$HOME/.fgfs/ufo-model-export.xml (An fgfs wrapper could add
this option automatically if the file exists. Mine does. :-)
- import all /models/model[n] objects into the UFO's model manager, so
that they become editable
Both features together allow to save an UFO object session and to continue
it next time.
- add status line (green: active model -- clicks will plant it;
orange: selected model -- adjustable/removable)
- make manually selected models active (that is: further clicks will plant
this model type); doesn't apply to automatically selected models (after
removing)
- cleanup
TODO: yet more cleanup, add missing terminal output, etc.
Implement simple help system with global and aircraft specific dialogs:
The gui.nas changes have been discussed with Andy. All ac have a help dialog,
but some are empty. (This wouldn't have been necessary, as the system falls
back to the "Common Aircraft Keys" if an aircraft has no help defined, but an
empty dialog is less confusing and encourages to be filled with interesting
information. :-) I scanned all aircraft files for interesting performance
data and added some to the dialogs (stall speed, etc.) The Concorde and the
p51d have (over?)complete dialogs and can serve as examples. The format is
documented in $FG_ROOT/Nasa/gui.nas.
There is also a couple of other, minor fixes.
The following files have ugly MSDOS line endings:
$FG_ROOT/Aircraft/Hunter/hunter{-2tanks,}-set.xml
$FG_ROOT/Aircraft/A380/A380-set.xml
The Concorde-jsbsim.nas file is a useless copy of the real */nas file, which is
in Nasal/. I'was debugging the Concorde and wondered why changes to this file
had no effect ...
(Fixed Concorde in the help-ac.diff patch: don't use "interpol" keyword as
variable.)
