The current code still has some rough edges, in particular memory still
needs to be deallocated where possible, and the actual use of the code
needs more testing. This code has been running without noticable problems,
so I think it's ready for some wider exposure. Detailed changes include:
- Finetuning of the SID/STAR data concept.
- Preloading of all SIDs, from one xml file.
- ATC determines which SID should be used and echoes this over the com1 or
com2 radio.
* Some support for geometry information provided by the custom scenery
project. Current support is for AI groundnets and runway use files only
since this is a switch that involves a lot of data verification and
updating, during the transistion the actual path where the data can be
read from is user configurable. setting the property
/sim/traffic-manager/use-custom-scenery-data to true
will cause flightgear to read the ground networks from the scenery
directory (--{fg-scenery}/Airports/[I]/[C]/[A]/[ICAO].groundnet.xml to be
precise). Setting this property to false will retain the original
behvior.
* For departing aircraft, runway takeoff calculations will be done on the
basis of the performance database. For testing purposes, a performance
estimate for a heavy jet has been added.
Fixed bug due to longstanding inconsistency in FGAirport
getter functions return types.
Durk Talsma: Fixed traffic record initialization bug that occured
when taxiing traffic was waiting for traffic on runway
I refactored the XML loading code out of FGAirportDynamics and
FGRunwayPreference. I also added a new class XMLLoader, which serves as a
facade to the loader functions. Further I changed FGRunwayPreference to just
keep a FGAirport ref, which is more concise and closer to the right(tm)
solution than storing the airport data a second time ;-)
