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=== Usability Improvements === | === Usability Improvements === | ||
[[File:Select Airport dialog.jpg|thumb|The new airport selection dialog in FG 3.0 (upcoming)]] | |||
There have been a number of improvements made to the GUI this month, all aiming to improve usability. | There have been a number of improvements made to the GUI this month, all aiming to improve usability. | ||
=== Select Airport Dialog === | |||
Stuart has pushed a change to fgdata that combines the location-on-ground and airport (aka Select Airport) dialogs into a | |||
single dialog. | |||
The new dialog also makes use of the [[Canvas]] feature to draw an airport diagram of the selected airport. All credit for this should go to TheTom, who's work I've just copied. | |||
There's still a bit of work required on the airport diagram so one can pan the view using the mouse, and to highlight the currently selected runway/parking, but IMO it's pretty nice already. | |||
==== Nasal Console ==== | ==== Nasal Console ==== | ||
[[File:Nasal-console-3.0.png|thumb|The Nasal console in FG 3.0 with copy/paste buttons ]] | |||
The built-in [[Nasal Console]] has been updated to also add native copy/paste support, a feature that got implemented as part of the ongoing [[Canvas]] effort (see [[Howto:Clipboard access using Nasal]] for details ). This feature makes it now possible to easily copy/paste snippets of code FlightGear, without having to use the "dump" feature. | The built-in [[Nasal Console]] has been updated to also add native copy/paste support, a feature that got implemented as part of the ongoing [[Canvas]] effort (see [[Howto:Clipboard access using Nasal]] for details ). This feature makes it now possible to easily copy/paste snippets of code FlightGear, without having to use the "dump" feature. | ||