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 Disadvantages:
-Mode is not accessable from another xml file, such as for the rudder.
+Complicated code needed to declare the variable.
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 Advantages:
-Mode is available from any xml file, so you can make the rudders behave according to its value.
+Variable is easy to create.
 Disadvantages:
 You have to have at <nowiki>--prop:</nowiki> in the command line.
-You need to choos a better name than ''mode'' to avoid possible conflicts.
+You can't type <nowiki>--prop:</nowiki> in the comments section at the top of your file, because of the consecutive minus signs. You have to type &amp;minus;&amp;minus;prop:
-You can't type <nowiki>--prop:</nowiki> in the comments section at the top of your file, because of the consecutive minus signs. You have to type &amp;minus;&amp;minus;prop:
+Whichever method you use, choose a better name than ''mode'' for your variable. It is too common a word and may well one day be used somewhere in the system files. In the xml file for the Saitek Yoke, where I use a variable to control the assignments of the levers on the quadrant, I call the variable ''SaitekMultiMode''. Unlikely to be used by the FG programmers.
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