This allows one to see what properties are being used to control moving objects
such as needles and dials in the cockpit, or external moving objects such as
bomb doors.
The system works by optionally creating new animations with type=pick for all
animated objects. A side affect of this is that yellow highlighting of controls
from Ctrl-C will also highlight instrument needles in the cockpit and external
animations such as flaps, rudder, gear etc.
src/Model/acmodel.cxx:simgear::SGModelLib::loadModel() takes new param bool
autoTooltipsMaster and int autoTooltipsMasterMax, which is added into the
SGReaderWriterOptions that is passed to loadFile(). autoTooltipsMasterMax
limits the maximum number of tooltips, which appears to be necessary on 777 -
more than 45 can cause fg to fail to make progress.
The auto-generated tooltips show the name of the object and also the names and
values of the properties that control the animation. For example the tooltip
for a fuel gauge might say 'consumables/fuel/tank[1]/level-gal_imp=0.23456789'.
Applicable to / works with rotate, translate and knob. Once the axis object-name has been used it will be hidden, however it still can be used for object-name animations. The hiding of the axis object is a useful guide as to what is left to be wired up to animations.
This allows the follow to work (on a combined ASI / Mach instrument).
<animation>
<type>rotate</type>
<object-name>asi-needle</object-name>
...
<axis>
<object-name>airspeed-asi-axis</object-name>
</axis>
</animation>
<animation>
<type>rotate</type>
<object-name>asi-mach-scale</object-name>
...
<axis>
<object-name>airspeed-asi-axis</object-name>
</axis>
</animation>
Richard Harrison