Comments on: WED, X-Plane 10.0, and File Formats

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:54:09 +0000

In reply to Wayne Conrad. Looks like both yaml and json would work, but lacking any strong pro, I think I'm likely to pick XML over both of them. I think the human component of WED is only debug-ability by programmers; a WED file is already semantically complex enough that making one by hand would not be fun. WED's native format isn't really appropriate as an intercange format..that's one of the reasons why SQL wasn't an appropriate choice (in hindsight).

By: Wayne Conrad

Wayne Conrad — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:34:07 +0000

Ben, I don’t have a horse in this race, but how about yaml, or possibly better for you (simply because it’s more popular), json? They’re both text formats, they both have parsers/encoders available in “most” languages, and either of them is a whole lot nicer to look at, edit, or create by hand (if needed).

By: Ilari Kousa

Ilari Kousa — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:49:10 +0000

In reply to Ben Supnik. Regarding airports, would it be possible to change the parking spot selection interface to a drop-down box (a la FSX) to allow more parking spots/gates/stands to be defined? When I try to port scenery over from FS, in many cases just a small subset of the parking spots is brought over. Especially with ATC now in the pipeline, this will turn out important...

By: Chris Serio

Chris Serio — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:34:16 +0000

In reply to Chris Hallam.

Chris, we already did state that the August date was bogus. http://www.x-plane.com/blog/2011/03/lots-of-testing-lots-of-absurdity/#comment-1759

By: Chris Hallam

Chris Hallam — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:34:00 +0000

Thanks for the clarification Ben,

this wait is gonna be worth it, but is long drag especially with silence on any input towards possible dates, or at least saying the august rumor is ridiculous. We fans are flying blind in anticipation for a release that could be may to august? ugggg

Cant wait

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:34:30 +0000

In reply to Ilari Kousa. Most major airports have taxiways predefined now in X-plane 9!

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:34:15 +0000

In reply to Chris Hallam. I mean neither of those things and I am making no statements about our release date. What I am saying is that, in the past, there has been a lag from when the sim was capable of doing a feature to when there were tools to make it easier to use the feature. Example: it was months from when the new apt.dat 850 came out (it was new in X-Plane 850 :-) to when WED let you edit the format visually. So what I am saying is: with X-Plane 10, I think we'll have the tools almost immediately after we have the sim, because so much of the tool work is being done now during development.

By: Ilari Kousa

Ilari Kousa — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:48:30 +0000

May I ask if at least some major airports will have taxiways predefined?

By: Chris Hallam

Chris Hallam — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 03:32:30 +0000

Do you mean the current delay of v-10 from December originally, as in the sim will be out in the relatively near to mid future.. aka not another yearly quarter?