README for FG Kicker

Developed by Chris De Maeyer (chrisdm@pandora.be)

Main site: http://users.pandora.be/ceppe/linux/fgkicker.htm License GPL : see license doc in distribution

What is FG Kicker!

A GUI frontend for launching the Flightgear open-source flight simulator. The most common options can be selected and entered. Then clicking "Kick!" will launch the simulator.

Current limits

the airport list i included as data file is from fg 0.9.3, i suggest to you to edit the airports.dat file and only leave a subset of airports you regurarely use, otherwise starting up fgkicker can take a while due to the number of available airports
the airport data file should be in your HOME directory
the load/save/functions are implemented to handle single default file
the "Enable Http Host" will allow you to connect to fgfs using your browser on port 5500 (http://host:5500) and see/adapt the parameters of the running fgfs
to get the search box in the airport list press ctrl-s.

Future

It is a work still in progress but some people might find it useful even in this limited state. See the TODO doc for planned changes. If you want to help out send an email.

Development info

FGKicker is developed using the Codeforge IDE environment. See http://www.codeforge.com

but you can...
review fgkicker.mak
type "make -j1 -f fgkicker.mak 'fgkicker'"