I think this is Good, been wanting this feature for some time, I can't say
how often I have been filming and got the perfect shot only to realise I got
the menubar and wanted ot out of shot.

Aerotro

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>
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:50:28 -0600
> From: Curtis Olson <curtolson@gmai...>
> Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Automatically hide/show the menubar
> To: FlightGear developers discussions
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> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Torsten Dreyer wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I just committed a featurette for the menubar which is disabled by
default
> > but
> > can be enabled by setting /sim/menubar/autovisibility/enabled to true.
> >
> > If enabled, the menubar is invisible and pops up when the mouse in mode
0
> > hits
> > the upper edge of the fgfs window. It stays visible until the mouse
clicks
> > somewhere outside the pui elements. Nothing new for x-plane users...
> >
> > Previous F-10 behaviour is untouched.
> >
> > Hope you like it. If so, it might be enabled by default in
preferences.xml
> > some day.
> >
>
> Hi Torsten,
>
> Here's another random thought.  I don't know if it would be any better or
> not, but might be interesting for some situations.  Right now we hide the
> mouse pointer after 10 seconds of no mouse motion.  It might be
interesting
> to hide the menu at the same time?  This may not be optimal for those who
> fly with the mouse, but could be useful for many other usage modes.
>
> It might make sense to make the F10 toggle work in partnership with the
> auto-hider feature rather than keeping the functions totally separate?  If
> the auto-hide is turned on and the menu has become hidden, what happens
when
> someone presses F10?  Should this make the menu visible and turn off the
> auto-hide feature (at least for a while)?
>
> I'm worried that if auto-hide is enabled and someone presses F10 to toggle
> the menu off, will the menu then not appear when you move the mouse to the
> top of the screen?  If someone inadvertently presses F10 and doesn't
realize
> it, the menu could be lost to them.  I only worry about this because I got
a
> different keyboard about a year ago and I'm still forever missing my
> intended key and hitting the wrong one ... especially when I'm trying to
> focus on too many things at once ... like when I'm flying. :-)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Curt.
> --
> Curtis Olson: http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/
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