Just came across this again, and realised i never got round to replying.
[time passes to read the link]
OH! i have been thinking that it was to view yourself in the pilots list... why not place yourself in the list and then simply click the view option on your line like for others? seems to me that that would be more consistent with the new view addition... plus it would list
Yes, that might work, though we'd want to visually distinguish the user's aircraft from the others very clearly. Maybe always have it at the top of the list, and use a special background colour?
yourself as well which is something i've kinda been wanting for a while... of course the ignore box would be disabled for yourself as well as the chat box but still...
on greying it out, why not remove it if there are no MP craft within range and then draw it when there are some in range? that, too, would be less confusing to new folks who might be wondering why the button is greyed out and inoperative...
Or we could simply grey it out (or hide it) whenever the user was viewing their own aircraft? Views automatically switch to the user's aircraft if no multiplayer aircraft are within range, so this might work quite well.
All the code that implements this is Nasal in fgdata, so it should be easy enough for someone to come up with an improved UI here. I'm not sure i have time at the moment to have a go myself.
Thanks,
- Jules