In WED, the contents of your airport layout are viewed in a hierarchy view. This is where you reorder your runways and rename entities. You can also group entities (as many times as you want) to help organize your layouts. (The groups will not be visible in the final apt.dat.)
An airport is, in a way, sort of a super-group...it's a group of "stuff" (runways, taxiways, etc.) plus it has its own information.
But this leads to some tricky situations:
- You can't have an airport inside another airport.
- You can't have a runway outside an airport.
Once we get into beta we'll see how well this works. The alternatives include:
- Putting up a specific error message when an illegal configuration is made (annoying).
- Allowing illegal configurations and putting up an error message on export (by this time the whole file layout could be pretty badly messed up).
- Attempting to silently export the illegal configuration (unpredictable - there's really no good way to export an airport inside an airport).
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