Re: [Flightgear-devel] Parsing Lon/lat strings

2002-06-05 Thread James Turner
On Tuesday, June 4, 2002, at 01:22 am, Andy Ross wrote: Heh, that actually sounded kinda fun, so I tried it. Here's the smallest parser for your syntax that I could come up with, in good old obfuscatorial C style. It sits pleasingly close to the line between elegance and perversity.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Star Flight Simulator

2002-06-05 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 00:56:15 -0300, Marcio Shimoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message 006801c20c44$f21d2160$c52b9bc8@shimoda: What is this?? ..my own mirror, I got curious. :-) I understand there is a worry about the GPL, it _is_ legal to sell FG derivates in compliance with the GPL, it just

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Star Flight Simulator

2002-06-05 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 00:54:38 -0300, Marcio Shimoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message 006201c20c44$b8a00740$c52b9bc8@shimoda: Anyone know what is going on with this product/project (Star Flight Simulator)? http://www.staridia.com/sfs/ The Star Flight Simulator is the first

re: [Flightgear-devel] new potential developer :)

2002-06-05 Thread David Megginson
Christian Stock writes: Let me introduce myself, before I start with what I'm interested at. Welcome. If you'd like a quick rundown of how we generate scenery currently, take a peek at this tutorial: http://www.megginson.com/flightsim/fg-scenery-tutorial.html (The URL is temporary, until

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Parsing Lon/lat strings

2002-06-05 Thread David Megginson
James Turner writes: How do you generate a degree symbol under Linux? I was trying to and failed miserably ... You mean this: °? It's character code 176 in the ISO-8859-1 encoding (which is usually the default under X11, at least in North America, Latin America, and Western Europe).

[Flightgear-devel] pthread error (valgrind)

2002-06-05 Thread Melchior FRANZ
I've just installed the very last valgrind version from yesterday, that not just works with threaded applications but is additionally supposed to debug threading functions. From the valgrind homepage (http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/): Report misuses of the POSIX pthread API whenever

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Parsing Lon/lat strings

2002-06-05 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* David Megginson -- Wednesday 05 June 2002 13:55: * James Turner writes: How do you generate a degree symbol under Linux? I was trying to and failed miserably ... if you're using Gnome, [...] If you are using =any= program, just input one of these key combinations compose key0*

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Parsing Lon/lat strings

2002-06-05 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 07:55:20 -0400, David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: James Turner writes: How do you generate a degree symbol under Linux? I was trying to and failed miserably ... You mean this: °? It's character code 176 in the ISO-8859-1

[Flightgear-devel] (No Subject)

2002-06-05 Thread sanjeevinathan gopal
To All Right now i am working in this FGFS httpd part. Just by going through the code i have not understand the Architecture of the Httpd which they used in FGFS. If u don't mind could please explain me the Architecure of the httpd which is used in FGFS. i will be waiting for ur answer

Re: [Flightgear-devel] new potential developer :)

2002-06-05 Thread Roman Grigoriev
- Original Message - From: David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 3:51 PM Subject: re: [Flightgear-devel] new potential developer :) Christian Stock writes: Let me introduce myself, before I start with what I'm interested at.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Crash on Reset function.

2002-06-05 Thread David Megginson
Curtis L. Olson writes: David, I'm looking for help on this one since it's seems to be very much wrapped up in the property system and environment manager and cloud layers. This problem seems to be very complicated. Agreed. I've managed to patch things up in my local copy so that it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] new potential developer :)

2002-06-05 Thread David Megginson
Roman Grigoriev writes: Dave I've built custom scenery from 100m DEMs That's Curt's default for US scenery. Do you mean a higher resolution? only you need to increase FG_MAX_NODES from 4000 to maybe 4 and have error in main.cxx for example 10 or 5 meters on geforce3 and

re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Parsing Lon/lat strings

2002-06-05 Thread David Megginson
Melchior FRANZ writes: If you are using =any= program, just input one of these key combinations compose key0* compose key*0 compose key0^ compose key^0 See /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose or your local encoding directory for these and for all other compose

Re: [Flightgear-devel] new potential developer :)

2002-06-05 Thread Christian Mayer
Christian Stock wrote: Hi, Let me introduce myself, before I start with what I'm interested at. Hi! My main goal is to convert the commercial 1:25000 topographical data for New Zealand, I'm sitting on into a flight simulator and to get some decent scenery + good framerates. Oh, I'd

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Parsing Lon/lat strings

2002-06-05 Thread Andy Ross
James Turner wrote: How do you generate a degree symbol under Linux? I was trying to and failed miserably ... This is character 0xb0 in the various ISO 8859 character sets (try man ascii and man iso_8859_1), which essentially replace ASCII on modern systems. US keyboards won't generate them,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Report on my Scenery Investigation

2002-06-05 Thread David Megginson
Erik Hofman writes: Hmm, It would be nice if you could put your generated scenery somewhere so people could spot thr difference (and maybe make a vote afterwards). It sounds kind of cool ... :-) I have volume restrictions at my ISP and a lot of traffic to my site, so I cannot afford

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Report on my Scenery Investigation

2002-06-05 Thread Kaiser Georg
Which volume do we speek of? georg -Original Message- From: David Megginson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Mittwoch, 05. Juni 2002 21:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Report on my Scenery Investigation Erik Hofman writes: Hmm, It would be

RE: [Flightgear-devel] FGFS VC++ 7.0

2002-06-05 Thread David Megginson
I've put the patch in CVS -- thanks. David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Pressure errors in FGEnvironment

2002-06-05 Thread David Megginson
Christian Mayer writes: As I wrote before, there's a function in the WeatherCM code that calculates the air pressure based on the air pressure at a given altitude and at a given teperature profile. It is based on the well known (but incorrect) baryometric (SP?) formula but doesn't suffer

re: [Flightgear-devel] Pressure errors in FGEnvironment

2002-06-05 Thread David Megginson
Andy Ross writes: Nonetheless, I think I found the problem. In converting the YASim table to the new format, its values were re-encoded as deltas from sea level conditions, with sea level pressure defined as 29.92 inches of mercury. I've fixed that now -- everything is encoded as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Report on my Scenery Investigation

2002-06-05 Thread Cameron Moore
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Megginson) [2002.06.05 14:21]: Erik Hofman writes: Hmm, It would be nice if you could put your generated scenery somewhere so people could spot thr difference (and maybe make a vote afterwards). It sounds kind of cool ... :-) I have volume

re: [Flightgear-devel] VSI units mismatch panel/steam

2002-06-05 Thread David Megginson
Curtis L. Olson writes: I was tracing the VSI logic through today and ran into something that looks a little funny. Cockpit/steam.cxx exports /steam/vertical-speed-fpm and ties it to FGSteam::get_VSI_fps It seems like there is a mismatch here between fpsecond and fpminute. I've

re: [Flightgear-devel] VSI units mismatch panel/steam

2002-06-05 Thread Curtis L. Olson
David Megginson writes: I've renamed the property to /steam/vertical-speed-fps and have updated the property name in the two panel instruments that depend on the property. I couldn't find any dependencies in the configurable HUDs. Ok, cool, thanks, Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab /

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Developer Locations update

2002-06-05 Thread Robert Deters
The UIUC Model develop group would like to be added. Could you list us as: UIUC Model: Michael Selig, et al. Where et al. is a link to http://amber.aae.uiuc.edu/~m-selig/apasim.html. Our location is Latitude: 40.115900 N, Longitude: 88.228914 W. Thanks, Rob - Original Message - From:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Pressure errors in FGEnvironment

2002-06-05 Thread Christian Mayer
David Megginson wrote: Christian Mayer writes: As I wrote before, there's a function in the WeatherCM code that calculates the air pressure based on the air pressure at a given altitude and at a given teperature profile. It is based on the well known (but incorrect) baryometric

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Pressure errors in FGEnvironment

2002-06-05 Thread Tony Peden
--- Christian Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Megginson wrote: Christian Mayer writes: As I wrote before, there's a function in the WeatherCM code that calculates the air pressure based on the air pressure at a given altitude and at a given teperature profile. It is

[Flightgear-devel] YASim and the atmosphere

2002-06-05 Thread David Megginson
Since YASim uses the atmosphere model from FGEnvironment (in JSBSim, it's always 15degC and 29.92inHG at sea level), I tried some experiments with different settings from KSFO: 1. Sea level 35degC, 28.5inHG The C172 barely climbs out of ground effect, and eventually manages an anemic 200-300fpm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Pressure errors in FGEnvironment

2002-06-05 Thread Christian Mayer
Tony Peden wrote: PS: As the air pressure curve is similar to the e-function (e^altitude) it's nowhere linear and thus badly approximated by a table... Depends on how many points are in the table. Yes. You can solve all problems with raw iron... I don't know how feelable the sudden

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim and the atmosphere

2002-06-05 Thread Andy Ross
David Megginson wrote: Since YASim uses the atmosphere model from FGEnvironment (in JSBSim, it's always 15degC and 29.92inHG at sea level), I tried some experiments with different settings from KSFO: Heh, I can just (barely) imaging a day in the Bay Area that peaks around 95F. But the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] pthread error (valgrind)

2002-06-05 Thread Andy Ross
Melchior FRANZ wrote: valgrind reports this bug: pthread_mutex_destroy: mutex is still in use at 0x40523AB4: pthread_error (vg_libpthread.c:229) by 0x405249B5: __pthread_mutex_destroy (vg_libpthread.c:825) by 0x40625220: _IO_default_finish (in /lib/libc.so.6) by

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Pressure errors in FGEnvironment

2002-06-05 Thread Tony Peden
On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 14:15, Christian Mayer wrote: Tony Peden wrote: PS: As the air pressure curve is similar to the e-function (e^altitude) it's nowhere linear and thus badly approximated by a table... Depends on how many points are in the table. Yes. You can solve all

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Report on my Scenery Investigation

2002-06-05 Thread David Megginson
Kaiser Georg writes: Which volume do we speek of? Gigabytes/month transfered. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim and the atmosphere

2002-06-05 Thread David Megginson
Andy Ross writes: No, YASim queries only for the pressure and temperature -- it calculates the density for itself. So whatever bugs there are lie in these two numbers only. FGEnvironment is now (as of a few minutes ago) calculating density from pressure, temperature, *and* humidity

[Flightgear-devel] SimGear tidy-up (GCC -Wall warnings etc.)

2002-06-05 Thread Julian Foad
1. simgear/simgear_config.h.in should not be in CVS, as it is generated from configure.in and so gives conflicts on every update. 2. simgear/metar/Dcdmetar.cpp: function static bool vrblVsby is unused, so could profitably be removed or surrounded by #if 0. (Note that, being static, it can't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Report on my Scenery Investigation

2002-06-05 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi David I have volume restrictions at my ISP and a lot of traffic to my site, so I cannot afford to put anything large there for download. If there are any volunteers, I'd be happy to send copies of my scenery for them to host. A couple of weeks ago I set up an ftp server for Curt to

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Crash on Reset function.

2002-06-05 Thread Norman Vine
David Megginson writes: Curtis L. Olson writes: David, I'm looking for help on this one since it's seems to be very much wrapped up in the property system and environment manager and cloud layers. This problem seems to be very complicated. Agreed. Remember that reset has always

[Flightgear-devel] YASim flaps flap

2002-06-05 Thread Jim Wilson
Not sure if this relates to the air pressure issue, seems to be a bit more than that would account for. A few days ago someone reported unusual flap effects, prior to the corrections to the YASim flight model. It appears that not only do the flaps not increase drag in the 747, but they

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Crash on Reset function.

2002-06-05 Thread Jim Wilson
Norman Vine [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hopefully once we get 'reset' working again developers will test 'reset' before submitting their changes in the future so we don't repeat this quagmire Maybe that should be part of a minimum test before something is commited to cvs? Actually my most

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim flaps flap

2002-06-05 Thread Andy Ross
Jim Wilson wrote: Not sure if this relates to the air pressure issue, seems to be a bit more than that would account for. A few days ago someone reported unusual flap effects, prior to the corrections to the YASim flight model. It's a known bug. Curt found it a few months back. The fix is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim flaps flap

2002-06-05 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jim Wilson writes: Not sure if this relates to the air pressure issue, seems to be a bit more than that would account for. A few days ago someone reported unusual flap effects, prior to the corrections to the YASim flight model. It appears that not only do the flaps not increase drag in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim flaps flap

2002-06-05 Thread Tony Peden
On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 17:32, Andy Ross wrote: Jim Wilson wrote: Not sure if this relates to the air pressure issue, seems to be a bit more than that would account for. A few days ago someone reported unusual flap effects, prior to the corrections to the YASim flight model. It's a

[Flightgear-devel] Re: BGL Loader for PLIB

2002-06-05 Thread Steve Baker
Jürgen Marquardt wrote: Hi Steve, Hello Flighgear Developers, I followed your projects since quite a long time now.. As I am interested in 3D programming very much but didn't find the time to dig into it, I recently decided to write a BGL loader for PLIB. I reused the MDL loader part

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim flaps flap

2002-06-05 Thread Andy Ross
Tony Peden wrote: Induced drag is a function of the vortices surrounding the wing. Those vortices vary in strength with lift, not angle of attack. Not so. The induced drag of an aircraft in high-speed cruise is much lower than an aircraft in level flight at stall speed. The lift in these

[Flightgear-devel] OFFLINE: YASim flaps flap

2002-06-05 Thread jsb
WY OFFLINE Induced drag is a function of the vortices surrounding the wing. Those vortices vary in strength with lift, not angle of attack. Since you There is nothing non-intuitive about it. Don't think in terms of angle of attack. Priceless. :-) Jon

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim flaps flap

2002-06-05 Thread jsb
Tony Peden wrote: Induced drag is a function of the vortices surrounding the wing. Those vortices vary in strength with lift, not angle of attack. Not so. The induced drag of an aircraft in high-speed cruise is much lower than an aircraft in level flight at stall speed. The lift in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] new potential developer :)

2002-06-05 Thread David Findlay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 02:02, you wrote: Christian Stock wrote: Hi, Let me introduce myself, before I start with what I'm interested at. Hi! My main goal is to convert the commercial 1:25000 topographical data for New Zealand, I'm sitting