Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: howto compile on SuSE 10.0 running gcc

2005-11-09 Thread Stefan Seifert
Steve Knoblock wrote: On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 11:26:51 -0600, you wrote: freeglut (fgfs): Failed to create cursor freeglut ERROR: Function glutSetCursor called without first calling 'glutInit'. I installed freeglut, all three packages found in the SuSE library. Restarted and ran

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Feature/change/update/fix list since v0.9.8

2005-11-09 Thread Vivian Meazza
Jim Wilson wrote -Original Message- If you contributed something that is missing, or poorly described here, please send me something better. Hi Curt, This may not be helpful at this point (haven't been reading for a few days). Here's an addition: * Material

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Persistant Nasal big-endian bug

2005-11-09 Thread Erik Hofman
Andy Ross wrote: Again: I've run fairly rigorous tests on both Sparc and PPC at this point with no failures, so I think we've pretty much ruled out endianness. Ok, I've test compiled the simgear/nasal library using gcc on IRIX and linked it with the MIPSpro build version of FlightGear and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: B1900D fuel/engines

2005-11-09 Thread George Patterson
On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 17:16 -0800, syd wrote: Andy, (or whoever is maintaining the b1900d), I hate to do this to you, but I think I have spotted another bug to do with fuel and engines. When you run out of fuel the engines continue to run, despite /engine/engine/out-of-fuel[0]='true'

[Flightgear-devel] Re: FG CVS error report

2005-11-09 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Georg Vollnhals -- Tuesday 08 November 2005 21:00: Melchior FRANZ schrieb: but for now I think we can live with that. That is ok, I think it should only be fixed before the new version gets officially out. You don't seem to understand: this is a very *minor*, almost cosmetic glitch, and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FG CVS error report

2005-11-09 Thread Stefan Seifert
Melchior FRANZ wrote: The funny thing is, though, that nobody came up with an alternative 'theme' yet. And why should one? The new style is very nice, not too intrusive when flighing at night. And it works now, so what more coule one want? Nine

[Flightgear-devel] Re: FG CVS error report

2005-11-09 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Georg Vollnhals -- Tuesday 08 November 2005 21:00: [dynamic dialog components lost after them switching] That is ok, I think it should only be fixed before the new version gets officially out. Oh, well. You just can't rely on what I say. I felt like fixing that, too. Will commit later today.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Buildings ?????

2005-11-09 Thread Josh Babcock
Ima Sudonim wrote: Next on the list are the Nat. Cathedral, Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, Mormon Temple, Pentagon and then the Mall. Not sure what timetable I'm looking at though. If you can think of any other big visible structures that you would like to see (sorry, I'm not

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FG CVS error report

2005-11-09 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Melchior FRANZ schrieb: one more serious problem: - adjust HUD transparency does not switch but after you leave the menue ('cancel') the *main* How is this more serious? This is by *design* and was like that since ages. Melchior, you cut off the very *important* part of the

[Flightgear-devel] Re: FG CVS error report

2005-11-09 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Georg Vollnhals -- Wednesday 09 November 2005 17:11: - does not switch but after you leave the menue ('cancel') the *main* menue is frozen (no reaction on clicks) In my eyes something is serious when you make a legal keypress and afterwards a big part of the programs functions don't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FG CVS error report

2005-11-09 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Melchior FRANZ schrieb: I didn't criticize that you reported it -- that was the right thing to do. I just didn't share your opinion that it had to be fixed for the next release. Someone has to spend the time after all. And there will be a release after 0.9.9, or two. ;-) m. This is ok :-)

[Flightgear-devel] Re: FG CVS error report

2005-11-09 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Georg Vollnhals -- Wednesday 09 November 2005 17:39: This is ok :-) - other priorities and limited time is an important factor! After all, I am really happy with this new GUI style And it's even fixed meanwhile, and I'm quite satisfied with the result. (Now it even re-opens the Nasal

[Flightgear-devel] dialog boxes (Was: FG CVS error report)

2005-11-09 Thread Thorben
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 16:49, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Georg Vollnhals -- Wednesday 09 November 2005 17:39: This is ok :-) - other priorities and limited time is an important factor! After all, I am really happy with this new GUI style And it's even fixed meanwhile, and I'm quite

[Flightgear-devel] Re: dialog boxes (Was: FG CVS error report)

2005-11-09 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Thorben -- Wednesday 09 November 2005 20:22: i patched my code to disable dialog boxes when making screenshots, because they were quite annoying. shouldn't we do something about that in general? I just made two nice shots for the screenshots page, which are *supposed* to show menu and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Persistant Nasal big-endian bug

2005-11-09 Thread Andy Ross
Erik Hofman wrote: Ok, I've test compiled the simgear/nasal library using gcc on IRIX and linked it with the MIPSpro build version of FlightGear and it's working like a charm. great sigh of relief Excellent. Thanks for your work, I was completely out of ideas on this. :) Ok, I've test

[Flightgear-devel] Pending v0.9.9 release

2005-11-09 Thread Curtis L. Olson
As some of you may have noticed, I completed a prerelease of FlightGear-0.9.9(pre1) and SimGear-0.3.9(pre1). I haven't heard any complaints about the prerelease, so I am planning to do a pre2 release this week. If all goes well and we have no major show stoppers, I would like to start

[Flightgear-devel] Joystick issues with throttleAxis()

2005-11-09 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, some time ago a new version of the joystick configuration file for Logitech Wingman FF 3D was committed, containing a change to the throttle-handling. Shortly after that I couldn't get the engines down to idle. As I noticed, jsdemo reports that the throttle axis returns +0.3 when on

[Flightgear-devel] wp altitudes

2005-11-09 Thread ces177
Hello all, I'm messing around with waypoints, ie race track loop around airports, etc... but found the [EMAIL PROTECTED] command doesn't seem to work with multiple waypoints altitudes... The plane eventually has it's own mind with regard to what altitude it wants to fly. I also tried the

[Flightgear-devel] uneven brakes (and another spotted bug+fix)

2005-11-09 Thread Joacim Persson
Using a Saitek stick, I've noticed a peculiar bug in the brakes which I still haven't pinned down. The nasal function interpolate() works on left wheel only, not the right wheel, making the plane twist when brakes are applied (or released). One can see it by watching the internal properties

[Flightgear-devel] Re: dialog boxes (Was: FG CVS error report)

2005-11-09 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Thorben -- Wednesday 09 November 2005 20:22: i patched my code to disable dialog boxes when making screenshots, because they were quite annoying. shouldn't we do something about that in general? In case you mean the popups that have the annoying habit of not going away when fgfs is paused:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] wp altitudes

2005-11-09 Thread Curtis L. Olson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm messing around with waypoints, ie race track loop around airports, etc... but found the [EMAIL PROTECTED] command doesn't seem to work with multiple waypoints altitudes... The plane eventually has it's own mind with regard to what altitude it wants to fly. I also

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Joystick issues with throttleAxis()

2005-11-09 Thread Dave Culp
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 12:58 pm, Ralf Gerlich wrote: ... some time ago a new version of the joystick configuration file for Logitech Wingman FF 3D was committed, containing a change to the throttle-handling. Shortly after that I couldn't get the engines down to idle. As I noticed,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] uneven brakes (and another spotted bug+fix)

2005-11-09 Thread Andy Ross
Joacim Persson wrote: Using a Saitek stick, [..] The nasal function interpolate() works on left wheel only, not the right wheel, making the plane twist when brakes are applied (or released). One can see it by watching the internal properties (controls/gear) while applying the wheel brakes.

[Flightgear-devel] Which aircraft to include in v0.9.9?

2005-11-09 Thread Curtis L. Olson
I reserve the right to make the final determination (and all non-included aircraft will still always be available for separate download from the web site ...) Given that new aircraft have arrived on the scene since the last release, do we want to make any changes to the list of default

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Joystick issues with throttleAxis()

2005-11-09 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Dave Culp wrote: On Wednesday 09 November 2005 12:58 pm, Ralf Gerlich wrote: [SNIP] Shortly after that I couldn't get the engines down to idle. As I noticed, jsdemo reports that the throttle axis returns +0.3 when on idle. I'm using Linux on a 2.6.8 kernel. That configuration file

[Flightgear-devel] (no subject)

2005-11-09 Thread Joacim Persson
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Andy Ross wrote: Which stick, and which aircraft? Saitek Cyborg Evo (but the code is copied from Saitek to other sticks) And it's the same for all aircrafts I've tested, including uiuc-models (so it's probably not the FDM engine. Not that I have full understanding of how

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Joystick issues with throttleAxis()

2005-11-09 Thread AJ MacLeod
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 19:04, Dave Culp wrote: That configuration file applies an offset of -0.3 prior to the scale. That shouldn't be allowed, and I guess someone's personal configuration snuck in by accident? I don't think so in this case. That offset apparently worked for most

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear v0.9.9-pre2

2005-11-09 Thread Curtis L. Olson
FlightGear v0.9.9-pre2 (second prerelease for v0.9.9) is now available for downloading and testing from the FlightGear web site (http://www.flightgear.org) It would be great if as many people as possible could download the tarballs for this release and build and test it on as many platforms

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (no subject)

2005-11-09 Thread Andy Ross
Joacim Persson wrote: I've also experimented with commenting out the lines about left gear in the joystick config file (and thus tie the button to right gear only), to see if it had something to do with nasal per se. (as in not being able to handle two interpolate simultaneously) But the right

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Which aircraft to include in v0.9.9?

2005-11-09 Thread AJ MacLeod
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 19:31, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Just glancing through the list very quickly, potential candidates for inclusion might be the b1900d, Citation Bravo, Concorde, dhc2, F-8E, Hurricane, Marchetti, MiG-15, seahawk, Spitfire, tu154 ... (?) Any opinions? Note that if you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] uneven brakes mystery

2005-11-09 Thread Joacim Persson
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Andy Ross wrote: Theory: the right brake property is flagged as a boolean in the property tree, and is clamping all values to 0 or 1. This can be complicated to debug -- you need to figure out where it's created. Sounds plausible. Some sort of type mismatch. But I figure

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Flightgear-devel Digest, Vol 31, Issue 29

2005-11-09 Thread Jon Stockill
Buchanan, Stuart wrote: --- Steve Knoblock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am unsure if I can help, I do hope to convert a model of the Cape May Light I made for MSFS for FG once I understand the tools. As a first pass, you could place a generic lighthouse (from

Re: [Flightgear-devel] uneven brakes mystery

2005-11-09 Thread Joacim Persson
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Andy Ross wrote: Theory: the right brake property is flagged as a boolean in the property tree, and is clamping all values to 0 or 1. Confirmed. I tried a setprop to 0.3 for right wheel in the js config file, and got a 1.0 in the browse internal props dialog. Somewhere

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear v0.9.9-pre2

2005-11-09 Thread Jon Stockill
Curtis L. Olson wrote: I am currently targeting the official v0.9.9 release for late next week (time permitting.) Is there any preferred version of OpenAL for this release? Just wondering if there's a recommended version for linking against for the binary packages. Also, is there an fgrun

[Flightgear-devel] Re: uneven brakes mystery

2005-11-09 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Joacim Persson -- Wednesday 09 November 2005 21:30: I tried a setprop to 0.3 for right wheel in the js config file, and got a 1.0 in the browse internal props dialog. Somewhere control/gear/brake-right is set to 'true' (i.e. not zero). Is this the development version (cvs/head)? m.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: uneven brakes mystery

2005-11-09 Thread Joacim Persson
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Melchior FRANZ wrote: Is this the development version (cvs/head)? Yes, but it has been the same for shipped versions too. How can I tell which version of fgfs I'm running? fgfs --version didn't work on the version I have installed in /usr/local/... anyway. Think it's the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Joystick issues with throttleAxis()

2005-11-09 Thread Buchanan, Stuart
--- AJ MacLeod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would be interested to know if anyone has a Wingman Force 3d which gives the correct full range of throttle values with the new config... Mine does, but then since I sent in the patch I probably don't count... I wonder if it is OS or USB specific?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Which aircraft to include in v0.9.9?

2005-11-09 Thread Stefan Seifert
Before 0.9.9 is released I think one problem should be resolved: on some planes (like the 737, f16, Concorde, fokker100) the engine sounds are missing. Specifically Sounds/jet.wav is not audible. I discussed this problem some weeks ago on the IRC channel and tried to find out what's causing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear v0.9.9-pre2

2005-11-09 Thread Martin Spott
Jon Stockill wrote: Is there any preferred version of OpenAL for this release? The CVS from 1st April this year appears to be a good choice - BTW, this is what FreeBSD folks decided to stick to ;-) Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends

[Flightgear-devel] 737 nosewheel animations

2005-11-09 Thread Stefan Seifert
Hi, attached are two small patches for giving the 737 nosewheel some animations. Namely it rotates when steering and compresses on breaking. For the latter I attached a one line patch that let's JSBsim expose compression-norm to the property tree just like YaSim. I don't know if this is in

[Flightgear-devel] waypoints, waypoint loops, route manger

2005-11-09 Thread Craig E. Staples
Title: Message Hello all, I'm trying certain senarios via waypoints and varying altitudes by using flightplan/.fgfsrc file. I plan on implementing a data input change for route manger code to read a file with my data, but in the mean time I was wondering if there's a reason why [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Which aircraft to include in v0.9.9?

2005-11-09 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: I reserve the right to make the final determination (and all non-included aircraft will still always be available for separate download from the web site ...) Given that new aircraft have arrived on the scene since the last release, do we want to make any changes to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: uneven brakes mystery

2005-11-09 Thread Joacim Persson
I have pinned down the exact moment in gdb when brake-right is set to 1.0 (without a cause, so to speak), but I feel I don't have enough knowledge about how FG is designed to come further. gdb backtrace below. This is after initialisation is done, FG is up and running and the fire button (apply

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Please upgrade to version: 0.9.8

2005-11-09 Thread Josh Babcock
Georg Vollnhals wrote: Curtis L. Olson schrieb: man touch ? Curt. Yes. My 13 years old son is actually a co-user on my PC. He does not ask, he does not think a lot - just trial and error method. Very good if you have all your important data burned on CD/DVD and have a good firewall,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Flightgear-devel Digest, Vol 31, Issue 29

2005-11-09 Thread Josh Babcock
Jon Stockill wrote: Buchanan, Stuart wrote: --- Steve Knoblock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am unsure if I can help, I do hope to convert a model of the Cape May Light I made for MSFS for FG once I understand the tools. As a first pass, you could place a generic lighthouse (from

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: uneven brakes mystery

2005-11-09 Thread Andy Ross
Joacim Persson wrote: Andy Ross wrote: Which stick [...]? Saitek Cyborg Evo [...] I have pinned down the exact moment in gdb when brake-right is set to 1.0 (without a cause, so to speak), but I feel I don't have enough knowledge about how FG is designed to come further. What this is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: uneven brakes mystery

2005-11-09 Thread George Patterson
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 21:54 +0100, Joacim Persson wrote: On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Melchior FRANZ wrote: Is this the development version (cvs/head)? Yes, but it has been the same for shipped versions too. How can I tell which version of fgfs I'm running? fgfs --version didn't work on the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Please upgrade to version: 0.9.8

2005-11-09 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Josh Babcock schrieb: Or you could run linux, then he could only mess up his own files. Josh Yes Josh, that's my way for the future :-) I already created a second partition for Linux some months ago and tried Suse, Fedora, Kubuntu, Knoppix and Kanopix (Debian version). The last was the

[Flightgear-devel] Re: uneven brakes mystery

2005-11-09 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Andy Ross -- Thursday 10 November 2005 00:37: stepping through the joystick initialization (or, alternatively, selectively removing files from your Input/Joysticks directory) to figure out which stick is being incorrectly loaded, and why. ... or simply look in the property browser under

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear v0.9.9-pre2

2005-11-09 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
A bit off topic: does anyone have success in compiling FlightGear and related libaries using GCC-4.0? I want to get my system sorted before I test the pre-release, but I might ended up not being able to test FlightGear if GCC-4.0 has trouble compiling FlightGear. Ampere

[Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear v0.9.9-pre2

2005-11-09 Thread Alex Romosan
Ampere K. Hardraade [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A bit off topic: does anyone have success in compiling FlightGear and related libaries using GCC-4.0? I want to get my system sorted before I test the pre-release, but I might ended up not being able to test FlightGear if GCC-4.0 has trouble

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Pending v0.9.9 release

2005-11-09 Thread Innis Cunningham
Curtis L. Olson writes We haven't officially decided, but right now we are talking about doing a v1.0 release after the dust has settled on 0.9.9. That would likely happen sometime early 2006 after the holidays. This sounds good I have a 737 on the go but it won't be finished in a week.I

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Flightgear-devel Digest, Vol 31, Issue 30

2005-11-09 Thread syd
Syd, I didn't intend that to be a criticism of any sort.. I much appreciate the effort of all involved with the modelling of any of the planes and models. Otherwise, it looks and feels great :-) While I haven't seen a b1900d, it seem around the mark, tend to enter a spin when air speed drops

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Which aircraft to include in v0.9.9?

2005-11-09 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Stefan Stefan Seifert writes Before 0.9.9 is released I think one problem should be resolved: on some planes (like the 737, f16, Concorde, fokker100) the engine sounds are missing. Specifically Sounds/jet.wav is not audible. I discussed this problem some weeks ago on the IRC channel

[Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear v0.9.9-pre2

2005-11-09 Thread Ima Sudonim
Ampere, A bit off topic: does anyone have success in compiling FlightGear and related libaries using GCC-4.0? I have only one problem, building src/FlightGear/src/Instrumentation/ od_gauge.cxx. I mentioned it in october here:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear v0.9.9-pre2

2005-11-09 Thread Arthur Wiebe
Ima, that problem can be fixed with a small patch to simgear.On 11/10/05, Ima Sudonim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Ampere, A bit off topic: does anyone have success in compiling FlightGear and related libaries using GCC-4.0?I have only one problem, building

[Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear v0.9.9-pre2

2005-11-09 Thread Alex Romosan
Ima Sudonim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have only one problem, building src/FlightGear/src/Instrumentation/ od_gauge.cxx. I mentioned it in october here: Alex, I guess you're not seeing this problem with 4.0.3? Nice to know it's been fixed! (assuming it's not a private patch) 8-) Now

[Flightgear-devel] CVS problems

2005-11-09 Thread Jason Cox
Hi all, I am having a problem compiling the lattest ( 1/2 Hour ago ) flightgear. I have also updated simgear and recompiled. the error I get is while making flightgear as follows, Making all in MultiPlayer make[2]: Entering directory `/root/source/src/MultiPlayer' if g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear v0.9.9-pre2

2005-11-09 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On November 9, 2005 02:46 pm, Curtis L. Olson wrote: The more build errors and platform bugs we can catch now, the smoother the v0.9.9 release will be for your favorite platform! Well, I still can't get FlightGear to run under Xorg at 24bit depth. I am still getting the following messages: X