Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin build problem with sprintf

2002-11-18 Thread julianfoad
Norman Vine wote: ! #ifdef _WIN32 #define snprintf _snprintf #endif --- 66,72 ! #if defined(_WIN32) !defined(__CYGWIN__) #define snprintf _snprintf #endif To Norman: Good fix. To Curt (etc.): Shouldn't this go in simgear/compiler.h instead of in every source file

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: /controls/engine/ reorg

2002-11-08 Thread julianfoad
David Megginson wrote: Julian Foad writes: No - we have that in some places, but I was thinking recently that it's not the right way to go. I think the only practical purpose is to reduce clutter in the browser; but the property browser could and should do this for us if we

[Flightgear-devel] Bad link on Downloads page

2002-11-07 Thread julianfoad
Oops - the link to Bleeding-edge CVS snapshot on the Flight Gear Downloads web page points to repository version 0.7! - Julian ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] dc3 pannel lights

2002-10-23 Thread julianfoad
Andy Ross wrote: John Check wrote: What it is is that when electrical system modeling was added it affected planes for which no electrical system was added. Shouldn't the sane choice for the defaults be the opposite? The instruments work unless the electrical system tells them that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Internationalizing FlightGear.

2002-10-02 Thread julianfoad
Curtis Olson wrote: The big thing that would need to be looked at is if we can include based on the contents of a property name, rather than just include some hard coded file name. Like: int main() { char *sFile = getenv(FGFS_LANG); char *LangStrings[] = { #include sFile } ...

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Motion Maths

2002-07-12 Thread julianfoad
Jon Berndt wrote: The motion hardware has 2 degrees of freedom. Last night we had a discussion on what data to use from the sim (angular accelerations, velocities, pitch, roll etc.) and how to apply it to the motion hardware. Also, if I recall correctly, the space shuttle motion

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Failures and Instrumentation

2002-07-09 Thread julianfoad
David Megginson wrote: /instrumentation/altimeter/ /instrumentation/airspeed-indicator/ /instrumentation/vor-gauge/ /instrumentation/transponder/ etc., with indexes as appropriate. Inside each branch, we have a collection of properties, some common to many (or all) instruments,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Capturing warnings

2002-07-02 Thread julianfoad
Jonathan Polley wrote: Along the lines of adding the -pedantic option, I would like to add an ability (probably at ./configure time) to specify additional compile options. Since one of my platforms is a Mac, I would like to be able to add -wno_long_double, as it keeps telling me that

[Flightgear-devel] CVS log browser broken

2002-07-02 Thread julianfoad
The result of trying to view viewmgr.cxx (web page http://cvs.flightgear.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/FlightGear/src/Main/viewmgr.cxx?rev=1.18cvsroot=FlightGear-0.7content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup) is the following error: Failure during use of an external program: enscript --color -W

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS log browser broken

2002-07-02 Thread julianfoad
Curtis L. Olson wrote: It looks like enscript is breaking on viewmgr.cxx Is it enscript that is breaking, or the other end of its pipe? The error message says Broken pipe in enscript.write(chunk). Maybe just that the disk is full? Does this happen with any other source files or is it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Capturing warnings

2002-07-02 Thread julianfoad
Curtis L. Olson wrote: David Luff writes: Unfortunately, when ./configure gets run automatically after typing make, the configure switches after ./configure get remembered, but the flags in front of ./configure don't (this is using Cygwin Bash). Is there any way round this? I've

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS log browser broken

2002-07-02 Thread julianfoad
Curtis L. Olson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it enscript that is breaking, or the other end of its pipe? The error message says Broken pipe in enscript.write(chunk). Maybe just that the disk is full? By my reading of the error message, python is reporting that enscript died

Re: [Flightgear-devel] jitters testing

2002-06-27 Thread julianfoad
Jim Wilson wrote: Andy Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Jim Wilson wrote: On further investigation, it appears that this is almost certainly due to normal variation in fdm position and orientation output. This theory doesn't work though. Think about it: in cockpit mode, the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Remove .cvsignore?

2002-06-26 Thread julianfoad
I don't mind either way. I have found it generally useful to have them provided, and have wished the plib would do the same (for .deps directories, in particular). However, I have only ever worked on small patches, never adding files, so I have never needed to take note of the ? and unknown

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Remove .cvsignore?

2002-06-26 Thread julianfoad
FYI the FlightGear 'configure' is designed to be able to be run in a directory other then then the CVS source tree. That sounds well worth a try. Thanks. This has several advantages amongst them keeping the source tree MUCH cleaner :-) And being able to keep a debug build and a release

Re: Landing hints (was re: [Flightgear-devel] New A-4/jet panel instruments)

2002-06-20 Thread julianfoad
There are two aspects to being on the glide slope. First, are you on _any_ path that ends up at the beginning of the runway? Second, are you on the _intended_ glide slope? For the first, I was taught to look at the intended landing spot and, being aware of the windscreen, see whether that

[Flightgear-devel] Multi-vehicle issues (Was: static variables)

2002-06-18 Thread julianfoad
from:David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] date:Tue, 18 Jun 2002 14:53:00 to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] static variables Curt and I have discussed this before (either online or offline). We could certainly have per-vehicle subtrees, i.e. ... and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] compile/make/build flags?

2002-05-31 Thread julianfoad
Keith, unfortunately Eric's instructions weren't quite right :( Erik Hofman wrote: Just do ./configure this will give a full list of the possibilities. He meant ./configure --help of course :) Yours is: --disable-logging Actually, it is --without-logging: ./configure

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

2002-05-29 Thread julianfoad
Well I am happy to report that I got the Photo scenery to work perfectly. Unfortunately it is with the latest windows binaries under XP. Although the photo scenery works fine none of the other scenery seems to be installable as it doesnt seem to be uncompressable under windows. Do you mean