Re: [Flightgear-devel] DAFIF Will No Longer Be Available to Public

2004-12-13 Thread David Megginson
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 08:27:00 +0100, Arnt Karlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ..one way is point .gov and .com people to if someone flies into an Aussiestani or Canuckistani tower, is it jihad, and who get's sued? That doesn't work so well outside of the U.S., because other countries don't have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Broadcast Address

2004-12-13 Thread John Wojnaroski
- Original Message - From: John Wojnaroski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FlightGear developers discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 5:43 PM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Broadcast Address Curtis Olson wrote: Let us know what you come up with on the broadcast

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DAFIF Will No Longer Be Available to Public

2004-12-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 07:38:13 -0500, David wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 08:27:00 +0100, Arnt Karlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ..one way is point .gov and .com people to if someone flies into an Aussiestani or Canuckistani tower, is it jihad, and who get's sued?

[Flightgear-devel] mkdir

2004-12-13 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Sunday, 12 December 2004 23:13, Curtis L. Olson wrote: You might want to check first if plib has this functionality already, or putting it in plib's file/directory handling library might be more appropriate. The purpose of SGPath is to be a platform independent path name abstraction. If

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DAFIF Will No Longer Be Available to Public

2004-12-13 Thread Kip Macy
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 10:36:19 +1100, Nick Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I must have missed it, sorry about that. Oh yeah, 2 months ago was exam time, I stopped reading the list for a few weeks. No harm done. We're all unhappy, of course, but it's hard for non-Americans like me to

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/737/Instruments pfd2.xml,

2004-12-13 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman wrote: could you consider to apply this as well? The vertical speed display did never ever work. It uses a property /velocities/vertical-speed-fpm. Feet per minute? This property doesn't exist. I posted this patch on the developers list (6 Nov 2004) to give the 737 engineers a

[Flightgear-devel] DAFIF comment period: there will be one after all.

2004-12-13 Thread Chris Metzler
So, I emailed the contact given in the FR notice regarding the termination of public distribution of the DAFIF. I noted that there was no mention of a public comment period, as is common for these things, and asked if there was to be one. They wrote back this afternoon, indicating that they'd

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Garmin GNS 530

2004-12-13 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 14:54, Boris Koenig wrote: Well thanks for the pointer, I am going to contact Garmin yet another time anyway: Another FlightGear user informed me yesterday that there IS already an application that interfaces the original (software) simulator unit with MS FS 200x -

[Flightgear-devel] Things to do to improve Flightgear

2004-12-13 Thread Ironhell3 .
I believe that flightgear is a great game but in my opinion it is not very user friendly.In order to have more users trying our game and thus provide more feedback we have to make some steps: 1) Update the splash screens. We have the same ugly splash screens for the past 3 years 2) Use a menu

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Things to do to improve Flightgear

2004-12-13 Thread Jon Berndt
For the splash screens we could organise a contest from users (yes, just like gimp and others do) and select the 5-6 top spashes for inclusion. Finally for the multi part i will check the code to see if i can help.This is where all the fun is :P I might have a look at doing some splash

[Flightgear-devel] Things to do to improve Flightgear

2004-12-13 Thread Ironhell3 .
unfortunately i don't know nothing about the FG's interiors, but i have experience in game programming (although in c and not c++). There should be a split up in the code: the initialization part and the scene loading/dynamics init/Ai code etc. After the initial init, we can have the menu and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: NAV radios still borked on three a/c

2004-12-13 Thread Erik Hofman
Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: There are two dme entries in preferences.xml, resulting in two dme branches under /instrumentation/ (dme[0] and dme[1]). The serviceable property is only set for the second entry (dme[1]), and that one is not connected to the dme module. Solution: Remove the first dme

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: User home

2004-12-13 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Sunday, 12 December 2004 23:32, Curtis L. Olson wrote: IMO this should be discussed very carefully before proceeding. What data do we want to write out? - Personally I want to store some very specific menu info (not the state of the menus) - Melchior pointed out that we may want nasal to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] mkdir

2004-12-13 Thread David Luff
On 12/13/04 at 7:03 PM Paul Surgeon wrote: On Sunday, 12 December 2004 23:13, Curtis L. Olson wrote: You might want to check first if plib has this functionality already, or putting it in plib's file/directory handling library might be more appropriate. The purpose of SGPath is to be a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DAFIF comment period: there will be one after all.

2004-12-13 Thread David Megginson
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 16:15:45 -0500, Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have no idea whether comments from folks outside the U.S. are taken into consideration; I'd bet not. I've sent one anyway; here it is: ==8== I am a Canadian citizen and resident, and would like to comment on the