[Flightgear-devel] asi.xml

2001-12-09 Thread Melchior FRANZ
The new c310/asi.xml file tries to load Textures/{airsp260,bezel1}.rgb. These, however, have been forgotten to upload from http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/c310asi.tar.gz, no? m. :-) ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Flightgear-devel] Re: asi.xml

2001-12-09 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Jim Wilson -- Sunday 09 December 2001 17:17: Melchior FRANZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The new c310/asi.xml file tries to load Textures/{airsp260,bezel1}.rgb. These, however, have been forgotten to upload from http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/c310asi.tar.gz, no? m

[Flightgear-devel] Re: BUG: option --tile-radius missing

2002-01-18 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Curtis L. Olson -- Friday 18 January 2002 20:12: The --tile-radius option is no longer used. Err ... so the entry in the help screen should be removed, no? :-) m. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Re: BUG: option --tile-radius missing

2002-01-19 Thread Melchior FRANZ
I asked for --tile-radius, because I don't get enough tiles if I fly at good visibility (--fog-disable or hitting 'Z' a few times). And then it would be nice to see more than just one square when I take 'satellite images', i.e. when I look down from the carpet at high altitude. ;-) m. PS:

[Flightgear-devel] Re: BUG: option --tile-radius missing

2002-01-19 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Curtis L. Olson -- Saturday 19 January 2002 14:25: * Melchior FRANZ writes: I asked for --tile-radius, because I don't get enough tiles if I fly at good visibility (--fog-disable or hitting 'Z' a few times). And then it would be nice to see more than just one square when I take

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Re: BUG: option --tile-radius missing

2002-01-19 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Norman Vine -- Saturday 19 January 2002 17:55: * Melchior FRANZ writes: [tiles loaded too late at good visibility] Try increasing the far_clipping plane This is set in src / Main / main.cxx / fgRenderFrame() search for ssgSetNearFar() Thanks, I'll look into that. Shouldn't

[Flightgear-devel] Re: BUG: option --tile-radius missing

2002-01-20 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Curtis L. Olson -- Saturday 19 January 2002 23:35: Melchior FRANZ writes: Perhaps it could be tied, but not directly, the far clip plan has to at least include the sky dome, sun, moon, stars, planets, clouds, etc. even when the visibility is rather low. OK, yes. I meant that the far clip

[Flightgear-devel] [OT] Re: Open Source Nvidia Driver

2002-01-25 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Erik Hofman -- Friday 25 January 2002 15:50: Melchior FRANZ wrote: Because SGI recently sold a couple of 3D-graphics patents to Microsoft and Microsoft could be interested not to license these to companies that support anything else than DirectX. So Nvidia could drop OpenGL support

[Flightgear-devel] internet socket server (aka telnet)

2002-01-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
When started with --props=socket,bi,5,localhost,5501,tcp fgfs does only allow one session e.g. via telnet. After closing this session, it isn't possible to connect again. I had a look at that problem and seem to have found the reason. Yet I cannot provide a patch. On the one hand I'm not

[Flightgear-devel] Re: YASIM Options

2002-01-27 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Andrew Ross -- Saturday 26 January 2002 20:20: There's also a complication with the Harrier. You'll need to map a joystick axis to the /controls/thrust-vector[0] property in order to work the thrust vectoring. Works also reasonably well when mapped to the low/high properties of a joystick

[Flightgear-devel] Re: internet socket server (aka telnet)

2002-01-27 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Sunday 27 January 2002 00:43: [...] Anyway, here is my diagnosis::-) simgear/sg_socket.cxx doesn't accept(2) [...] Forget this nonsense. I'm working on it ... m. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

[Flightgear-devel] Re: YASIM Options

2002-01-29 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Andy Ross -- Monday 28 January 2002 20:26: * Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Andy Ross wrote: There's also a complication with the Harrier. You'll need to map a joystick axis to the /controls/thrust-vector[0] property in order to work the thrust vectoring. Works also reasonably

[Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] tcp interface: better compliance with fs paradigm, data mode

2002-01-30 Thread Melchior FRANZ
Here's another patch for the tcp/telnet interface (Flightgear/src/Network): props.cxx | 86 +- props.hxx |9 ++ 2 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

[Flightgear-devel] fgfs and exceptions (another telnet bug)

2002-01-30 Thread Melchior FRANZ
I'm facing a strange bug in fgfs, that I couldn't fix yet: If I connect to fgfs via telnet and enter cd .. at the root level, fgfs segfaults. I tracked this down and found that simgear/misc/props.cxx:273 does detect this correctly and throws an exception (Attempt to move past root with '..'). So

[Flightgear-devel] Re: 0.7.9 release schedule

2002-01-31 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Cameron Moore -- Thursday 31 January 2002 22:09: Yes, this is definately wrong. I have a copy, but I'm not sure how old it is (prolly a couple months). I don't think it has all of the changes up to when it was removed. Anybody know how to retrieve it from the CVS Attic? Or...what are to

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Re: 0.7.9 release schedule

2002-02-01 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Cameron Moore -- Thursday 31 January 2002 23:27: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Melchior FRANZ) [2002.01.31 16:24]: cvs up -p -r1.5 materials.xml materials.xml.1.5 m. That doesn't work for materials since it was deleted from the repository. Have you tried? ... No, obviously you haven't

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Post 0.7.9 priorities

2002-02-01 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Cameron Moore -- Friday 01 February 2002 04:56: - the telnet and httpd property browsers don't understand indexed objects The telnet interface =does= list indices. Addressing them was never a problem. m. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL

[Flightgear-devel] [PATCH][RFC] httpd interface: make indices work

2002-02-01 Thread Melchior FRANZ
The attached patch adds the missing indices to ambiguous nodes, so that nodes with indices != 0 can actually be selected. httpd.cxx | 57 - httpd.hxx |5 + 2 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) The patched httpd

[Flightgear-devel] Re: fgfs and exceptions (another telnet bug)

2002-02-01 Thread Melchior FRANZ
From the numerous replies I deduce that this topic isn't very popular, so I'm trying to answer the questions myself. :- * Melchior FRANZ -- Wednesday 30 January 2002 13:45: Why are exceptions thrown in SimGear not catchable in FlightGear? Am I missing something? Yes, I was missing

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [PATCH][RFC] httpd interface: make indices work

2002-02-04 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Friday 01 February 2002 20:28: The attached patch adds the missing indices to ambiguous nodes, so that nodes with indices != 0 can actually be selected. Hello? Anybody listening out there? ... I mean someone with CVS write access. This patch doesn't implement some useless

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Re: [PATCH][RFC] httpd interface: make indices work

2002-02-04 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Tony Peden -- Monday 04 February 2002 15:45: --- Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patches normally go directly to Curtis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and he makes sure everything works out for patches. Ohh, I see. Normally developer lists are for code reviewing, at least under Linux and

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Nits

2002-02-06 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* BERNDT, JON S. (JON) (JSC-EX) (LM) -- Wednesday 06 February 2002 23:37: I also see a dirt runway texture, but it isn't being used at Edwards, at least. The runway definitions in Airport/default.apt.gz describe most of KEDW runways as NLVNN with the second letter standing for ... err nothing!

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Re: Nits

2002-02-06 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Curtis L. Olson -- Thursday 07 February 2002 00:09: My guess is that L stands for 'lake bed'. Maybe. My theory is nonsense, anyway. Had I started fgfs at KEDW before I sent that message, then I would have seen that there are no white runways at all. Everything looks OK here. m. ??

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Nits

2002-02-07 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Curtis L. Olson -- Thursday 07 February 2002 05:45: Jon S. Berndt writes: I'm confused. Then why did Melchior say he had no white runways at KEDW? Could he be running an older version of the scenery files? Hard to say. I downloaded that area just a few weeks back on 2001-12-20 from

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Nits

2002-02-07 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Thursday 07 February 2002 12:44: BUT: I have a folder Textures/Terrain/New with some more textures, [...] Err ... these are only terrain. Nothing that would explain the working runways. m. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Re: Re: Nits

2002-02-07 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Jim Wilson -- Thursday 07 February 2002 14:38: I noticed on mine that the runways come up textured and then turn white. This happens very quickly but you can definately see it, lines and all. Why would that happen? nVidia driver bug on Linux? I'm running a tdfx card without problems.

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Re: Nits

2002-02-07 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Curtis L. Olson -- Thursday 07 February 2002 20:53: Ok, you are definitely running with a previous version of the scenery. ... which would mean that the ftp://ftp.darklands.cx/pub/fgfs/ mirror is sh*t and should be removed from the mirrors list. :-( m.

[Flightgear-devel] Re: runway lights

2002-02-08 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Roman Grigoriev -- Friday 08 February 2002 13:52: If you want to enable runway lights on linux [...] 2)install nvidia drivers (I have Geforce3 and I'm fan of nvidia) (2313 works well) 3) replace mesa *.h files with nvidia (gl.h gltoken.h glext.h) ?? You mean, you are writing code that only

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Small bug report

2002-02-08 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Friday 08 February 2002 15:08: * William Earnest -- Friday 08 February 2002 03:01: Noted a small cosmetic bug, but one that could be confusing. The drop-down menus apparently can't display an underscore. While browsing the properties tree, note that the fuel units

[Flightgear-devel] LED font

2002-02-08 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* John Check -- Friday 08 February 2002 19:28: I have an LED font around someplace, but we need to be able to use more than one font as someone else pointed out. I hope yours is better than mine. It isn't really easy to make it look good even after scaling.

[Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] autopilot.xml: remove pixel garbage

2002-02-09 Thread Melchior FRANZ
Since a while I get a line of black pixel garbage below the labels WL and ALT on the autopilot. Does anybody else see this? (Or is it a feature of my graphics card? :-) The following patch fixes this for me. m. Index: autopilot.xml

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Back to Linux

2002-02-10 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* John Wojnaroski -- Sunday 10 February 2002 18:56: Returning to Linux, I've installed Linux and the new Xwindows and the nvidia drivers Running with Debian, XWindows 4.2, and Linux 2.4.xx gcc is 2.95.2 Plib and simgear compiled and installed just fine, the flightgear build fails at run

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Re: Back to Linux

2002-02-10 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* John Wojnaroski -- Sunday 10 February 2002 20:25: TOWER:/usr/local/bin$ fgfs fgfs: error in loading shared libraries: libmk4.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [...] The library libmk4.so.0 is in /usr/lib/. Might it be a pathname problem tht doesn't show

[Flightgear-devel] [BUG] JSBSim: sudden plane crashes

2002-02-12 Thread Melchior FRANZ
This has already been reported, but there's obviously no solution yet: The JSB-c310 crashes quite frequently during 'normal' flight. Sometimes it starts to accelerate to supersonic speeds or to spin around the transversal axis for one second, after which it crashes. fgfs just reports 182:

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Control inputs still initialised strangely

2002-02-12 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* D Luff -- Tuesday 12 February 2002 15:46: I've just checked out a completely clean base, simgear and flightgear, and it is still starting up with full left aileron and full down elevator. Is there really no-one else seeing this? Never seen that. (Linux 2.4.17/gcc 2.95.2) What about fgfs

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [BUG] JSBSim: sudden plane crashes

2002-02-12 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Tuesday 12 February 2002 16:00: Is this still present with the newer JSBSim code/files? With the JSBSim version from the fgfs-cvs, yes. (The files were IIRC updated yesterday.) m. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL

[Flightgear-devel] Re: for the upcoming release

2002-02-13 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* David Megginson -- Wednesday 13 February 2002 13:26: Just a quick note -- right now, I'm using 512x512 textures for the DC-3 model, effectively leaving it untextured for Voodoo3 users (but making my life a lot easier, since I have to map from only 2 texture files rather than 8). I'm not

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Re: for the upcoming release

2002-02-13 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Mally -- Wednesday 13 February 2002 15:08: My old Voodoo Banshee would happily load 512x512 textures but automatically reduce them to 256x256. I suspect these textures will be OK for Voodoo users despite the 256x256 limit. Yes, that also seems to be the case for my V3-3000. The new

[Flightgear-devel] Re: C310

2002-02-13 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* David Megginson -- Wednesday 13 February 2002 21:15: It's OK, but I haven't tried a lot of long cross-countries. I haven't put much work into the prop model for the C310 compared to the C172 or C182, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's spinning out of control by producing excess power at

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Wind confusion.

2002-02-18 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Martin van Beilen -- Monday 18 February 2002 17:08: And guess what I discovered when diffing 0.7.8 against 0.7.9? In Main/options.cxx, around line 900, someone *commented out* the line dir += 180;, thereby *changing* the definitions of /environment/wind-{north,east}-fps! Okay, who did that?

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Re: Wind confusion.

2002-02-19 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Martin van Beilen -- Tuesday 19 February 2002 22:39: On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 05:18:48PM +0100, Melchior FRANZ wrote: $ cvs ann options.cxx|head -902|tail -1 What version of cvs is that? I just installed the RPM, and there is no 'ann' in the manual. I'm using V1.11. But ann isn't a new

[Flightgear-devel] Re: tiled panel code

2002-02-19 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Tuesday 19 February 2002 22:47: * David Megginson -- Tuesday 19 February 2002 21:58: They are now in their respective CVS repositories. Note that you will not see any difference with the default aircraft, ^^ ... apart from the new font command

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Re: tiled panel code

2002-02-20 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Jim Wilson -- Wednesday 20 February 2002 00:52: Melchior FRANZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: No wonder, the patch was not against the latest CVS, so it removed everything that was added later! Very nasty ... :-( Sorry about that...actually I was quite current, but usually I like to cvs

[Flightgear-devel] Re: RFC: Aircraft *-set.xml files reorg

2002-02-21 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* David Megginson -- Thursday 21 February 2002 15:26: [...] This is a little ugly, but ordinary users should never have to see it. Now, the user can put -prop:/config/aircraft/dc3-dpm/sim/model/path=Models/dc3-usa.ac in her .fgfsrc and get a different 3D model for the DC-3 without

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Odd character bug in property manager.

2002-02-23 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Martin van Beilen -- Saturday 23 February 2002 02:54: If I type ls -l (reflex :-)) to the property interface, fgfs locks so hard that my voodoo card doesn't get reset to its off state. If I type ls blah (literally) I get an ERR message as required. It seems to happen with all characters

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Re: Odd character bug in property manager.

2002-02-23 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Martin van Beilen -- Saturday 23 February 2002 18:30: On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 10:00:35AM +0100, Melchior FRANZ wrote: Exceptions are simply broken in gcc around version 2.95.2, they don't work across modules. Oh. Cute. Does gcc 3 support this feature as well? I don't know, but I'm

[Flightgear-devel] Re: OpenGL/Plib rotation

2002-02-24 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* David Megginson -- Sunday 24 February 2002 19:51: Christian Mayer writes: you can put those 3 operations into one 4x4 matrix if you want. That looks more intuitve but is harder to understand afterwards. Thanks -- I did that as well, using the sg matrix functions from plib. What I

[Flightgear-devel] Re: OpenGL/Plib rotation

2002-02-24 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* David Megginson -- Sunday 24 February 2002 20:58: Let me try -- it should do nothing at all with the DC-3, since it has no SSG node named Propeller, [...] Huh ... I was about to send the patch for the missing return value in find_named_node(), but you were faster. Well, it was late yesterday

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Help offered !!!

2002-02-28 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* David Megginson -- Thursday 28 February 2002 13:10: * Danie Heath writes: Hi guys, just joined the mailing list yesterday. Could you guys please tell me where to start. I'm a full-time programmer, and I'm a member of the Friends of the South African Air Force Museum, which means I have

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Problem in current CVS

2002-02-28 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Jon Stockill -- Thursday 28 February 2002 14:28: On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Jon S. Berndt wrote: No. This was explained yesterday, too. JSBSim.cpp has been removed from the FlightGear tree. JSBSim.cxx is required. You need to do a CVS update of your FlightGear tree. I had just before

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [BUG] JSBSim: sudden plane crashes

2002-03-02 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* David Megginson -- Saturday 02 March 2002 22:34: Yes, I can reproduce this as well. Of course, you shouldn't push the stick all the way forward like that during normal flight, but [...] Yes, I know. These crashes happened once in a while during normal flight, without extreme maneuvers.

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Scenery Strangeness

2002-03-05 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Paul Deppe -- Tuesday 05 March 2002 21:53: With the latest CVS (1400 EST 3/5/2002) on my Cygwin/Win2k system the textures in mountainous areas seem to walk across the ground and appear and disappear in a very strange manner. I am wondering if anyone else sees this problem. Same here. It's

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Compile failure of latest CVS

2002-03-12 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* D Luff -- Tuesday 12 March 2002 18:08: Cygwin compile of latest CVS fails in logger.cxx, complaining that an integer constant is out of range in line 101: last_time_ms(-99L) Yeah, that's a little bit too much for a long. Shouldn't -1 be the obvious choice for the initial

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Compile failure of latest CVS

2002-03-12 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Tuesday 12 March 2002 19:34: * D Luff -- Tuesday 12 March 2002 18:08: last_time_ms(-99L) Yeah, that's a little bit too much for a long. At least for a 32 bit long. :-) m. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Compile failure of latest CVS

2002-03-12 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* David Megginson -- Tuesday 12 March 2002 19:42: Apologies -- I'll shrink that. I *think* it's in range for a signed 64-bit integer, but I'm too lazy to check. Why not -1? Isn't that a sufficiently invalid number of seconds since program start? m.

[Flightgear-devel] Re: OT: SuSE new release ad page

2002-03-19 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Jim Wilson -- Sunday 17 March 2002 19:09: [racer; legal terms] Guess I'm not all that familiar with Suse. Is that typical for their distribution? Linus TORVALDS himself is using SuSE Linux. What's good enough for him, is certainly good enough for me. :-] m.

[Flightgear-devel] Re: valgrind: a memory error detector for x86 GNU/Linux

2002-03-21 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Curtis L. Olson -- Wednesday 20 March 2002 22:57: I tried running this once myself and got lost in piles of errors coming out of plib. Yeah, that's the fun thing. valgrind traces =all= (de)allocations and illegal memory access through all libraries. Doing so it already detected such bugs in

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Minor nits

2002-03-21 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* David Megginson -- Thursday 21 March 2002 13:40: * D Luff: And a long standing one that I've never heard anyone else mention - I get other colours and textures bleeding through at the runway touchdown zones and numbers, when viewed at certain shallow angles. This happens on

[Flightgear-devel] framerate 1/s

2002-03-21 Thread Melchior FRANZ
The changes from yesterday turned my framerate at KSFO from about 10 to 1 per second. Ten is already painful enough, and that with clouds and panel turned off. But one is a bit weak and makes fgfs virtually unflyable. (I've only got a 266MHz processor and a V3 graphics card.) m.

[Flightgear-devel] policy question: new [], delete

2002-03-22 Thread Melchior FRANZ
As I reported recently, I'm running fgfs through the valgrind debugger. Due to hundreds of error messages and to still having to learn valgrind I'm not very productive yet. I did resolve a few hundred error messages, though, all of which were caused by only a few (sort of) cosmetic bugs. In most

[Flightgear-devel] Re: framerate 1/s

2002-03-22 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* David Megginson -- Friday 22 March 2002 13:41: Which changes? I don't think we did anything major yesterday. Some things in the mouse control file and something in the viewer. But I'm right now running 'cvs up -D 16 hours ago' so that I can see if the last changes are really the problem.

[Flightgear-devel] Re: policy question: new [], delete

2002-03-22 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Norman Vine -- Friday 22 March 2002 13:58: Melchior FRANZ writes: [...] because the plib developers don't seem to be keen to fix it. Hey that's completely unfair ! Yes, that's how I am. :-) You have made exactly 2 posts to the PLib list, both yesterday I'll agree that you got 'one

[Flightgear-devel] Re: framerate 1/s

2002-03-22 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Jim Wilson -- Friday 22 March 2002 13:23: Are you using Linux? I'm using a V3 but its on a 100mhz motherboard (750 mhz processor) and I'm seeing an increase at KSFO. It slowed down to 10 to 15 fps a little while back and is now over 30. Other airports with less stuff around I'm much

[Flightgear-devel] Re: framerate 1/s

2002-03-22 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Friday 22 March 2002 15:51: It really seems to be a problem at my side. Give me another hour and I'll report success and apologize for my stupidity. :-) Err ... I just wanted to say ... I apologize for my stupidity. :-( What happened: during my valgrind tests I had

[Flightgear-devel] Re: policy question: new [], delete

2002-03-23 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Norman Vine -- Friday 22 March 2002 13:58: Melchior FRANZ writes: [...] because the plib developers don't seem to be keen to fix it. Hey that's completely unfair ! OK, it =was= completely unfair, indeed. Well, Steve was actually not keen to fix it (waste of time), but Sebastian pushed

[Flightgear-devel] Re: next problem ... :-(

2002-03-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Curtis L. Olson -- Tuesday 26 March 2002 03:16: Also, I was crashing with the latest runways.mk4 committed today, but I regenerated it myself and could run fine. Maybe something got hosed in the earlier commit ??? so I committed my re-re-generated version and hopefully that will work for

[Flightgear-devel] [BUG] default.fix.gz

2002-03-28 Thread Melchior FRANZ
There are some bugs in the Navaids/default.fix.gz file. Here are the most obvious ones: lat lon ORTAC 49.595700-20018.00 PEPIS 51.114800-11437.00 PERLA 13.765000-88695.00 RIBOS 13.95-87651.00 SOMBU 5959.31

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Is there class c4_FloatRef or c4_FloatProp in runways.cpp or runways.hpp?

2002-03-28 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* way lee -- Thursday 28 March 2002 13:34: I want to ask where is the definition of class c4_FloatRef or c4_FloatProp ? In the metakit library which you have to install. You find a copy of the sources in the SimGear directory: metakit-2.4.3-33.tar.gz m.

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Configurable mouse ready to go

2002-03-28 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Thursday 28 March 2002 16:50: ... and you don't lose track of the whole fgfs window when using a window manager with automatic desktop switching. Hehe ... nonsense. Either version would cause problems with such a window manager. m

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [BUG] default.fix.gz

2002-03-28 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* David Megginson -- Thursday 28 March 2002 16:01: We can patch up Navaids/default.fix.gz, but be warned that the file is autogenerated and that all changes will be blown away the next time we get an update from Robin Peel. Your best bet is to submit the changes to Robin as well, to make

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Configurable mouse ready to go

2002-03-28 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Norman Vine -- Thursday 28 March 2002 17:16: Nah I could care less about those folks running FGFS in a window this is a FlightSIM and the operative word is FRAMERATE which any windowing system KILLS. Hehe, you are obviously a windows kind of guy, which explains that you don't know much

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Configurable mouse ready to go

2002-03-28 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Norman Vine -- Thursday 28 March 2002 17:16: I could care less about those folks running FGFS in a window this is a FlightSIM and the operative word is FRAMERATE which any windowing system KILLS. Huh ... forget my other (arrogant) reply. I guess you are right. I just didn't manage yet to

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Publicity

2002-03-29 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Alex Perry -- Friday 29 March 2002 07:29: * Arnt Karlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage IIC AGP (rev 122), 8 MB vram. Currently, it is my understanding that the Mach64 is only accelerated for 2D under Xfree86 version 4.x using the DRI as part of released drivers. I used a

[Flightgear-devel] c310-vfr-panel: textures missing

2002-03-29 Thread Melchior FRANZ
c310-vfr-panel.xml says: ... multibackgroundAircraft/c310/c310-panel-11.rgb/multibackground multibackgroundAircraft/c310/c310-panel-12.rgb/multibackground ... but there are no such textures. Have they been forgotten to upload, or are they simply not done yet? m.

[Flightgear-devel] Re: c310-vfr-panel: textures missing

2002-03-29 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Andy Ross -- Friday 29 March 2002 21:02: I've been wondering the same thing. Undefined textures render on my NVidia card as a smooth shaded quad with red and white on opposite corners. Interesting effect. :) Yeah, that's the red/white checker board propvided by ssgLoadDummyTexture, that is

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Error running flightgear

2002-04-12 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* D Luff -- Wednesday 03 April 2002 01:27: [...] especially since they fix only valgrind/compiler warnings rather than user-visible bugs. Err ... I'm actually also trying to fix other problems than those reported by valgrind. :- * D Luff -- Wednesday 03 April 2002 02:21: However,

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Purpose of the Next Release?

2002-04-13 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* David Megginson -- Saturday 13 April 2002 21:39: Melchior recently did an excellent job chasing down problem reports from valgrind and submitting patches to fix them. Thanks. Expect more of those. I'm not even half through now, and then every new code will potentially cause further valgrind

[Flightgear-devel] Re: property viewer segfaulting

2002-04-25 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* David Megginson -- Thursday 25 April 2002 15:59: The problem is in PUI and/or the prop picker -- the font we're currently using does not seem to have a '|' character in it, and that must be throwing something off. Yes, and it also has no '_', which can be quite confusing to people who

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Attaching to the network interface

2002-05-09 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Scott G. Miller -- Thursday 09 May 2002 18:47: I do have one question to whoever is implementing the telnet interface, though. I can use it fine exactly once. A second connection is accepted by fgfs, but does not respond to any commands. This makes debugging my code very difficult, as I

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Attaching to the network interface

2002-05-09 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Arnt Karlsen -- Thursday 09 May 2002 17:27: On Thu, 09 May 2002 11:05:05 +1000, Bernie Bright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message I'm implementing a similar idea except using the telnet interface why telnet and not ssh? telnet stands for fgfs' tcp socket server in this context. It

[Flightgear-devel] Re: dt changed to seconds

2002-05-11 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* David Megginson -- Saturday 11 May 2002 16:36: I've just checked in changes so that FGSubsystem::update takes a double argument giving seconds elapsed since the last update (as Curt, Jon, and many others requested). The FDMs calculate their own multiloop now, and I think the propeller is

[Flightgear-devel] Re: dt changed to seconds

2002-05-11 Thread Melchior FRANZ
There are also problems with the magic carpet. Flying forward at full speed is a) too fast, b) quite jumpy. m. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] Re: dt changed to seconds

2002-05-11 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* David Megginson -- Saturday 11 May 2002 18:40: If you want sophisticated effects like damping, the code should run the number of iterations in multiloop rather than just taking one big time slice -- take a look at LaRCSim.cxx, YASim.cxx, or JSBSim.cxx to see how it's done. So, in one call

[Flightgear-devel] Re: stupid compile error

2002-05-14 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Keith Wiley -- Tuesday 14 May 2002 21:47: I recvsed yesterday and now it won't compile: /usr/local/src/FlightGear/src/Main/fg_init.cxx:628: undefined reference to `FGNullFDM::FGNullFDM(do ble)' ^ What's that? do ble? It definitely compiles here. Corrupted file? Bad

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Environment subsystem status

2002-05-15 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Christian Mayer -- Wednesday 15 May 2002 17:39: David Megginson wrote: /environment/pressure-inhg /environment/density-sea-level-slugft3 [...] But I'm really concerned that these values aren't in SI units. So most of the world (except the US and perhaps a few other countries) can't

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Environment subsystem status

2002-05-15 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Andy Ross -- Wednesday 15 May 2002 18:44: Typical (North American, anyway) altimeters still report feet, VSI indicators read in fpm, etc... Same here. But please don't tell me that US meteorologist work with slugft3. PS: I withdraw my estimatian that 90% of the world are using SI-units. I

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Environment subsystem status

2002-05-15 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Tony Peden -- Wednesday 15 May 2002 19:47: Meters are not better than feet, just different. [...] Yes, obviously. It's the words international and standard that make the difference. But these a quite essential details. And it would be quite poor if US universities taught anything else than SI

[Flightgear-devel] Re: stupid compile error

2002-05-15 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Keith Wiley -- Wednesday 15 May 2002 22:46: * Keith Wiley -- Tuesday 14 May 2002 21:47: I recvsed yesterday and now it won't compile: /usr/local/src/FlightGear/src/Main/fg_init.cxx:628: undefined reference to `FGNullFDM::FGNullFDM(do ble)' ^ What's that?

[Flightgear-devel] the new telnet server

2002-05-16 Thread Melchior FRANZ
The new telnet server has really become nice. It's great to be able to connect more than just once. :-) But I don't like the new commands: view set n display view 'n' view get return current view index view current return current view index Why bloat the interface

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Environment subsystem status

2002-05-16 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Thursday 16 May 2002 16:25: After reading this story I can't help but note another advantage of SI: easy-to-remember figures. 0 degrees celsius is where water freezes, 100 degrees is where water boils, and a liter of water weighs one kilogram. *) [...] *) I know, its

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Environment subsystem status

2002-05-16 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Thursday 16 May 2002 16:35: ... and the SI unit for temperature is Kelvin, no? :- OK, OK. Degree Celsius is a so-called Derived SI Unit. :-) m. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Environment subsystem status

2002-05-16 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Curtis L. Olson -- Thursday 16 May 2002 16:48: Melchior FRANZ writes: ... and the SI unit for temperature is Kelvin, no? :- So what is the SI unit for direction/heading? Certainly they wouldn't overload unit names, right? :-) There's no contradiction, as far as I see: degree comes

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Environment subsystem status

2002-05-16 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Julian Foad -- Thursday 16 May 2002 18:27: Have you noticed Deg/Rad/Grad or DRG on every scientific calculator? Those are Grads. I've heard that the military use them ... but I haven't seen any evidence of it. Infantery and artillery use 0-6400 mil (called Strich over here), NBC also uses

[Flightgear-devel] Re: I simply don't know what I'm doing wrong

2002-05-18 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Keith Wiley -- Saturday 18 May 2002 00:26: Should I just scrap my entire flightgear directory, throw it away, and start over from scratch? As a last resort, maybe. But you still didn't investigate the bug that you originally reported: remember do ble?

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Bad line endings when running on windows

2002-05-19 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Bernie Bright -- Sunday 19 May 2002 06:23: As for line endings I think its simpler if we just use CRLF for both client and server. I will check that the new server always sends CRLF. ACK Not that this is in any way obligatory, but the perl documentation says: $ man perlipc|col -b|grep

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Failed to load 3D model

2002-05-20 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Jim Wilson -- Monday 20 May 2002 19:20: If I'm not mistaken the last release does not run if you type in --aircraft=747-yasim because a model that doesn't exist is spec'd in the -set.xml file. Err ... I'd say it doesn't run because there seems to be some nasty bug in Yasim or its 747 data.

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Failed to load 3D model

2002-05-20 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Jim Wilson -- Monday 20 May 2002 19:59: Melchior FRANZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Solution failed to converge after 1 iterations You might want to report the bug you are seeing in another thread or directly to Andy. I'm sure he put that error message in the program so folks would

[Flightgear-devel] Re: YASim 747 solution failure [was: Failed to load 3D model]

2002-05-20 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Andy Ross -- Monday 20 May 2002 21:29: Melchior FRANZ wrote: YASim SOLUTION FAILURE: Solution failed to converge after 1 iterations That's now the case since a few weeks. The c310 works, though. (CVS HEAD) This is a YASim bug. Honestly, I wasn't aware that the currently

[Flightgear-devel] Re: New YASim files for base package

2002-05-21 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Andy Ross -- Tuesday 21 May 2002 07:48: I just commited a YASim patch to fix the approach lift problem I mentioned this morning. The 747, in particular, behaves much more sanely on approach. When I reported the 747 problem, it had nothing to do with approaching. The 747 didn't work at all!

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Does yasim-747 work?

2002-05-25 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Jim Wilson -- Saturday 25 May 2002 15:17: H...I installed the 747.xml and even did a make clean;make. Still having the same problem. Any ideas? Well, I don't have any useful ideas. I just want to confirm that the 747 works for me with CVS-HEAD and the two files applied. There's nothing

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