Re: [Flightgear-devel] Grass Runway Textures

2003-11-28 Thread Julian Foad
Matthew Law wrote: Speaking of which, would it be possible to change the texture above a certain height AGL? We could have a texture with more detail for low altitudes and a shinier, more gaussian texture for higher altitudes... Just like real grass and short crops. Grass rarely reaches more than

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: Proposed Changes to Airport Data Files

2003-10-13 Thread Julian Foad
David Megginson wrote: I'd like to propose the following changes to our current airport data formats: 1. In $FG_ROOT/Airports/basic.dat.gz (the airport-level data file), add two fields containing the ISO 3166 country code and a country-specific region code. Either can be represented by 'U'

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-09-30 Thread Julian Foad
David Luff wrote: On 9/30/03 at 4:11 PM Curtis L. Olson wrote: Norman Vine writes: Curtis L. Olson writes: Andrei Barbu has revamped the flightgear web site layout and made quite a few improvements. I have placed the proposed changes here: http://www.flightgear.org/www.andrei/ Cool but all

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-09-30 Thread Julian Foad
Cameron Moore wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Curt Olson) [2003.09.30 13:57]: Andrei Barbu has revamped the flightgear web site layout and made quite a few improvements. - No DOCTYPE specification[1] ... [1] http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html Yes - please check that the pages are valid

Re: [Flightgear-devel] key bindings - English

2003-09-25 Thread Julian Foad
Richard Bytheway wrote: That appears to be a US English keyboard, A UK English has and @ transposed, as well as £ where # is on a US keyboard (both called a pound sign though). You might call the hash (or 'gate' or 'number sign') a 'pound sign', but I don't. As far as I know, the only reason

[Flightgear-devel] Meaning of scale (e.g. 1:1000000) in digital data

2003-09-11 Thread Julian Foad
Norman Vine wrote: vmap0 can be off by ~500 meters and still be considered accurate since it is 1:1,000,000 Every time I see a map scale ratio like 1:100 for digital mapping data, I am confused. For a paper map it means 1 length unit on the map represents 100 length units in real life,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] objects lifetime

2003-09-11 Thread Julian Foad
Matevz Jekovec wrote: I was thinking of the way we could ommit lifetime for our terrain and scenery objects. For e.g. if we get a WTC towers models or some other historical buildings one day, we cannot place them into year 2003. What if every object has a timestamp - an interval from when to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] --ceiling option

2003-09-02 Thread Julian Foad
David Megginson wrote: I've added a new option to set an overcast ceiling quickly on the command line: --ceiling=FT_ASL[:THICKNESS_AGL] ..THICKNESS_FT ? - Julian ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: how to fix joystick config files

2003-07-01 Thread Julian Foad
Jim Wilson wrote: Julian Foad [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I wouldn't want the trim wheel to run slowly when my computer is heavily loaded. You would if you were unable to trim because the step sizes were to big and you wanted to trim from the joystick. Yes, OK, but we're going to avoid that by making

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: how to fix joystick config files

2003-07-01 Thread Julian Foad
Jim Wilson wrote: Melchior FRANZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: That would be =all= repeatable bindings then. The change of view direction/elevation simulates head movement. Braking simulates feet movement on pedals. Mixture ... you get the point. Every set of repeatable buttons emulates (analog)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: how to fix joystick config files

2003-06-30 Thread Julian Foad
Jim Wilson wrote: Julian Foad [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: have the binding specify the amount of change PER SECOND (i.e. the rate of change), and allow the number of steps per second to vary with machine power and load. At each step, the new value is calculated so that the control is moving

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: how to fix joystick config files

2003-06-30 Thread Julian Foad
Melchior FRANZ wrote: What are repeatable buttons used for? - to let a digital input device (regular button, or digital hat switch) emulate an analog device What about keyboard buttons (keys)? Are they not going to work in the same way? Or are they already handled properly (FGFS

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: how to fix joystick config files

2003-06-29 Thread Julian Foad
* Jim Wilson -- Saturday 28 June 2003 23:02: If I remember this patch correctly, the repeat frequency was hard coded. It should be defined in a property, and eventually adjustable in a gui dialog for controllers. Ideally at some point we could adjust sensitivity/repeat per control (individual

[Flightgear-devel] Rsync access to base package and source?

2003-06-10 Thread Julian Foad
I haven't updated for a few months and now I see the base and source CVS repositories have moved, although the old ones still seem to be responding (but presumably out of date). As I'm on a dial-up modem, I'm looking for a way to avoid a complete check-out (tens of megabytes - hours or days of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Return of the BPCVS

2003-02-03 Thread Julian Foad
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 19:39:28 -0500, John Check [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Base package cvs is back, now with more cvsweb http://rockfish.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ ..imaginary folder like directory icons? ;-) I see this effect too. No image is

[Flightgear-devel] PATCH: validation of XML: materials.dtd etc.

2003-01-05 Thread Julian Foad
I have updated materials.dtd and materials.xml so that they (almost) validate together using xmllint which comes with libxml: xmllint --dtdvalid materials.dtd -noout materials.xml The only bit that doesn't quite work is the params section which is allowed to contain arbitrary element tag

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Radio frequency range: min/max/wrap

2003-01-04 Thread Julian Foad
Dave Perry wrote: I just updated SimGear, FlightGear source, and base package from cvs. Now when I try to change frequencies, the numbers to the right of the decimal change mod 1, but the 1's, 10's and 100's didgits don't change. Yes, David changed it so that it is more like the real radio;

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Radio frequency range: min/max/wrap

2003-01-04 Thread Julian Foad
David Megginson wrote: Julian Foad writes: I attach a patch which does these, and an update to navcom-radio.xml which specifies resolution appropriately and sets max to 118 or 136 instead of 117.95 or 135.975. Other files will need to be updated similarly; how is this for a start

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Radio frequency range: min/max/wrap

2003-01-03 Thread Julian Foad
Norman Vine wrote: This is the poor man's version taken from sg_inlines.h // normalize a value to lie between min and max template class T inline void SG_NORMALIZE_RANGE( T val, const T min, const T max ) { T step = max - min; while( val = max ) val -= step; while( val min ) val

Re: [Flightgear-devel] main.cxx: glXGetProcAddressARB undeclared,and warnings

2003-01-03 Thread Julian Foad
Norman Vine wrote: Julian Foad writes: main.cxx: In function `bool fgMainInit(int, char**)': main.cxx:1608: `glXGetProcAddressARB' undeclared (first use this function) Looking at the Mesa headers it seems as if GLX_GLXEXT_PROTOTYPES needs to be defined That works for me, adding it just

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Radio frequency range: min/max/wrap

2003-01-03 Thread Julian Foad
David Megginson wrote: Julian Foad writes: I don't like to add more configuration and code, I like to pare things down to the simplest correct implementation. But I think this snap to valid value behaviour will be necessary. I might have a go at an implementation. How do you feel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Radio frequency range: min/max/wrap

2003-01-03 Thread Julian Foad
Norman Vine wrote: Julian Foad writes: Norman Vine wrote: This is the poor man's version taken from sg_inlines.h // normalize a value to lie between min and max template class T inline void SG_NORMALIZE_RANGE( T val, const T min, const T max ) { T step = max - min; while( val = max

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Radio frequency range: min/max/wrap

2003-01-03 Thread Julian Foad
I (Julian Foad) wrote: I attach a patch which does these, ... ... It seems to work without skipping values. Ooh, I hate it when people say it seems to work. It sounds so sloppy. What I meant is I designed it and analysed it very carefully, and then did just a quick test to confirm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Radio frequency range: min/max/wrap

2003-01-02 Thread Julian Foad
David Megginson wrote: Julian Foad writes: I noticed that the radios had nav. freq. range 108.00 to 117.95 but com. freq. 0 to 140; this should be 118 to 140. But while playing with that I noticed that the wrapping is a bit unpredictable. With (min=118, max=140, step=1, wrap=true

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Radio frequency range: min/max/wrap

2003-01-02 Thread Julian Foad
I (Julian Foad) wrote: and, unless it is tackled, I'm pretty sure floating-point imprecision will result in users sometimes being unable to set an end-point value like 118.000 MHz. Not actually unable to, because they can go back to 135.975 and then forward to 118.000. - Julian

[Flightgear-devel] main.cxx: glXGetProcAddressARB undeclared, and warnings

2003-01-02 Thread Julian Foad
Can anybody help with this error? Anyone care to fix the warnings? Making all in Main In file included from main.cxx:91: ../../src/ATC/ATCmgr.hxx:201: warning: extra qualification `FGATCMgr::' on member `FindInList' ignored main.cxx: In function `void fgRenderFrame()': main.cxx:443: warning:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] What's in the job jar?

2002-12-22 Thread Julian Foad
David Megginson wrote: Cleanup is always, always needed -- ... We are slowly trying to get all of the parts of FlightGear to extend FGSubsystem (defined src/Main/fgfs.hxx) and to simplify the top-level loop in src/Main/main.cxx. That sort of top-level stuff really is best done by the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D model origin proposal

2002-12-16 Thread Julian Foad
Jon S Berndt wrote: Well, with proper agreement and reference point, we can make this perfect. There's just some communication and cooperation needed for a little while, and I think we are nearly there. Yes. I think several people are unclear about how this will work, and have concerns like

[Flightgear-devel] control reaches end of non-void function

2002-12-03 Thread Julian Foad
Among many warnings I noticed this in FGPanel::doMouseAction: panel.cxx:583: warning: control reaches end of non-void function - Julian ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Voice ATIS

2002-12-03 Thread Julian Foad
David Luff wrote: I've managed to get canned voice ATIS going. Wow! Brilliant. It really works! It sounds about like I'd expect, too (e.g. the 8 kHz-ness). - Julian ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Today's new segfault

2002-12-02 Thread Julian Foad
William Earnest wrote: With the compile problems resolved, still getting a consistent segfault just after Done reading panel instruments. The other Didn't you say earlier that you are using Red Hat's GCC 2.96? Isn't that the broken version? I don't know the details, but I think Red Hat

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terrasync 3rd party util

2002-11-28 Thread Julian Foad
David Luff wrote: David Luff writes: Is it likely to work over a 56K modem? Well, it mostly worked. After starting in an area with no scenery, it took a couple of minutes waiting before the appropriate airport came down, and FlightGear could be restarted properly. Flying the C172,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Flightgear-devel digest, Vol 1 #1173 -15 msgs

2002-11-26 Thread Julian Foad
Jason Grace wrote: Could someone help me compile the stuff once and for all? I've been trying to get it to compile on Cygwin for a year, so I can contribute. You quoted hundreds of lines of a message digest. I don't know if something in it was relevant to your question. If you could provide

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terrasync 3rd party util

2002-11-25 Thread Julian Foad
Getting 'rsync' working through a firewall is pretty difficult. You could try to build 'rsync' with 'socks' support, but even then not every firewall supports 'socks'. So I dare to point at the fact that this utility might be pretty useless for several users. If you are _allowed_ to be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terrasync 3rd party util

2002-11-25 Thread Julian Foad
Lovely stuff! terrasync.cxx needs these to compile on my GCC 3.2 / SuSE system: SG_USING_STD(cout); SG_USING_STD(endl); In the usage example in README.txt it would be nice to suggest a port in the private use range (49152-65535), such as 55000, instead of port 5500 which is allocated to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sound vol/pitch transforms are like panelx/y/r transforms

2002-11-19 Thread Julian Foad
Erik Hofman wrote: Julian Foad wrote: No. I am only suggesting changing the default value for the pitch offset, not the way it is used to calculate pitch which is and would still be ... Hmm, okay. If you are sure it works, then I see no objections. It may require a few changes

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Code

2002-11-17 Thread Julian Foad
Jon Berndt wrote: Is there a way to determine which methods/attributes in a class are unused by anybody? I'm thinking maybe there's a utility out there somewhere or a link directive. This would assist in code streamlining/cleanup. Other than grep :-) You can browse through lists of references,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Engine models: start-up and commonality betweenFDMs

2002-11-17 Thread Julian Foad
David Megginson wrote: Julian Foad writes: Ah, glad you're there. If you're interested and have time to look, my current attempt is at http://www.btinternet.com/~julianfoad/fgfs/JSB_piston_engine.diff http://www.btinternet.com/~julianfoad/fgfs/engine_sound.diff What's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Engine models: start-up and commonality betweenFDMs

2002-11-12 Thread Julian Foad
David Luff wrote: It looks to me like you've got 2 too many curly brackets in doEnginePower, although I could be misunderstanding what you're doing there. Yes, I have got too many. This is the friction that was applied only when starting; I was making it permanent but haven't finished with

[Flightgear-devel] Sound vol/pitch transforms are like panel x/y/r transforms

2002-11-11 Thread Julian Foad
Fg_sound.cxx implements a way to control the volume and pitch of a sound specified in an XML config file. The optional steps in the volume control group are (and the pitch group is the same): - A variable value: one of A named property An internal special value (e.g. time since the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS gripes

2002-11-11 Thread Julian Foad
David Luff wrote: On 11/11/02 at 9:38 PM Matthew Law wrote: I've been having problems updating Simgear for a few days. I've tried everything - including moving the lot and starting again but it continually gets stuck at: cvs server: Updating src-libs U src-libs/.cvsignore U

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sound vol/pitch transforms are like panelx/y/r transforms

2002-11-11 Thread Julian Foad
Erik Hofman wrote: Julian Foad wrote: ... Anomalies: 1. The pitch offset defaults to 1, but I think that is just a bug. 2. Since the offsets are constant, it is redundant to specify more than one. This arrangement is therefore not ideal, but I'm not sure what would be best. 3. A negative

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Engine models: start-up and commonality betweenFDMs

2002-11-11 Thread Julian Foad
David Luff wrote: On 11/10/02 at 4:02 AM Julian Foad wrote: Ah yes, starting, I seem to recall a lot of hacking and kludging to get everything to work :-) There's a number of problems currently: ... Have fun :-) Ah, glad you're there. If you're interested and have time to look, my

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yasim origin and model offsets

2002-11-10 Thread Julian Foad
Andy Ross wrote: Jim Wilson wrote: Anyway, what I now remember is this: the camera position as configured for the chase view is always in relation to the FDM location. And in the case of Yasim that location is always the nose. Oh, good point. This will create problems for view direction

[Flightgear-devel] SimGear patches for GCC 3.2: memrchr and typename

2002-11-10 Thread Julian Foad
I had to remove a declaration of memrchr from simgear/metar/Local.h to compile under gcc 3.2 (SuSE Linux 8.1). There are lots of semi-standard functions declared there that probably shouldn't be. To fix some warnings I added typename into some typedef lines. I am not sure about the

[Flightgear-devel] Keyboard braking power

2002-11-10 Thread Julian Foad
It seems silly to have the brake key slam on full braking power, if it is to be used on the runway. No wonder the aircraft tend to tip over or burst their tyres. Can I recommend this patch which sets the all brakes strength to 0.5 and the individual left/right to 0.7? Personally I do the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Keyboard braking power

2002-11-10 Thread Julian Foad
Andy Ross wrote: Julian Foad wrote: It seems silly to have the brake key slam on full braking power, if ... This issue came up about a year ago. There really isn't any good resolution. ... My favorite hack, FWIW, was to have the on/off input affect the braking power slowly -- over

[Flightgear-devel] Radio frequency range: min/max/wrap

2002-11-10 Thread Julian Foad
I noticed that the radios had nav. freq. range 108.00 to 117.95 but com. freq. 0 to 140; this should be 118 to 140. But while playing with that I noticed that the wrapping is a bit unpredictable. With (min=118, max=140, step=1, wrap=true) adjusting it up and down, it sometimes skips 118 and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] data logging

2002-11-09 Thread Julian Foad
Boslough, Mark B wrote: O.K. I've got a couple of new FDMs. 1) fdm=csv replays a flight from a csv file, running forward or backwards in time while controlling the rate. 2) fdm=skyhook, which lets you fly around as if hanging from a crane (sorta like magic carpet, but you can go backward).

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Engine models: start-up and commonality betweenFDMs

2002-11-09 Thread Julian Foad
David Megginson wrote: I like the idea as well: it would be nice if the engine were its own subsystem and we could mix-and-match engines and FDMs (let's try the J3 cub with 180HP). Unfortunately, the FDM people haven't been too enthusiastic: in particular, JSBSim is supposed to run standalone

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Clickable 3D panel

2002-11-08 Thread Julian Foad
Andy Ross wrote: [about making the panel hot spots visible] Try the attached patch, which predicates the boxes on the /sim/panel-hotspots property. That is excellent! So simple, and in conjunction with David's recent zoom in/out/normal (+/-/=) bindings, it immediately makes clear what's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: ExternalNet FDM

2002-11-07 Thread Julian Foad
Martin Spott wrote: So the only command line change would be to go from --native=socket,in,30,,5500,udp --fdm=external to --native=socket,in,30,,5500,udp --fdm=null btw, do we have an 'official' port number assignment ? Over the time I read several suggestions by several

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

2002-11-07 Thread Julian Foad
David Megginson wrote: A while ago, Curt suggested moving from ... and so on, to something more sane: /controls/engine[0]/ /controls/engine[1]/ /controls/engine[2]/ /controls/engine[3]/ Yes, lovely. Excellent. We could even go to /controls/engines/engine[0/ and so on to

[Flightgear-devel] Engine models: start-up and commonality between FDMs

2002-11-07 Thread Julian Foad
I was having a look at the piston engine start-up code. I absolutely love the way it chugs away for a second or two and then coughs into life - the sound effects really make it - but I wanted to make the speeds and stuff more realistic. Looking at the JSBSim engine code, it uses lots of

[Flightgear-devel] Clickable 3D panel

2002-11-04 Thread Julian Foad
Lovely stuff. For those who were wondering why it seems intermittently broken, what seems to be happening is the 2D panel hotspots are always active as well, and they pick up the mouse clicks as well (or instead, if the 2D hotspot area overlaps a 3D hotspot area). So there are two places you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Clickable 3D panel

2002-11-04 Thread Julian Foad
Andy Ross wrote: Julian Foad wrote: For those who were wondering why it seems intermittently broken, what seems to be happening is the 2D panel hotspots are always active as well, and they pick up the mouse clicks as well (or instead, if the 2D hotspot area overlaps a 3D hotspot area

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Clickable cockpit

2002-10-28 Thread Julian Foad
. Renganathan did substantial work on the HUD for use in a research project. If anyone knows whether he is still interested in it, that might also be helpful. Please let the resolution be swift and easy so that developers will not be put off trying to change anything. - Julian Foad, Secretary

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ADF change?

2002-10-26 Thread Julian Foad
Curtis L. Olson wrote: ... What would be really useful when you get into modeling push buttons is to be able to model a switch where it is true while the mouse is depressed and then immediately returns to false when the mouse button is released. Currently you need to click a second time to

[Flightgear-devel] TerraGear build failure: global_logstream/rstrip

2002-10-26 Thread Julian Foad
With GCC 3.2 I get: Making all in DemChop make[3]: Entering directory `/home/julianfoad/src/TerraGear/src/Prep/DemChop' saveoutp c++ -O1 -finline-limit-256 -finline-functions -Wall -pedantic -Wpointer-arith -L/usr/X11R6/lib -o demchop demchop.o ../../../src/Lib/DEM/libDEM.a -lsgbucket

[Flightgear-devel] TerraGear bits and pieces

2002-10-26 Thread Julian Foad
I am carrying some local changes to TerraGear which probably ought to go into CVS. Patch attached. They are just minor and cosmetic fixes; nothing that affects the generated scenery. - Julian Index: acinclude.m4 === RCS file:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 0.8.0 on Win98SE

2002-10-24 Thread Julian Foad
Jacek M. Holeczek wrote: ... There are two problems with the joystick. First, there are two vertical bars/arrows in the cockpit for the elevators, but only the right one is following the joystick (the left one always stays in the middle) - however, if I view the plane from outside I can see that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] dc3 pannel lights

2002-10-24 Thread Julian Foad
Curtis L. Olson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Agreed. Instruments that test whether they are powered should default to powered if the aircraft does not provide a suitable electrical system. This could translate to if the required power bus property is not present. A simple default

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TC ball

2002-10-17 Thread Julian Foad
Curtis L. Olson wrote: I'm guessing that Ay / Az is roughly proportional to Fy / Fz so these two methods won't be exactly the same, but should be similar enough. Well, a classic rule of physics is F = m.a (force = mass x acceleration) and that applies to the directions of the force and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Licensing issues

2002-10-17 Thread Julian Foad
Curtis L. Olson wrote: What I would like to propose for people's consideration, is the idea of taking each of FlightGear's component libraries and converting them to the LGPL license. The top level wrapper code (i.e. whatever is in src/Main) would remain GPL. Well, it doesn't matter what

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FWIW

2002-10-11 Thread Julian Foad
Cameron Moore wrote: Also while I'm here, I wanted to mention that I get around 3 spams per day to the flightgear lists that noone ever sees (I'm the primary moderator if you haven't picked that up yet). The moderating is working out pretty well I think. Yes, it must be because I haven't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport Database Model

2002-10-11 Thread Julian Foad
Andy Ross wrote: This is a good point, actually. Almost all the Linux filesystems use a 4k block as the minimum allocation unit*, and I presume NTFS is similar. I thought it was the other way around: that most Linux filesystems (by which I mean ext2) and NTFS had 1K or 0.5K blocks, and that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Internal compiler error

2002-10-03 Thread Julian Foad
Andy Ross wrote: http://www.memtest86.com/ I haven't noticed random crashes or corruption in the two years I've been running my current PC, but I decided to try this anyway. Most of the tests showed no problems, but the block move tests found thousands of errors, mostly in a particular

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Updating to new CVS trunk repository

2002-09-28 Thread Julian Foad
Julian Foad wrote: Just trying my first CVS update in a couple of weeks. I see there is a new repository for the trunk, so I changed all my CVS/Root files to point to the -0.9 one and logged in with the new password. [Why not just have no password?] But I get: cvs server: Updating

[Flightgear-devel] Updating to new CVS trunk repository

2002-09-27 Thread Julian Foad
Just trying my first CVS update in a couple of weeks. I see there is a new repository for the trunk, so I changed all my CVS/Root files to point to the -0.9 one and logged in with the new password. [Why not just have no password?] But I get: cvs server: Updating . cvs [server

[Flightgear-devel] Joystick files still contain bad names

2002-09-27 Thread Julian Foad
Two base package files, Input/Joysticks/CH/pro-pedals-usb.xml Input/Joysticks/CH/pro-yoke-usb.xml both still (or again) contain nameMicrosoft-PC-Joysticktreiber /name namePilote de joystick PC Microsoft /name which is less than useful as discussed before. Please could someone

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Updating to new CVS trunk repository

2002-09-27 Thread Julian Foad
Alex Perry wrote: The username changed too. Yes, I forgot to mention that. However, you can see that my problem was not logging in but updating. Someone must know how to get around this ... anyone? - Julian Just trying my first CVS update in a couple of weeks. I see there is a new

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Updating to new CVS trunk repository

2002-09-27 Thread Julian Foad
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Julian Foad writes: Alex Perry wrote: The username changed too. Yes, I forgot to mention that. However, you can see that my problem was not logging in but updating. Someone must know how to get around this ... anyone? Personally, I just did a fresh checkout

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] concave mirrors

2002-07-11 Thread Julian Foad
The focal point is where rays will be focussed to/from a parallel beam of light - like the rays from an object at infinite distance. The theory is normally quoted in these terms, as it avoids having to consider two distances at once (the distance to the object and the distance to the image or

[Flightgear-devel] Bug tracker

2002-07-09 Thread Julian Foad
The SourceForge Bug Tracker has the following outstanding bug reports: ID SummaryDate Assigned To Submitted By 433286 Sun lights plane at night. 2001-06-14 17:33 nobody dmegginson (still a bug) 433288

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS not working

2002-07-08 Thread Julian Foad
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Julian Foad writes: The CVS server is not working for me at the moment. It was working 10 hours ago when I last tried it. $ cvs diff cvs [diff aborted]: recv() from server cvs.flightgear.org: EOF Seems to be working for me at the moment. Yes, it's back

[Flightgear-devel] CVS not working

2002-07-07 Thread Julian Foad
The CVS server is not working for me at the moment. It was working 10 hours ago when I last tried it. $ cvs diff cvs [diff aborted]: recv() from server cvs.flightgear.org: EOF - Julian ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ANN: Customized Joystick Bindings and Autodetection

2002-07-05 Thread Julian Foad
David Megginson wrote: I've just checked in a new patch for automatic joystick type detection (where available). NOTE: it will work *only* if you have a recent (2 months or so) CVS version of plib. ... Please send me your bindings for your own device. Under Linux, you can find the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ANN: Customized Joystick Bindings and Autodetection

2002-07-05 Thread Julian Foad
I (Julian Foad) wrote: For my Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB joystick, that gave: Joystick test program. ~~ Joystick 0: Microsoft PC-joystick driver Joystick 1 not detected ... which is presumably because I haven't bothered to install Saitek's driver, because

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ANN: Customized Joystick Bindings and Autodetection

2002-07-05 Thread Julian Foad
David Megginson wrote: I've just checked in a new patch for automatic joystick type detection (where available). NOTE: it will work *only* if you have a recent (2 months or so) CVS version of plib. The present sets of bindings result in the throttle being squared about its centre, which

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: crashes at tile borders revisited

2002-07-03 Thread Julian Foad
Andy Ross wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: I agree that random/periodic bugs are insidious and frustrating and makes the software look like crap; therefore we should have a 'culture' of agressive pursuit of these problems. But, unfortunately I can't replicate your particular problem

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS log browser broken

2002-07-02 Thread Julian Foad
Curtis L. Olson wrote: I'm not a python expert and do not claim to have any knowledge on the subject. But tcl will give very similar errors when a sub program dies. It builds a pipe to the IO of the other process and if it dies it reports a 'broken pipe.' So my best guess is still that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Capturing warnings

2002-07-01 Thread Julian Foad
I now have a practical solution for saving the compiler warnings: a wrapper script replacement for the compiler. rm config.cache # Otherwise it keeps the previous values of CC and CXX. GCCFLAGS=-Wall -pedantic -Wpointer-arith CC=saveoutp gcc CXX=saveoutp c++ CFLAGS=$GCCFLAGS

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Metakit build problem...

2002-06-30 Thread Julian Foad
Gene Buckle wrote: I get the attached error when building Metakit. I'm using the latest Cygwin installation. g++ -c -O2 -I../unix/../include -I/usr/include/generic -I/usr/include ../unix/../tcl/mk4tcl.cpp -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC In file included from ../unix/../tcl/mk4tcl.cpp:22:

[Flightgear-devel] Capturing warnings

2002-06-24 Thread Julian Foad
Making all in Main c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../src/Include -I../.. -I../../src -I/usr/local/include -DPKGLIBDIR=\/usr/local/lib/FlightGear\ -g -O1 -finline-limit-6 -finline-functions -Wall -pedantic -Wpointer-arith -c main.cxx main.cxx: In function `void fgUpdateTimeDepCalcs()':

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Duplicate properties?

2002-06-23 Thread Julian Foad
I see rho-slugsft3 in the built-in property browser (View/Properties), but rho-slugs_ft3 in the httpd property browser. I think what is happening is that the latter is correct, but the PLIB default font fails to show underscore characters. I would guess that you took the name as you saw it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Altimeter broken

2002-06-23 Thread Julian Foad
. By the way, I have just stepped through this and I noticed that FGEnvironmentMgr::getEnvironment returns a _copy_ of the environment object, which involves setting up new interpolation tables. Wouldn't it be more appropriate to return a reference to it? - Julian Julian Foad wrote

[Flightgear-devel] Property browser bugs

2002-06-22 Thread Julian Foad
I'm debugging the property browsers. Currently they don't handle indexing properly: multiple instances of /input/mice/mouse/mode[0]/button/ are shown without indices because the buttons are numbered 2,3,4 but the test it uses is Is there a child of this name with index 1?. Clicking on any of

[Flightgear-devel] Altimeter broken

2002-06-22 Thread Julian Foad
The altimeter seems to be broken at the moment. /steam/altitude-ft shows a huge, unchanging, random value for me, and the instrument (on more than one aircraft) just stays at zero. - Julian ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Patch for options.cxx

2002-06-07 Thread Julian Foad
If the program cannot find options.xml, I strongly suggest that it still should give a sensible (if brief) reply to --help. This reply should tell the user how to help it to find options.xml. - Julian C. Hotchkiss wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: C. Hotchkiss wrote: ... If the file

[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: Does yasim-747 work?

2002-05-26 Thread Julian Foad
Jim Wilson wrote: Andy, I dumped the last 3 iterations (for my own benifit) and following that is the solution report. What I did for now was go into the Airplain.cpp Airplain - Airplane ? Drag factor: 1.000199 Lift Factor: 1.000410 aoaDelta: 0.000110 tailDelta: 0.83 elevDelta:

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

2002-05-18 Thread Julian Foad
Another idea: you might have old versions of SimGear, plib or other libraries installed somewhere. This should find exactly one copy of libsgsky: $ find /usr -name 'libsg*' -exec grep -l getSpan_m {} \; /usr/local/lib/libsgsky.a If it finds none or more than one, there's a problem with the

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

2002-05-18 Thread Julian Foad
Frederic Bouvier wrote: The telnet interface produce wrong line ending when I run both FlightGear and the telnet client on Win2k. I've just sent a patch to Curt that produce line ending based on the platform where fgfs is running ( something between #ifdef and #endif ). For the moment,

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

2002-05-18 Thread Julian Foad
I (Julian Foad) wrote: Idea: the receiver should accept any of these four line endings: Sorry, I misunderstood. I was thinking of a peer-to-peer type connection. - Julian ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

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

2002-05-18 Thread Julian Foad
Frederic Bouvier wrote: Perhaps I didn't made me clear. The problem is when FlightGear send text to the telnet client. Each line begins where the previous ends because Win2k telnet client needs a cariage return (\r) with the line feed (\n). OK. The Telnet protocol (RFC854) requires that line

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS:FlightGear/src/Main options.cxx,1.162,1.163

2002-05-16 Thread Julian Foad
Christian Mayer wrote: Note: You 2nd version does *not* use the string concatenation. The 2nd version boils down to the very C++ dependant operator(operator(operator(cout, usage),endl),...); Yes, it does. What point are you trying to make by saying very C++ dependant? Nearly all of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Environment subsystem status

2002-05-16 Thread Julian Foad
John Wojnaroski wrote: I recall reading an article several years ago in a flying mag (can't remember exactly where or when) on someone's proposal to change the number of degrees on the compass from 360 to 400. ... Have you noticed Deg/Rad/Grad or DRG on every scientific calculator? Those

[Flightgear-devel] Cameron's time zone

2002-05-16 Thread Julian Foad
Cameron, your latest e-mail message is time-stamped with: Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 09:41:01 -0500 which means 09:41 on the 17th, local time, which is 5 hours behind UTC, which is about a day into the future. (The current time now is Thu 16 May 2002 16:38 UTC.) - Julian

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS:FlightGear/src/Main options.cxx,1.162,1.163

2002-05-16 Thread Julian Foad
Christian Mayer wrote: I wanted to point out the very big (internal) differnce of the ANSI C style string1 string2 THat ends up as string1string2 in a normal array of char vs. The C++ way: cout string1 string2 wich uses the operator() method. Both are valid and have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cameron's time zone

2002-05-16 Thread Julian Foad
Alex Perry wrote: Cameron, your latest e-mail message is time-stamped with: Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 09:41:01 -0500 which means 09:41 on the 17th, local time, which is 5 hours behind UTC, which is about a day into the future. Don;t worry about it; Cameron just likes to have his

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