[Flightgear-devel] How to handoff key presses to external software?

2006-10-18 Thread Holger Wirtz
Hi, how can I handoff keytrokes from fgfs to a external program? I need this for muting the mic when not talking to real radio. Also not only keystroke are needed. Perhaps someone has further hardware (joystick, ...) and wants to mute the mic with a button... Is this imlemented? What must I do

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to handoff key presses to external software?

2006-10-18 Thread Oliver Schroeder
Hi Holger, On Mittwoch, 18. Oktober 2006 09:44, Holger Wirtz wrote: Hi, how can I handoff keytrokes from fgfs to a external program? I need this for muting the mic when not talking to real radio. Also not only keystroke are needed. Perhaps someone has further hardware (joystick, ...) and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to handoff key presses to external software?

2006-10-18 Thread Holger Wirtz
Hi Oliver, On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:57:14AM +0200, Oliver Schroeder wrote: Hi Holger, On Mittwoch, 18. Oktober 2006 09:44, Holger Wirtz wrote: Hi, how can I handoff keytrokes from fgfs to a external program? I need this for muting the mic when not talking to real radio. Also not

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: FGTools for LINUX]

2006-10-18 Thread George Patterson
Hi Georg, Try virtualisation software such as vmware (vmplayer is a free download) I found it a lot easier than mainatining multiple OS's if you are limited with machines. On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 19:43 +0200, Georg Vollnhals wrote: AJ MacLeod schrieb: OK - it doesn't work on my system :-)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to handoff key presses to external software?

2006-10-18 Thread Oliver Schroeder
Hi Holger, On Mittwoch, 18. Oktober 2006 10:23, Holger Wirtz wrote: Would'nt it be much better if the mic if the user does'nt need to press any button/key at all? What about only transmiting voice data if the noise level on the mic exceeds a theshold? That way you can filter out e.g.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to handoff key presses to external software?

2006-10-18 Thread Holger Wirtz
Hi Oliver, On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 10:49:37AM +0200, Oliver Schroeder wrote: [...] I have much experience with video and teleconferences and there you every a problem with such implementations. If I transfer this to home simulator flying there you have trouble with background noise (e.g.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to handoff key presses to external software?

2006-10-18 Thread Jon Stockill
Holger Wirtz wrote: Hi Oliver, On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 10:49:37AM +0200, Oliver Schroeder wrote: [...] I have much experience with video and teleconferences and there you every a problem with such implementations. If I transfer this to home simulator flying there you have trouble with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to handoff key presses to external software?

2006-10-18 Thread Holger Wirtz
Jon, On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 11:00:44AM +0100, Jon Stockill wrote: Holger Wirtz wrote: Hi Oliver, On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 10:49:37AM +0200, Oliver Schroeder wrote: [...] I have much experience with video and teleconferences and there you every a problem with such implementations. If

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with properties

2006-10-18 Thread Curtis Olson
On 10/17/06, Leidson Campos A. Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi friends, I have a problem using autopilot properties through Telnet.I'm trying set the Speed With Throotle option by telnet on the fly and my aircraft doesn't accept this command then speed decreases until aircraft crash into the

[Flightgear-devel] flightgear magnetic model out of date?

2006-10-18 Thread wim van hoydonck
Hi there, I was browsing through the code of simgear and noticed that the magnetic model used is the one defined in 2000. Since these magnetic models are only valid for 5 years, it is outdated. Sourcecode and documentation for the latest model (2005) can be downloaded from here:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flightgear magnetic model out of date?

2006-10-18 Thread wim van hoydonck
Hi again, In the end, it wasn't that difficult to change the coefficients. But I didn't yet figure out how to make a proper patch, so a diff with the necessary changes (for the file coremag.cxx in simgear/magvar/) is attached to this email. I hope it is useful. Greetings, Wim On 10/18/06,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PATCH, TerraGear: Adjust Lancover material names

2006-10-18 Thread Curtis Olson
Martin, I've been out of town for several days so I think I missed what issue is being addressed here. Could I ask that you take a step back and give me an overview of all this?Thanks,Curt. On 10/14/06, Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Curt,this patch enables us to use unique names for the