Re: [Flightgear-devel] toow many bugs on flightgear sources

2010-05-05 Thread James Turner
On 5 May 2010, at 12:33, Jon S. Berndt wrote: I'd have to agree with all this. I stopped trying to build FlightGear years ago because it is highly non-trivial. Having been involved in several large engineering and training simulations over the years, I can say that in my experience it's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Question about *LUT/*lut.h OSX

2010-05-05 Thread James Turner
On 5 May 2010, at 13:36, HB-GRAL wrote: James Turner schrieb: - grab ALUT.framework from here: http://files.goneabitbursar.com/fg/alut-osx-universal.zip (temporary location) I have a own freealut 1.1.0 compiled/installed for i386. Do I have to replace this one with your

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Release engineering (aka, continuous integration, aka, nightlies)

2010-04-17 Thread James Turner
On 17 Apr 2010, at 04:20, Tom P wrote: That's an awesome setup, very interesting. Would you have a tarball of this configuration and some details of how you set up the system? Quick answer is no, not yet, but I will. The configuration is exportable as XML files, and I'm using the

[Flightgear-devel] Release engineering (aka, continuous integration, aka, nightlies)

2010-04-12 Thread James Turner
http://zakalawe.ath.cx:8080/ is a *prototype* build server for FG (including OSG and SimGear), running on my home box - it will need a proper home if it moves beyond the prototype stage. For people who don't know, a build server talks to some slaves, and grabs/builds/tests/packages code. The

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/Cub/Models/Effects exhaustsmoke.png, NONE, 1.1 exhaustsmoke.xml, NONE, 1.1 tyre-smoke-port.xml, NONE, 1.1 tyre-smoke-stbd.xml, NONE, 1.1

2010-04-12 Thread James Turner
On 12 Apr 2010, at 13:07, Erik Hofman wrote: Log Message: Replace Devid Megginsons version of the j3cub with the excellent work of karla from the forum. Signed off by David. Woo-hoo! This is an awesome model, about to fire it up and take it for a spin. Thanks to all involved for their

Re: [Flightgear-devel] mpmap ILS data

2010-04-08 Thread James Turner
On 8 Apr 2010, at 03:06, Peter Brown wrote: Perhaps this has been brought up before, but I see that the ILS beam data for each airport on the mpmap is derived from the runway alignment (as verified in taxidraw). This doesn't allow for magnetic deviation, and therefore all the course

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Issue with default starting scenario

2010-04-07 Thread James Turner
On 7 Apr 2010, at 03:36, Ron Jensen wrote: I like the idea of using some standardized properties under /sim/realism/ and retrofitting all aircraft to respect start-dark or something similar. I am also firmly against turning on aircraft to aircraft collisions. Aircraft-aircraft collisions

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Issue with default starting scenario

2010-04-06 Thread James Turner
On 6 Apr 2010, at 20:35, Martin Spott wrote: Except in the case of an accident or mechanical failure, you would *never* be sitting on the threshold with your engine off, especially at a big airport like KSFO (unless you wanted to give your plane and yourself a 747-sized colon exam). I think

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Issue with default starting scenario

2010-04-06 Thread James Turner
On 7 Apr 2010, at 00:27, David Megginson wrote: OK, here's my suggestion: *all* aircraft start with the runway threshold with the engine idling, unless the user has overridden that. Engine on/off is a decision that it doesn't make sense leaving to individual aircraft designers, since it's a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Issue with Landmassshader in CVS

2010-04-02 Thread James Turner
On 2 Apr 2010, at 09:25, James Sleeman wrote: I can see there is a huge performance penalty on 2-years old GPUs, so we also need performance vs eye candy user setting to choose which technique could be applied besides simple advertised extension support Turning on Landmass effects cuts my

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Route Man / AP

2010-04-02 Thread James Turner
On 2 Apr 2010, at 15:28, Peter Brown wrote: Quick question for James I think - when the route manager passes the last listed nav point, the AP doesn't disengage, it turns west (from the east coast). This is a default heading to KSFO or some other pre-determined home ? The intended

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bug #99 (chase view broken)

2010-04-01 Thread James Turner
On 1 Apr 2010, at 11:46, Anders Gidenstam wrote: Good, chase view seems to be back in shape after this bug fix. Unfortunately, some other views seems to have broken: views that are neither from-model or at-model views have stopped to obey the eye-heading-deg-path, eye-pitch-deg-path and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improvements to the material library and materials.xml

2010-03-30 Thread James Turner
On 30 Mar 2010, at 16:46, Frederic Bouvier wrote: What about putting subset of the current materials.xml inside the scenery tree ? The material library could search either, in that order : 1- ./tile.mat.xml ( along with tile.stg and tile.btg.gz ) 2- ./materials.xml (shared for the 1x1 area

[Flightgear-devel] Bug #99 (chase view broken)

2010-03-30 Thread James Turner
http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/detail?id=99 describes (rather briefly, but the linked forum posts give more flavour) some broken behaviour caused by refactoring in FGViewer during the 2.0 development timeframe. The viewer damping code (which is a horrible piece of logic) was

Re: [Flightgear-devel] apt.dat format

2010-03-24 Thread James Turner
On 24 Mar 2010, at 08:52, Martin Spott wrote: Ooh good. Fred is that only in the CVS or also in 2.0. All working? You did also the 3D relief? Cool I'm looking forward to try this. So far it's just a parser. As far as I can tell there's no plan how the Scenery is supposed to be set up,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Head up: METAR weather

2010-03-24 Thread James Turner
On 24 Mar 2010, at 14:31, Torsten Dreyer wrote: I just fixed a bug that probably revealed itself when the atmosphere model was changed. I noticed, that flying with real weather fetch enabled was very unpleasant when METAR changed. Now the sea-level temperature and dewpoint changes are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] English Electric Lightning no longer runs

2010-03-24 Thread James Turner
On 24 Mar 2010, at 22:09, Vivian Meazza wrote: Bad news - works perfectly here on XP with cvs as of a few minutes ago! Checking to see if I can break it still though. I was using the Lightning to test my mach-calculations code earlier today (Mac, latest CVS code) and it seemed fine. James

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bug: nav[12] selected radial

2010-03-21 Thread James Turner
On 20 Mar 2010, at 23:36, Curtis Olson wrote: The nav radio does not work in magnetic headings. It works in which ever alignment the station was setup in. In the 60's when GEP was installed, it was aligned with magnetic north at that time. In the subsequent years, the actual magnetic

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Messy properties for nav radios

2010-03-20 Thread James Turner
On 20 Mar 2010, at 21:05, David Megginson wrote: I understand that these properties are convenient for other systems, but they should go somewhere they would be in real life, like a DME, GPS database or FMS, not in the (relatively dumb) nav radio itself under /instrumentation/nav/. Yep,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bug: nav[12] selected radial

2010-03-20 Thread James Turner
On 20 Mar 2010, at 22:24, David Megginson wrote: It would take hours to sort out the code to see what's actually happening. The new init functions make things even more confusing, by including strange side effects (for example, setting the heading now sets the azimuth to a VOR or airport,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Primus1000 / M877

2010-03-18 Thread James Turner
Replying to some specifics, I'll let Syd comment in general since he's the Primus author, and has seem more documentation than me by far. On 18 Mar 2010, at 03:49, Max Hertling wrote: 3) I think it would be nice, if the CDI would show the course-deflection in FMS-Mode the same way it does

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Primus1000 / M877

2010-03-18 Thread James Turner
On 18 Mar 2010, at 13:01, Robin van Steenbergen wrote: You can find it under http://openrj.stoneynet.nl/ , it's BSD licensed, so feel free to have a poke around in the source code ;) I might have a chat with you about efficient anti-aliased rendering of digital displays via OpenGL in a

[Flightgear-devel] Map (dialog)

2010-03-18 Thread James Turner
I've cooked up a (crude!) moving navigational map as a custom PUI widget - it's *not* an Atlas-replacement, or an MPMap replacement, more a 'close in' thing for situational awareness, and a way to prototype and experiment with techniques I'll use in real cockpit displays in the future. (it's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bug report - crash

2010-03-16 Thread James Turner
On 15 Mar 2010, at 23:49, Michael A. K. Gross wrote: I haven't seen this happen elsewhere, so I suspect it may not have been noticed, hence the bug report. This is a bleeding edge CVS, with bleeding edge OSG and SimGear as well. Debian linux with the latest graphics driver from Nvidia,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] reset crash

2010-03-16 Thread James Turner
On 16 Mar 2010, at 08:14, Erik Hofman wrote: When I try a reset from the menu , I get this error : passed invalid index (0) to FGRouteMgr::jumpToIndex Fatal error: name may contain only ._- and alphanumeric characters This looks like a comment from the xml parser. Ouch - the first

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Microsoft C++ exception: FP_Inactive

2010-03-16 Thread James Turner
On 16 Mar 2010, at 08:43, Frederic Bouvier wrote: Durk use exceptions to return errors. FP means Flight Plan, not Floating Point. That's normal program execution, but it's really annoying when you want to debug because all these exceptions are a performance killer for the debugger, and it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Microsoft C++ exception: FP_Inactive

2010-03-16 Thread James Turner
On 16 Mar 2010, at 11:12, Frederic Bouvier wrote: I've changed this code to stop using exceptions-as-return values - I believe the fix should be in 2.0.0, but I'm not 100% positive about that. I am pretty sure it is not I committed the fix on 19th February, it seems - evidently that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] News from FlightProSim!

2010-03-16 Thread James Turner
On 16 Mar 2010, at 15:01, Curtis Olson wrote: There are a lot of different angles here, but I think whatever we do, we can't take out our frustrations on the end users that flightsimpro manages to sucker into buying a copy of FlightGear without telling them what it actually is. The guy

Re: [Flightgear-devel] airseed fix

2010-03-13 Thread James Turner
On 13 Mar 2010, at 02:55, syd adams wrote: Could someone apply please ? Done. James -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] instrument patches

2010-03-10 Thread James Turner
On 10 Mar 2010, at 07:27, adams@gmail.com wrote: Ive had a better look at the changes you made to my patch ... could you please change them back ? I'd prefer the option of setting these in the instrumentation.xml file , and for safety sake , add the default settings back. I appreciate

Re: [Flightgear-devel] instrument patches

2010-03-10 Thread James Turner
On 10 Mar 2010, at 15:44, syd adams wrote: It is a bit of a turn off though, when I try to fix some minor issues and get back into the coding side of things. and its immediately rewritten without notice. I apologise for committing the modified changes without asking - I felt my

Re: [Flightgear-devel] instrument patches

2010-03-09 Thread James Turner
On 9 Mar 2010, at 07:04, syd adams wrote: The patch also includes the dme nav2 fix that I posted previously. Could someone take a look and commit please ? I'm testing these now, and will commit in a couple of moments. James

Re: [Flightgear-devel] instrument patches

2010-03-09 Thread James Turner
On 9 Mar 2010, at 09:18, James Turner wrote: Could someone take a look and commit please ? I'm testing these now, and will commit in a couple of moments. Committed now, with some changes: - I've switched the pressure-alt source to be configurable, instead of hard-coded; it defaults

[Flightgear-devel] A380 model loading failures

2010-02-27 Thread James Turner
I just updated data to try the A380, and I'm not seeing any model (interior or exterior) - the FDM and other pieces seem to be loading fine. My tree contains assorted minor changes, but nothing that should affect this. Relevant errors, I suspect: Failed to load submodel: Failed to load 3D

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flightgear-bugs and the dev list

2010-02-26 Thread James Turner
On 26 Feb 2010, at 15:40, Curtis Olson wrote: Are you talking about forwarding your bug tracker emails to the flightgear-devel list? I would be against that. This is effectively signing up a bunch of people to a new mailing list they didn't ask for and is typically considered to be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/src/Autopilot xmlauto.cxx, 1.51, 1.52 xmlauto.hxx, 1.31, 1.32

2010-02-25 Thread James Turner
On 24 Feb 2010, at 22:15, Torsten Dreyer wrote: logic filters use well known conditions to drive output properties. Example for bax = baz (foo | bar). Nice! Regards, James -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VC90 compile fail in WaypointList.cxx

2010-02-22 Thread James Turner
On 22 Feb 2010, at 17:37, Frederic Bouvier wrote: This should be : int len = strlen(s); char *buf = new char[len]; ... delete buf; Urk I'm confused - I thought this was a C99 feature, is it a GNU extension? Regards, James

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VC90 compile fail in WaypointList.cxx

2010-02-22 Thread James Turner
On 22 Feb 2010, at 18:29, Frederic Bouvier wrote: Yes, I am afraid. This code construction show up in the code from time to time and we have to provide a replacement. I think the best approach is to use an auto_ptr. std::auto_ptrchar buf( new char[len] ); in order to be exception safe.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VC90 compile fail in WaypointList.cxx

2010-02-22 Thread James Turner
On 22 Feb 2010, at 20:13, Brant Gipson wrote: This file fails to compile even on Linux with g++. I just commented out the problematic line as a quick fix so FG will compile. That is *very* odd : I build (when I remember) with Ubuntu 9.10 here and everything works - can you be more specific

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ILS problem at EDDB

2010-02-16 Thread James Turner
On 16 Feb 2010, at 15:26, Jari Häkkinen wrote: EDDB is one of the reported airports. In apt.dat.gz you'll find this row 10 52.372560 013.505561 07R 68.77 9807 . 0984.0984 148 351351 1 0 3 0.25 1 0300.0300 and in nav.dat.gz you'll find rows like 4 52.37906900

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ILS problem at EDDB

2010-02-15 Thread James Turner
On 15 Feb 2010, at 09:12, James Turner wrote: Start at EDDB and tune nav radio to ils frequency 110.70 fgfs: ../../../src/Instrumentation/navradio.cxx:920: double FGNavRadio::localizerWidth(FGNavRecord*): Assertion `rwy' failed. Ack, my fault, I'll commit a fix against the crash later

[Flightgear-devel] Code.google bug tracking

2010-02-10 Thread James Turner
On 10 Feb 2010, at 10:50, Martin Spott wrote: I agree with Tim on the idea of trying to keep feature requests off the bug-list. Otherwise we'll soon end up in a situation where nobody cares about the bug tracker because _real_ bugs are going to be difficult to identify among the pile of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Feedback ReleaseCandidate4

2010-02-05 Thread James Turner
I'm stuck up an Alp until Monday, but the AB is likely just the autopilot Xml entry being accidently removed - I shall check upon my return to reality. As for the GPS, please do ask if things seem strange, I'm happy to make code changes, or document things better. The departure waypoint

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Feedback ReleaseCandidate4

2010-02-05 Thread James Turner
On 5 Feb 2010, at 21:14, syd adams adams@gmail.com wrote: -VNAV only follows airports- but not any other Waypoints like VOR, NDB, fixes Only when frq turned to VOR VNAV shouldn't follow ANY waypoint ... so I'm assuming you mean LNAV . If I understand Jame's gps changes ... I should

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot tuning

2010-01-28 Thread James Turner
On 28 Jan 2010, at 04:00, syd adams wrote: you can also check the instrumentation/nav/nav-loc , but it seems to stay stuck on true if you tune another frequency that's out of range or invalid... not sure when that broke. My fault, just checked the code and it's trivial to fix. WIl commit

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot tuning

2010-01-28 Thread James Turner
On 28 Jan 2010, at 03:45, Ron Jensen wrote: Here is a nasal function to determine if a frequency is a localizer. It accepts a frequency in megahertz and returns 1 if the frequency is an ILS frequency. var isILS=func(freq) { if(freq 108.10) return 0; if(freq 111.95) return 0; var

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot tuning

2010-01-28 Thread James Turner
On 28 Jan 2010, at 09:18, James Turner wrote: My fault, just checked the code and it's trivial to fix. WIl commit it ASAP. Committed now - also made the same fix for 'has-gs' which was similarly getting stuck on the old value when no valid station was tuned. James

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Deprecating Nasal?

2010-01-28 Thread James Turner
On 28 Jan 2010, at 16:31, Curtis Olson wrote: It's interesting though how much nasal you can actually get away with using without making a blip on frame rates. Nasal is *very* efficient and powerful for being an interpreted script language. Absolutely - and I really don't want to get into

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SoundSystem on MacOS

2010-01-24 Thread James Turner
On 21 Jan 2010, at 07:59, Erik Hofman wrote: Fly-by views are *not* okay for me, but I must point out (before Erik gets annoyed) that I am running a few days behind CVS due to hacking on other areas of the code. I'll pull now and report back. You're trying to get me a heart attack, don't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] The real Hansa Jet on the road again

2010-01-24 Thread James Turner
On 24 Jan 2010, at 10:23, Torsten Dreyer wrote: Enjoy some pictures of the voyage here: http://blog.hansajet.de/archives/category/auf-nach-finkenwerder Fantastich! James -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA

Re: [Flightgear-devel] LinuxTag 2010 - program track

2010-01-21 Thread James Turner
On 21 Jan 2010, at 08:14, Torsten Dreyer wrote: http://www.linuxtag.org/2010/en/program/call-for-papers.html Has anyone submitted a FGFS centric response to the CfP? If not, should I? I was thinking about doing so myself after Martin sent a reminder some time ago. I decided, that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SoundSystem on MacOS

2010-01-20 Thread James Turner
On 20 Jan 2010, at 14:19, Peter Brown wrote: The sound on the MacOS does still have a glitch when changing views. If you have a good patch to try I'd be more than happy to test it. If you recall, its most typical in fly by or tower view, and if you adjust your viewpoint in any direction

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SoundSystem on MacOS

2010-01-20 Thread James Turner
On 20 Jan 2010, at 14:28, James Turner wrote: This is especially the case when I switch the tower location from my departure airport to my arrival airport. I *think* fly-by views are okay, but I'll double-check that now. Fly-by views are *not* okay for me, but I must point out (before Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Many updates to the pa24-250

2010-01-20 Thread James Turner
On 20 Jan 2010, at 22:48, dave perry wrote: Take it for a hop and play with the improvements. The doors are operated by either picks or by the Comanche menu. I've been testing these changes as part of committing them, and I can't speak highly enough as to the quality of the results - this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Patch to fix a crash on sound manager when a sound file is not found, etc.

2010-01-04 Thread James Turner
On 4 Jan 2010, at 14:55, Erik Hofman wrote: Could you file a bug report at Apple? Returning an error number when calling alGetError that is not supported by alGetString() is a no-go. As has been noted by other folks, the Apple OpenAL is open-source, but unfortunately Apple are (very) bad

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Patch to fix a crash on sound manager when a sound file is not found, etc.

2010-01-04 Thread James Turner
On 4 Jan 2010, at 16:08, James Turner wrote: So while it's definitely worth reporting the bug, we still need to work around the issue, using Tat's patch Ah, I just noticed your (Erik's) commit, never mind. I also note the error code on Mac is -43 which I have a horrible feeling might

[Flightgear-devel] intersection of two radials

2010-01-02 Thread James Turner
For some procedures work, I need to implement the following formula: http://williams.best.vwh.net/avform.htm#Intersection (Various other SGGeoc / SGGeodesy functions are taken from the same source) My current implementation isn't working. At least one reason is the note on sign

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Simgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/simgear/structure subsystem_mgr.cxx, 1.11, 1.12

2009-12-29 Thread James Turner
On 29 Dec 2009, at 14:28, Erik Hofman wrote: SGSubsystemGroup::unbind () { -for (unsigned int i = 0; i _members.size(); i++) -_members[i]-subsystem-unbind(); +// reverse order to prevent order dependency problems +for (unsigned int i = _members.size(); i 0; i--) +

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Some bugs

2009-12-24 Thread James Turner
On 24 Dec 2009, at 06:36, Peter Brown wrote: -the route manager sometimes will open with 36000 feet in the hold altitude box, and 7240 kts in the hold speed box. Any attempt to change them will default back to these amounts. I am trying to see if relates to any particular aircraft, but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Generic autopilot issues

2009-12-23 Thread James Turner
On 22 Dec 2009, at 14:51, Curtis Olson wrote: With the old route manager, the first way point is where I want to go for my first destination, because I just put it in there with that specific goal in mind. The 2nd waypoint is also where I want my second destination to be, again, because

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot broken, Eric maybe?

2009-12-23 Thread James Turner
On 23 Dec 2009, at 11:42, Heiko Schulz wrote: 737-300 (Using the autopilot.panel via F11)- in 19.1 the 737-300 was the airliner with the best autopilot behavior recommended for ILS-approaches done by ap. with my last built from 11/27/2009 the aircraft didn't responded anymore on NAV1-Hold

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Generic autopilot issues

2009-12-22 Thread James Turner
On 21 Dec 2009, at 18:55, Curtis Olson wrote: What do you think would be a sensible course of action, in the situation you describe? Even if I choose not to add the departure airport for in-air route activation, there's no guarantee that the first route waypoint is where you actually want

Re: [Flightgear-devel] auto-coordination broken

2009-12-22 Thread James Turner
On 22 Dec 2009, at 12:23, John Denker wrote: I won't bother to ask why some people consider a discussion of auto-coordination to be hijacking an auto-coordination thread. I think that comment was because you replied to the 'autopilot broken' thread to start the auto-coordination discussion.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot broken, Eric maybe?

2009-12-21 Thread James Turner
On 21 Dec 2009, at 16:33, Heiko Schulz wrote: There were major changes on the GPS and Route-Manager since August (3 Months ago already!) So this has affected the the use of the autopilot as well. All aircrafts using the generic Autopilot-panel are affected, but not those with an own

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot broken, Eric maybe?

2009-12-21 Thread James Turner
On 21 Dec 2009, at 17:59, Heiko Schulz wrote: It worked as long we didn't use the Route-manager. Like Curt already said, with pending waypoints the values are overwritten, but only then. That hasn't changed. Okay, so that's where the bug has come from, I need to fix the logic to only drive

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot broken, Eric maybe?

2009-12-21 Thread James Turner
On 21 Dec 2009, at 18:10, Peter Brown wrote: One note on using route manager - in a 12/13 CVS - if includes the departure airport as a waypoint automatically. If you activate it on the ground it will move past it on the takeoff roll and proceed to the next waypoint. If you don't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] reversible ILS

2009-12-20 Thread James Turner
On 20 Dec 2009, at 00:02, John Denker wrote: I was also informed [off list] that the code to make reversible ILSs usable had been ignored because it was not good enough. That is not very informative, not very constructive. No clarification has been forthcoming as to what makes it not

Re: [Flightgear-devel] reversible ILS

2009-12-20 Thread James Turner
On 20 Dec 2009, at 19:08, Alex Perry wrote: I am unable to use MSFS. Has someone checked whether they handle reversibles with a heuristic, or are you just guessing? Well, that was my recollection last time I used MSFS, which was 2004 (I think). I'm assuming they used a heuristic because the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] navaids update

2009-12-19 Thread James Turner
On 19 Dec 2009, at 16:19, John Denker wrote: Maybe the code should be made more robust so that this is not a fault condition. This is not the first time in history that code has needed to perform a join on two databases that are not in one-to-one correspondence. Well I wrote the code in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS: source/src/Scripting NasalSys.cxx, 1.128, 1.129

2009-12-19 Thread James Turner
On 19 Dec 2009, at 18:38, Melchior FRANZ wrote: + HASHSET(ils-frequency-mhz, 3, naNum(rwy-ILS()-get_freq() / 100.0)); FAIL Onwards and upwards (in CVS, now). Shortest code review I've ever had (so far!) James

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS: source/src/Scripting NasalSys.cxx, 1.129, 1.130

2009-12-19 Thread James Turner
On 19 Dec 2009, at 18:55, Melchior FRANZ wrote: Still wrong. Since when do we use minus signs in variable names? Ah, that's annoying. Can't map property names to Nasal, since '-' is a token in Nasal. Hmmm. ilsFrequenceyMHz? ils_frequency_mhz? If there's a Nasal convention here please let

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS: source/src/Scripting NasalSys.cxx, 1.129, 1.130

2009-12-19 Thread James Turner
On 19 Dec 2009, at 19:03, Vivian Meazza wrote: Hey guys, don't we test code/scripts nowadays before stuffing it into CVS? Well the C++ code works - for this kind of thing I was lazy and hoped the person who requested the feature will test it and let me know if they encounter problems. I also

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Glide slope (ILS) range

2009-12-17 Thread James Turner
On 17 Dec 2009, at 18:44, Curtis Olson wrote: I don't have personal knowledge of what is correct, but this change to glideslope range impacts our ability to practice ILS approaches and I have a current King Air pilot complaining about the behavior. Pulling out some old approach plates

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flight Pro Sim Statement (was Re: FlightGear URL verification patch)

2009-12-14 Thread James Turner
On 14 Dec 2009, at 11:11, Stuart Buchanan wrote: I'd appreciate feedback, even if it is only to agree with the wording of the statement, to ensure that we have buy-in for this. FlightGear is a open-source flight simulator that was started in 2006. It is released under the GNU General

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

2009-12-13 Thread James Turner
On 13 Dec 2009, at 22:10, Jacob Burbach wrote: Nan errors still abound, sound system has lots of rough edges still, the new material system is not finished, route manager not finished, etc, etc. Even if everything could be cleaned up by then, there would be no time left for any real

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Prime Meridian Crash

2009-12-12 Thread James Turner
On 11 Dec 2009, at 19:32, Csaba Halász wrote: Also, the whole positioned code seems to be ignorant of the fact that buckets don't have the same size. Staying with the spatialGetClosest, it assumes it can just use NxN boxes when in fact a different row (latitude) could have half or double the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPS find nearest.

2009-12-11 Thread James Turner
On 10 Dec 2009, at 21:41, Scott Hamilton wrote: I can't seem to find it in airportinfo(), this is what debug.dump shows; { id: 'YMML', elevation: 131.97839, lat: -37.66986124, name: 'Melbourne Intl', has_metar: 1, lon: 144.842831907, runways: { 16: { id: 16, stopway:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/Instruments-3d/zkv500 MainScreens.nas, 1.7, 1.8 TaskScreens.nas, 1.3, 1.4 TurnpointScreens.nas, 1.5, 1.6

2009-12-09 Thread James Turner
On 9 Dec 2009, at 00:25, Sébastien MARQUE wrote: I've got an suggestion for the gps code: a command nearest-coord (or better name) which would give nearest navaid for arbitrary coordinates, given by scratch/longitude-deg and scratch/latitude-deg. It will allow to implement a simple

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPS find nearest.

2009-12-09 Thread James Turner
On 9 Dec 2009, at 13:47, Scott Hamilton wrote: Something I was playing around with a few months back I thought, if only I could find the nearest VOR/NDB/FIX/APT to some point that I am not at but will be in the near future, unfortunately I've forgotten what it was I was trying to do,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/Instruments-3d/zkv500 MainScreens.nas, 1.7, 1.8 TaskScreens.nas, 1.3, 1.4 TurnpointScreens.nas, 1.5, 1.6

2009-12-08 Thread James Turner
On 8 Dec 2009, at 20:18, Alexis Bory wrote: - Sebastien Marque: Turnpoint is managed using OBS mode, the route is still managed by zkv500's Nasal, only obs mode is available (seehttp://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/GPS_internals). It should be leg mode but I can't get it to work as I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] releases +- bugs

2009-12-02 Thread James Turner
On 2 Dec 2009, at 06:34, Ron Jensen wrote: | 39 – model capitalization – | observed: 19 Dec 2008 | again: 31 Oct 2009 |For example: when specifying the option --aircraft=dhc2W, the |dhc must not be capitalized, while the W must be capitalized. The value used for --aircraft

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sound system improvements...levels, sources, balancing, and devices...

2009-12-02 Thread James Turner
On 2 Dec 2009, at 07:40, Erik Hofman wrote: Secondly, I think it would be beneficial to have the ability to specify a sound device for a certain group. So you could, for example, send aircraft sounds to your speakers, and radio sounds to a headset. Could be done with the current code but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] releases +- bugs

2009-12-02 Thread James Turner
On 2 Dec 2009, at 09:19, Stuart Buchanan wrote: Of course, if you think that dhc2-ski is better than dhc2s, then that's obviously your decision, but that's a different issue to the one John brought up. Agreed on all counts - I will fix the case-sensitivity, but other issues are up to the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Frequent segfaults in latest flightgear

2009-12-01 Thread James Turner
On 1 Dec 2009, at 16:59, Curtis Olson wrote: I've been observer quite frequent segfaults in the most recent version of FlightGear. I've started running under gdb and so far the trend seems to be that the crash is inside the pui code and as a result of clicking ok or cancel on a dialog

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/src/Main main.cxx, 1.306, 1.307 options.cxx, 1.128, 1.129

2009-11-30 Thread James Turner
On 30 Nov 2009, at 14:24, Erik Hofman wrote: Modified Files: main.cxx options.cxx Log Message: update to allow selection of a new sound device Nice work! And the preference / settings changes too - I know this is painful work, but it's long overdue and will really help make using

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Runtime selection of sound device

2009-11-30 Thread James Turner
On 30 Nov 2009, at 16:43, Nicolas Quijano wrote: The Apple OpenAL implementation is open source, btw. http://developer.apple.com/audio/openal.html#anchor3 It is, and a kind person has even posted patches to fix the implementation:

[Flightgear-devel] Deadlock on startup, related to effects

2009-11-29 Thread James Turner
Been getting this deadlock *most* (not all) of the time on startup, I think since the clouds became an effect: fg-startup-deadlock Description: Binary data OSG is 2.8.2 release, latest CVS FG and SG. James -- Let

Re: [Flightgear-devel] the master branch

2009-11-27 Thread James Turner
On 27 Nov 2009, at 06:28, Tim Moore wrote: In my git repositories on gitorious, http://gitorious.org/fg, I've been keeping master branches that are supposed to be stable; the intent is for them to be a kind of rolling release candidate that could be turned into a release in short order.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPS

2009-11-16 Thread James Turner
On 16 Nov 2009, at 08:53, Victhor Foster wrote: You need to use the Route Manager dialog. The route will only activate once the aircraft is airborne. Uh, I hope not :) That's not the intended behaviour, and it's not what I see. Indeed, I normally activate the route before I taxi out to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPS

2009-11-16 Thread James Turner
On 16 Nov 2009, at 07:43, syd adams wrote: Just tried the b1900d after a long while , and I have no idea how to use my own KLN90B anymore ... any pointers on how I can fix this ? In particular , I cant set the destination waypoint , though it appears with a search. I assume when you talk

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPS

2009-11-16 Thread James Turner
On 16 Nov 2009, at 11:35, Stuart Buchanan wrote: One minor bug was that selecting a NAV ID in the GPS reset the set altitude to the NAV ID height, but didn't update that altitude select on the panel. I think this might be seen as a bug in the GPS code rather than the panel, as that's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] BUG - Evening, Rain, Propeller

2009-11-16 Thread James Turner
On 16 Nov 2009, at 17:37, dave perry wrote: Second, I have edited my local copy for cvs so that the nav-light switch also controls instrument/pannel lights so the c172p can be flown at night. I also point the vors to the recent changed Instruments-3d/vor folder which you can try out

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ignoring MP pilots (was: Re: Daily FG .deb)

2009-11-14 Thread James Turner
On 14 Nov 2009, at 11:08, Anders Gidenstam wrote: Access to these properties could e.g. be via the pilot list as for MP-chat ignore. I'm not entirely sure it is a good idea to add this, though. OTOH if I really do not want to see or hear pilot X, then why not give me the option to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ignoring MP pilots

2009-11-14 Thread James Turner
On 14 Nov 2009, at 21:35, Jon Stockill wrote: I would suggest that this is a bad idea - ever increasing port requirements are simply going to annoy the people running the servers. It's really not the right way to solve the problem. Indeed, this is a geek-appeal solution, not a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SoundSystem continued

2009-11-13 Thread James Turner
On 12 Nov 2009, at 22:23, daveluff wrote: I was wondering if anybody has any problems/bugs/oddities that needs to be addressed in the latest SoundSystem code. Hi Erik, I'm still unable to run without a segfault since the new sound system was committed. Here is my call stack:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] proposed small change to navradio.cxx

2009-11-11 Thread James Turner
On 11 Nov 2009, at 00:49, syd adams wrote: Sounds good to me , but I admit I've been avoiding updating until I know what's happening to the nav system :) Somewhat confused by this - are you waiting for it to be 'done'? (Which is not the nature of open-source development...) Equally, I'm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] proposed small change to navradio.cxx

2009-11-10 Thread James Turner
using a nasal filter to smoothly park the gs needle. The attached small patch overcomes this. I wanted to have other ac developers comments before I ask James Turner to commit this small change. Incidentally, I was under the impression this was already the behaviour :) James

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/src/Sound fg_fx.cxx, 1.43, 1.44 fg_fx.hxx, 1.23, 1.24

2009-11-09 Thread James Turner
On 9 Nov 2009, at 10:29, Erik Hofman wrote: allow sound effects in the configuration file to be added to the 'avionics' sample group by setting 'typeavionics/type'. Awesome stuff, this is such a good step towards better sound handling. James

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SoundSystem continued

2009-11-09 Thread James Turner
On 9 Nov 2009, at 13:58, Geoff McLane wrote: 4. At start up, getting a whole bunch of - voice synth: word 'airport_information' not found voice synth: word '/_' not found voice synth: word 'automated_weather_observation' not found ... etc but maybe I have not 'installed' something? That's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Update to FFG7 - Oliver Hazard Perry

2009-11-05 Thread James Turner
On 5 Nov 2009, at 23:22, Vivian Meazza wrote: Alexis Bory has just provided us with an update to the FFG 7 model. It is so good I thought it worth posting a short note. You can see it here: Nice work indeed! --

<    3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   >