Re: [Flightgear-users] How to distinguish the input from two identical joysticks

2013-10-29 Thread Melchior FRANZ
[http://members.aon.at/mfranz/bu0836a.html] Works here: $ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/js_serial_preload.so ./lsjs /dev/input/js0: Leo Bodnar BU0836A Interface A12107 (4 axes, 32 buttons) /dev/input/js1: Leo Bodnar BU0836A Interface A12100 (3 axes, 32 buttons) /dev/input/js2:

Re: [Flightgear-users] How to distinguish the input from two identical joysticks

2013-10-28 Thread Melchior FRANZ
On 10/28/2013 07:03 PM, Nicola Quargentan wrote: I had two identical bodnar joystick bu0836: one for the encoders of nav1 and nav2 and the other for the radio stack. [...] But how do I distinguish the second joystick? Is there any option to enter for example the serial number of the joystick?

[Flightgear-users] easier aircraft cloning from git repo

2011-08-12 Thread Melchior FRANZ
Now that aircraft are moving from the fgdata repo to separate repos, it's advisable to simplify the cloning process. If you put these lines into your ~/.gitconfig file ... [url git://gitorious.org/fg/] insteadOf = fg: [url g...@gitorious.org:fg/] pushInsteadOf = fg: Then you

Re: [Flightgear-users] FGFS

2011-06-02 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Donn Washburn -- Thursday 02 June 2011: It also looks like they have messed with modprobe because it no longer installs the needed file in /lib/modules/kernel on any kernel but theirs I've been running (open)SuSE since version 5.2 (slackware before that), and fgfs compiles and runs

Re: [Flightgear-users] FGFS

2011-06-02 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Sid Boyce -- Thursday 02 June 2011: He insists on mixing 11.4 and 11.4 updates repos with factory Oh. One has to know that factory is meant for developers -- for people who know how to fix bugs and to submit patches. It's not for people who want the newest stuff, but are lazy and uninformed

Re: [Flightgear-users] FGFS configure error

2010-11-22 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Donn Washburn -- Monday 22 November 2010: I will add to the openSuSE 11.4 M3 headaches which are likely going to cause me to look at Ubuntu and dump openSuSE. Are you kidding? M3 is a *DEVELOPER* release. It's not meant for impatient end users. If you can't stand the heat ... wait for the

[Flightgear-users] gui + mouse scrolling

2010-06-21 Thread Melchior FRANZ
It's probably a little known fact that I submitted a PLIB patch a few months ago, which adds support for mouse scrolling in some of the widgets, so people who compile from source may want to update to PLIB/HEAD. The effect can be seen in the property browser and other lists, as well as in the text

[Flightgear-users] linux: fix for detection problem when using multiple joystick devices of same type

2010-06-14 Thread Melchior FRANZ
If one uses several joystick devices, which the Linux kernel reports under the same name, then fgfs can't assign individual xml drivers. I published a kernel patch to solve that on my bu0836 page[1]. Now I've also written a preload library which does pretty much the same, but doesn't require you

Re: [Flightgear-users] pid of bu0836x?

2010-04-27 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Tuesday 27 April 2010: * Nicola Quargentan -- Tuesday 27 April 2010: * * Leo Bodnar: They do not normally include small companies in their lists. This is why you cannot cross-reference it. Oops, wrong quoting, sorry. That was also L. Bodnar. BTW: Leo didn't answer

[Flightgear-users] pid of bu0836x?

2010-04-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
Does anyone here have a bu0836x and can tell me the product id? If you are on Linux, please send me the output of: $ lsusb|grep VOTI I know the pids of bu0836 (0x05b5) and bu0836a (0x05ba). Anyone here with a bu0836lc? m.

Re: [Flightgear-users] pid of bu0836x?

2010-04-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Hans Janssen -- Monday 26 April 2010: $ lsusb | grep VOTI Bus 005 Device 003: ID 16c0:05ba VOTI But you already know this, sorry for the noise. Yeah, thanks anyway. Meanwhile I just extracted all ids that I found in Leo's EXEs. I don't know which is which, but all 31 of them are now

Re: [Flightgear-users] pid of bu0836x?

2010-04-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Nicola Quargentan -- Monday 26 April 2010: Uhmm, nothing appears: only a white line Bus 004 Device 004: ID 1dd2:1001 Ahh ... then this in't VOTI but that other vendor. (Could still not find out who (officially) owns 1dd2. Maybe Bodnar has finally purchased his own vendor id. It's not in the

Re: [Flightgear-users] webcam-only headtracker addon (WIP)

2010-04-12 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Siyui AliOh -- 4/9/2010 7:33 AM: I saw a little window, to set values of the axises, I leave them all zero Umm ... that's the property browser (opened by this option: --prop:browser=/sim/headtracker), and you aren't supposed to change the values (or leave them all zero). Actually, you should

Re: [Flightgear-users] webcam-only headtracker addon (WIP)

2010-04-01 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Siyui AliOh -- Thursday 01 April 2010: I have done ehci on my ubuntu, that 3D box realy cool that I see them 3d as I move around Yes. The main problems now are that the mechanism fails when the face can't be found, and that it loses reference points over time and stops working after the last

Re: [Flightgear-users] Headtracker ehci Integration in FlightGear

2010-04-01 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Aryabrata Basu -- Thursday 01 April 2010: I am stuck with this. How do we integrate ehci with FlightGear? That was described in the other thread. Get the source ... $ git clone git://gitorious.org/fg-ehci-headtracker/fg-ehci-headtracker.git ... read the README and follow the instructions.

Re: [Flightgear-users] bu0836a controller linux

2010-03-30 Thread Melchior FRANZ
Don't know how obvious this is to bu0836 users: if you don't need all analog inputs, but could use some more digital ones, then you could think about abusing an axis for switches: v analog in 100k / 0|

Re: [Flightgear-users] bu0836a controller linux

2010-03-30 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Tuesday 30 March 2010: If the value corresponds to 1M, then you know that switches 1 and 3 are closed. Err ... of course parallel resitors don't add up that way. But the principle should still work. :-) m

Re: [Flightgear-users] bu0836a controller linux

2010-03-27 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Friday 26 March 2010: OK, so why are there screenshots of a config utility on the bu0836 page? Looks like I was wrong. Probably it's only the encoders app that isn't supported. And not even this is true: looks like encoder support is an Easter Egg in the bu0836

Re: [Flightgear-users] bu0836a controller linux

2010-03-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Thursday 25 March 2010: I don't think the BU0836 (without the 'A') is configurable. OK, so why are there screenshots of a config utility on the bu0836 page? Looks like I was wrong. Probably it's only the encoders app that isn't supported. Can you send me the output

Re: [Flightgear-users] bu0836a controller linux

2010-03-25 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Curtis Olson -- Thursday 25 March 2010: I see they sell rotary encoders on the same page. Are these compatible with the BU0836A some how? Reportedly, yes. I don't have any yet, but there's a separate configuration app that allows to configure each button pair (button 0 and 1, or 2 and 3,

Re: [Flightgear-users] bu0836a controller linux

2010-03-25 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Curtis Olson -- Thursday 25 March 2010: but the small size and nice price of this unit caught my eye ... I don't find the prize *that* nice, but it's affordable, and given how convenient the device is to use, I can only recommend it: No external power required, no special driver -- works on

Re: [Flightgear-users] bu0836a controller linux

2010-03-25 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Jon Stockill -- Thursday 25 March 2010: I've got a couple of the standard 10 bit BU0836 modules for a grob 115 cockpit I'm working on, so Melchior's config utility should come in very handy :-) Err ... I don't think the BU0836 (without the 'A') is configurable. At least that's what I

Re: [Flightgear-users] bu0836a controller linux

2010-03-25 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Thursday 25 March 2010: After someone threw me out of the wiki, [...] Whoops, no, sorry. At some point I tried to log in like always, and the wiki said no such account or something. But that must have been local difficulties after a distribution upgrade. Just tried again

[Flightgear-users] bu0836a controller linux

2010-03-24 Thread Melchior FRANZ
In case someone wonders whether purchasing one of Leo BODNAR's bu0836a controllers and using it under Linux is a good idea, I've collected some info about them and answered some of the questions that I had myself: http://members.aon.at/mfranz/bu0836a.html

Re: [Flightgear-users] webcam-only headtracker addon (WIP)

2010-03-08 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* LESLIE HOBSON -- Monday 01 March 2010: There's this one as well, apparently it works, i'm going to try it soon, looks simple http://www.free-track.net/home.php I didn't know that one (and it wouldn't work on my Linux system, anyway), but just a few days ago I saw it in action at a friend's

Re: [Flightgear-users] webcam-only headtracker addon (WIP)

2010-02-28 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Ron Jensen -- Monday 01 March 2010: Melchoir, looks very interesting. Almost enough to make me want to buy a web-cam. And a dual core processor. And more ram. :) Hehe ... that's always nice, no matter what. :-) Lee, It looks like he is using the generic protocol, Yes. Two generic

Re: [Flightgear-users] CVS: data/Nasal view.nas,1.51,1.52

2009-10-08 Thread Melchior FRANZ
Log Message: added a /sim/view-name-popup bool to enable / disable the viewname popup ... enabled by default ... and introduced a bug along with it (and changed the indenation of the whole file for no good reason). m. :-P

Re: [Flightgear-users] RANDOM TREES AND FPS

2009-08-12 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* FranciscoR.C. -- Wednesday 12 August 2009: IS IT POSSIBLE TO CHANGE OR TO CONTROL TREES DENSITY WHEN USING RANDOM TREES. Search for tree-coverage in $FG_ROOT/materials.xml m. -- Let Crystal Reports handle the

Re: [Flightgear-users] fgfs-construct help reqd...

2009-06-03 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Geoff McLane -- Tuesday 02 June 2009: [ufo 'd'-key] AND DUMPS MUCH MORE, including a Google Map reference so you can immediately check it out in reality ;=)) BTW: the google maps link can be dumped from any aircraft. Just press :Ym (Y is for development related functions, m for map

Re: [Flightgear-users] fgfs-construct help reqd...

2009-06-02 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Geoff McLane -- Tuesday 02 June 2009: ./run_fgfs.sh --aircraft=ufo --fdm=ufo [...] It is always good to give a viewing command, I think, so others can position themselves in exactly the same place ;=)) Yes. And the ufo outputs exactly that if you press the 'd'-key (dump). No need to

Re: [Flightgear-users] Danube Tower/Donauturm in Vienna changed

2009-05-31 Thread Melchior FRANZ
Hi, The Danube Tower (Donauturm) in Vienna has changed it's appearance. Yes, I know. But the Bank Austria logo looks nicer and was up there for many years. And somehow I don't want to become the slave of the advertizing firms, and change the model every time they do. An alternative would have

Re: [Flightgear-users] defining target view for waypoints

2009-05-17 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Hannes Schweikl -- Saturday 16 May 2009: The Target View works totally fine now, although I didn't really understand for what I need the geo.elevation() function. If you are happy with your solution, then you obviously don't need it. So far my waypoints are all around KSFO, so the ground

Re: [Flightgear-users] defining target view for waypoints

2009-05-14 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Hannes Schweikl -- Tuesday 05 May 2009: I am trying to define an additional view which is looking from the current aircraft position to the waypoint (lon,lat)@ground-elevation the aircraft is approaching. Try this: view n=1000 nameTarget View/name enabled type=bool

Re: [Flightgear-users] Remote control of flightgear

2009-04-21 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Carson Fenimore -- 4/21/2009 3:49 AM: I don't see any way to feed waypoints remotely See the top of file $FG_ROOT/gui/dialogs/route-manager.xml: http://cvs.flightgear.org/viewvc/data/gui/dialogs/route-manager.xml?revision=1.10view=markup All route-manager/waypoint functions are

Re: [Flightgear-users] Keyboard-Problem under Windows 98

2009-04-03 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Stefan Ram -- Friday 03 April 2009: # setlistener(devices/status/keyboard/event, func(n) debug.dump(n.getValues())); So, I uncommented the line. It printed ugly ANSI Escape Sequences that where not interpreted by my console window, ANSI color codes can be turned off with

Re: [Flightgear-users] linux 2.6.29-rc* + Saitek Cyborg Gold (3D USB) breakage(?)

2009-03-31 Thread Melchior FRANZ
For the archive: this patch is now queued for 2.6.29-stable and will be included in the next kernels. m. -- ___ Flightgear-users mailing list

[Flightgear-users] linux 2.6.29-rc* + Saitek Cyborg Gold (3D USB) breakage(?)

2009-03-18 Thread Melchior FRANZ
I've got a problem with this combination: the js is no longer recognized under this kernel series. The guys on linux-usb offered a patch that fixes it, but I can't say yet if it will be committed to the official kernel. If someone could test his/her Saitek Cyborg Gold (or similar variants) under

Re: [Flightgear-users] linux 2.6.29-rc* + Saitek Cyborg Gold (3D USB) breakage(?)

2009-03-18 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Wednesday 18 March 2009: If someone could test his/her Saitek Cyborg Gold (or similar variants) under these kernels, could you please report success/failure here? Never mind. Patch has been submitted for inclusion in the kernel. m

Re: [Flightgear-users] Running FlightGear 1.9.1 in Anaglyphic 3d mode in Windows Environment

2009-03-16 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* andrea...@gmx.net -- Monday 16 March 2009: Commonly, when there's a new development like this, it is probably first availlable under linux, [...] Not in this case. OSG is cross-platform, and the forum article describes what should work on both Windows and Linux and others. The problem is only

Re: [Flightgear-users] Running FlightGear 1.9.1 in Anaglyphic 3d mode in Windows Environment

2009-03-16 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Frederic Bouvier -- Monday 16 March 2009: Do you know that environment variables can be set in fgrun directly, even under windows ? Go to the Advanced section. Whoops. Now I do. :-) m. -- Apps built with the

[Flightgear-users] inverting the joystick throttle axis for helicopters

2009-03-07 Thread Melchior FRANZ
The reason why the throttle axis seems reverted on helicopters is that it isn't actually used as throttle, but as collective. And the collective lever is pulled to rise and pushed down to sink in a real helicopter. Some people don't like that, and on some joysticks with horizontal throttle wheel

Re: [Flightgear-users] inverting the joystick throttle axis for helicopters

2009-03-07 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Saturday 07 March 2009: Another way is to let the joystick invert the throttle axis back for all helicopters. Just put this nasal code somewhere on the top level: ... of your joystick driver file, e.g. $FG_ROOT/Input/Joysticks/Saitek/fluffy.xml. m

[Flightgear-users] multiplayer message (chat) log file

2009-02-16 Thread Melchior FRANZ
fgfs/CVS users can now let it write multiplayer messages to a log file. This feature is off by default and can be enabled with this option: --prop:sim/multiplay/write-message-log=1 The logfile can be found under $FG_HOME/mp-message.log, that is: in $HOME/.fgfs/mp-message.log on Unix, and under

Re: [Flightgear-users] ASK-21 questions

2009-02-13 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* gerard robin -- Friday 13 February 2009: Anyhow, i only reproduce what i have heard. :) The problem is that you keep making false claims even after you've been told that they are wrong. This is by far not the first case. And if the claims put other developers' work down (while praising your

Re: [Flightgear-users] ASK-21 questions

2009-02-12 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* gerard robin -- Thursday 12 February 2009: Some Aircraft modelers prefer to define the Aircraft FDM customized more easy to fly, which can explain that P-51 behaviour. You are the main source of unjustified, malicious claims. No FDM developer in FlightGear ever made the config easy to fly

Re: [Flightgear-users] Logitech Force 3D Pro USB, hat switch reversed....

2009-02-07 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Bo Berglund -- Saturday 07 February 2009: But the hat switch is very strange, if I hit it to the left it shows the left hand view and hit to the right it shows the righthand view. But pushing it forward shows the rearward view and to start looking forward I have to pull the hat backwards.

Re: [Flightgear-users] Logitech Force 3D Pro USB, hat switchreversed....

2009-02-07 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Nicolas Quijano -- Saturday 07 February 2009: In other words : in internal views, down is up, up is down, left is left, right is right. in external views : down is down, up is up, left is left, right is right. Is this a behaviour seen by many ? How could it be fixed without bringing the

Re: [Flightgear-users] Logitech Force 3D Pro USB, hat switchreversed....

2009-02-07 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Hal V. Engel -- Saturday 07 February 2009: [outside views] I personally don't use any of these since when you do FG is no longer really a simulator. That's nonsense. You do then not simulate a pilot sitting in the cockpit steering the aircraft, but you simulate one being outside steering the

Re: [Flightgear-users] Airport ID database?

2009-02-05 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Martin Henne -- Thursday 05 February 2009: Is it possible, to do vice versa? Can I search for an airport ID by searching for it using the name of the nearby city? Not exactly what you're after, but you can search FlightGear's database. I have this shell function in my ~/.bashrc: apt() {

Re: [Flightgear-users] Audio Initialization failed

2009-02-04 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* vijay varma -- Wednesday 04 February 2009: I have successfully installed FG1.9.1 on my system(Linux environment). when i run FlightGear some times i am getting error message in the konsole as open /dev/[sound/]dsp: Device or resource busy As others have already said, killing the

Re: [Flightgear-users] Upgrade to v1.9 not quite right

2009-01-11 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Chris Perry -- Sunday 11 January 2009: LIBS=$LIBS $X_PRE_LIBS -lXi -lXmu -lXext -lX11 $X_EXTRA_LIBS -lm This should work and is a bit cleaner: LIBS=$LIBS $X_PRE_LIBS $X_LIBS $X_EXTRA_LIBS -lm m. -- Check out the

Re: [Flightgear-users] Unable to get the signs package to work

2009-01-07 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Dr. T. N. Venkatesh -- Friday 02 January 2009: However, I am having a problem with the signs package http://members.aon.at/mfranz/flightgear/signs.html. Looks like OSG's ac3d loader insists on a world group. You can either manually apply this patch to $FG_ROOT/Local/signs/sign.ac diff -u

Re: [Flightgear-users] World Scenery 1.0.1

2008-11-01 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Ralf Gerlich -- 10/30/2008 8:06 PM: - Taxiway signs at 6 airfields: KSFO, KBWI, KLVK, KRHV, TFFF, TJSJ Excellent -- this is a good start. Several of those at KSFO seem wrong to me, though. Some of the (IMHO) mistakes: ** BAD ** ** GOOD ** [A]-B -B[A] The arrow should

Re: [Flightgear-users] World Scenery 1.0.1

2008-11-01 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- 11/1/2008 9:07 AM: * Ralf Gerlich -- 10/30/2008 8:06 PM: These files are found in a three-level directory structure (poor man's index). The files for KSFO are for example found in Airports/K/S/F/KSFO.*.xml I have a slight preference for Airports/K/KS/KSF/KSFO.*.xml

[Flightgear-users] new nvidia driver 177.80 ...

2008-10-07 Thread Melchior FRANZ
... with a long list of changes/fixes: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_177.80.html Haven't tried it yet. (And it isn't even officially announced yet. :-) m. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin

Re: [Flightgear-users] Starting to run FlightGear on SuSE Linux 11.0

2008-10-02 Thread Melchior FRANZ
Slighlty OT, but because it fits well: I'm also OpenSuSE11 user, and I wrote this little script for my daily updates: http://members.aon.at/mfranz/sup [1.1 kB] It updates the DB, checks what is new, prints descriptions for everything, and finally updates (if the user so desired). You may

[Flightgear-users] bash completion for fgfs options and some parameters

2008-07-24 Thread Melchior FRANZ
It's already a few years back that I've written a completion script for bash. I presented it once on one of the two fgfs mailing lists and didn't advertize it much outside IRC. Now I've improved it and committed it to CVS. It also works for older fgfs versions, and you can get it directly here:

Re: [Flightgear-users] Problem with Chase view

2008-07-08 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Wednesday 09 July 2008: How can I stop the shaking in visualization when switching to the outside of the aircraft? Is updating just position/attitude information of the aircraft enough or should I fill more information in the fdm packet? Assuming that you are using

[Flightgear-users] FYI: irc

2008-07-04 Thread Melchior FRANZ
Our main IRC server irc://irc.flightgear.org/#flightgear is down at the moment, but we have a (permanent) replacement for such cases: irc://irc.freenode.net/#flightgear m. - Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice

[Flightgear-users] morse decoder

2008-06-05 Thread Melchior FRANZ
Here's a little fun hack: http://members.aon.at/mfranz/morse.nas [2.9 kB] It allows to use the middle mouse button as a morse key. The signals are turned into letters and displayed on-screen. Every completed word is spoken by the speech synthesizer (if installed and configured). The keying

Re: [Flightgear-users] morse decoder

2008-06-05 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Thursday 05 June 2008: Here's a little fun hack: http://members.aon.at/mfranz/morse.nas [2.9 kB] Forgot to mention: it's off by default. To turn it on call fgfs with --prop:b:sim/morse/enabled=1 This will then be saved to autosave.xml on exit, and will be on until

Re: [Flightgear-users] morse decoder

2008-06-05 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Roland Häder -- Thursday 05 June 2008: Working fine here. :) Excellent. :-) What I also forgot to say: you can move the text display around -- to a better place or darker background. m. - Check out the new

Re: [Flightgear-users] Proved and maintainable methods

2008-05-02 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Greg Hawkes -- Friday 02 May 2008: Just so that I understand: are you saying that I should have created the trafficlist file using proved and maintainable methods? No. (Though proved methods are always good. :-) Or, are you saying that the Traffic Manager should use the proved and

Re: [Flightgear-users] Unhelpful FlightGear error message when creating AI traffic (Solution!)

2008-05-01 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Greg Hawkes -- Thursday 01 May 2008: What is very odd is that the tab characters were /outside/ the port element. The XML parser should not have confused text (including whitespace) between elements with the text within elements. Nope. The XML parser is spec compliant and it's *right*. XML

Re: [Flightgear-users] Unhelpful FlightGear error message when creating AI traffic

2008-04-30 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Greg Hawkes -- Wednesday 30 April 2008: When I run fgfs, it displays the following rather unhelpful error message: Could not find YMML Durk is your man, but I'll try to help anyway. First check if your XML files are really spec compliant: $ xmllint

Re: [Flightgear-users] I want to replay airbus's FDR file data in flightgear

2008-04-22 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* yuhao ma -- Tuesday 22 April 2008: Can flightgear run the raw FDR date directly [...]? Just for the record: fgfs can play ACMS FDR files natively. (I'm a bit surprised that there even are different formats. I had assumed that this is standardized. Oh well ...) m.

Re: [Flightgear-users] Trying to use the Piper Cherokee or Comanche and get missing files in v0.9.10

2008-02-28 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Brian Keener -- Thursday 28 February 2008: When I run FlightGear v0.9.10 on Windows 2000 using fgrun - I downloaded the Piper Comanche and the Cherokee but [...] Aircraft downloaded from the FlightGear site are meant for FlightGear v1.0 only. They may or may not work with older versions. In

Re: [Flightgear-users] Compiling problems

2008-02-19 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Hermann Straßberger -- Tuesday 19 February 2008: replay.cxx:142: Error: »timingInfo« was not defined in this area of validity ** replay.cxx:143: Fehler: »stamp« was not defined in this area of validity ** You didn't install the appropriate SimGear v1.0. m.

Re: [Flightgear-users] World scenery for version 1.0.0?

2008-01-04 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Christian Buchner -- 1/2/2008 5:51 PM: If Flightgear offered a simple 3D editor [...] It does. It's called blender. (http://www.blender.org/) :-) m. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges.

Re: [Flightgear-users] segmentation fault fgfs won't start

2008-01-04 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Curtis Olson -- 1/2/2008 1:47 PM: On Jan 2, 2008 3:06 AM, Melchior FRANZ wrote: data/ is optional. It's really a convencience feature for developers who often have their source and data thrown together, which users usually don't (or shouldn't). And it also lets users create a complete

Re: [Flightgear-users] Multiplayer Funfly.

2008-01-02 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Hal V. Engel -- 12/31/2007 11:26 PM: I have trouble reading this on my system. Is there a way to increase the font size? Just look at how the stopwatch dialog under Debug-Stopwatch does it. ($FG_ROOT/gui/dialogs/stopwatch.xml) m.

Re: [Flightgear-users] Option --lang

2007-12-22 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Lizandro -- Friday 21 December 2007: How do I use the option --lang? Without success. :-) I'm afraid our i18n is unmaintained since a *very* long time and if it works at all, then only in a very limited way. Basically only for the menu and a few strings, but not for: dialogs (AFAIK), Nasal

Re: [Flightgear-users] detailed error report for Windows HUD error

2007-12-21 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Friday 21 December 2007: This should be fixed now. Ahh, I had missed the braces problem. (And I hadn't caused it either -- someone else committed this broken security fix. :-) The stringifying and cosmetics in fg/osg wasn't worth it, though, as this code will be removed,

Re: [Flightgear-users] detailed error report for Windows HUD error

2007-12-21 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Friday 21 December 2007: Ahh, I had missed the braces problem. Bah, disregard. I was misled by a bad diff command and hadn't looked closely. m. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all

Re: [Flightgear-users] detailed error report for Windows HUD error

2007-12-21 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* LeeE -- Friday 21 December 2007: I've not had a chance to look at the 'new' huds yet but do they support/include all of the features in the old huds? Pretty much, yes. And more. (line 369: remove the test on ilcanclaw) Removing a check shouldn't be hard to do. :-) I would be very

Re: [Flightgear-users] detailed error report for Windows HUD error

2007-12-21 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* LeeE -- Friday 21 December 2007: In short, the energy marker and energy worm, when used together, show if an aircraft can sustain KIAS or mach in a climb and I find them invaluable while tuning aircraft fdm configs. This should work in the new HUD just like in the old one. The new one is

Re: [Flightgear-users] detailed error report for Windows HUD error

2007-12-21 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* LeeE -- Friday 21 December 2007: I'll have a look into this soon. You'll see that it's a lot easier than it was before. (Only complicated by the fact that there's not much documentation.) Note, however, that the new HUD isn't meant to be finished. It's fully functional, but wasn't used much,

Re: [Flightgear-users] detailed error report for Windows HUD error

2007-12-20 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Nathaniel Homier -- Thursday 20 December 2007: Take off and climb to 30,000 feet and [...] This is a ridiculously detailed reproduction recipe. Here's a shortened one: use any aircraft anywhere, and press Shift-i a few times I've looked into it and haven't yet found the cause. It doesn't

[Flightgear-users] FYI: new Linux nvidia driver 169.07

2007-12-20 Thread Melchior FRANZ
Often this isn't something that's worth announcing, but this time the list of changes sounds interesting: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_169.07.html Citation from http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=934 about the beta release: No, the render_bench results for

Re: [Flightgear-users] FYI: new Linux nvidia driver 169.07

2007-12-20 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Thursday 20 December 2007: Often this isn't something that's worth announcing, but this time the list of changes sounds interesting: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_169.07.html Now I have tested it. WARNING: this causes lots of graphic errors in both fg

Re: [Flightgear-users] FYI: new Linux nvidia driver 169.07

2007-12-20 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* LeeE -- Friday 21 December 2007: Did you compile your own or did you download one of nVidia's modules? Compile. And now back at 100.14.19. (BTW: Someone complained in the nvidia forum that his card fan is now running at 100%. Looks like a brown-paperbag release to me. :-) m.

Re: [Flightgear-users] FYI: new Linux nvidia driver 169.07

2007-12-20 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Hal V. Engel -- Friday 21 December 2007: These are Beta releases [...] What makes you think that 169.07 is a beta? It's a regular release in my book. m. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges.

Re: [Flightgear-users] Legal or not ?- Pro Flight Simulator aka FlightGear on Ebay

2007-12-12 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Durk Talsma -- Wednesday 12 December 2007: Here's another thought: How about adding copyright notices to *all* our splash screens. Something like: FlightGear is an open source project that is released under the gnu public license (GPL). It can be downloaded for free from

Re: [Flightgear-users] using signs instead of fgfs does not work, gives a can't open socket

2007-12-12 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Nathaniel Homier -- Wednesday 12 December 2007: ~$signs -v --aircraft=OV10_NASA --airport=KSFO gives a can't open socket error. That's a problem with your fgfs then. I guess that the default address localhost:5500 is already used on your system, so it can't be opened again. Your command line

Re: [Flightgear-users] Small fgrun update

2007-12-09 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Frederic Bouvier -- Sunday 09 December 2007: I am wondering about the purpose of the box seen on top of Gerard's helos. It should at least be textured ... Tony's Pizza. ;-) m. - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out

Re: [Flightgear-users] Small fgrun update

2007-12-09 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Frederic Bouvier -- Sunday 09 December 2007: * Load aircraft submodels in the preview browser What about supporting a special property like preview0/preview in models that would exclude them from the preview? This could then be added to the tutorial marker, the blackout sphere, etc. Such a

Re: [Flightgear-users] Small fgrun update

2007-12-09 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Frederic Bouvier -- Sunday 09 December 2007: I implemented the tag nopreview/ in animations or in models. Excellent. Doesn't compile here on Linux, though: wizard_funcs.cxx: In member function 'bool ICompare::operator()(const std::string, const std::string) const': wizard_funcs.cxx:757:

Re: [Flightgear-users] Small fgrun update

2007-12-09 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Frederic Bouvier -- Sunday 09 December 2007: Could you try to replace stricmp by strcasecmp ? Yeah, works. (I didn't even know that one. :-) I also got a crash and fixed it like so: --- src/wizard_funcs.cxx(revision 373) +++ src/wizard_funcs.cxx(working copy) @@ -412,6

Re: [Flightgear-users] Legal or not ?- Pro Flight Simulator aka FlightGear on Ebay

2007-12-08 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Thomas Förster -- Saturday 08 December 2007: Thats what 'use with permission' means. They write an email to Curt or whoever can make a decision in the name of the FlightGear community, asking for permission. Nobody will refuse it for reviews/books or other 'good' use. No, you got that

Re: [Flightgear-users] Providing images for legal use (was: Legal or not ?- Pro Flight Simulator aka FlightGear on Ebay)

2007-12-08 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Thomas Förster -- Saturday 08 December 2007: Am Samstag 08 Dezember 2007 schrieb Melchior FRANZ: Nobody will ask for permission. Which is OK, isn't it? It's OK, yes, but not what we want. We *want* our screenshots used. (Well, I do want *mine* used -- four of them are mine.) Of course

Re: [Flightgear-users] Providing images for legal use

2007-12-08 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* SydSandy -- Saturday 08 December 2007: Or we could watermark the website screenshots with Flightgear :) Oh, indeed. That's probably the best thing to do. It shouldn't really disturb, of course, but also not be easy to cut off or remove. m.

Re: [Flightgear-users] Legal or not ?- Pro Flight Simulator aka FlightGear on Ebay

2007-12-07 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Thomas Förster -- Friday 07 December 2007: As a first, easy measure it's probably a good idea to put a note on the website, stating that all images are copyright protected and may only be used with permission. You'd have to make that ... may only be used in context with FlightGear if the

Re: [Flightgear-users] 3D clouds problem

2007-11-03 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Christian Buchner -- Saturday 03 November 2007: Spot on! In the %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\flighgear.org\autosave.xml file the resolution for the clouds somehow was set to 0. Yes, that's a pain. fg/osg doesn't do clouds yet, and for some silly reason zeroes some parameters. Which screws

Re: [Flightgear-users] Joystick suggestions

2007-10-27 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Georg Vollnhals -- Saturday 27 October 2007: 1. I made two rules-files I wouldn't do that. Better have one single file with all local modifications to the udev rules. (I have other rules in that file, too). That's far handier to backup and maintain, though it's certainly not the reason why it

Re: [Flightgear-users] Joystick suggestions

2007-10-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Georg Vollnhals -- Friday 26 October 2007: Melchior Franz helped me out with a trick to set the saved calibration via a script on booting, [...] Nowadays I recommend to let udev do that: # echo 'KERNEL==js* RUN+=/usr/local/sbin/jscal.sh' \ /etc/udev/rules.d/91-local.rules ... whereby

Re: [Flightgear-users] ATIS text

2007-10-25 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Grivell, Ian -- Thursday 25 October 2007: When I tune in to ATIS, I get audio but no corresponding text on the screen. Is there a way to turn on text display of ATIS messages? No, I'm afraid there isn't. The message is already assembled as lookup terms for the ATIS sound DB, and looks

Re: [Flightgear-users] METAR update interval

2007-10-14 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Savaş Yatmaz -- Tuesday 09 October 2007: Is there any way to decrease interval between metar changes? FlightGear looks once per minute which the nearest METAR station is (from those listed in $FG_ROOT/Airports/metar.dat.gz). If a different station is the nearest, then an update will be made.

Re: [Flightgear-users] pa28-161

2007-08-05 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Laurence Vanek -- Sunday 05 August 2007: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ fgfs --aircraft=pa28-161 Nasal Electrical System Initialized Warning: deleting still referenced object Segmentation fault === This was right after latest build of OSG, SimGear, FG (cvs head) Can't reproduce. Everything

Re: [Flightgear-users] Trouble compiling OSG

2007-08-05 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Georg Vollnhals -- Monday 06 August 2007: Nick: I couldn't work out what 'the configuration' screen was, nor meant. That's just what comes up with $ ccmake . (with double 'c'), Don't forget to set CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE to either Release or RelWithDebInfo, but don't let it set to Debug, as this

Re: [Flightgear-users] FG is crashing on me, saying core dump

2007-07-12 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Thursday 12 July 2007: This is now partly fixed. The texture path is now reset after loading a sub-model. But bad paths would still crash fgfs. Need yet to look into that. The allocated buffer was too small for at least the dummy texture. This is now fixed. Fortunately, fg

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