I'm playing around with an external perl script[1] for flightgear. I've been using the http interface, but as I do more and more things, that is turning out to be a performance bottleneck. Has anyone interfaced to FlightGear's "telnet" service from a perl script. I'm sure I could figure it out, but if someone has already done this, it might save an hour of my life.
Down the road I'm also seeing a need to have my script monitor some of FlightGear's FDM output. If FlightGear is already broadcasting this via UDP (for other visual channels for instance) it would be cool if my perl script could listen in and grab the data too. Has anyone done UDP socket communication via perl? I know perl has all the socket interface calls, but what worries me is how to translate a chunk of binary data into perl variables ... probably easy once you know the tricks. Has anyone done either of these? Thanks, Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org [1] I know there are plenty of other scripting options out there, but I'm familiar with and like perl, so that is what I've chosen, so I'm looking for specific perl solutions here. :-) _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
