Hello friends: My name is Eduardo García-Mádico Portabella and I am from Spain, so English is not my native Language.
I posted some months ago an email because my yoke made interferences with autopilot because its lack of force feedback. You may remember that I exposed the problem that, as in a real plane autopilot moves the yoke, a joystick without force feedback remains in central position while the ap is enabled. Then, when autopilot starts controlling the virtual yoke, it produces the quickly alternation of the virtual yoke with the position of the real joke/joystick of the computer. This problem makes the autopilot less realistic and it looses precision. I have made some changes to the code that provides the autopilot the ability to get total control of the axis when it is enabled, so when you move the joystick with the autopilot enabled, the virtual yoke in the plain does not obey the joystick movement. I do not program too much, and I almost never program in C++, so the code quality may be horrible, but this patch works for me. These things probably can be done better and I wish a better code. If anyone does it in a better way I would be very grateful. The diffs are at http://www.eurogaran.com/fgfs/fgfs_ap_joy_locking.diff and http://www.eurogaran.com/fgfs/kap140_locking_controls_capable.diff If it could be added to the oficial code I would apreciate it very much. There are two patches, first for the fgfs tree and changes controls.cxx and input.cxx, and the other for the kap140.nas for making it capable of locking. Both patches are for FlightGear-0.9.11-pre1 (sorry, I had problems with cvs version, so I tested it here). I created locking properties for all the controls in controls.cxx. I did that because I think the better autopilot you could do is the one that does not need a pilot. It will permit people adding these functionality to other more advanced autopilots. For adding this functionality to other autopilots than the kap140, see the nas code. It's easy because it's integrated in the property tree. Thanks in advance. -- Woodyst. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
