[Flightgear-devel] event: Flightgear talk in Santa Monica, CA, USA
The Coastal Los Angeles IEEE Section Computer Society Chapter presents ... Introduction to the FlightGear Flight Simulator September 12, 2006 at 7:30pm Alex Perry, Google, 604 Arizona, Santa Monica, CA 90401 FlightGear is a GPL open source flight simulator that runs on a wide range of platforms including Linux, MacOS and Windows. The simulation itself, the worldwide scenery and the aircraft models are free to download from www.flightgear.org and its mirrors. This talk will provide an introduction into the project, its goals, getting started, and a demonstration of the system in action. IEEE membership is not required to attend this talk; we're always looking to grow our membership: http://www.ieee.org/membership/join/ Computer Society: http://www.computer.org/ Section Home Page: http://ewh.ieee.org/r6/coastal_la/ FlightGear project: http://www.flightgear.org/ Directions / Map: http://tinyurl.com/gba8u --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
[Flightgear-devel] Linux development...
Hi guys, I have another question then I promise I wont pester anyone again for at least a few days :) What is the IDE of choice for the Linux developers for this project? I use Anjuta, it seems pretty good , Im trying to set up a project to add ALL the flightgear source files so hopefully I can trace the program a little better . My attempt at 2d instrument clipping works great for 2d panels , but I haven't quite figured out yet how the 3d panel implements them. Thanks, Syd - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Linux development...
On Friday 01 September 2006 02:29 am, Syd wrote: What is the IDE of choice for the Linux developers for this project? Hi Syd, Firstly, thanks for taking on the 2D panel clipping. That's been sorely needed for a few years now. As for IDE's, I think most developers here don't use one. Dave - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Linux development...
Hi Syd, Firstly, thanks for taking on the 2D panel clipping. That's been sorely needed for a few years now. As for IDE's, I think most developers here don't use one. Dave I've used Borland C++BuilderX, which has served me well under Windows. I understand there is (was?) a version available for Linux, though I never used it. If I did development under Linux, now, I'd probably try KDevelop. It seems very impressive. Jon - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Linux development...
Dave Culp wrote: Firstly, thanks for taking on the 2D panel clipping. That's been sorely needed for a few years now. As for IDE's, I think most developers here don't use one. I've always used emacs + make. I've done some windows based projects using IDE's (both MS and Borland) and frankly, I just don't see that they gain you all that much over simpler approaches, but I don't feel like they are a hindrance either. I think it just boils down to knowing how to use your tools effectively and choosing the ones you prefer. (I don't want to start a political discussion here.) I've always edited my files in emacs which allows me to open up multiple windows on multiple files like an ide would. Then I run make in a text window. There are all sorts of little trade offs between make/emacs and an ide. An ide can provide a number of little conveniences, but have you ever had the need to do some development or debugging on a client's remote system? Some systems are large enough and complicated enough that you can't just email the client a new .exe, it makes more sense to log in and work remotely. Some of the differences stem from the unix philosophy/culture versus the windows philosophy/culture. Unix tends to favor a collection of tools, each tool doing it's particular task *really* well, but it's up to the developer/user to connect these smaller tools together to accomplish larger tasks. Windows tends to a favor giant monolithic apps that do everything in one big .exe. So in unix I choose to use emacs to edit my source files because it is an incredibly powerful and flexible editor, and I would choose gcc/g++/make to compile my code because I just love RMS so much. There is gdb and valgrind and others for debugging, there is cvs for source code version management, there are the autotools (ack!), and a variety of other little utils (awk, grep, perl, etc.) that you can pull in to do different little tasks. In windows you typically get this all rolled together in one giant app. But each individual piece of the app might not be quite as full featured and flexible as the individual tools you would find in unix. That said, 99.9% of popular unix software is ported to windows so a unix head stuck on a windows box can still survive and be relatively happy. Sorry, I'm just rambling now ... better get off my butt and go to work here ... :-) Curt. -- Curtis Olsonhttp://baron.flightgear.org/~curt HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org Unique text:2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Linux development...
-Original Message- From: Syd Hi guys, I have another question then I promise I wont pester anyone again for at least a few days What is the IDE of choice for the Linux developers for this project? I use Anjuta, it seems pretty good , Im trying to set up a project to add ALL the flightgear source files so hopefully I can trace the program a little better . My attempt at 2d instrument clipping works great for 2d panels , but I haven't quite figured out yet how the 3d panel implements them. Thanks, Syd Hi Syd, It seems that others have already said that a lot of people don't use an IDE per se when developing C++ in Linux. Just what is meant by an ide vs tool vs gui tools vs gui designer isn't always clear. There are the basic tools already mentioned. As far as text editors there are many that support development in some helpful ways, especially emacs. Even vim has some cool editing features. DDD is a pretty good gui interface to the gnu debugger if you want to get up to speed with all the gdb features. It displays the gdb dialog down in the bottom window, which means you can learn while using it. It also means you'll probably end up using gdb directly from the command line for simple debugging tasks before long. One package I've used very little myself, but have actually installed and set up for other programmers and heard great things about is Eclipse. In constrast to what some of the other folks have said about Unix programmers, I think a well designed IDE can be very helpful. This one appears to be well thought out and has a certain Unix sensibility to it. It is open source and you can interface all kinds of cool and free stuff. It originally was designed for java, but I use Netbeans for that. The people I've set it up for are doing php with it, but I have thought seriously about trying it for C++ work myself. Here's a web page on using it with C++ http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-ecc/ Best, Jim -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 160 Milbridge, ME 04658 207-546-7989 - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
