Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: AP messed up? agl-hold vs. terrain-follow
On Friday 07 April 2006 07:56, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Lee Elliott -- Friday 07 April 2006 00:31: now all we need from everyone else is a decision on 'agl-hold' vs. 'terrain-follow'. Okay. I flipped a coin, and agl-hold won! :-P No, seriously: If nobody objects I will tomorrow switch all remaining occurrences of terrain-follow to agl-hold in generic FlightGear files (but not in maintained aircraft, unless the maintainer wishes so). Rationale: - $FG_ROOT/Aircraft/Generic/generic-autopilot.xml uses agl-hold - $FG_ROOT/gui/dialogs/autopilot.xml uses agl-hold (and did before my changes) - all /autopilot/locks/altitude options end with -hold. (all heading options, too, except wing-leveler, which is understandable) Only $FG_ROOT/keyboard.xml and these aircraft use terrain-follow in at least one *.nas or *.xml file: - AN-225 - BAC-TSR2 - A-10 - B-52F - YF-23 - seahawk - MiG-15 - TU-114 - Hunter - CanberraBI8 m. Apart from the Hunter, which Vivian did, and the seahawk, which Vivian has done a lot of work on, the others were all done by me. A simple search replace on 'terrain-follow' /should/ work but will result in some funny property node names. I'll go through them manually and get updates out. Vivian: do you want to do the seahawk or shall I? I guess we need to rationalise the seahawk anyway. LeeE --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
[Flightgear-devel] Re: AP messed up? agl-hold vs. terrain-follow
* Lee Elliott -- Friday 07 April 2006 00:31: now all we need from everyone else is a decision on 'agl-hold' vs. 'terrain-follow'. Okay. I flipped a coin, and agl-hold won! :-P No, seriously: If nobody objects I will tomorrow switch all remaining occurrences of terrain-follow to agl-hold in generic FlightGear files (but not in maintained aircraft, unless the maintainer wishes so). Rationale: - $FG_ROOT/Aircraft/Generic/generic-autopilot.xml uses agl-hold - $FG_ROOT/gui/dialogs/autopilot.xml uses agl-hold (and did before my changes) - all /autopilot/locks/altitude options end with -hold. (all heading options, too, except wing-leveler, which is understandable) Only $FG_ROOT/keyboard.xml and these aircraft use terrain-follow in at least one *.nas or *.xml file: - AN-225 - BAC-TSR2 - A-10 - B-52F - YF-23 - seahawk - MiG-15 - TU-114 - Hunter - CanberraBI8 m. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: AP messed up? agl-hold vs. terrain-follow
On Thursday 06 April 2006 10:50, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Melchior FRANZ -- Wednesday 05 April 2006 07:51: * Lee Elliott -- Tuesday 04 April 2006 22:49: There also seem to be some quirks in the way that the A/P gui handles things - if you already have an A/P mode engaged but didn't set it via the gui it will not be shown as set in the gui and then when you close the gui that setting becomes un-set. That's already fixed in my version of the dialog. Which is now committed. I waited for cvs being tagged for release, because I wasn't sure if it would work well enough already. But it seems to work without problems, so, if a packager wants to include it despite it being in 'instable' CVS/HEAD only ... :-) I also (think I) fixed a bug in gui.nas, that sometimes prevented the autopilot menu entry from getting activated when it should. m. Fixing the behaviour is good work, now all we need from everyone else is a decision on 'agl-hold' vs. 'terrain-follow'. Either is ok to me but as I mentioned, agl-hold is quicker to type while you're testing stuff (although my fingers now 'remember' 'terrain-follow' :) LeeE --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
[Flightgear-devel] Re: AP messed up? agl-hold vs. terrain-follow
* Lee Elliott -- Tuesday 04 April 2006 22:49: On Monday 03 April 2006 19:54, Melchior FRANZ wrote: There seems to be a problem with terrain following: - the keyboard binding (Ctrl-t) uses terrain-follow - the AP dialog uses agl-hold The original value was 'terrain-follow' and agl-hold turned up later, along with the A/P gui iirc. That's really something that should get fixed before the release. A quick searchreplace job. One just needs to know which version to standardize on: terrain-hold or agl-hold ? There also seem to be some quirks in the way that the A/P gui handles things - if you already have an A/P mode engaged but didn't set it via the gui it will not be shown as set in the gui and then when you close the gui that setting becomes un-set. That's already fixed in my version of the dialog. I'll commit that after the release. It removes file $FG_ROOT/Nasal/autopilot.nas (containing dialog helper functions), and adds some new Nasal code to the $FG_ROOT/gui/dialog/autopilot.xml dialog directly. The new dialog always reflects the actual AP state. Values in the input fields are updated as you click on the virtual AP on the panel or press CurUp/Down etc. Checkboxes radiobuttons go on and off as you press Ctrl-a, Ctrl-h, etc. m. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
