RE: [Flightgear-devel] Why not use FS2002 aircraft files?

2002-01-04 Thread Jon S. Berndt
This assumes that MS is doing things correctly and/or the way things should be done. This is an invalid assumption. This is one of the reasons I, personally, wanted to begin writing an FDM.   You may some day see MSFS in at least one way following our lead.   Jon -Original Message---

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Why not use FS2002 aircraft files?

2002-01-04 Thread Cameron Moore
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (throttle1000) [2002.01.04 21:26]: > That would add about 2000 different aircrafts > in one night to the FGFS. There should only be > an additional FGFS file which would give those > parameters that are not found in MSFS files. > And that could be some default file for most > n

[Flightgear-devel] Why not use FS2002 aircraft files?

2002-01-04 Thread throttle1000
That would add about 2000 different aircrafts in one night to the FGFS. There should only be an additional FGFS file which would give those parameters that are not found in MSFS files. And that could be some default file for most new planes until the actual parameter file would be availabl

RE: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear TLE

2002-01-04 Thread Norman Vine
David Megginson writes: > >Norman Vine writes: > > > The general rule of thumb for portable applications is to use > > the lowest common denominator or in the case filenames > > > > use the 8.3 rule > > > > max 8 letters for a file or directory name > > max 3 letters for a file extension > > >

RE: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear TLE

2002-01-04 Thread David Megginson
Norman Vine writes: > The general rule of thumb for portable applications is to use > the lowest common denominator or in the case filenames > > use the 8.3 rule > > max 8 letters for a file or directory name > max 3 letters for a file extension > > do not use case to differentiate n

RE: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear TLE

2002-01-04 Thread Norman Vine
David Megginson writes: > >Erik Hofman writes: > > > I think the idea is to select the icon, and the start FlightGear from > > there I guess? > > Is there actually *any* reasun not to use extentions other than 3 > > characters, e.g. like .fgfs ? > >I don't know. There's none under the Linux des

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear TLE

2002-01-04 Thread David Megginson
Erik Hofman writes: > I think the idea is to select the icon, and the start FlightGear from > there I guess? > Is there actually *any* reasun not to use extentions other than 3 > characters, e.g. like .fgfs ? I don't know. There's none under the Linux desktop managers I've tried -- does W

[Flightgear-devel] Command-line arguments

2002-01-04 Thread David Megginson
It's now possible to pass property files as simple command-line arguments to the FlightGear application, as in fgfs start-at-lax.fgd The start-at-lax.fgd file would probably look something like this: KLAX together with any other information of interest. It is po

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear TLE

2002-01-04 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: > I think it's time to think of a TLE for FlightGear situation files, to > make it easy to associate them with FlightGear in a GUI environment. > We can rule out "xml" or "sav", since they're too common. Here are > some unimaginative suggestions: I think the idea is to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear TLE

2002-01-04 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: > Graphic Artists > --- > > We also need a couple of good icons, one for the application and one > for its data files. I made a crappy one depicting a 3/4 view of a > inexplicably greenish Cessna 310 in a steep turn, and will use it if > no one develops anyth

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear TLE

2002-01-04 Thread David Megginson
I think it's time to think of a TLE for FlightGear situation files, to make it easy to associate them with FlightGear in a GUI environment. We can rule out "xml" or "sav", since they're too common. Here are some unimaginative suggestions: fsf - "Flightgear Save File" fgf - "FlightGear File" fgd

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The bouncing plane

2002-01-04 Thread Sergio
I think we could concentrate our effort to evaluate some parameters in way to verify a good or bad landing and so we can also generate a sort of damage relatory acording to situation. Sergio Roth - Original Message - From: Thales de Lima Ferreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECT

[Flightgear-devel] Linking error...

2002-01-04 Thread Thales de Lima Ferreira
Hello, I updated my flightgear files last saturday, and now I´m have a few linking errors, they are: GMatrix.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "short debug_lvl" (?debug_lvl@@3FA) fg_props.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: static enum sgDebugClass __cdecl

[Flightgear-devel] Simgear - Metakit/zlib

2002-01-04 Thread Erik Hofman
Hi, I noticed SimGear contains both the tarball and the directories for Zlib and MetaKit. Is there a reason for that? I checked the latest Metakit and it works fine for Irix. ZLib has been working fine on Irix for ages. So, if it was for Irix (which didn't compile an interim version of Metak

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The bouncing plane

2002-01-04 Thread Erik Hofman
Gene Buckle wrote: >>Maybe "Collision" might be a better term. "Crashed" might be taken to mean >>the program crashed > ...for sound card users... > > "WHOOP! WHOOP! PULL UP! WHOOP! *pause* Oh. Never mind." Or, "Dady, you just hit the ground! Hi hi hi." > *grin* _