[Flightgear-devel] CVS problem?

2002-04-16 Thread Alasdair Campbell
For several days now, I have been unable to access the FlightGear-source and Simgear repositories. [root@birnie FlightGear]# cvs update -dP cvs [update aborted]: recv() from server cvs.flightgear.org: Connection reset by peer [root@birnie FlightGear]# cvs --version Concurrent Versions System

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS problem?

2002-04-16 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Alasdair Campbell writes: For several days now, I have been unable to access the FlightGear-source and Simgear repositories. [root@birnie FlightGear]# cvs update -dP cvs [update aborted]: recv() from server cvs.flightgear.org: Connection reset by peer [root@birnie FlightGear]# cvs

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Ground Elevation

2002-04-16 Thread Norman Vine
Sam Varner writes: How can I get the ground elevation and normal vector for a particular longitude and latitude? See Scenery / hitlist / hitlist.cxx / fgCurrentElev() Note this is very likely to change, but the API should stay the same These are available for the current FDM in the global

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS problem?

2002-04-16 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 13:30, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Alasdair Campbell writes: For several days now, I have been unable to access the FlightGear-source and Simgear repositories. [root@birnie FlightGear]# cvs update -dP cvs [update aborted]: recv() from server cvs.flightgear.org:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ground Elevation

2002-04-16 Thread jj
Hi Sam: Not sure about the normal vector you mention, but as far as the ground elevation you can get that off of the charts (maps) provided by the U.S.G.S. For some areas there are CD ROMS available with (for example all the state of California as 7.5 min topo maps. The one that I have is from

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ground Elevation

2002-04-16 Thread jj
OOPS, had a typo in that link. (a , vice a .). Here's a better one anyway: http://maps.nationalgeographic.com/topo/gps.cfm jj jj wrote: snip The one that I have is from the National Geographic Society. (see http://www,topo.com snip ___

[Flightgear-devel] perplexing make error

2002-04-16 Thread Keith Wiley
I did a standard cvs update -d -P from the highest FlightGear directory, ran ./configure, and tried to make. It's giving me a totally unreasonable error. In /usr/local/src/FlightGear/src/Cockpit/built_in it says: *** No rule to make target 'all'. Stop. Bear in mind that I have done

[Flightgear-devel] Notice Upcoming Property changes

2002-04-16 Thread Jim Wilson
Finally I'm getting down to the last of the planned changes in the view manager.The code should be submitted sometime today or this evening. There are some changes to the property structure that folks should be aware of, because they may affect custom configurations. If you have any

Re: [Flightgear-devel] perplexing make error

2002-04-16 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Keith Wiley writes: I did a standard cvs update -d -P from the highest FlightGear directory, ran ./configure, and tried to make. It's giving me a totally unreasonable error. In /usr/local/src/FlightGear/src/Cockpit/built_in it says: *** No rule to make target 'all'. Stop. Bear in mind

re: [Flightgear-devel] Notice Upcoming Property changes

2002-04-16 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson writes: Note that at this time I won't be moving the FOV value, which appears in /sim/field-of-view. You might as well get it now, if you're doing a major reorg anyway. Secondly I have reoriented the xyz offsets so that they are compatible with the rotation matrixes. The

re: [Flightgear-devel] Notice Upcoming Property changes

2002-04-16 Thread Jim Wilson
David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Jim Wilson writes: Note that at this time I won't be moving the FOV value, which appears in /sim/field-of-view. Ok...will do. You might as well get it now, if you're doing a major reorg anyway. Secondly I have reoriented the xyz offsets

re: [Flightgear-devel] Notice Upcoming Property changes

2002-04-16 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jim Wilson writes: Sigh. This is confusing. If I'm not mistaken, the axes as I described them are the way plib does them. So apparently what I've got now is something that works well for plib people. At this point I'm thinking we should go with that. The body-axis convention doesn't

re: [Flightgear-devel] Notice Upcoming Property changes

2002-04-16 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson writes: Sigh. This is confusing. If I'm not mistaken, the axes as I described them are the way plib does them. So apparently what I've got now is something that works well for plib people. Right, but plib (and OpenGL) coders will not be a big part of our target audience.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Notice Upcoming Property changes

2002-04-16 Thread James A. Treacy
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 01:27:24PM -0700, Andy Ross wrote: To make things even worse, plib uses a different convention from raw OpenGL. So the places in the code that manipulate the matrix stack by hand (the panel and HUD, at least) are working in yet another coordinate convention. :) The

Re: [Flightgear-devel] perplexing make error

2002-04-16 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Keith Wiley writes: I did a standard cvs update -d -P from the highest FlightGear directory, ran ./configure, and tried to make. It's giving me a totally unreasonable error. In /usr/local/src/FlightGear/src/Cockpit/built_in it says: *** No rule to make target 'all'. Stop.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] perplexing make error

2002-04-16 Thread John Check
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 05:41 pm, you wrote: Keith Wiley writes: Well, I autogened it, configured it, and remaked it. This time it complains that fg_init.cxx is looking for Time/event.hxx on line 111 (which is true) and that there is no such file (which is also true). There is an event.o,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PA-28-161

2002-04-16 Thread Eivind Trondsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Okay, these are the people interrested in the manual. Can you all send me your adresses? I'll try to make copies, but if I fail to do that maybe we can set it up for a round-trip like Munro suggested. Jon Berndt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cameron Munro

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Ground Elevation

2002-04-16 Thread Sam Varner
On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 08:49, Norman Vine wrote: These are available for the current FDM in the global Scenery instantiation see Scenery / scenery.hxx This looks like what I need. (Thanks for your reply too, jj. I'm always up for cool map stuf:) One problem, I see a set_cur_normal(), but I

re: [Flightgear-devel] Notice Upcoming Property changes

2002-04-16 Thread Jim Wilson
David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Basically my decision was based on the fact that the Chase view had it different than the Pilot view Yes, that's a bit of a nasty problem any way we do it. Ok I opted to piss everyone off (except maybe the non-programmers) and put it back the

re: [Flightgear-devel] Notice Upcoming Property changes

2002-04-16 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson writes: Ok I opted to piss everyone off (except maybe the non-programmers) and put it back the way it was. OK, I'm slightly less pissed off, thanks. When we have support for setting weights, we might need to change the viewer, depending on what we come up with. All the best,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] /controls/parking-brake

2002-04-16 Thread Julian Foad
David Megginson wrote: Frederic Bouvier writes: MSVC has no 'fmax' function. 'max' is ok (a macro !). Hmm -- max won't work under GCC because it's an inlined function. Heh? You mean the inlined (templated) max function from algorithm/stl_algobase.h? What's wrong with that? It is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Purpose of the Next Release?

2002-04-16 Thread Julian Foad
Jonathan Polley wrote: ... Aside from removing unreferenced variables, the bulk of the changes were in the area of the use of floating-point. Since C does all passing of floats as doubles, and does all math in double, could we have a mandate that all floating-point valued be double? I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Purpose of the Next Release?

2002-04-16 Thread Jonathan Polley
On Tuesday, April 16, 2002, at 11:54 PM, Julian Foad wrote: Jonathan Polley wrote: ... Aside from removing unreferenced variables, the bulk of the changes were in the area of the use of floating-point. Since C does all passing of floats as doubles, and does all math in double, could we

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Purpose of the Next Release?

2002-04-16 Thread Norman Vine
Jonathan Polley writes: I must be older than anyone else here, but my collegiate C training Nah, If you had 'C' courses in college you are just a 'pup' :-) Norman ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]