RE: [Flightgear-devel] Java client library

2002-06-08 Thread Norman Vine
Tony Peden writes: > >>> > >Scripting languages are good stuff ... but they are still languages. Agreed :-) but this was in reference to 'ease of use' for 'users' not 'developers' hmmm maybe FlightGear 'users' all know how to run compilers :-)) Cheers Norman __

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Java client library

2002-06-08 Thread Tony Peden
Norman Vine wrote: > Tony Peden writes: > >>Norman Vine wrote: >> >> >>>David Megginson writes: >>> >>> Olivier Grisel writes: >So if we develop such user friendly tools, it might be a >good idea to choose only one gui style so as they get all >the same style.

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Java client library

2002-06-08 Thread Norman Vine
Tony Peden writes: > >Norman Vine wrote: > >> David Megginson writes: >> >>>Olivier Grisel writes: >>> >>> So if we develop such user friendly tools, it might be a good idea to choose only one gui style so as they get all the same style. >>>You work sounds great. I see no harm i

[Flightgear-devel] compiling error on MSVC

2002-06-08 Thread Christian Stock
I just downloaded flightgear 0.7.10 and I'm trying to get it to compile on Windoze MSVC 6.0. I got glut, plib, sim-gear compiled w/o any probs. For FG I get this error at quite a few places. error C2661: 'Tie' : no overloaded function takes 4 parameters I had a look at the Tie functions in FGPr

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Java client library

2002-06-08 Thread Tony Peden
Norman Vine wrote: > David Megginson writes: > >>Olivier Grisel writes: >> >> >>>So if we develop such user friendly tools, it might be a >>>good idea to choose only one gui style so as they get all >>>the same style. >>> >>You work sounds great. I see no harm in having both Java and Python >>G

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Java client library

2002-06-08 Thread Norman Vine
David Megginson writes: > >Olivier Grisel writes: > > > So if we develop such user friendly tools, it might be a > > good idea to choose only one gui style so as they get all > > the same style. > >You work sounds great. I see no harm in having both Java and Python >GUIs -- I'm no Python fan myse

re: [Flightgear-devel] Where is the time ?

2002-06-08 Thread David Megginson
Olivier Grisel writes: > I can't see the date / time in the property tree. > Can we act on it only with the command line options ? /sim/time/gmt It is in the ISO format -mm-ddThh:mm:ss. At the time of writing, it is approximately 2002-06-08T17:45:00. All the best, David -- David

[Flightgear-devel] Where is the time ?

2002-06-08 Thread Olivier Grisel
I can't see the date / time in the property tree. Can we act on it only with the command line options ? Thanks ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Java client library

2002-06-08 Thread Erik Hofman
Olivier Grisel wrote: > It don't like SWING ! It don't like SWING ! > :) > > For Windows users py2exe exists and transorf a wxPython > app into a dummy-windows-user friendly .exe file. > (but have never tested it since I don't have win) > > Irix doesn't support motif or gtk ? Actually, it supp

Re: [Flightgear-devel] HSIs

2002-06-08 Thread Alex Perry
Taking the practical viewpoint of what is actually in the avionics ... Any OBS, HSI or similar instrument: Receives an analog signal that indicates the needle position. Our FGFS instrument works the same way; an analog angle is available as a property. VOR receivers: Emits an analog signal that

[Flightgear-devel] Re: BGL Loader Mini Howto

2002-06-08 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Jürgen Marquardt -- Saturday 08 June 2002 08:31: > First you have to check out the latest version of PLIB CVS > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/plib) ... add "ssgLoadMDL_BGLTexture.cxx" and "ssgLoadBGL.cxx" to src/ssg/Makefile.am and ... > Recomplie PLIB and recomplie Flightgear afterwards

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Java client library

2002-06-08 Thread Olivier Grisel
It don't like SWING ! It don't like SWING ! :) For Windows users py2exe exists and transorf a wxPython app into a dummy-windows-user friendly .exe file. (but have never tested it since I don't have win) Irix doesn't support motif or gtk ? Some (too early) screen shots http://champi.freezope.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Java client library

2002-06-08 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: > Olivier Grisel writes: > > > So if we develop such user friendly tools, it might be a > > good idea to choose only one gui style so as they get all > > the same style. > > You work sounds great. I see no harm in having both Java and Python > GUIs -- I'm no Python fan

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Java client library

2002-06-08 Thread David Megginson
Olivier Grisel writes: > So if we develop such user friendly tools, it might be a > good idea to choose only one gui style so as they get all > the same style. You work sounds great. I see no harm in having both Java and Python GUIs -- I'm no Python fan myself (though there are other fgfs de

[Flightgear-devel] Atmosphere and JSBSim

2002-06-08 Thread David Megginson
Thanks to Tony Peden, JSBSim is now (optionally) fully integrated with FGEnvironment, so you can practice takeoffs and climbs under different atmospheric conditions. To enable this support, you must set the /environment/params/control-fdm-atmosphere to true, i.e. fgfs --prop:/environment/param

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Java client library

2002-06-08 Thread Olivier Grisel
> I might develop this into a remote instructor's panel, a full > configuration GUI, a remote-control module for weather and other > environment parameters, or any combination of these. Contributions > are welcome, of course. I'm currently working on a gui to help users to start fgfs with their

[Flightgear-devel] Java client library

2002-06-08 Thread David Megginson
I have just added the raw beginnings of a Java client library and trivially-simple Swing GUI demo under scripts/java/demo/FGClient/. Here's the Java code to connect to a FlightGear process and increase the current altitude by 1000 feet: FGConnection fgfs = new FGConnection("localhost", 9000);

[Flightgear-devel] BGL Loader Mini Howto

2002-06-08 Thread Jürgen Marquardt
Loading BGL files step by step First you have to check out the latest version of PLIB CVS (http://sourceforge.net/projects/plib) Recomplie PLIB and recomplie Flightgear afterwards (I am currently using FlightGear-0.7.10) It is also recommended to recomplie/relink ppe (Pretty Poly Editor) or Pl