Re: [Flightgear-devel] ALERT: Losing the DAFIF

2004-08-12 Thread Jim Wilson
David Megginson said: > Lee Elliott wrote: > > > I'm pretty sure that information/data can't be copyrighted - but the design of > > the presentation of the information/data can. > > I hope not, but every country has its own (bizarre) laws about this kind of > thing -- for example, in Commonwea

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Spitfire - new release

2004-08-12 Thread Andy Ross
OK, Melchior helped to debug this via chat while I was working on cell phone UI bugs at work. :) It turns out to have been a pair of typos in fuel.nas that were causing all the problems. What I *read* wasn't what the code was actually doing, which explains all the confusion. This one, though, is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ALERT: Losing the DAFIF

2004-08-12 Thread Jim Wilson
David Megginson said: > Chris Metzler wrote: > > > Is there an official announcement of this somewhere? I've looked all > > around the NGA and NACO sites but haven't found anything. How did he > > hear about this? Is there any kind of timetable? Were there reasons > > stated? > > According t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: terrasync and terrain/scenery

2004-08-12 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Erik Hofman -- Thursday 12 August 2004 19:00: Vivian Meazza wrote: Then windsocks and radio towers will magically appear in Europe. Or anyway, they do for me :-). Are you sure about the radio towers? Curtis uses an US only database for that ... He probably means the beacons.

[Flightgear-devel] Re: terrasync and terrain/scenery

2004-08-12 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Erik Hofman -- Thursday 12 August 2004 19:00: > Vivian Meazza wrote: > > > Then windsocks and radio towers will magically appear in Europe. Or anyway, > > they do for me :-). > > Are you sure about the radio towers? > Curtis uses an US only database for that ... He probably means the beacons.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] terrasync and terrain/scenery

2004-08-12 Thread Erik Hofman
Vivian Meazza wrote: Then windsocks and radio towers will magically appear in Europe. Or anyway, they do for me :-). Are you sure about the radio towers? Curtis uses an US only database for that ... Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Spitfire - new release

2004-08-12 Thread Andy Ross
Melchior FRANZ wrote: > Yes, I've seen these annoying bugs in both the Spitfire and the > p51d. Vivian's changes to fuel.nas fix them. I haven't seen any > negative side effects. > > Could someone please replace fuel.nas? Could someone *PLEASE* explain, from scratch, exactly what is wrong with the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Spitfire - new release

2004-08-12 Thread Andy Ross
Vivian Meazza wrote: > This is, I believe, due to a bug at line 67 of the script > ~/data/nasal/fuel.nas which improperly sets the tank property > "kill-when-empty". Haven't we already been here and thrown out this explanation? Here is line 67: if(t.getBoolValue("kill-when-empty")) { outOfFuel

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Spitfire - new release

2004-08-12 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Vivian Meazza -- Thursday 12 August 2004 16:20: > Unfortunately, there are three problems with this release: > > 1. With both fuel cocks open, when the fuel in the Upper tank runs out, the > engine stops, despite the lower tank having fuel available and being > selected. [...] > 2. If both fuel

[Flightgear-devel] tough week

2004-08-12 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Hey guys, For all of you who have emailed me and still haven't received a response, I just wanted to let you know that I haven't forgotten about your messages. They are still in my pending/inbox. I was out of town over the weekend and this has been a tougher than average week here. My wife s

RE: [Flightgear-devel] terrasync and terrain/scenery

2004-08-12 Thread Vivian Meazza
Erik Hofman wrote: > Sent: 12 August 2004 14:59 > To: FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] terrasync and terrain/scenery > > > Matevz Jekovec wrote: > > Does terrasync download terrain only or scenery objects as well. > > Because > > the current terrasync reposit

[Flightgear-devel] Spitfire - new release

2004-08-12 Thread Vivian Meazza
Eric has kindly uploaded the most recent release of the Spitfire model to cvs. If you haven't already noticed, this release adds a fuel system with Upper and Lower tanks (which are interconnected), priming pump, fuel cocks, and a fuel gauge. Unfortunately, there are three problems with this relea

Re: [Flightgear-devel] terrasync and terrain/scenery

2004-08-12 Thread Erik Hofman
Matevz Jekovec wrote: Does terrasync download terrain only or scenery objects as well. Because the current terrasync repository still has the old structure IMO. (I set the terrasync root dir to fgfs/data/Scenery/Terrain to get it work, but this doesn't include objects download, as they are in f

[Flightgear-devel] terrasync and terrain/scenery

2004-08-12 Thread Matevz Jekovec
Does terrasync download terrain only or scenery objects as well. Because the current terrasync repository still has the old structure IMO. (I set the terrasync root dir to fgfs/data/Scenery/Terrain to get it work, but this doesn't include objects download, as they are in fgfs/data/Scenery/Objec

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mouse frozen after running fullscreen

2004-08-12 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Norman Vine wrote: David Megginson writes: Since I updated FlightGear a few days ago, my X Windows mouse has been frozen after exiting whenever FlightGear is in full-screen mode (there is no problem in window mode). Switching to a text console and back does not help -- I end up having to res

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Mouse frozen after running fullscreen

2004-08-12 Thread Norman Vine
David Megginson writes: > > Since I updated FlightGear a few days ago, my X Windows mouse has been > frozen after exiting whenever FlightGear is in full-screen mode (there is no > problem in window mode). Switching to a text console and back does not help > -- I end up having to restart X. >

[Flightgear-devel] Mouse frozen after running fullscreen

2004-08-12 Thread David Megginson
Since I updated FlightGear a few days ago, my X Windows mouse has been frozen after exiting whenever FlightGear is in full-screen mode (there is no problem in window mode). Switching to a text console and back does not help -- I end up having to restart X. Any suggestions on where I should sta