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

2004-08-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Jim Wilson wrote: What happens on a kill/int/segfault? Can it be changed to something like a single pixel or some other unobtrusive thing instead? That should work also because it is changed to the normal cursor in the atexit() function (but I haven't tested it because it doesn't happen for me,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 0.9.5-1

2004-08-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Erik Hofman wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: What specific changes are you refering to? Fixes for the Scenery Loading dialog that now loads much faster on low end hardware because it is frame rate independent (thanks to Frederic). Lots of small fixes (joystick configurations, Nasal fuel handling

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: FlightGear/src/Main metar_main.cxx, 1.2,

2004-08-17 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman wrote: Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/FlightGear/src/Main In directory baron:/tmp/cvs-serv21379 Modified Files: metar_main.cxx Log Message: Some code cleanups, and add a number of command line options. In this context an idea comes to my mind: Would'nt it be useful

[Flightgear-devel] YASim c172 (Was: FlightGear 0.9.5-1)

2004-08-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: Here's another problem: $ fgfs --aircraft=c172-610x-jsbsim makes fgfs abort, because this redirects to ../c172r/c172r-jsbsim-base.xml, which tries to include c172r-base.xml. But this file is searched in c172/, not in c172r (where it could be found). This is fixed in CVS

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 0.9.5-1

2004-08-17 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Erik Hofman wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: What specific changes are you refering to? Fixes for the Scenery Loading dialog that now loads much faster on low end hardware because it is frame rate independent (thanks to Frederic). Lots of small fixes

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: FlightGear/src/Main metar_main.cxx, 1.2,

2004-08-17 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Martin Spott -- Tuesday 17 August 2004 11:09: In this context an idea comes to my mind: Would'nt it be useful to let 'metar' honour the respective parameters in a ~/.fgfsrc file (proxy settings for example) in the same the way, 'fgfs' does !? Useful?yes Feasible? hmm This would involve

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS:

2004-08-17 Thread Martin Spott
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Martin Spott -- Tuesday 17 August 2004 11:09: In this context an idea comes to my mind: Would'nt it be useful to let 'metar' honour the respective parameters in a ~/.fgfsrc file (proxy settings for example) in the same the way, 'fgfs' does !? Useful?yes

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS:

2004-08-17 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Martin Spott -- Tuesday 17 August 2004 12:24: I thought one might encapsulate the respective FG functions into a lib and link 'metar' against it Just a quick idea - please disregard. I've done the environment thing. Works well and doesn't require to mess with the libs. Also, it's more

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS:

2004-08-17 Thread Martin Spott
Melchior FRANZ wrote: As far as I've learnt meteo stuff (I have my theoretical test wednesday morning :-/ CAVOC translates into visibility 10 km (~ 7 miles) or greater and no clouds below 5000 ft GND. I thought, clear skies is being abbreviated by SKC, Sure. Don't be so picky! ;-)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 0.9.5-1

2004-08-17 Thread Matevz Jekovec
Erik Hofman wrote: Kalle Valo wrote: Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was wondering, do others feel that the changes in the last week or so justify a new release (0.9.5-1)? If you are going to make a new release, just don't name it 0.9.5-1, please. That would create lots of confusion for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 0.9.5-1

2004-08-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Frederic Bouvier wrote: Are you sure js changes are fixes ? I saw problem reports recently. They seem to have been fixed. But I wouldn't know, I don't have a joystick. I don't update plib for ages and I am not keen to do it after what I read. Moreover, we rely on plib released versions, not CVS,

[Flightgear-devel] terrasync realtime scenery loading

2004-08-17 Thread Matevz Jekovec
There were already few discussions about this a couple of months ago when terrasync was launched. My question is when I run terrasync and fgfs and fly where there's no terrain available yet, do I need to restart fgfs session for the new terrain to take effect, or are fgfs and terrasync already

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 0.9.5-1

2004-08-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Matevz Jekovec wrote: Why not simply name it 0.9.5.1 (latest kernel is 2.6.8.1 as well as they found a tiny bug in 2.6.8 version). Letters behind a version could mess with things like a for Alpha, b for Beta, RC for Release Candidate and so on. I think 0.9.5.1 is the only logical explenation to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] terrasync realtime scenery loading

2004-08-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Matevz Jekovec wrote: There were already few discussions about this a couple of months ago when terrasync was launched. My question is when I run terrasync and fgfs and fly where there's no terrain available yet, do I need to restart fgfs session for the new terrain to take effect, or are fgfs

[Flightgear-devel] Re: terrasync realtime scenery loading

2004-08-17 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Matevz Jekovec -- Tuesday 17 August 2004 14:29: My question is when I run terrasync and fgfs and fly where there's no terrain available yet, do I need to restart fgfs session for the new terrain to take effect, or are fgfs and terrasync already synchronized now and is the new terrain

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: FlightGear/src/Main metar_main.cxx, 1.3,

2004-08-17 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman wrote: Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/FlightGear/src/Main In directory baron:/tmp/cvs-serv1037 Modified Files: metar_main.cxx Log Message: The next version of the two hourly metar update from Melchior: add proxy handling.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS:

2004-08-17 Thread Martin Spott
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Martin Spott -- Tuesday 17 August 2004 12:24: vpngw: 12:07:27 ~ bin/metar -v EDLN INPUT: 2004/08/17 08:50 EDLN 170850Z VRB03KT CAVOK 22/17 Q1008 METAR Report ^ [...] Sky condition: clear skies

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS:

2004-08-17 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Martin Spott -- Tuesday 17 August 2004 15:28: I just realized you already calculate the rel. humidity from temperature and dewpoint. You could calculate the cloud base from these two numbers and the airport elevation as well - at least our instructor taught us to do so in case of of doubt.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] terrasync realtime scenery loading

2004-08-17 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Matevz Jekovec -- Tuesday 17 August 2004 14:29: My question is when I run terrasync and fgfs and fly where there's no terrain available yet, do I need to restart fgfs session for the new terrain to take effect, or are fgfs and terrasync already synchronized now

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 0.9.5-1

2004-08-17 Thread Jim Wilson
Erik Hofman said: Matevz Jekovec wrote: Why not simply name it 0.9.5.1 (latest kernel is 2.6.8.1 as well as they found a tiny bug in 2.6.8 version). Letters behind a version could mess with things like a for Alpha, b for Beta, RC for Release Candidate and so on. I think 0.9.5.1 is

[Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear 0.9.5-1

2004-08-17 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Erik Hofman -- Tuesday 17 August 2004 10:53: Not to mention a number of fixes in plib (including rather important joystick fixes) and fgrun. Oh, and not to mention the addition of the wonderful Spitfire and the Concorde, both of which IIRC didn't make it into 0.9.5. :-) m.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 0.9.5-1

2004-08-17 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jim Wilson wrote: Erik Hofman said: Matevz Jekovec wrote: Why not simply name it 0.9.5.1 (latest kernel is 2.6.8.1 as well as they found a tiny bug in 2.6.8 version). Letters behind a version could mess with things like a for Alpha, b for Beta, RC for Release Candidate and so on. I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 0.9.5-1

2004-08-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: I usually plan on a full week of *all* my non-work spare time plus some to get a release out. Right now I'm getting hammered at work and at home so I don't have *any* spare time. I have to go out of town for the entire weekend which means I'll be playing catchup most of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 'Nother Newbie.

2004-08-17 Thread John Wojnaroski
i started looking at flight gear hoping that there would be a way to get at system internals from outside the box so that i could build my own simulated radio stack and hook it up. can anyone tell me if there is already a part of your project devoted to this, or if you think it's even

Re: [Flightgear-devel] terrasync realtime scenery loading

2004-08-17 Thread Matevz Jekovec
Just a thought : on windows, there is a system call that enable a program to receive events when a files in a subtree changes. I don't know for Linux and other unix though. I already heard about something called FAM but I don't know if it is built in the kernel now. And I have no idea about the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] terrasync realtime scenery loading

2004-08-17 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Matevz Jekovec wrote: Just a thought : on windows, there is a system call that enable a program to receive events when a files in a subtree changes. I don't know for Linux and other unix though. I already heard about something called FAM but I don't know if it is built in the kernel now. And I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] terrasync realtime scenery loading

2004-08-17 Thread Matevz Jekovec
Terrasync started out as a one-evening hack/demonstration so it was never intended to be a full fledged solution and cover every angle and possibility. Yeah, but found itself a very useful tool among fgfs users. Maybe even a start of multiplayer gaming, which includes terrain downloading from