Re: [Flightgear-devel] link to my homepage

2005-01-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: I could also wish a few things. 1. That we treat everyone with respect. Yes please, with no exception!! The logical consequence would be that you (and maybe Arthur as well) give a _credible_ signal to us that you respect our faith as much as yours -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Patch for : Input/Joysticks/Microsoft/sidewinder-force-feed-pro.xml

2005-01-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Paul Surgeon wrote: The rudder and throttle need swapping based on the OS just like the Sidewinder Precision Pro. It has been committed. Thanks. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org

RE: [Flightgear-devel] link to my homepage

2005-01-23 Thread Vivian Meazza
Erik Hofman wrote Martin Spott wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: I could also wish a few things. 1. That we treat everyone with respect. Yes please, with no exception!! The logical consequence would be that you (and maybe Arthur as well) give a _credible_ signal to us that you

[Flightgear-devel] FG GUI toolkits

2005-01-23 Thread Paul Surgeon
Can someone comment on how FLTK works under OpenGL? Would it be possible to use FLTK and all it's nice widgets in FG and drop the rather crude PUI toolkit? Paul ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org

[Flightgear-devel] AirportList

2005-01-23 Thread Andrew Midosn
I have been playing around with trying to get the 'Select Airport from List' option within FlightGear working. So far I have managed to get the dialog to close and FlightGear to restart when the 'Apply' button is clicked (I just pinched the code from location-on-ground.xml). However, it's still

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG GUI toolkits

2005-01-23 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Paul Surgeon a écrit : Can someone comment on how FLTK works under OpenGL? Would it be possible to use FLTK and all it's nice widgets in FG and drop the rather crude PUI toolkit? fgrun and fgsd are here to prove OpenGL is possible with FLTK. You also can have a look at GLgooey :

[Flightgear-devel] Re: AirportList

2005-01-23 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Andrew Midosn -- Sunday 23 January 2005 14:20: The airport list control in the dialog is bound to the airport-id property, and I had assumed that this would be populated using the control's getStringValue() method. But this method doesn't appear to get called at all.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AirportList

2005-01-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Andrew Midosn wrote: I have been playing around with trying to get the 'Select Airport from List' option within FlightGear working. So far I have managed to get the dialog to close and FlightGear to restart when the 'Apply' button is clicked (I just pinched the code from location-on-ground.xml).

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG GUI toolkits

2005-01-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Paul Surgeon wrote: Can someone comment on how FLTK works under OpenGL? Would it be possible to use FLTK and all it's nice widgets in FG and drop the rather crude PUI toolkit? To be honest, I did some small first steps in developing using fltk recently and I didn't particularly like it (from a

RE: [Flightgear-devel] FG GUI toolkits

2005-01-23 Thread Norman Vine
Erik Hofman writes: Paul Surgeon wrote: Can someone comment on how FLTK works under OpenGL? Would it be possible to use FLTK and all it's nice widgets in FG and drop the rather crude PUI toolkit? To be honest, I did some small first steps in developing using fltk recently and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: AirportList

2005-01-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-devel/2004-December/033009.html Melchior, as I understand this it requires a change in plib as well as in FlightGear doesn't it (meaning there is no way to get it working without the plib change)? If so, then the discussion

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG GUI toolkits

2005-01-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Norman Vine wrote: Erik Hofman writes: Paul Surgeon wrote: Can someone comment on how FLTK works under OpenGL? Would it be possible to use FLTK and all it's nice widgets in FG and drop the rather crude PUI toolkit? To be honest, I did some small first steps in developing using fltk recently and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG GUI toolkits

2005-01-23 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Sunday, 23 January 2005 16:07, Norman Vine wrote: Full screen mode is doable in FLTK http://fltk.org/documentation.php/doc-1.1/Fl_Window.html#Fl_Window.fullscre en From some of the messages I've read it seems as if it's not truly full screen - just a maximized window without any borders.

[Flightgear-devel] Re: AirportList

2005-01-23 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Erik Hofman -- Sunday 23 January 2005 15:15: Melchior FRANZ wrote: http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-devel/2004-December/033009.html Melchior, as I understand this it requires a change in plib as well as in FlightGear doesn't it (meaning there is no way to get it working

[Flightgear-devel] How to convert from WGS84 coordinates?

2005-01-23 Thread Robicd
Hi, I've made a .ase 3d object (a Villa of my town) for a scenery. I have a satellite picture of the place where the Villa resides, which has datum wgs84 coordinates of the two corners of the bitmap. I really don't know how to convert such coordinates (1st corner is 353620.2/4225543.6, 2nd

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to convert from WGS84 coordinates?

2005-01-23 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Robicd wrote: Hi, I've made a .ase 3d object (a Villa of my town) for a scenery. I have a satellite picture of the place where the Villa resides, which has datum wgs84 coordinates of the two corners of the bitmap. I really don't know how to convert such coordinates (1st corner is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: AirportList

2005-01-23 Thread Andrew Midosn
--- Melchior FRANZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-devel/2004-December/033009.html So it can't be done without changes to PLIB. That's a shame. As far as scanning the scenery directory to work out which airports are available is concerned, I'm not

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AirportList

2005-01-23 Thread Andrew Midosn
--- Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm afraid I don't exactly understand what you are requesting here. Do you want to location of the gui-code that sets the property, do you want the code that generates the airport-list for the gui or do you still want something else? I had

[Flightgear-devel] Re: AirportList

2005-01-23 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Andrew Midosn -- Sunday 23 January 2005 16:54: --- Melchior FRANZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-devel/2004-December/033009.html So it can't be done without changes to PLIB. Wrong conclusion. The current code depends on two plib functions being

[Flightgear-devel] Possible config (file type) problem?

2005-01-23 Thread William Earnest
Hello, This morning the 0.9.8 package in WinXP, running normal defaults (KSFO, c172p) starts with all instruments normal. The current CVS compiled here in Fedora 3 is much the same, but sitting on 24R, the DG looks as expected, but the mag compass is showing North. Is some xml file dropping

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AirportList

2005-01-23 Thread Stewart Andreason
Andrew Midosn wrote: On the other hand, if most people feel that it isn't necessary (you can change airports by using Position Aircraft (on ground) after all) then the select from list option should probably be removed. I think the goal of having a list of airports, is to provide a way for the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgrun improvements

2005-01-23 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Frederic Bouvier a écrit : To bring fgrun to 1.0 quality grade, and after receiving suggestions from Curt, I am now planning to add basic options to the wizard instead of keeping them hidden behind the Advanced button. Maybe by reducing the size of the command line textfield ( it could also be

[Flightgear-devel] Nav radio and 3d instrument output.

2005-01-23 Thread Dave Martin
I noticed that you (Curtis) added a different output format for the Navradio frequencies in CVS. I had a quick play with this on both my own NavCom and the Citation's - unfortunately it still displays the wrong value on the panel. Last time I asked about this here, the discussion went into

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Possible config (file type) problem?

2005-01-23 Thread David Luff
William Earnest writes: Hello, This morning the 0.9.8 package in WinXP, running normal defaults (KSFO, c172p) starts with all instruments normal. The current CVS compiled here in Fedora 3 is much the same, but sitting on 24R, the DG looks as expected, but the mag compass is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgrun improvements

2005-01-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Frederic Bouvier wrote: This is in CVS now ( should show up in a few hours on SF ). In the meantime, a screenshot : http://frbouvi.free.fr/flightsim/fgrun-basic.jpg If you're going this path (and it certainly does look good) then you might want to consider removing the command-line textbox

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgrun improvements

2005-01-23 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Erik Hofman wrote : Frederic Bouvier wrote: This is in CVS now ( should show up in a few hours on SF ). In the meantime, a screenshot : http://frbouvi.free.fr/flightsim/fgrun-basic.jpg If you're going this path (and it certainly does look good) then you might want to consider removing the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgrun improvements

2005-01-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Frederic Bouvier wrote: Erik Hofman wrote : Frederic Bouvier wrote: This is in CVS now ( should show up in a few hours on SF ). In the meantime, a screenshot : http://frbouvi.free.fr/flightsim/fgrun-basic.jpg If you're going this path (and it certainly does look good) then you might want to

RE: [Flightgear-devel] fgrun improvements

2005-01-23 Thread Vivian Meazza
Fred wrote Erik Hofman wrote : Frederic Bouvier wrote: This is in CVS now ( should show up in a few hours on SF ). In the meantime, a screenshot : http://frbouvi.free.fr/flightsim/fgrun-basic.jpg If you're going this path (and it certainly does look good) then you might want to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Possible config (file type) problem?

2005-01-23 Thread William Earnest
David Luff wrote: William Earnest writes: Hello, This morning the 0.9.8 package in WinXP, running normal defaults (KSFO, c172p) starts with all instruments normal. The current CVS compiled here in Fedora 3 is much the same, but sitting on 24R, the DG looks as expected, but the mag compass is

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Possible config (file type) problem?

2005-01-23 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* William Earnest -- Sunday 23 January 2005 18:53: After last evening's snow and today's wind, the METAR from KABE is a bit messed up, and the parser that extracts the conditions went wild and clobbered who-knows-what in the properties. Sorry, but no. This is neither messed up, nor does it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] round robin mirror listing

2005-01-23 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis L. Olson wrote: If anyone runs into any problems with the system, please let me know. You probably could place the 'randomization' script into the document tree. I don't have /usr/local/bin/rand-mirrors.pl on that server, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Possible config (file type) problem?

2005-01-23 Thread William Earnest
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * William Earnest -- Sunday 23 January 2005 18:53: After last evening's snow and today's wind, the METAR from KABE is a bit messed up, and the parser that extracts the conditions went wild and clobbered who-knows-what in the properties. Sorry, but no. This is neither

[Flightgear-devel] Model animation

2005-01-23 Thread Jon Stockill
I've recently produced a model of a wind turbine, which I'm in the process of adding to the scenery, but when they're clustered together in groups it looks rather unnatural as they're all spinning round in perfect synchronisation. Is it possible to introduce some random offset to make things

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Possible config (file type) problem?

2005-01-23 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* William Earnest -- Sunday 23 January 2005 20:10: The missing item was the sky condition field, but the weather applet in RH reported it as invalid. Ok. SimGear is a bit more liberal. After all, many/most reports are generated by humans, and I didn't want to throw the whole message away

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Model animation

2005-01-23 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Jon Stockill a écrit : I've recently produced a model of a wind turbine, which I'm in the process of adding to the scenery, but when they're clustered together in groups it looks rather unnatural as they're all spinning round in perfect synchronisation. Is it possible to introduce some random

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgrun improvements

2005-01-23 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Vivian Meazza wrote : Fred wrote Erik Hofman wrote : Frederic Bouvier wrote: This is in CVS now ( should show up in a few hours on SF ). In the meantime, a screenshot : http://frbouvi.free.fr/flightsim/fgrun-basic.jpg If you're going this path (and it certainly does look

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Model animation

2005-01-23 Thread Dave Martin
On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 19:35, Jon Stockill wrote: I've recently produced a model of a wind turbine, which I'm in the process of adding to the scenery, but when they're clustered together in groups it looks rather unnatural as they're all spinning round in perfect synchronisation. Is it possible

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Possible config (file type) problem?

2005-01-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: With no sky report, FG showed the default scattered condition. Really? It shouldn't display scattered by default if METAR is on. Only CAVOK should creat a scattered layer. This is probably the network detection code kicking in. After three failed attempts, three seconds

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgrun improvements

2005-01-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Frederic Bouvier wrote: I implemented something in between : http://frbouvi.free.fr/flightsim/fgrun-basic-2.jpg The popup on this window is modal and stay as long as FG is running : http://frbouvi.free.fr/flightsim/fgrun-basic-3.jpg Much better, great work! Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: AirportList

2005-01-23 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Sunday, 23 January 2005 17:54, Andrew Midosn wrote: It might be more useful to be able to apply a filter to the list to reduce it in size. Probably filtering by state for the USA and by country for (most) of the rest of the world would be OK. Of course, we would have to have access to that

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Possible config (file type) problem?

2005-01-23 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Erik Hofman -- Sunday 23 January 2005 21:14: Melchior FRANZ wrote: * * William Earnest -- Sunday 23 January 2005 20:10: With no sky report, FG showed the default scattered condition. Really? It shouldn't display scattered by default if METAR is on. Only CAVOK should creat a scattered

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgrun improvements

2005-01-23 Thread Frederic Bouvier
to try : ftp://ftp.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear/Win32/fgrun-win32-20050123.zip -Fred ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgrun improvements

2005-01-23 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Frederic Bouvier wrote: This is in CVS now ( should show up in a few hours on SF ). In the meantime, a screenshot : http://frbouvi.free.fr/flightsim/fgrun-basic.jpg Looks great Frederic, good work! Curt. -- Curtis Olsonhttp://www.flightgear.org/~curt HumanFIRST Program

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Model animation

2005-01-23 Thread Jon Stockill
Frederic Bouvier wrote: Jon Stockill a écrit : I've recently produced a model of a wind turbine, which I'm in the process of adding to the scenery, but when they're clustered together in groups it looks rather unnatural as they're all spinning round in perfect synchronisation. Is it possible to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Model animation

2005-01-23 Thread Jon Stockill
Dave Martin wrote: On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 19:35, Jon Stockill wrote: I've recently produced a model of a wind turbine, which I'm in the process of adding to the scenery, but when they're clustered together in groups it looks rather unnatural as they're all spinning round in perfect synchronisation.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Model animation

2005-01-23 Thread Dave Martin
On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 21:30, Jon Stockill wrote: Frederic Bouvier wrote: Jon Stockill a écrit : I've recently produced a model of a wind turbine, which I'm in the process of adding to the scenery, but when they're clustered together in groups it looks rather unnatural as they're all

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to convert from WGS84 coordinates?

2005-01-23 Thread Robicd
Where should I look at for docs? The online ones where not very clear to me :-( Any help? fgsd can help you for that task. http://fgsd.sf.net Not very much since fgsd does not work very good under Win98, it crashes and I can't get him working with aerial pictures :-( still hungry for hints,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Possible config (file type) problem?

2005-01-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Erik Hofman -- Sunday 23 January 2005 21:14: This is probably the network detection code kicking in. After three failed attempts, three seconds apart (if I recall it correctly) the code will not do any further attempts to get the data I know, but I thought William is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Model animation

2005-01-23 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 21:34:04 +, Jon wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dave Martin wrote: On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 19:35, Jon Stockill wrote: I've recently produced a model of a wind turbine, which I'm in the process of adding to the scenery, but when they're clustered together

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Model animation

2005-01-23 Thread Jon Stockill
Frederic Bouvier wrote: If you look at the tower-medium.xml, you will have an idea on how it is made. Jon, I will see if I can do something during the week for the spin animation. Thanks. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing

RE: [Flightgear-devel] fgrun improvements

2005-01-23 Thread Vivian Meazza
better, great work! If someone want to try : ftp://ftp.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear/Win32/fgrun-win32-20050123.zip Works nicely. However, the advanced options repeat some of the ordinary options, I suppose this is a legacy of earlier software: illogical though. I can't see any great value

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgrun improvements

2005-01-23 Thread Frederic Bouvier
-3.jpg Much better, great work! If someone want to try : ftp://ftp.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear/Win32/fgrun-win32-20050123.zip Works nicely. However, the advanced options repeat some of the ordinary options, I suppose this is a legacy of earlier software: illogical though. I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Model animation

2005-01-23 Thread Dave Martin
On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 23:39, Frederic Bouvier wrote: Jon Stockill a écrit : Frederic Bouvier wrote: If you look at the tower-medium.xml, you will have an idea on how it is made. Jon, I will see if I can do something during the week for the spin animation. Soon on your screen :

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Model animation

2005-01-23 Thread Jorge Van Hemelryck
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 00:39:36 +0100 Frederic Bouvier wrote: Soon on your screen : http://frbouvi.free.fr/flightsim/fg-spin-perso.jpg Has this screenshot been taken near Perpignan, by any chance ? If so, they're among the best flying landmarks I know... Very nice... -- Jorge Van Hemelryck

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Model animation

2005-01-23 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On January 23, 2005 10:38 pm, Jorge Van Hemelryck wrote: On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 00:39:36 +0100 Frederic Bouvier wrote: Soon on your screen : http://frbouvi.free.fr/flightsim/fg-spin-perso.jpg Has this screenshot been taken near Perpignan, by any chance ? If so, they're among the best flying

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgrun improvements

2005-01-23 Thread Oliver C.
--(en/dis)able-enhanced-lighting This is in CVS now ( should show up in a few hours on SF ). In the meantime, a screenshot : http://frbouvi.free.fr/flightsim/fgrun-basic.jpg Very nice. But i suggest to move the enhanced-lighting option into the advanced menu or at least adding a notice in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft loading problem in 9.8

2005-01-23 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On January 21, 2005 09:01 am, Frederic Bouvier wrote: Quoting Innis Cunningham: Curtis L. Olson writes Innis, I had no problem loading the version Ampere sent me in v0.9.8. I did notice there was a large (and seemingly arbitrary) mix of file permission, capitalization, etc.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: AirportList

2005-01-23 Thread Andrew Midosn
--- Paul Surgeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The country codes for airports are already Robin's database - in fact he uses them as part of the primary key. However he won't add it to the airport file because X-plane doesn't use them and Austin Meyer doesn't want anything in the apt.dat