RE: [Flightgear-devel] poll (more complex than at first appears?)

2005-06-11 Thread Jon Berndt
Andy wrote: whereas YASim allows different gear object to retract independently. !!! ... now there's a thought. Hmmm. I feel a feature request coming for JSBSim. :-) Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org

RE: [Flightgear-devel] poll

2005-06-10 Thread Jon Berndt
I am surprised to hear that JSBsim allows flying underground. It seems pretty non-sensical to me. I don't think any other FDM allows flight through material that is denser than air. I've had to put my earth-worm simulator on the backburner for now anyway so I don't see this as a very

RE: [Flightgear-devel] After crash , Restart ?

2005-06-07 Thread Jon Berndt
I believe you are seeing the results of a new capability that Dave Culp added to JSBSim recently. Jon Gerard ROBIN wrote: after crash, the aircraft is again in normal startup situation, we have not time to see place and position of crash. Is it new? if yes how can we disable that new

[Flightgear-devel] Sensors

2005-06-06 Thread Jon Berndt
What is the current state of modeling sensors in FlightGear? There's a discussion in the JSBSim group about the technical aspects of modeling sensors from an engineering / simulation perspective. Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Animation Was: jsbsim airstream info

2005-06-05 Thread Jon Berndt
Jon Berndt wrote: It's alpha and beta. in radians: aero/alpha-rad aero/beta-rad in degrees: aero/alpha-deg aero/beta-deg Hmm, it appears that these only show the aircraft's angles relative to it's own velocity vector. I also need to sum in the crosswind so that I get

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Animation Was: jsbsim airstream info

2005-06-05 Thread Jon Berndt
OK, got it working. On another note, are interpolation tables supposed to work everywhere factor tags do? They don't for spin animations, which would be handy for me right now. You can use TABLES in FACTOR definitions, as with ground effect mods to the lift coefficient in this example from the

RE: [Flightgear-devel] jsbsim airstream info

2005-06-04 Thread Jon Berndt
It's alpha and beta. in radians: aero/alpha-rad aero/beta-rad in degrees: aero/alpha-deg aero/beta-deg Jon OK, I'm trying to find what the air velocity relative to the fuselage of a jsbsim plane is. I'm pretty sure the info is in /fdm/jsbsim/atmosphere, but I don't know which values are

[Flightgear-devel] Aircraft models

2005-06-03 Thread Jon Berndt
I'm interested in tallying up the existing JSBSim aircraft flight models. I'd be interested to know (either by posting here or sending me a personal email) which aircraft you have modeled. It seems there are a lot of models floating around that are not really known about (albeit in various

RE: [Flightgear-devel]Re:[Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Models/Airport beacon.xml, 1.8,

2005-05-30 Thread Jon Berndt
Is the ground cache for the benefit of the FDM? The FDMs are currently the only users of the groundcache, and yes, they benefit from it. A lot. Per-wheel/contact-point ground awareness hadn't been done before Mathias implemented the ground cache. And probably it would have been a big

[Flightgear-devel] OpenAL for CygWin

2005-05-30 Thread Jon Berndt
I'm finally getting around to reinstalling FlightGear after a hard drive crash a couple months ago. I have this as a place to get OpenAL for Cygwin: http://www.vso.cape.com/~nhv/files/fgfs/openal.tgz Is this still the latest/best dist? Jon ___

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Problems with todays CVS

2005-05-30 Thread Jon Berndt
* Erik Hofman -- Monday 30 May 2005 18:22: I don't get it, I didn't see this behavior until after I committed the patches, when I noticed it once. Melchior has these patches also applied and didn't complain. And I first saw it when I tried to reproduce Jon's problem. Which worked.

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Problems with todays CVS

2005-05-30 Thread Jon Berndt
Only the **C-172** doesn't? Or, any JSBSim aircraft? I tried several aircraft: all YASim worked. None of the JSBSim aircraft did. But I wouldn't worry about it. Give Mathias a few hours time. That's probably not hard to fix. (And enjoy the bo105 in the meantime! :-) m. You suspect the new

RE: [Flightgear-devel]Re:[Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Models/Airport beacon.xml, 1.8,

2005-05-30 Thread Jon Berndt
On Monday 30 May 2005 13:21, Jon Stockill wrote: I'm not certain the area that the ground cache covers, but I suspect it has applications beyond just contact points. ISTR Lee was wanting to know ground elevation a distance ahead of the aircraft for the terrain following mode of the TSR2s

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re:[Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Models/Airport beacon.xml, 1.8,

2005-05-29 Thread Jon Berndt
Melchior FRANZ wrote: For those who care: these changes to the beacon solve one of the recently discussed problems with hanging FDM: The beacon is a quite expensive structure. It consists of about 1000 vertices and 950 triangles, all on the same spot. When you fly over a beacon, the

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Scenery size constraints

2005-05-27 Thread Jon Berndt
directly. We aren't trying to eventually replace JSBsim with a proprietary flight dynamics model here so please, I don't want anyone to worry. :-) coughJon/cough :-) My main goal for attending this show was to show the flexibility and adaptability of FlightGear as an engineering and rapid

[Flightgear-devel] How to control the simulation time of JSBSim (repost from JSBSim-devel)

2005-05-25 Thread Jon Berndt
This is actually a good question to pass along to the FlightGear developers list, too. I'll repost any good answers here to the JSBSim list. Andreas wrote: I want to use JSBSim to simulate an airplane (no matter which airplane, so I use the Cessna). ... The problem now is that the

RE: [Flightgear-devel] FDM freeze

2005-05-25 Thread Jon Berndt
Lately I've been flying around German terrain and have been getting an FDM freeze at seemingly random occasions after flying for ten minutes or so. Here's a screenshot of the freeze: http://home.comcast.net/~davidculp2/fdm_freeze.jpg The user airplane is frozen, but other things

RE: [Flightgear-devel] c172r-yasim solution error

2005-05-21 Thread Jon Berndt
On Freitag 20 Mai 2005 16:37, Andy Ross wrote: Mathias Fröhlich wrote: At first I need to know how this local frame is meant. What I have found from the code is that it is meant to be the *geodetic* horizontal local frame. But is is meant to be fixed at the aircraft and thus rotates

RE: [Flightgear-devel] c172r-yasim solution error

2005-05-18 Thread Jon Berndt
That would be ideal, however there seems to be a dis-connection between the EOM in the JSB models that's present in the YASim model. Of course, I'm comparing the PA-28 to the c172 models, but the PA-128 will drive the energy markers within the HUD according to model velocities and

RE: [Flightgear-devel] c172r-yasim solution error

2005-05-18 Thread Jon Berndt
c172 JBS Axx, Ayy, Azz seem always zero where PA-28 and A-10 YASim have values. This effectively makes t2 = 0 and defeats the pot_slope from any value other than Vx, Vy, Vz. Mike Interesting. Since I lost a hard drive recently and haven't had time to reinstall FlightGear yet, I'll have

RE: [Flightgear-devel] c172r-yasim solution error

2005-05-18 Thread Jon Berndt
I'm a bit hazy on the reference frames, and I don't have a book handy, but it looks to me as if JSBSim doesn't calculate accelerations in the local frame (north, east, down). Maybe Jon or Mathias can weigh in on this, but looking at Propagate.h I see local-frame velocities available through

RE: [Flightgear-devel] c172r-yasim solution error

2005-05-17 Thread Jon Berndt
I'm using the energy markers in the HUD to define inputs to the student and the Yasim FDM seems to support more HUD components than the JBS FDM... Mike ?? I would have figured the HUD symbology is FDM-independent. Jon ___

RE: [Flightgear-devel] HLA Support

2005-05-12 Thread Jon Berndt
Was HLA support ever added to flightgear? ..what do you mean by HLA support? https://www.dmso.mil/public/transition/hla/ The High Level Architecture (HLA) is a general purpose architecture for simulation reuse and interoperability. The HLA was developed under the leadership of the

RE: [Flightgear-devel] RE: Thanks

2005-05-11 Thread Jon Berndt
You might want to post this to the JSBSim mailing list, too. There is a growing amount of discussion there about modeling helos in JSBSim, if that is what you are aiming for. Jon - ghours wrote: I have tried to make two helicopters as close as possible to the

[Flightgear-devel] New JSBSim Newsletter posted

2005-05-04 Thread Jon Berndt
The Spring 2005 issue of Back of the Envelope has been posted at the JSBSim web site (www.jsbsim.org). This issue features lots of news on various projects that JSBSim (and FlightGear!) are being used. There is also an article on a new editor that is well into development - and editor that

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: nimitz ai model : solid material, versus yasim jsb

2005-04-30 Thread Jon Berndt
You only need the JSBSim diff (and the FA18, of course :-). I don't know it the diff does still apply, though. (It's Mathias' work, not mine.) The diff still applies, since JSBSim is developed elsewhere. Erik usually moves changes from JSBSim to flightgear before a release of fg. Until

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Congratulation to Airbus for thesuccessfulfirst flight of the A380

2005-04-27 Thread Jon Berndt
* Ampere K. Hardraade -- Wednesday 27 April 2005 14:39: Another congratulation is in order -- successful landing. I'm shocked! How could this happen!? Hasn't that (Boeing founded) study pointed out basic problems with the A380? m. :-} I'm not aware that Boeing has claimed any such

RE: [Flightgear-devel] YASim turbo/supercharger issues

2005-04-22 Thread Jon Berndt
Probably several. YASim has one for doing interpolation of standard atmosphere parameters, and I'm sure there's a similar engine in the JSBSim code, which depends on tables extensively in its configuration. Yeah, that's something that could be a project in itself. There are a few ways to do

RE: [Flightgear-devel] YASim turbo/supercharger issues

2005-04-22 Thread Jon Berndt
It's nice to be able to have backout routines for interpolation tables, as well, which can be extremely helpful in initialization code. For tables up to 3d with fixed independent indices (is this what you meant by 'grid', or did you mean fixed intervals?), this is pretty straightforward.

RE: [Flightgear-devel] b-29 alpha

2005-04-08 Thread Jon Berndt
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 17:36, Erik Hofman wrote: Yes, the C172p. At least and the F-104, F-15 and F-16 are based on windtunnel data. The T-37 is partially based on flight test data. And Both the Fokker 70/100 and Fokker 50 use available data where possible. None of them are extensively

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Help with B-29

2005-03-16 Thread Jon Berndt
Josh Babcock wrote: As for the directory, it is Engines, but that doesn't matter, I tried it both ways and it pretty much does the same thing. I just took a closer look at this. I had misread the strace before. Here's what I found that it's doing: This might be a silly question, but

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Help with B-29

2005-03-14 Thread Jon Berndt
Yeah, I actually took a look at that. I have a handle on how to do the XML, I just don't have the expertise to make the actual sound files. The DC3 engine sounds are nice, but they don't quite have that throaty sound that you get from an 18 cyl radial. I found a few recordings, but they

[Flightgear-devel] Automake

2005-03-01 Thread Jon Berndt
I'm restructuring the JSBSim directories in my local development environment, in hopes that it will simplify the development task and allow easier comprehension of the file structure. I'm learning about the autoconf/automake process. Right now I'm trying to learn about the Makefile.am files. I

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument headaches

2005-02-23 Thread Jon Berndt
However I thought JSBSim was just a flight dynamics engine? Even if these features were added to an aircraft config file FG would still have to be modified so that instruments can also have their own separate config files otherwise you end up coding the instrument maths/logic into the

RE: [Flightgear-devel] property sytem - design guidelines

2005-02-19 Thread Jon Berndt
just a quick question: are there any guidelines regarding the scope at which property system values should be accessed? E.g., when should classes communicate values via the property system (if at all)? At which level in the program structure / by which entities should the property system be

[Flightgear-devel] wxWindows on Cygwin

2005-02-19 Thread Jon Berndt
Anyone ever try to get wxWindows to compile under Cygwin? I'm getting a strange SOCKET and m_timeout error. Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

RE: [Flightgear-devel] how to find remaining fuel

2005-02-04 Thread Jon Berndt
Jon S. Berndt wrote: I haven't been following this thread very closely. Can someone concisely recap what is wanted, here? It's most likely a very simple addition for us if it's something we don't now model. Actually, YASim uses a Nasal-based fuel system that was designed to be

RE: [Flightgear-devel] how to find remaining fuel

2005-02-04 Thread Jon Berndt
With JSBSim, you could write a property interface manager for these guys that replaces the internal internal fuel/weight managers you have right now. If you wanted, you could actually write property listeners to override the current property nodes and wire their get/set operations directly

RE: [Flightgear-devel] how to find remaining fuel

2005-02-03 Thread Jon Berndt
I have been using the c172 aircraft. Is it controlled by jsbsim or ysim? Thanks, Seamus I vaguely recall hearing that there is a C-172 for each of those two FDMs. If you are refrring to the default c172, that's _probably_ the JSBSim one. I haven't been following this thread very closely.

[Flightgear-devel] New JSBSim Newsletter Released

2005-01-31 Thread Jon Berndt
The latest issue of Back of the Envelope, the newsletter for the JSBSim Flight Dynamics Model, has been posted at the JSBSim web site. You can download the PDF and read it by going to www.jsbsim.org and clicking on the newsletter link. Articles in this issue: - JSBSim Configuration File Format

RE: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 0.9.8, Mac OS X build

2005-01-21 Thread Jon Berndt
..hell no! Point these assholes to any good Islamic site to show'em how these Religious Righteous Spammers Errs as humanoids. You should not generalize, ..hell yeah, you're right, what I meant was any good Islamic shows how most people are primitive muslims who are nearly there,

RE: [Flightgear-devel] v1.0 musings (was: Aircraft included in basepackage)

2005-01-20 Thread Jon Berndt
Let me steer this discussion in another direction ... I would really love to start talking about doing a v1.0 release of FlightGear ... maybe this spring or early summer. There are a couple 3. Fix the JSBsim low speed gear jitters. Here's my one and only *big* gripe about JSBsim ... gear

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft included in base package

2005-01-20 Thread Jon Berndt
Ok wrong word. Let me just say that it seems to lack some magic. Setting up the p51d in Yasim was not my original intention as Jon S. Berdnt was claiming at the time I started the 3D that he had a nearly working JSBSim model. ... which I did. I thought. The more I looked at the numbers for

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft included in base package

2005-01-18 Thread Jon Berndt
c172, c172-le, c172p, c172r, c172x - I don't have the energy to sort out the dependencies so throw it all in. The C-172X is purely a development model It should definitely NOT be released. Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Individual aircraft downloads

2005-01-17 Thread Jon Berndt
In addition to the status tag, I also support a author and version tags. It would be great if people could go through and fill in these fields as they can. Is that for the FDM? JSBSim v2 config files will feature this header (partially in working with the DAVE-ML spec): fileheader

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Antonov AN-225.

2005-01-17 Thread Jon Berndt
Does anyone know if there is something similar in JSBSim? It seems that the spoilers there are only symmetric, so are useful for landing, but not for in flight use? -- Adam It hasn't been done, yet - I was just discussing this offline with someone. Let me say that, yes, it certainly CAN be

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Antonov AN-225.

2005-01-17 Thread Jon Berndt
That sounds to me like the difficulty is in choosing (finding?) the coefficients, rather than in the coding of JSBSim? I don't mean to minimize the difficulty of finding all of those coefficients, but in some sense that is really a different problem than can JSBSim do it? No new code is

[Flightgear-devel] NASA Goes 'Down Under' for Shuttle Mapping Mission Finale

2005-01-06 Thread Jon Berndt
Alan Buis (818) 354-0474 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Gretchen Cook-Anderson (202) 358-0836 NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. Howard Cohen (301) 227-3105 National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, Md. News Release: 2005-004 Jan. 6, 2005 NASA Goes ‘Down Under’ for

RE: [Flightgear-devel] EasyXML problem?

2004-12-30 Thread Jon Berndt
The problems were twofold: 1) I was not correctly allowing for split chunks (multiple data() calls). 2) I need to have table data as it is, now. Almost fixed. But, the kids are up and it's time for breakfast... Jon OK, I fixed the problem. Here's what I do now in FGXMLParse (my

RE: [Flightgear-devel] EasyXML problem?

2004-12-30 Thread Jon Berndt
That sounds like the right approach to me (and I'm an expert because I took a compilers class 15 years ago and we used the Dragon book.) :-) Curt. I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express, once ... :-) Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

RE: [Flightgear-devel] EasyXML problem?

2004-12-29 Thread Jon Berndt
No, there is no guarantee that the string will be non-empty (that goes down to the underlying XML library). Again, make sure that you set value = at the start event, and then process value at the corresponding end event. David OK, I think I've figured out what the mitigating circumstance

RE: [Flightgear-devel] EasyXML problem?

2004-12-29 Thread Jon Berndt
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 08:06:13 -0600, Jon Berndt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It appears that entire tables could be read in as one data chunk. I need to do processing in that case and manually separate the data rows. I think I've almost got this one figured out. Sounds good. The main

RE: [Flightgear-devel] EasyXML problem?

2004-12-28 Thread Jon Berndt
Make sure you blank the string at the start tag. David Here's what's in the Traffic Manager: void FGTrafficManager::data (const char * s, int len) { string token = string(s,len); if (( token.find( ) == string::npos (token.find('\n')) == string::npos)) {

RE: [Flightgear-devel] EasyXML problem?

2004-12-28 Thread Jon Berndt
: [Flightgear-devel] EasyXML problem? On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:41:55 -0600, Jon Berndt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: void FGTrafficManager::data (const char * s, int len) { string token = string(s,len); if (( token.find( ) == string::npos (token.find('\n')) == string

RE: [Flightgear-devel] C172P Model Year?

2004-12-20 Thread Jon Berndt
Hmm, I thought I already had, but it seems I'm mistaken. It's in the LaRCsim code (IO360.cxx), but never made it over to JSBSim's FGPiston.cpp. I believe I was gunning for about 25 rpm drop on one vs. two magnetos in the original code. I'll port it over... Dave: There are two active

RE: [Flightgear-devel] My 172P work for appraisal

2004-12-19 Thread Jon Berndt
Screen shot? :-) Jon If you'd like to try the c172p you can grab it here: http://www.cyfinity.com/fgfs/c172p.tar.gz (extract in your /data/Aircraft folder but back-up your existing 172p first! ;) ) Any feedback you can give me is greatly appreciated :-)

RE: [Flightgear-devel] My 172P work for appraisal

2004-12-19 Thread Jon Berndt
Pretty! Jon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dave Martin Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 5:03 PM To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] My 172P work for appraisal On Sunday 19 Dec 2004 22:03, Jon

RE: [Flightgear-devel] control surface normalization

2004-12-17 Thread Jon Berndt
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Personally, I would be in favor of using angles to describe the positions of left/right aileron, elevator, rudder and nose/tail wheel. Please, not for the wheels. Really. It doesn't probably matter too much for 3d animation if your

RE: [Flightgear-devel] control surface normalization

2004-12-17 Thread Jon Berndt
On Behalf Of Arnt Karlsen On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:22:17 +0100, Gordan wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Pilots are taught to think in terms of pressure on stick not displacement. That is part of the reason that the F-16 is built the way it is. ..this used to be the doctrine

RE: [Flightgear-devel] control surface normalization

2004-12-17 Thread Jon Berndt
Also, ask yourself the question, does the normalized value of, say, 0.5 really correspond to 30 degrees of flaps when the total range is 0 to 60? It should be, if the FDM does it's thing right. Erik Not so fast. Aero tables might be indexed for flaps based on angle. If the flaps are

RE: [Flightgear-devel] control surface normalization

2004-12-17 Thread Jon Berndt
Curtis L. Olson wrote: It doesn't probably matter too much for 3d animation if your conversion factor get's you close. There is another thing, all doors, struts and support bars are animated based on the gear extension. While the main gear extension might be perfectly valid in degrees,

RE: [Flightgear-devel] control surface normalization

2004-12-17 Thread Jon Berndt
Jon Berndt wrote: good chance that you're not going to get exactly 30 degrees flaps. The actuator mechnism probably won't linearly extend the flaps due to the compound nature of the flap mechanisms. If that is the case the FDM should know about it more than anything else IMHO

RE: [Flightgear-devel] control surface normalization

2004-12-17 Thread Jon Berndt
Boy, do I enjoy a vigorous debate, especially when I am right. Unfortunately, in this case, I appears that I did not consider all the needs of the animation system. Neither one should have to be designed to make up for something the other doesn't do. So I think the best thing to do, as we've

RE: [Flightgear-devel] control surface normalization

2004-12-17 Thread Jon Berndt
Would you mind repeating your original intention, Jon? Ampere I started out with the question: Can anyone recommend a good digital camcorder? and it went downhill from there. ;-) Here was my original question: I'd like to remove the code that normalizes angular measurement, but I am told

RE: [Flightgear-devel] control surface normalization

2004-12-16 Thread Jon Berndt
Hi, I agree with Norman. As long as control system is of concern, it is much better to use normalized units. Control law block diagrams I have seen take stick input in pounds force (pilot inputs) and output in degrees to actuators. I've never seen one that output control commands to an

[Flightgear-devel] control surface normalization

2004-12-15 Thread Jon Berndt
Do 3D models use a normalized range to model aerosurface rotation, or actual degree magnitude? I've been looking at the JSBSim flight control code and the addition of the code that normalizes aerosurface (elevator, aileron, etc.) rotation positions confuses the code, and appears to only be

RE: [Flightgear-devel] control surface normalization

2004-12-15 Thread Jon Berndt
And the Simgear 3D animation code is all about taking those normalized values and translating them to a representation of degrees movement. On the surface, this doesn't make sense to me either. Changing this on the FlightGear end and making the other FDMs compatible is quite a task though.

RE: [Flightgear-devel] ..Jon's mail server setup is ok?, was: FCS normalization

2004-12-15 Thread Jon Berndt
Jon's mail server setup is ok ..aaand... I am not sure yet what's going on with my email server[s]. I got an indication from SourceForge that they are aware of a problem and tell me I'll have a fix shortly. That's why I am using this list insteda of the JSBSim list - plus it needs to involve

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Things to do to improve Flightgear

2004-12-13 Thread Jon Berndt
For the splash screens we could organise a contest from users (yes, just like gimp and others do) and select the 5-6 top spashes for inclusion. Finally for the multi part i will check the code to see if i can help.This is where all the fun is :P I might have a look at doing some splash

RE: [Flightgear-devel] const and copy constructor

2004-12-10 Thread Jon Berndt
I think it complains the class has no constructor other than the copy one. you should try to add one : class MyClass { public: MyClass(AnotherClass *p); // constructor MyClass(const MyClass mc); // copy constructor private: AnotherClass* const ptrToAnotherClass; }

RE: [Flightgear-devel] const and copy constructor

2004-12-10 Thread Jon Berndt
But I don't know at the moment, why Jons code doesn't work :( CU, Christian For the moment, I'll just make it non-const. Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

RE: [Flightgear-devel] const and copy constructor

2004-12-10 Thread Jon Berndt
Alistair K Phipps writes: or use vector FGTable* rather than vector FGTable , Yes I prefer using this form too Norman I made a few small changes to use the pointer as described above by Alistair. That took care of the problem. Thanks guys. Jon

RE: [Flightgear-devel] const and copy constructor

2004-12-10 Thread Jon Berndt
Can you give a complete minimal example? I just tried the following one, and this compiles without problems, as it should: See below. Are you *using* the assignment operator for your class somewhere? Not that I know of. Cheers -Gerhard Header file for FGTable: --- start --- #include

RE: [Flightgear-devel] CVS and file moves

2004-12-09 Thread Jon Berndt
I've got shell access to SourceForge, but not to the cvs machine itself. I don't think I'd want to play with that, anyhow. This won't be a showstopper, just a minor inconvenience. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Megginson Sent:

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Parametric Tool

2004-12-09 Thread Jon Berndt
I'll forward this one to the JSBSim list. I think Bill might have a good answer for this one. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Ed BakerSent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 5:41 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject:

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Parametric Tool

2004-12-09 Thread Jon Berndt
Does anyone know if there is a parametric plane generator for FlightGear. Here's what I mean. If I have span, chord, wieght, center of gravity, pitching moment, coef_lift at various angles of attack, coef_drag like wise, prop efficiency, et cetera, Can I generate an aircraft config

[Flightgear-devel] const and copy constructor

2004-12-09 Thread Jon Berndt
I have a situation where I am getting an error and I am not sure why. I have a class MyClass that has a copy constructor. The class has a private member that is a const pointer (the pointer is constant - not what the pointer points to): class MyClass { public: MyClass(const MyClass mc); //

RE: [Flightgear-devel] error building libjsbsim.a

2004-12-06 Thread Jon Berndt
You have either a corrupted installation or a very old copy of FlightGear. Those files have not been in our distribution (or referenced) for somewhere around a year (maybe two). Jon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ron King Sent:

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft directory structure

2004-11-22 Thread Jon Berndt
I think the suggestions are getting more complicated than Curt had envisioned. I think a hierarchy such as that which Curt mentioned makes a lot of sense. Beyond that, Dave Culp and I discussed at one point how nice it would be if one could simply grab an aircraft tar file that contained

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Carrier

2004-11-21 Thread Jon Berndt
Hi, Apply carrier-operations.diff to flightgears source directory. Put JSBSim-dropin.tar.bz2 into the JSBSim subdirectory. Apply data.diff to the data directory. Use the slightly updated FA-18.tar.bz2. Note that if you drop this in atop the current JSBSim code I'm not quite sure what will

[Flightgear-devel] X-Plane on Linux

2004-11-08 Thread Jon Berndt
Looks like X-Plane is finally going Linux - not just the support apps, but the whole thing. I guess there's even a beta available. Anyone try it, yet? Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Flightgear-devel] JSBSim FAQ started

2004-11-07 Thread Jon Berndt
I've started a JSBSim FAQ at the JSBSim web site. See the link at the top of the main page or go to www.jsbsim.org/FAQ.html This is just a start of what I expect to be a long work in progress. Suggestions/submissions welcome. Jon ___

RE: [Flightgear-devel] AI carrier

2004-11-05 Thread Jon Berndt
I want to share a few impressions from my first landing on the nimitz. The carrier still does not move, but the wires are working with a demo implementation in JSBSim. Pics from the replay: http://na.uni-tuebingen.de/~frohlich/carrier/ :) Nice pics. Jon

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Plea for help: geometry/trigonometry problem

2004-11-03 Thread Jon Berndt
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[Flightgear-devel] RE: [Not-so-OFFLINE] Plea for help:geometry/trigonometry problem

2004-11-03 Thread Jon Berndt
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 19:40:57 -0600, Jon Berndt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I don't know if my calculations helped any, but it sure was a fun diversion for a little while ... Since Jon accidentally went online with this, I'd like to thank him for the work. It turned out that I didn't

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] [PATCH] classifyingdevelopment status of aircraft extending fgrun

2004-10-28 Thread Jon Berndt
JSBSim will report only (for config file format v2.0) RELEASE as: UNRELEASABLE ALPHA BETA RELEASE (or PRODUCTION) Jon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Erik Hofman Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 4:38 AM To: FlightGear developers

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users][PATCH] classifyingdevelopment status of aircraft extending fgrun

2004-10-28 Thread Jon Berndt
Jon Berndt wrote: JSBSim will report only (for config file format v2.0) RELEASE as: UNRELEASABLE ALPHA BETA RELEASE (or PRODUCTION) I think ALPHA and UNRELEASABLE are the same for FlightGear (unless you refer to unreleasable as non-GPL compliant, in which case I don't even want

[Flightgear-devel] Mixture

2004-10-24 Thread Jon Berndt
Is there a keyboard command for Mixture? I'm not comfortable that I am getting this set right with the mouse clicks. Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] Default airport

2004-10-23 Thread Jon Berndt
What is the elevation of the default runway in FlightGear? Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

[Flightgear-devel] Defaults

2004-10-23 Thread Jon Berndt
In addition, what is the temperature and atmospheric conditions at the default runway? I'd like to run a test with known conditions - i.e. I'd like to use our JSBSim internal atmosphere. I suspect that the atmospheric conditions are getting passed in by default, true? Jon

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Default airport

2004-10-23 Thread Jon Berndt
OK ... so: essentially sea level. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Norman Vine Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 6:08 PM To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: RE: [Flightgear-devel] Default airport Jon Berndt writes

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Defaults

2004-10-23 Thread Jon Berndt
6:29 PM To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: RE: [Flightgear-devel] Defaults Jon Berndt writes: In addition, what is the temperature and atmospheric conditions at the default runway? I'd like to run a test with known conditions - i.e. I'd like to use our JSBSim internal

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Trim quotes

2004-10-22 Thread Jon Berndt
5. Put your answer *under* the quoted text, not on top. Rationale: A: No. Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? A: Top posters Q: What is the most annoying thing on mailing lists? m. ;-) This one's not really a big deal to me. It's good to post replies on the bottom

[Flightgear-devel] New JSBSim Newsletter Issue

2004-10-21 Thread Jon Berndt
and items related to the use of JSBSim, a flight dynamics model that is used by FlightGear. As always, suggestions for future article topics, contributions of writing, corrections, etc. are welcome. Jon Berndt -- Project Coordinator JSBSim Flight Dynamics Model http://www.jsbsim.org

RE: [Flightgear-devel] CVS and branch development

2004-10-05 Thread Jon Berndt
How does one create a branch? I know how to tag changed files locally: cvs tag -b JSB_New_XML FGAircraft.cpp FGAircraft.h Is that what you mean? This is for creating a branch. Then you have to tell that you are working on it by doing : cvs update -r JSB_New_XML FGAircraft.cpp

RE: [Flightgear-devel] CVS and branch development

2004-10-05 Thread Jon Berndt
Well, I've just about had it with cvs branches. I tagged some files in a branch, then moved to a test directory and checked out that branch, but only got the branch-tagged files. I needed all of the files, except I wanted the updated files on the specified branch. One thing that makes this

RE: [Flightgear-devel] CVS and branch development

2004-10-05 Thread Jon Berndt
If I where you, I would tag the whole tree so that I wouldn't have to remember what are files that need to be in the branch and those that are not. cvs do a good job when adding or removing solely in the branch. Sounds like a good idea. Jon ___

RE: [Flightgear-devel] CVS and branch development

2004-10-04 Thread Jon Berndt
Just for the record: - Creating that new branch. How does one create a branch? I know how to tag changed files locally: cvs tag -b JSB_New_XML FGAircraft.cpp FGAircraft.h Is that what you mean? jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL

RE: [Flightgear-devel] CVS and branch development

2004-10-04 Thread Jon Berndt
Hi Jon, On Sonntag 03 Oktober 2004 16:06, Jon Berndt wrote: I am trying to save to JSBSim CVS some files I have modified for reading the new JSBSim XML format. These files should not be part of the main (HEAD) branch at the moment. I'm not sure I have done this correctly. Can a CVS

RE: [Flightgear-devel] CVS and branch development

2004-10-04 Thread Jon Berndt
Just for the record: - Creating that new branch. How does one create a branch? I know how to tag changed files locally: cvs tag -b JSB_New_XML FGAircraft.cpp FGAircraft.h Is that what you mean? This is for creating a branch. Then you have to tell that you are working on

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