Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Sim Reset

2005-12-20 Thread Stefan Seifert
Alex Romosan wrote: Alex Romosan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: + delete Atmosphere; Atmosphere=0; I know there's no real styleguide for FlightGear. But please let's stick to the one command per line rule. Lines are not that expensive after all :) And I think it's even more obvious, when

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next world scenery build

2005-12-20 Thread Stefan Seifert
Martin Spott wrote: Dave Culp wrote: Adding to that, think of the Scenery Objects database. This database has been live for several months now and we're far from the situation where we have to queue submissions because we can't cope with the workload. The opposite is the case: I'm happy for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next world scenery build

2005-12-20 Thread Stefan Seifert
Martin Spott wrote: I usually don't judge a piece of software after just one single use - I wonder how you managed to stick to FlightGear as it definitely has some rough edges for the first-time user. Having at least a second try with TaxiDraw does not only get you into routine, you probably

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next world scenery build

2005-12-20 Thread Stefan Seifert
Martin Spott wrote: Then, why don't you simply post a link to your work and ask someone else to have a look at it. I didn't feel offended by your decision not to try TaxiDraw, I simply can't follow your argument. That's actually an interesting idea. Didn't occur to me. So if someone wants

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Options saving patches

2005-12-17 Thread Stefan Seifert
Erik Hofman wrote: Lighten up, I just started looking at this patch since Fred promised to fill in the missing gaps. I just noticed, that this patch could break compilation, since in sg_patch.cxx the new method is called makeDir and in the header it's still makedir. I know, I should always

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Options saving patches

2005-12-17 Thread Stefan Seifert
Erik Hofman wrote: I noticed this already. I think I like it to be called create() instead, but that's a different matter. Maybe createDir? Because it's a member of SGPath which may as well be the path to a file. So it'd be confusing if path_to_a_file.create() created a directory. I

[Flightgear-devel] Options saving patches

2005-12-16 Thread Stefan Seifert
Hi, attached are the latest versions of my options saving patches. For those who missed it (probably because they were posted in the KLN89 GPS added thread): they implement persistent dialog options, so changes in rendering, static LOD and sound settings dialogs are made permanent. For this I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Freeglut and game mode

2005-12-15 Thread Stefan Seifert
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Is gamemode just broken in freeglut-2.2.0? Has anyone had this working with freeglut? I would have thought we would get a lot of complaints if something this basic didn't work? I always thought that this was a well known limitation of gamemode in FG, so never asked.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot GUI

2005-12-06 Thread Stefan Seifert
Steve Knoblock wrote: Perhaps the autopilot element could include the location of the Autopilot dialog. Then if the default was loaded it would just load the existing dialog. If a location was specified, then it would load the custom dialog. Something like systems autopilot

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [PATCH] GUI/menubar.[ch]xx, Main/fg_commands.cxx: add fgCommand to disable/enable menu entries

2005-12-06 Thread Stefan Seifert
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Melchior FRANZ -- Tuesday 06 December 2005 15:20: the attached patch adds an fgCommand that allows to disable/enable menu entries This should better be hooked into the property tree, so that one can directly set /sim/menubar/default/menu[2]/item[3]/enabled to

[Flightgear-devel] Another gcc 4.0.2/SUSE 10.0 problem: engine sounds

2005-12-02 Thread Stefan Seifert
Hi, as discussed already on IRC, there seems to be another gcc 4.0.2/SUSE 1.0 problem: engine sounds on the 737, Concorde and every other plane that uses thrust_lb[0] as base for the engine sound calculation don't work on this platform. Builds from SuSE 9.3 and from SUSE 10.0 compiled with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] No 0.9.9 scenery yet?

2005-11-30 Thread Stefan Seifert
Steve Hosgood wrote: But you could consider that after 1.0.0 things will change - if you make it so. Have a rule that the only tarballs and other packages on the FlightGear website are of the even subtree. Anyone wanting odd subtree stuff must go to the CVS for it. Make sure that the even

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KLN89 GPS added

2005-11-30 Thread Stefan Seifert
Buchanan, Stuart wrote: --- Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: What about labelling the fg tree with your own 1.0 pre-release label? And branching off it, only merging in the trunk changes that you see fit? I think this might result in the v1.0 release withering on the branch so to speak

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KLN89 GPS added

2005-11-30 Thread Stefan Seifert
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: For example I'd strongly consider the missing options saving a bug that has to be fixed before we give FlightGear to all the people out there. They are used to this behavior from nearly every program they use, and will expect the same from FG.

[Flightgear-devel] f16 flares do not work anymore - patch

2005-11-30 Thread Stefan Seifert
Releasing flares on the f16 did not work anymore. Thanks to Joacim and vivian we have a cure for this. Patch attached. Nine Index: f16-set.xml === RCS file: /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Aircraft/f16/f16-set.xml,v retrieving

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KLN89 GPS added

2005-11-30 Thread Stefan Seifert
Stefan Seifert wrote: The scope I thought about is actually not really difficult to reach. I do just want to make changes a user makes in the option dialogs (rendering options, level of detail, sound volume, maybe others) persistent. For this I changed SGProperty node to include a new

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RenderTexture bug

2005-11-24 Thread Stefan Seifert
Mathias Fröhlich wrote: On Donnerstag 24 November 2005 04:44, Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: X Error of failed request: GLXUnsupportedPrivateRequest Major opcode of failed request: 145 (GLX) Minor opcode of failed request: 16 (X_GLXVendorPrivate) Serial number of failed request: 30

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Release of v0.9.9 source code

2005-11-19 Thread Stefan Seifert
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Erik Hofman -- Friday 18 November 2005 18:36: After this release we'll only accept bug-fixes to the code, except for the new JSBSim version. Any major code changes that are not intended to fix one or more bugs will have to wait. One new feature *must* go in.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Getting Started Guide - Terrain/Objects

2005-11-14 Thread Stefan Seifert
Buchanan, Stuart wrote: OK, I'll suggest /var/share/FlightGear/WorldScenery/[Terrain|Objects] for *nix, and FG_ROOT\Scenery\[Terrain|Objects] for Windows. I'm sure you meant /usr/share/FlightGear/... and not /var. Just to clarify, Nine ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Getting Started Guide - Terrain/Objects

2005-11-14 Thread Stefan Seifert
Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Stefan Seifert wrote: Buchanan, Stuart wrote: OK, I'll suggest /var/share/FlightGear/WorldScenery/[Terrain|Objects] for *nix, and FG_ROOT\Scenery\[Terrain|Objects] for Windows. I'm sure you meant /usr/share/FlightGear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Getting Started Guide - Terrain/Objects

2005-11-14 Thread Stefan Seifert
Oliver C. wrote: To make use of /usr/local/games/flightgear/ or /opt/flightgear/ by default we should change the configure script accordingly. As FlightGear is a self contained package (including binaries, libs and data) it belongs to /opt/flightgear according to the FHS. Which would also

[Flightgear-devel] saving options

2005-11-13 Thread Stefan Seifert
Hi, in an attempt to make fgfs a little more user friendly, I implemented persistence for changes to some options, namely the rendering dialog, sound volume and static-lod settings. They are saved to ~/.fgfs/preferences.xml on exit and loaded in on startup. This patch is just for review and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: A380 arrived in EDHI (Hamburg-Finkenwerder)

2005-11-12 Thread Stefan Seifert
Martin Spott wrote: Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: On another note, this was taken in Singapore recently: http://www.airliners.net/open.file/957790/L/ Compare to what we have in FlightGear now: http://www.students.yorku.ca/~ampere/fgfs-screen-005.jpg You might want to ignore the two

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: OT: FYI, mac os x developers,

2005-11-12 Thread Stefan Seifert
Jeff McBride wrote: This one is a little lost on me. I understand why quoting whole messages, and using HTML or various encoding schemes can be a nuisance, but to me it is easier to write and read replies at the top of the old message. I suppose if you are looking back in an archive, it might

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Review

2005-11-12 Thread Stefan Seifert
Alex Perry wrote: From: Martin Spott Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: Maybe some German-speaking user could point the reporters to Atlas for the moving map solution they describe as absent [...] I probably would do, but I don't have any experience with Atlas at all, so I'm unable

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Joystick issues with throttleAxis()

2005-11-11 Thread Stefan Seifert
Richard Bytheway wrote: I have used systems (PS, PS2, the driver for my Saitek joystick under Windows) which appear to monitor the highest and lowest values that have been seen from a given axis, and assume that these are the extremes of the axis. Obviously when you first start it up,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Which aircraft to include in v0.9.9?

2005-11-10 Thread Stefan Seifert
Innis Cunningham wrote: Hi Stefan Stefan Seifert writes Before 0.9.9 is released I think one problem should be resolved: on some planes (like the 737, f16, Concorde, fokker100) the engine sounds are missing. Specifically Sounds/jet.wav is not audible. I discussed this problem some

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Which aircraft to include in v0.9.9?

2005-11-10 Thread Stefan Seifert
Melchior FRANZ wrote: It's not the UFO that's superfluous, but the discussion about its removal. I wouldn't even list it as an aircraft that's up for discussion. Sheesh. Good point. I would drop it from the aircraft list, but not from distribution. It's no real aircraft and doesn't use

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Freeglut on SuSE 10.0

2005-11-10 Thread Stefan Seifert
Steve Knoblock wrote: I tried a suggestion on the SuSE forums to issue an yast -i package.rpm command, but nothing seemed to happen. No error, nothing was added to my Yast config as far as I can tell. I am uncomfortable (prefer to let Yast handle it) issuing an rpm command, but perhaps I should

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: howto compile on SuSE 10.0 running gcc

2005-11-09 Thread Stefan Seifert
Steve Knoblock wrote: On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 11:26:51 -0600, you wrote: freeglut (fgfs): Failed to create cursor freeglut ERROR: Function glutSetCursor called without first calling 'glutInit'. I installed freeglut, all three packages found in the SuSE library. Restarted and ran

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FG CVS error report

2005-11-09 Thread Stefan Seifert
Melchior FRANZ wrote: The funny thing is, though, that nobody came up with an alternative 'theme' yet. And why should one? The new style is very nice, not too intrusive when flighing at night. And it works now, so what more coule one want? Nine

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Which aircraft to include in v0.9.9?

2005-11-09 Thread Stefan Seifert
Before 0.9.9 is released I think one problem should be resolved: on some planes (like the 737, f16, Concorde, fokker100) the engine sounds are missing. Specifically Sounds/jet.wav is not audible. I discussed this problem some weeks ago on the IRC channel and tried to find out what's causing

[Flightgear-devel] 737 nosewheel animations

2005-11-09 Thread Stefan Seifert
Hi, attached are two small patches for giving the 737 nosewheel some animations. Namely it rotates when steering and compresses on breaking. For the latter I attached a one line patch that let's JSBsim expose compression-norm to the property tree just like YaSim. I don't know if this is in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] howto compile on SuSE 10.0 running gcc 4.0.2 and freeglut 2.4.0

2005-11-08 Thread Stefan Seifert
Torsten Dreyer wrote: Hi everybody, just tried to get latest CVS compiled on a fresh install of SuSE 10.0. It has gcc 4.0.2 and freeglut 2.4.0 installed. It compiles, but does not run due to the known freeglut (fgfs): Failed to create cursor freeglut ERROR: Function glutSetCursor called

[Flightgear-devel] OpenGL on Suse

2005-11-06 Thread Stefan Seifert
configure: error: OpenGL header file not found Please just install the xorg-x11-Mesa-devel package. Your 3d seems to work just fine and there is no 3d without OpenGL in Linux. Also your xorg.conf is just fine with Driver fglrx on modern ATIs. If configure is complaining about something