Re: [Flightgear-devel] Panel font crash

2002-10-19 Thread Simon Fowler
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 04:05:52PM -0400, David Megginson wrote: > Andy Ross writes: > > > The attached one-liner fixes the problem, but someone with more > > knowlege should probably think of a better solution. We shouldn't be > > initializing static state from within a member initializer. M

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Panel font crash

2002-10-18 Thread David Megginson
Andy Ross writes: > I continue to believe that a 2D panel layout is an easier problem for > cockpit wonks to deal with than a 3D modelling application is, FWIW. > Some instruments, like the gyro ball, really are inherently 3D and > can't be easily placed on a 2D panel. But pretty much everyth

re: [Flightgear-devel] Panel font crash

2002-10-18 Thread David Megginson
Andy Ross writes: > The attached one-liner fixes the problem, but someone with more > knowlege should probably think of a better solution. We shouldn't be > initializing static state from within a member initializer. Maybe > there's a need for a "panel subsystem" as separate from the individ

[Flightgear-devel] Panel font crash

2002-10-18 Thread Andy Ross
I grabbed current CVS last night for the first time in a while, and got bitten by a bug with the 3D panel support. Has anyone else noticed this? What happens is that on an aircraft with no 2D panel at all (a4, c172-3d, but oddly not the j3cub), the sim crashes at startup. The first problem was t