Re: [Flightgear-devel] keyboard mappings and Short Ref doc

2003-09-24 Thread Erik Hofman
Norman Vine wrote: Jim Wilson writes: Also F8 (Cycle fog type) and F9 (toggle textures) no longer work. Should thes bindings be removed? F8 seems to work on my machines Sigh It looks like F9 needs to get fixed again. This is a *very* useful essential debugging feature for anyone interested

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Atlas and recent rework of Airports

2003-09-24 Thread Erik Hofman
Dave Perry wrote: The recent changes from default.apt.gz to basic.dat.gz and runways.dat.gz breaks the use of Atlas. Even the CVS Atlas is still looking for default.apt.gz. Will we try to update Atlas before the FG9.3 release? I don't think we should delay the release because of Atlas since

Re: [Flightgear-devel] keyboard mappings and Short Ref doc

2003-09-24 Thread Martin Spott
Jim Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If someone has the TeX utils (and tex4ht) setup on their system, the FGShortRef.* could use an update. Attached below is a list of changes that need to be made. I'm listening - thanks for your input, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just

Re: [Flightgear-devel] next release ...

2003-09-24 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Spott wrote: Shift-b _schould_ toggle the parking brake and it does so on _most_ aircrafts - some by LeeE have additional very nice gimmicks. Someone posted Ctrl-b for the speed brake but none of the aircraft that I tried has a working one. The

[Flightgear-devel] new FGSimTurbine

2003-09-24 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately I didn't manage to get this one airborne because the engines don't work any more after the recent JSBSim turbine update. Oh, I have to start counting with [1] instead of [0]. Wouldn't it be nice if we could set [1,2] instead of being required

[Flightgear-devel] Re: keyboard mappings and Short Ref doc

2003-09-24 Thread Martin Spott
Misc keyboard controls CTRL + B Speedbrake. Still does not work on the YF-23. While testing I found an interesting effect. Usually I'm running FG with: --start-date-lat=2002:04:11:11:11:11 When I did a reset via menu I was suddenly sitting in the dark (on KHAF). Can anyone reproduce ? I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Wireeframe and Flat Shaded Display

2003-09-24 Thread Erik Hofman
Frederic BOUVIER wrote: I noticed that recently the ambient color disappeared from materials.xml. Unfortunately, fgsd was relying on this property to draw the scenery. I had to develop a routine that loads the texture and compute the average color on the fly. That's another issue. You should set

[Flightgear-devel] key bindings - English

2003-09-24 Thread David Culp
Here's a key map for English keyboards, showing what keys are used/unused. It's incomplete because I haven't figured out all the codes yet, and no, I haven't seen anything helpfull in glut.h. It would be nice to have this for other keyboards as well, and placed in the Docs directory. code

[Flightgear-devel] Some Win-bugs and questions

2003-09-24 Thread iljamod
Hi, I´ve downloaded the newest official windows FlightGear binary with data. 1.I startet runfgfs.bat, but I couldn´t see the KSFO airport! 2-3 Months later I tried to start fgfs.exe in the Bin/Win32 directory, it worked fine and I could see the aiport building! 2. When FlightGear runs I can hear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Wireeframe and Flat Shaded Display

2003-09-24 Thread Erik Hofman
Frederic BOUVIER wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Frederic BOUVIER wrote: I noticed that recently the ambient color disappeared from materials.xml. Unfortunately, fgsd was relying on this property to draw the scenery. I had to develop a routine that loads the texture and compute the average color

Re: [Flightgear-devel] key bindings - English

2003-09-24 Thread Erik Hofman
David Culp wrote: Here's a key map for English keyboards, showing what keys are used/unused. It's incomplete because I haven't figured out all the codes yet, and no, I haven't seen anything helpfull in glut.h. It would be nice to have this for other keyboards as well, and placed in the Docs

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Wireeframe and Flat Shaded Display

2003-09-24 Thread Frederic BOUVIER
Erik Hofman wrote: Frederic BOUVIER wrote: I noticed that recently the ambient color disappeared from materials.xml. Unfortunately, fgsd was relying on this property to draw the scenery. I had to develop a routine that loads the texture and compute the average color on the fly.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Some Win-bugs and questions

2003-09-24 Thread Frederic BOUVIER
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hi, I´ve downloaded the newest official windows FlightGear binary with data. 1.I startet runfgfs.bat, but I couldn´t see the KSFO airport! 2-3 Months later I tried to start fgfs.exe in the Bin/Win32 directory, it worked fine and I could see the aiport

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Some Win-bugs and questions

2003-09-24 Thread Curtis L. Olson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I´ve downloaded the newest official windows FlightGear binary with data. 1.I startet runfgfs.bat, but I couldn´t see the KSFO airport! 2-3 Months later I tried to start fgfs.exe in the Bin/Win32 directory, it worked fine and I could see the aiport building! 2. When

[Flightgear-devel] [OT] PalmOS/GPS Moving Map?

2003-09-24 Thread David Megginson
I just bought a (relatively) cheap clip-on GPS for my Palm Vx. It came with Magellan mapping software containing a database of detailed U.S. city street maps, but nothing for outside city areas (!!). Does anyone know of a simple PalmOS low-res moving map program, that just shows coastlines,

[Flightgear-devel] gear door sequencing

2003-09-24 Thread David Culp
Has anyone made an exterior model with proper gear door sequencing yet (i.e. 1. gear handle up 2. gear door opens 3. gear comes up 4. gear door closes)? Is there a way to do this in the animation config? If not, we'll need a gear door sequencing subsystem. Dave --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] gear door sequencing

2003-09-24 Thread Jim Wilson
David Culp [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Has anyone made an exterior model with proper gear door sequencing yet (i.e. 1. gear handle up 2. gear door opens 3. gear comes up 4. gear door closes)? Is there a way to do this in the animation config? The answer is yes. Take a look at the c310u3a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] PalmOS/GPS Moving Map?

2003-09-24 Thread Wendell Turner
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 10:53:34AM -0400, David Megginson wrote: I just bought a (relatively) cheap clip-on GPS for my Palm Vx. Does anyone know of a simple PalmOS low-res moving map program, I use the cumulus program http://cumulus.kflog.org/ on my Zaurus. It is from Germany, and is build

Re: [Flightgear-devel] gear door sequencing

2003-09-24 Thread Frederic BOUVIER
David Culp wrote: Has anyone made an exterior model with proper gear door sequencing yet (i.e. 1. gear handle up 2. gear door opens 3. gear comes up 4. gear door closes)? Is there a way to do this in the animation config? If not, we'll need a gear door sequencing subsystem. I did that

[Flightgear-devel] Speedbrake and Cont+B

2003-09-24 Thread Innis Cunningham
There has been some posts lately about people not being able to get the speedbrakes to work with cont+B(me included).So tonight I took a look at the keyboard bindings XML and there was no Cont+B listed so I added the following between Cont+A and Cont+C and now the speedbrakes work fine for me

Re: [Flightgear-devel] keyboard mappings and Short Ref doc

2003-09-24 Thread Jim Wilson
Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Jim Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If someone has the TeX utils (and tex4ht) setup on their system, the FGShortRef.* could use an update. Attached below is a list of changes that need to be made. I'm listening - thanks for your input, Does this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] gear door sequencing

2003-09-24 Thread David Culp
Wow Fred! It's been a while since I tried the A320. That's a fantastic model, and the gear door sequencing looks great. Dave -- David Culp [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] keyboard mappings and Short Ref doc

2003-09-24 Thread Frederic BOUVIER
Jim Wilson wrote: BTW one thing came to mind. The doc probably should show a few different keys when possible to reduce confusion for non-english users. For example, !,@,#,$ could be listed as SHIFT+1, SHIFT+2, SHIFT+3, SHIFT+4, which will work with most keyboard layouts. Some keys we

Re: [Flightgear-devel] gear door sequencing

2003-09-24 Thread Frederic BOUVIER
David Culp wrote: Wow Fred! It's been a while since I tried the A320. That's a fantastic model, and the gear door sequencing looks great. Thanks, It is still missing the speedbrakes, slat and reverse. BTW, as a non native english speaker, I need some clarifications on terminology. Am I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] PalmOS/GPS Moving Map?

2003-09-24 Thread Erik Hofman
Wendell Turner wrote: I use the cumulus program http://cumulus.kflog.org/ on my Zaurus. It is from Germany, and is build for the soaring community. You enter your sailplane type, and it calculates the gliding distance to the next waypoint. Hey, they even have two images showing Enschede (the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] gear door sequencing

2003-09-24 Thread David Culp
Am I correct when I say : Slat are in front of the wing, Yes. Actually, if it slides forward then it is called a slat. If it rotates down from a hinge it is called a leading edge flap. Together they are sometimes called leading edge devices or LED. Speedbrakes are on the top of the wing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] keyboard mappings and Short Ref doc

2003-09-24 Thread Martin Spott
Jim Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Jim Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If someone has the TeX utils (and tex4ht) setup on their system, the FGShortRef.* could use an update. Attached below is a list of changes that need to be made. I'm listening

Re: [Flightgear-devel] keyboard mappings and Short Ref doc

2003-09-24 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] We definitely can't use Shift-2 to select the second engine on a C310, we have to use @ (AltGr-q). This means Q [...] ^ Errr I mean @, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective

Re: [Flightgear-devel] key bindings - English

2003-09-24 Thread Martin Spott
David Culp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a key map for English keyboards, [...] I assume that there are differences between British and American keyboards, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !

Re: [Flightgear-devel] keyboard mappings and Short Ref doc

2003-09-24 Thread Jim Wilson
Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hmmm, currently I'm the only maintainer of this document. This means I really _should_ (TM) do that ;-) I'll do my best as time permits. We could just move that out of the way and do a plain text file with the correct info (I'm talking about the copy in

[Flightgear-devel] SimGear hanging CVS update lock in new directory

2003-09-24 Thread Jim Wilson
cvs server: failed to create lock directory for `/var/cvs/SimGear-0.3/SimGear/simgear/structure' (/var/cvs/SimGear-0.3/SimGear/simgear/structure/#cvs.lock): Permission denied cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/var/cvs/SimGear-0.3/SimGear/simgear/structure' cvs [server aborted]:

[Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] autopilot autothrottle fix

2003-09-24 Thread Jim Wilson
This has been on my local copy for a while (well tested :-)) It fixes a problem with the auto throttle jumping around needlessly. Adjustments are calculated based on the last calculated autothrottle setting rather than reading the throttle setting from the property tree. Patch is contained

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: keyboard mappings and Short Ref doc

2003-09-24 Thread Lee Elliott
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 11:52, Martin Spott wrote: Misc keyboard controls CTRL + BSpeedbrake. Still does not work on the YF-23. While testing I found an interesting effect. Usually I'm running FG with: YASim doesn't support speedbrakes or have a speedbrake control so I've used

[Flightgear-devel] latest CVS compile error

2003-09-24 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Eric, With the latest CVS changes I getting a compile error: Making all in Main make[2]: Entering directory `/home/curt/projects/FlightGear-0.9/source/src/Main' source='globals.cxx' object='globals.o' libtool=no \ depfile='.deps/globals.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/globals.TPo' \ depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh

Re: [Flightgear-devel] keyboard mappings and Short Ref doc

2003-09-24 Thread Martin Spott
Jim Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Nope. I have to repeat myself here - people simply don't listen what I'm talking about! Users with a German keyboard _have_ to use these keys. We definitely can't use Shift-2 to select the second engine on a C310, we

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: keyboard mappings and Short Ref doc

2003-09-24 Thread Martin Spott
Lee Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 24 September 2003 11:52, Martin Spott wrote: Misc keyboard controls CTRL + B Speedbrake. Still does not work on the YF-23. While testing I found an interesting effect. Usually I'm running FG with: YASim doesn't support speedbrakes or

Re: [Flightgear-devel] latest CVS compile error

2003-09-24 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Eric, With the latest CVS changes I getting a compile error: Making all in Main make[2]: Entering directory `/home/curt/projects/FlightGear-0.9/source/src/Main' source='globals.cxx' object='globals.o' libtool=no \ depfile='.deps/globals.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/globals.TPo' \

Re: [Flightgear-devel] gear door sequencing

2003-09-24 Thread Tony Peden
--- Frederic BOUVIER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Culp wrote: Wow Fred! It's been a while since I tried the A320. That's a fantastic model, and the gear door sequencing looks great. Thanks, It is still missing the speedbrakes, slat and reverse. BTW, as a non native english

Re: [Flightgear-devel] latest CVS compile error

2003-09-24 Thread Erik Hofman
Erik Hofman wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: Erik, With the latest CVS changes I getting a compile error: Any ideas? It looks like the compiler is mixing up two function calls with different parameters because one is defined with the template. This should be fixed now. Unfortunately this required

[Flightgear-devel] OT latex2html??

2003-09-24 Thread Carsten Höfer
Hi, due to the size of the current flight school (pdf=5.6MB), I would like to change it to HTML. I tried to use latex2html, but was more or less disappointed by the result (same with pdf2html). Any suggestions for a 1:1 converter or a different format to PDF or HTML? TIA, Carsten

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT latex2html??

2003-09-24 Thread Mally
Carsten due to the size of the current flight school (pdf=5.6MB), I would like to change it to HTML. I tried to use latex2html, but was more or less disappointed by the result (same with pdf2html). Any suggestions for a 1:1 converter or a different format to PDF or HTML? Don't Adobe's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT latex2html??

2003-09-24 Thread Mally
To answer my own question: Don't Adobe's accessibility tools for PDF include an HTML converter (or renderer)? http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html This seems to be an online service only. I don't know if that's any use to you. Mally --- Outgoing mail is certified

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT latex2html??

2003-09-24 Thread Thomas Arendsen Hein
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:24:14PM +0200, Carsten Höfer wrote: due to the size of the current flight school (pdf=5.6MB), I would like to change it to HTML. I tried to use latex2html, but was more or less disappointed by the result (same with pdf2html). I had many problems with latex2html, too,

re: [Flightgear-devel] OT latex2html??

2003-09-24 Thread David Megginson
Carsten Höfer writes: Hi, due to the size of the current flight school (pdf=5.6MB), I would like to change it to HTML. I tried to use latex2html, but was more or less disappointed by the result (same with pdf2html). Any suggestions for a 1:1 converter or a different format to PDF or

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] PalmOS/GPS Moving Map?

2003-09-24 Thread David Megginson
Wendell Turner writes: Does anyone know of a simple PalmOS low-res moving map program, I use the cumulus program http://cumulus.kflog.org/ on my Zaurus. It looks very interesting, but unfortunately, doesn't run under Palm OS. All the best, David

[Flightgear-devel] re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/src/Scenery tileentry.cxx, 1.28, 1.29 tileentry.hxx, 1.8, 1.9 tilemgr.cxx, 1.24, 1.25

2003-09-24 Thread David Megginson
Curtis L. Olson writes (in a CVS log entry): VASI/PAPI lights are generally always on. I remember reading somewhere that they are typically turned off in very low visibility when a precision approach is in use, unless explicitly requested by the pilot -- unfortunately, I cannot locate the

RE: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] PalmOS/GPS Moving Map?

2003-09-24 Thread Norman Vine
Google( palm moving map) Norman ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Wireeframe and Flat Shaded Display

2003-09-24 Thread Norman Vine
Norman Vine wrote: Erik Hofman writes: This functionality has been removed about three months ago. It is no longer possible to use the scenery without textures. If there was some discussion as to dropping this basic support could someone pont me to it please. OK the last discussion I

[Flightgear-devel] MATLAB/Simulink

2003-09-24 Thread Nick
Good evening, Is there anyone on this list who has linked FlightGear or Microsoft FlightSim to Simulink block diagrams? Any advice or suggestions? Nickolas HeinMorgantown WV - Original Message - From: Norman Vine To: FlightGear developers discussions Sent:

RE: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] PalmOS/GPS Moving Map?

2003-09-24 Thread Norman Vine
David Megginson writes: Does anyone know of a simple PalmOS low-res moving map program, that just shows coastlines, lakes, rivers, towns and cities (as points), and possibly a couple of major highways? Even lower-res than vmap0 would be fine.

RE: [Flightgear-devel] MATLAB/Simulink

2003-09-24 Thread Jon Berndt
I'm not sure if this is helpful at all, but have a look here (read carefully): http://www.u-dynamics.com/aerosim/default.htm Jon -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of NickSent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 6:53 PMTo:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MATLAB/Simulink

2003-09-24 Thread Nick
Jon, As it happens I was looking at the forum list for that product when your mail arrived. I've posted my request there. I have talked to Marius in the past and may use his Aerosim blockset for linking to FG and MSFS. I'm hoping he's also included X-Plane because it looks so darn useful.

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Wireeframe and Flat Shaded Display

2003-09-24 Thread Jim Wilson
Norman Vine [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Norman Vine wrote: Erik Hofman writes: This functionality has been removed about three months ago. It is no longer possible to use the scenery without textures. If there was some discussion as to dropping this basic support could someone