Re: [Flightgear-devel] NAV radios still borked on three a/c

2004-12-12 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Sunday 12 December 2004 09:05, Chris Metzler wrote: Hi. From the CVS logs, it looks like a whole lot of radios/instrumentation changes went through last week to finish the transition (and thus fix the NAV radio problems). I just went through and manually checked all the a/c which have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..mixing sceneries, was World scenery rebuild

2004-12-12 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 04:33:04 +0100, Arnt wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 10:14:11 -0600, Curtis wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Arnt Karlsen wrote: You can definitely do that. Just list the 0.9.7 tree first in your --fg-scenery path, i.e.:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NAV radios still borked on three a/c

2004-12-12 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Sunday 12 December 2004 12:22, Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: On Sunday 12 December 2004 09:05, Chris Metzler wrote: Hi. From the CVS logs, it looks like a whole lot of radios/instrumentation changes went through last week to finish the transition (and thus fix the NAV radio problems). I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] World scenery rebuild

2004-12-12 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 19:17:30 -0600, Curtis wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You can track and download the latest world scenery rebuild graphically here: http://www.flightgear.org/Downloads/scenery-0.9.7.html ..I know green boxes are built and red not, but I also see orange boxes in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..mixing sceneries, was World scenery rebuild

2004-12-12 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Sunday 12 December 2004 04:33, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..naaah, just a coupla big drinks. Unless you goofed or changed the scenery path syntax recently, I tried various variants of this: fgfs --geometry=1280x1024--fov=75--httpd= --telnet=23 \

[Flightgear-devel] Re: NAV radios still borked on three a/c

2004-12-12 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Roy Vegard Ovesen -- Sunday 12 December 2004 12:44: Someone might want to commit these patches to CVS. ... and add some that make DME work again, which does not work at least in the 737 and the c310. m. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NAV radios still borked on three a/c

2004-12-12 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 12:22:35 +0100 Roy Vegard Ovesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 12 December 2004 09:05, Chris Metzler wrote: the pa28-161, I tried the pa28-161 and it seemed to work fine. Really? I just checked it again, and both NAV1 and NAV2 are dead for me. I'm running CVS,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: NAV radios still borked on three a/c

2004-12-12 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Sunday 12 December 2004 14:02, Melchior FRANZ wrote: Thanks! We do not forget over those minor complaints how valuable and well done your instrument reorganization is! :-) Such words warm my heart, and give me inspiration, thanks! I welcome every minor and major complaint. They help us

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NAV radios still borked on three a/c

2004-12-12 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Sunday 12 December 2004 13:32, Chris Metzler wrote: I tried the pa28-161 and it seemed to work fine. Really? I just checked it again, and both NAV1 and NAV2 are dead for me. I'm running CVS, current as of last night. First thing to note is that both gauges of the pa28-161 are connected

Re: [Flightgear-devel] World scenery rebuild

2004-12-12 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..I know green boxes are built and red not, but I also see orange boxes in the map, what are these orange boxes for? 0.9.5-ok-as-is-4-0.9.7, or rebuilt 0.9.7 or cvs??? Right now just assume a box means the area is built. Regards, Curt. -- Curtis Olson

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..mixing sceneries, was World scenery rebuild

2004-12-12 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 13:16:45 +0100, Roy wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sunday 12 December 2004 04:33, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..naaah, just a coupla big drinks. Unless you goofed or changed the scenery path syntax recently, I tried various variants of this: fgfs

[Flightgear-devel] basic.dat : Airport database update

2004-12-12 Thread Paul Surgeon
Would there be any objections if I added an extra field (installed) to Airports/basic.dat ? What I want to do is keep a list of airports that are available world wide as well as those that are actually installed. I can either do it that way or I can create a new file containing installed

Re: [Flightgear-devel] basic.dat : Airport database update

2004-12-12 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Paul Surgeon wrote: Would there be any objections if I added an extra field (installed) to Airports/basic.dat ? What I want to do is keep a list of airports that are available world wide as well as those that are actually installed. I can either do it that way or I can create a new file

Re: [Flightgear-devel] basic.dat : Airport database update

2004-12-12 Thread David Luff
On 12/12/04 at 6:00 PM Paul Surgeon wrote: On Sunday, 12 December 2004 17:32, Paul Surgeon wrote: Would there be any objections if I added an extra field (installed) to Airports/basic.dat ? What I want to do is keep a list of airports that are available world wide as well as those that are

[Flightgear-devel] Re: basic.dat : Airport database update

2004-12-12 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* David Luff -- Sunday 12 December 2004 18:14: Why not first scan FG_SCENERY path for installed scenery in either 10x10 (quicker) or 1x1 (deals with the small CVS area) degree chunks, and cache this in memory. Then test all airports against installed scenery area on load, and save the result

Re: [Flightgear-devel] basic.dat : Airport database update

2004-12-12 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Sunday, 12 December 2004 19:14, David Luff wrote: Your basic idea - that the user shouldn't be presented with a selection of unavailable airports, is perfectly valid though. Actually I would provide the unavailable airports but if the user selects one that is not installed inform them of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] User home

2004-12-12 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Sunday, 12 December 2004 19:29, Paul Surgeon wrote: What do people think about having a ~/.fgfs folder? I need a place to be able to read and write user data. .fgfsrc could also live in there too. After chatting with Melchior a bit : Can I add a FG-HOME environment variable in case HOME

Re: [Flightgear-devel] basic.dat : Airport database update

2004-12-12 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
An alternative solution would be to run terrasync in the background. Ampere On December 12, 2004 12:14 pm, David Luff wrote: Your basic idea - that the user shouldn't be presented with a selection of unavailable airports, is perfectly valid though.  Why not first scan FG_SCENERY path for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] User home

2004-12-12 Thread David Luff
On 12/12/04 at 7:52 PM Paul Surgeon wrote: On Sunday, 12 December 2004 19:29, Paul Surgeon wrote: What do people think about having a ~/.fgfs folder? I need a place to be able to read and write user data. .fgfsrc could also live in there too. I personally think that if you can get fgfs to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] basic.dat : Airport database update

2004-12-12 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Sunday, 12 December 2004 20:23, Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: An alternative solution would be to run terrasync in the background. Ampere Terrsync works great for people with dialup connections who pay by the minute ... :-\ I have to connect at off peak times to get cheaper rates and 64K

[Flightgear-devel] SimGear mailing list gone?

2004-12-12 Thread Paul Surgeon
I can't find the SimGear maling list details on SimGear.org or FlightGear.org but they used to be there. I can only find SimGear-CVSLogs. What happened and where can I ask SimGear related questions? Was the list taken down? Thanks Paul ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Was : SimGear mailing list gone

2004-12-12 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Sunday, 12 December 2004 22:22, Paul Surgeon wrote: I can't find the SimGear maling list details on SimGear.org or FlightGear.org but they used to be there. I can only find SimGear-CVSLogs. What happened and where can I ask SimGear related questions? Was the list taken down? Thanks Paul

Re: [Flightgear-devel] User home

2004-12-12 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Paul Surgeon wrote: What do people think about having a ~/.fgfs folder? I need a place to be able to read and write user data. .fgfsrc could also live in there too. After chatting with Melchior a bit : Can I add a FG-HOME environment variable in case HOME does not exist? The order of preference

[Flightgear-devel] Re: User home

2004-12-12 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Curtis L. Olson -- Sunday 12 December 2004 22:08: We already have FG_ROOT which I think is essentially what you intend for FG_HOME No. Paul wants to store user specific information. Users cannot write to FG_ROOT. It's not owned by the fgfs user and may not even be mounted RW. m.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DAFIF Will No Longer Be Available to Public

2004-12-12 Thread David Megginson
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 10:36:19 +1100, Nick Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I must have missed it, sorry about that. Oh yeah, 2 months ago was exam time, I stopped reading the list for a few weeks. No harm done. We're all unhappy, of course, but it's hard for non-Americans like me to complain

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: User home

2004-12-12 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Curtis L. Olson -- Sunday 12 December 2004 22:08: We already have FG_ROOT which I think is essentially what you intend for FG_HOME No. Paul wants to store user specific information. Users cannot write to FG_ROOT. It's not owned by the fgfs user and may not even be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] User home

2004-12-12 Thread Oliver C.
On Sunday 12 December 2004 18:29, Paul Surgeon wrote: What do people think about having a ~/.fgfs folder? I need a place to be able to read and write user data. .fgfsrc could also live in there too. I would prefer a folder called ~/.flightgear instead of ~/.fgfs. This is an usability issue

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DAFIF Will No Longer Be Available to Public

2004-12-12 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 16:34:19 -0500 David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Originally, the excuse for pulling DAFIF was the Australian government's attempt to sue Jeppesen for royalties on Australian aero data, or something similar. Now, the reason is simply national security. I wonder if

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Broadcast Address

2004-12-12 Thread John Wojnaroski
Curtis Olson wrote: Let us know what you come up with on the broadcast stuff. Regards, Curt. Okay, here's the answer... In plib line #80 if (host[0] == '' strcmp(host, broadcast) == 0) sin_addr = INADDR_BROADCAST; expects the string argument as noted above. There does not appear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DAFIF Will No Longer Be Available to Public

2004-12-12 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 19:03:58 -0500, Chris wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What I didn't see was some kind of notification about an official comment period. Normally, when a policy change takes place, the first announcement in the FR mentions a period during which comments can be made.

[Flightgear-devel] NAV radios still borked on three a/c

2004-12-12 Thread Chris Metzler
Hi. From the CVS logs, it looks like a whole lot of radios/instrumentation changes went through last week to finish the transition (and thus fix the NAV radio problems). I just went through and manually checked all the a/c which have relevant gauges, and found that the c172 and 737 and so on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..mixing sceneries, was World scenery rebuild

2004-12-12 Thread Martin Spott
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 10:14:11 -0600, Curtis wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Arnt Karlsen wrote: You can definitely do that. Just list the 0.9.7 tree first in your --fg-scenery path, i.e.:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] basic.dat : Airport database update

2004-12-12 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Sunday, 12 December 2004 17:32, Paul Surgeon wrote: Would there be any objections if I added an extra field (installed) to Airports/basic.dat ? What I want to do is keep a list of airports that are available world wide as well as those that are actually installed. I can either do it that

[Flightgear-devel] User home

2004-12-12 Thread Paul Surgeon
What do people think about having a ~/.fgfs folder? I need a place to be able to read and write user data. .fgfsrc could also live in there too. After chatting with Melchior a bit : Can I add a FG-HOME environment variable in case HOME does not exist? The order of preference will be : 1. FG_HOME

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Was : SimGear mailing list gone

2004-12-12 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Paul Surgeon wrote: On Sunday, 12 December 2004 22:22, Paul Surgeon wrote: I can't find the SimGear maling list details on SimGear.org or FlightGear.org but they used to be there. I can only find SimGear-CVSLogs. What happened and where can I ask SimGear related questions? Was the list taken