RE: [Flightgear-devel] keyboard input problems?

2005-03-30 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Curt No this problem has been around since 9.5 or maybe before.At least for the autothrottle. What seems to be the problem is when the autothrottle is cycled it changes the speed property in autopilot/locks from nothing to off. And from then on you cant use page up/down to move the throttles. I

[Flightgear-devel] fgjs bug

2005-03-30 Thread Fridtjof Busse
Hi I'm trying to use fgjs to calibrate my joystick, but it won't let me. Basically, I have the same problem reported here almost two years ago: http://mail.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-users/2003-April/004232.html The joystick itself works fine, but I'd still like to use fgjs. $ js_demo

[Flightgear-devel] Re: fgjs bug

2005-03-30 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Fridtjof Busse -- Wednesday 30 March 2005 11:46: I'm trying to use fgjs to calibrate my joystick [...] You put calibrate under quotes. So you know that fgjs doesn't calibrate anything? For calibrating use jscal. If you don't have it and your distribution doesn't offer a package for it, go to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: fgjs bug

2005-03-30 Thread Fridtjof Busse
* Melchior FRANZ [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm trying to use fgjs to calibrate my joystick [...] You put calibrate under quotes. So you know that fgjs doesn't calibrate anything? Yes, I do. Assigning axis/buttons would have been a better description. For calibrating use jscal. If you don't have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.3.1 released.

2005-03-30 Thread Martin Spott
David Luff wrote: I've put another version of TaxiDraw up at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~eazdluf/taxidraw.html Thanks ! Additional binaries are ready: ftp://ftp.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear/TaxiDraw/README.strange-binaries

[Flightgear-devel] My first solo ....

2005-03-30 Thread Martin Spott
Well, it really took a very long time for getting there ! The second half of 2004 I didn't make a single flight due to timely and/or monetary restrictions. Afterwards I had to bear almost four months of delay because we never managed to match free time and good weather for the first solo. We have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] My first solo ....

2005-03-30 Thread Jon Stockill
Martin Spott wrote: There's nothing better than flying, I couldn't agree more. Congratulations. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org

Re: [Flightgear-devel] View for a down facing camera

2005-03-30 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: During holidays last week I actually recieved ten photographs which have been used for the FreeGIS tutorial by Heiko Kehlenbrink - see page 115. You'll find a copy of the tutorial here (it's in German): ftp://ftp.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/GIS/GRASS/docs/freegis-tutorial-1.0.pdf The

Re: [Flightgear-devel] keyboard input problems?

2005-03-30 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Innis Cunningham wrote: Hi Curt No this problem has been around since 9.5 or maybe before.At least for the autothrottle. What seems to be the problem is when the autothrottle is cycled it changes the speed property in autopilot/locks from nothing to off. And from then on you cant use page up/down

RE: [Flightgear-devel] My first solo ....

2005-03-30 Thread Vivian Meazza
Jon Stockill wrote Martin Spott wrote: There's nothing better than flying, I couldn't agree more. Congratulations. Well nearly: it's the most fun you can have sitting down, although driving a track car comes a close second. Well done, Regards Vivian

Re: [Flightgear-devel] keyboard input problems?

2005-03-30 Thread Andy Ross
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Hmmm, for myself (linux) these things were working correctly until just very recently (the last week or few days.) I wonder if the changes to Nasal surrounding it's concept of 0 vs. false has broken portions of the script in controls.nas? I kinda doubt it. The bugs

[Flightgear-devel] Re: keyboard input problems?

2005-03-30 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Curtis L. Olson -- Wednesday 30 March 2005 17:13: Hmmm, for myself (linux) these things were working correctly until just very recently (the last week or few days.) I would sure like to help here, as some of the patches in the last week were done by me -- none AP related, not even remotely.

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Building on Cygwin

2005-03-30 Thread Richard Bytheway
I have been building FlightGear in Cygwin since the 0.6 days, but for the past few months I have not been able to get a build to complete. I have had, and have overcome problems with OpenAL in the past, but they seem to have resurfaced. In the absence of any useful information from

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: keyboard input problems?

2005-03-30 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Melchior FRANZ wrote: I would sure like to help here, as some of the patches in the last week were done by me -- none AP related, not even remotely. Unfortunately, I can't reproduce the problems. Not because it works for me, but because the whole autopilot system hasn't worked for me since ages,

[Flightgear-devel] plib viewer

2005-03-30 Thread Josh Babcock
Has anyone gotten the viewer program from the plib-examples package running? When I compile and run it I get: WARNING: fntLoadTXF: Failed to open 'data/default.txf' for reading. Josh ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org

Re: [Flightgear-devel] keyboard input problems?

2005-03-30 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Andy Ross wrote: I kinda doubt it. The bugs that were fixed were about string constant conversion and not runtime behavior, and were pretty obviously wrong. It would be pretty pathological to have code that actually depended on that behavior. The bug was that string constants (e.g. 1.2) could be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] keyboard input problems?

2005-03-30 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Andy Ross wrote: I kinda doubt it. The bugs that were fixed were about string constant conversion and not runtime behavior, and were pretty obviously wrong. It would be pretty pathological to have code that actually depended on that behavior. The bug was that string

Re: [Flightgear-devel] keyboard input problems?

2005-03-30 Thread Andy Ross
Curt wrote: It looks like /autopilot/locks/speed is a string field. It appears that no longer equals 0. My assumption when I wrote the script (hehe, I think I wrote that script, apologies to whoever if I didn't) was that for the comparison with zero, auto.getValue() would be converted to a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] keyboard input problems?

2005-03-30 Thread Andy Ross
Curt wrote: FWIW, testing against instead of 0 works with the latest nasal changes. Indeed. Actually, with the fix as of a few minutes ago you should be able to do just: if ( !auto.getValue() ) { ... } The empty string and zero numeric values are both false, as is the nil reference. Andy

Re: [Flightgear-devel] My first solo ....

2005-03-30 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
Congratulations! Make sure to tell us about your coming cross-country solo... ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] keyboard input problems?

2005-03-30 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Andy Ross wrote: Curt wrote: FWIW, testing against instead of 0 works with the latest nasal changes. Indeed. Actually, with the fix as of a few minutes ago you should be able to do just: if ( !auto.getValue() ) { ... } The empty string and zero numeric values are both false, as is the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: fgjs bug

2005-03-30 Thread Richard Harke
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 02:40, Fridtjof Busse wrote: * Melchior FRANZ [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm trying to use fgjs to calibrate my joystick [...] You put calibrate under quotes. So you know that fgjs doesn't calibrate anything? Yes, I do. Assigning axis/buttons would have been a better

Re: [Flightgear-devel] View for a down facing camera

2005-03-30 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman wrote: As I see it, these photographs don't add much to what we already have, but I might be wrong. Honestly I have no any idea which material was used for the textures that FlighGear currently includes so I can hardly guess how much these aerial photos can contribute to improving

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Building on Cygwin

2005-03-30 Thread Vivian Meazza
Richard Bytheway I have been building FlightGear in Cygwin since the 0.6 days, but for the past few months I have not been able to get a build to complete. I have had, and have overcome problems with OpenAL in the past, but they seem to have resurfaced. In the absence of any

Re: [Flightgear-devel] My first solo ....

2005-03-30 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: There's nothing better than flying, Oh yeah !! ;-) Thank you for participating in my joy over this event and for all your congratulations on this list and via private EMail. I know, the first solo is only a small step ony your way to a private pilot, the first solo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Building on Cygwin

2005-03-30 Thread Andy Ross
Vivian Meazza wrote: I have the same problem with Main/renderer.cxx. Your solution (or one very like it) solves the problem. I guess near/far are reserved words in Cygwin? Goodness, that brings back memories. The near and far keywords are holdovers from 16 bit DOS compilers. They are still

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Building on Cygwin

2005-03-30 Thread Vivian Meazza
Andy Ross wrote: Vivian Meazza wrote: I have the same problem with Main/renderer.cxx. Your solution (or one very like it) solves the problem. I guess near/far are reserved words in Cygwin? Goodness, that brings back memories. The near and far keywords are holdovers from 16 bit DOS

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Building on Cygwin

2005-03-30 Thread Norman Vine
Vivian Meazza writes: Andy Ross wrote: Vivian Meazza wrote: I have the same problem with Main/renderer.cxx. Your solution (or one very like it) solves the problem. I guess near/far are reserved words in Cygwin? Goodness, that brings back memories. The near and far keywords are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: fgjs bug

2005-03-30 Thread Fridtjof Busse
* Richard Harke [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OK, I'll try that, thanks for the help. I'm not familiar with your joystick model but apparently it is similar to the X45. fgjs will not work with X45 because of the way a couple of mode switches work. They always have at least one of the bits on which fgjs

[Flightgear-devel] Flightgear CVS resources web page

2005-03-30 Thread Richard Bytheway
Looking through the web site I noticed that the CVS instructions page (http://www.flightgear.org/cvs/anoncvs.html) still references Metakit in section 5. This should probably be removed to prevent confusion. Richard This