Re: [Flightgear-devel] Property Picker

2001-11-14 Thread Christian Mayer
David Megginson wrote: All Properties -- - is readable? (already implemented) - is writable? (already implemented) - is archivable? (already implemented) - data type (already implemented) - list of allowed values Wouldn't a check for that slow the properties down? Or would

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PLIB

2001-11-21 Thread Christian Mayer
Marcio Shimoda wrote: Hi! I'm having this problem now Configuration: js - Win32 Debug Build : warning : failed to (or don't know how to) build 'C:\plib-1.4.2\src\js\Debug\js.lib' 'js' gets installed Could somebody explain me what is wrong? Do

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Middle mouse button / win32

2001-11-28 Thread Christian Mayer
Richard KiĀ¹ wrote: Hi, Windows drivers are not familiar with the middle mouse button unfortunately. I don't know what driver you are using, but it works perfectly for my old Logitech Pilot (PS/2) and IntelliOptical (USB; both at the same time connected and working). And it doesn't make

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Compiler Compliance and Coding Conventions (was: Another YASim source drop)

2001-12-07 Thread Christian Mayer
Andy Ross wrote: Mally wrote: I don't suppose its any consolation to know that it seems to have been fixed in the version of MSVC that ships with Microsoft Visual Studio.NET. I bougth MSVC6 and don't want to buy any other compiler. MSVC works for me with portable code. Woo hoo! So

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Compiler Compliance and Coding Conventions (was:

2001-12-07 Thread Christian Mayer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's a good p oint, as much as I hate to admit it. That brings up a point, Christian, could you try compiling the latest JSBSim and let me know what you find? I found the problem with the timezone. Can it be that zone.tab isn't checken in as binary? FGFS stumbles

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Starting up flightgear.

2001-12-08 Thread Christian Mayer
Norman Vine wrote: Christian Mayer writes: It would be really great if 0.8.0 - or even 0.7.9 works with MSVC. The compiler errors are mostly fixed by now :), but I've got still problems running FGFS w/o having the maths blow up during the first frame (happens currently with both, JSBsim

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SGTime::updateLocal ignores lat/lon

2001-12-09 Thread Christian Mayer
Julian Foad wrote: There seem to be a couple of missing minus signs in this function in simgear/timing/sg_time.cxx. The way it is at present, it always sets lat and lon to zero (unless they happen to be exactly pi): Ah, perhaps that's the reason why FGFS tried to load

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Unable to select '--fdm=larcsim'

2001-12-09 Thread Christian Mayer
Ross Golder wrote: It just produces exactly the same output as it does without this switch (including JSBSim output). As I am pinned to the ground with latest JSBSim (flightgear CVS fresh today), I wanted to revert to LarcSIM to get some airtime in, but I can't. Any suggestions? The

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Unable to select '--fdm=larcsim'

2001-12-09 Thread Christian Mayer
Norman Vine wrote: Christian Mayer writes: All of those (i.e. LaRCsim and YAsim) work for me. JSBsim currently doesn't. I'm still working on that. Same here trying to run with MingW32 although Cygwin has no problem I am crashing during initialization of the FDM with the call

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Engine displacement definition?

2001-12-13 Thread Christian Mayer
Andy Ross wrote: Dumb question, but one I hope someone knows the answer to: when one specifies the displacement of a piston engine (e.g. IO-360 == 360 cubic inches), is that the volume of the whole cylinders or just of the piston strokes? At a car you are giving the total volume (i.e. all

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Compiler error with Cygwin SimGear 0.0.16

2001-12-15 Thread Christian Mayer
David Megginson wrote: Using a hash_map might speed things up as well. hash_map istn't a STL standard and shouldn't be used (IIRC). CU, Christian -- The idea is to die young as late as possible.-- Ashley Montague Whoever that is/was; (c) by Douglas Adams would have been better...

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SimGear include path (was: YASim)

2001-12-16 Thread Christian Mayer
Andy Ross wrote: Is that correct? In my SimGear installation tree, easyxml.h is under /simgear, there is no /simgear/xml directory. In the SimGear *source* tree, that's where the file is. But you're not supposed to be building against the source tree. I suspect you have a bug in your

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SimGear include path (was: YASim)

2001-12-16 Thread Christian Mayer
Andy Ross wrote: Christian Mayer wrote: Andy Ross wrote: Is that correct? In my SimGear installation tree, easyxml.h is under /simgear, there is no /simgear/xml directory. In the SimGear *source* tree, that's where the file is. But you're not supposed to be building

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear TLE

2002-01-05 Thread Christian Mayer
David Megginson wrote: Norman Vine writes: The general rule of thumb for portable applications is to use the lowest common denominator or in the case filenames use the 8.3 rule max 8 letters for a file or directory name max 3 letters for a file extension do not use

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Why not use FS2002 aircraft files?

2002-01-05 Thread Christian Mayer
throttle1000 wrote: I would not like to start to mess with this project too much. There seem to be lot of peoble writing code already! Too many peoble messing around just makes it worse. FlightGear is very modular. So you can easily have your own little spot that you work on without getting

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Why not use FS2002 aircraft files?

2002-01-05 Thread Christian Mayer
throttle1000 wrote: I say what I think! And I think what I want! Realistic feedback is never too bad. I am just realistic about my ability to produce code. It's not too many lines a day. If I have too many projects - nothing gets never done. All of us are working as a hobby on teh project.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear TLE

2002-01-05 Thread Christian Mayer
throttle1000 wrote: Not true! All windows should be equal after 95. They all use the same WIN32 core. And they even run the same exe files! For a programmer there should only be one system: WIN32 (95, 98, 2000, NT etc) Additional to NT etc. in 95/98/etc there is a dos window and the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear TLE

2002-01-05 Thread Christian Mayer
throttle1000 wrote: The DOS is dead after 95. I know because I had lot of problems since the WIN32 dos in WIN95 was not any more a real dos. It was a WIN32 emulating dos. The file name header was no more kept as it was in the real DOS. I kept some secret bytes in the file header space

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hello? Is anyone listening?

2002-01-06 Thread Christian Mayer
David Megginson wrote: Christian Mayer writes: Anyway, FGFS and SimGear via CVS is ok, even with a pay-per-minute ISDN line (used to do that a few times). But I'd get the basepackage normally. I wouldn't recommend that ... the JSBSim formats, in particular, have been changing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenAL

2002-01-07 Thread Christian Mayer
throttle1000 wrote: First, the obvious solution is not to run 1.2.x ... after all, the 1.4 series has been released stable. I am not running any version since it cannot even be downloaded! This bug was there 1/2 year ago! ?!? If you can't donload the latest PLIB: tell it on the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Compile error latest CVS

2002-01-11 Thread Christian Mayer
Bernie Bright wrote: g++ 2.95.x lacks the Standard's ios_base class. One messy work around is demonstrated in simgear/misc/zfstream.hxx. FWIW I've been working on an alternative solution using namespaces that is much cleaner. It compiles with gcc 2.95.x and 3.0.x, Intel C++ and MSVC6.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] altitude hold problem

2002-01-15 Thread Christian Mayer
David Megginson wrote: Jim Wilson writes: Speaking of lawn darting there seems to be a problem with autopilot altitude hold with the c310 under jsbsim. You'll see the same problem with any higher-power plane in the JSBSim, YASim, or UIUC models. The current autopilot is closely

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear TLE

2002-01-15 Thread Christian Mayer
Gene Buckle wrote: Gene Buckle wrote: As long as the royalties are paid in a timely manner, I don't care. The cost is .4 cents per use, rounded down on each one to the nearest penny. [IOW, free ;-)] I will mention, though, that you're infringing on my US

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Breaking OpenGL's hold to ease debugging

2002-01-18 Thread Christian Mayer
Erik Hofman wrote: I don't say why should move to SDL, but I like it and *if* we move away from GLUT (which in my opinion would be a good idea) then SDL would be my favorite alternative. Well, there are thoughts to make PLIB 2.0 GLUT independant as it whould ship directly with FreeGLUT (one

Re: [Flightgear-devel] msvc6 - 0.7.9 release

2002-01-18 Thread Christian Mayer
Norman Vine wrote: Christian Mayer writes: Geoff McLane wrote: My exe crashed on ada and just 'sat' on the runway in 'balloon'. But with magic the system soared. Well, the balloon lacks one significant thing for an FDM: enable the plane to move around. The balloon model works nicely

[Flightgear-devel] Changes in SimGear

2002-01-19 Thread Christian Mayer
Hi, is there a reason why SimGear/misc/zfstram.hxx was changed from #ifdef HAVE_ZLIB # include zlib.h #else # include simgear/zlib/zlib.h #endif to #include zlib.h ? As ZLIB isn't standard (perhaps except on Linux) it's great to have the fallback to the supplied version. And adding the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Changes in SimGear

2002-01-19 Thread Christian Mayer
Christian Mayer wrote: Hi, is there a reason why SimGear/misc/zfstram.hxx was changed from #ifdef HAVE_ZLIB # include zlib.h #else # include simgear/zlib/zlib.h #endif to #include zlib.h Apart from fixing all occurances of the single #include zlib.h FGFS complied staight

Re: [Flightgear-devel] msvc6 - 0.7.9 release

2002-01-19 Thread Christian Mayer
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Norman Vine writes: Christian Mayer writes: Norman Vine wrote: Christian Mayer writes: Norman Vine wrote: Well if you just wanted to drift with the wind and be 'cheesy' you could use the simgear direct geodetic solver to get a new lat lon

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Changes in SimGear

2002-01-20 Thread Christian Mayer
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Christian Mayer writes: Hi, is there a reason why SimGear/misc/zfstram.hxx was changed from #ifdef HAVE_ZLIB # include zlib.h #else # include simgear/zlib/zlib.h #endif to #include zlib.h It was a slight phylisophical shift. Although zlib

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Changes in SimGear

2002-01-20 Thread Christian Mayer
Erik Hofman wrote: Christian Mayer wrote: Anyway, could all #include zlib.h lines be changed back to #ifdef HAVE_ZLIB # include zlib.h #else # include simgear/zlib/zlib.h #endif w/o causing any trouble? This would help me. I wouldn't need any other

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim and MSVC

2002-01-22 Thread Christian Mayer
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Christian Mayer writes: PS: So there's just the #include zlib.h issue left to be fully MSVC friendly... Typically in the unix world, you would install packages like zlib into a place where the compiler expects to see them, or some other place and inform

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Open Source Nvidia Driver

2002-01-25 Thread Christian Mayer
Sergio wrote: I mean Netscape project was reduced 300% of its souce code after becoming a open source an Mozila starts. So before that we coul'd also think they were doing the best. Wouldn't it be some presumptious they are really doing the best. I don't understand why the don't open all

Re: [Flightgear-devel] msvc6-win32-0.7.9 Ok

2002-01-27 Thread Christian Mayer
Geoff McLane wrote: More specifically 'this' machine - Back at the end of 1999 this latest-so-far pc (i hv 4 if i do not count those that just gather dust) was a 'big store' off-the-shelf bargain 'package' with 'genuine intel' PIII at abt 500+ MHz. The mark is 'Unika', with only 64 MB RAM,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] msvc6-win32-0.7.9 Ok

2002-01-27 Thread Christian Mayer
Geoff McLane wrote: And as I have often repeated, it seems to me the main fgfs problem in WIN32 - using my msvc6 compiled debug exe - is all to do with memory of course, and disk io ... And i am sure some of that is due to using the windows memory mapping of files (in metakit at least).

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Creating a sub window

2002-01-27 Thread Christian Mayer
Dawn Ellis wrote: Andy wrote: Platform? FlightGear's main window is an OpenGL rendering context. I'd be surprised if there was any portable way of getting an OS subwindow. You'd be better off working with the PUI library inside the context instead. We are running on a Windows

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New graphic chip

2002-01-27 Thread Christian Mayer
Elad Yarkoni wrote: Hi Guys, I know you hate it... and this topic seems to be endless on FGFS-Devel group, AND this discussion does not belong in here, but you guys are the only ones I trust... so here goes: am I going to replace my TNT2Ultra with a GeForceMX2 ? (you are going

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiple monitors

2002-01-27 Thread Christian Mayer
Sergio Roth wrote: Is it possible to run FGFS with multiple monitors doing something like that ? Yes Is there any module that supports it? Run one instance as server that drives as many other PCs that you want. For out-of-the-window views you can use FGFS w/o modifications. If you want to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] LinuxTag 2002: Call for Papers

2002-01-29 Thread Christian Mayer
Alex Perry wrote: Alex, Christian, Erik? Durk, AFAIK, you will not be in europe then? Generally, they prefer to have different presenters in successive years for each project because that makes the talks more interesting. Having successfully excused myself from consideration 8-) ...

Re: [Flightgear-devel] LinuxTag 2002: Call for Papers

2002-01-30 Thread Christian Mayer
Curtis L. Olson wrote: I'd love to travel over to Europe for a visit some time to meet as many of the european flightgear people as possible. Germany in early June might be worth looking into ... Great! although my wife won't let me go unless she get's to come along (and she even

Re: [Flightgear-devel] LinuxTag 2002: Call for Papers

2002-01-30 Thread Christian Mayer
BERNDT, JON S. (JON) (JSC-EX) (LM) wrote: Anyway, have a look at http://www.karlsruhe.de/Tourismus/index.php3 Nice web site. Someday in the not-too-distant future we hope to visit Germany. Great! We've got a volunteer for LinuxTag 2003 then? CU, Christian -- The idea is to die young

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sun and Moon reflections on water

2002-01-31 Thread Christian Mayer
Vallevand, Mark K wrote: Shadows done the traditional way with shadow volumes are pretty expensive: Two passes through the scene graph for objects and 2 passes for the shadows. I'd guess that reflections are about the same expense. But, there are many short cuts, especially for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 0.7.9 release schedule

2002-01-31 Thread Christian Mayer
Erik Hofman wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: Martin Spott writes: To explain what Erik's talking about: You don't get an appropriate video card that you can use in an SGI for just $50. 2x 4 MByte Texture RAM to upgrade an Octane SSI to MXI cost more than $1000 - and you can't use

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 0.7.9 release schedule

2002-01-31 Thread Christian Mayer
Martin Spott wrote: From: Alex Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's also worth bearing in mind that (a) FGFS is currently not taking advantage of some SGI hardware features Do you believe it might make sense to take these features into account for FlightGear ? I had the impression that by

Re: [Flightgear-devel] LWCE notes

2002-02-01 Thread Christian Mayer
John Check wrote: There is a developer from Sony thats is looking at FGFS for PS/2. He's been by the booth a few times and was at the conference session. PS2 has it's own GL from what I gather so if anybody has anything to say about what kind of effort/problems he might be looking at, let

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Post 0.7.9 priorities

2002-02-02 Thread Christian Mayer
Jonathan Polley wrote: If I can put in my $0.02, I would like to see an effort de-couple the tasks that take place as a part of the IDLE loop. The process of loading tiles tends to slow down the frame rate quite considerably (by over 50%). Since I tend to try to stress the system, I do my

Re: [Flightgear-devel] msvc6-win32-0.7.9 Ok

2002-02-02 Thread Christian Mayer
Geoff McLane wrote: (a) Tried LARSim, but with mags on both, the starter would kick to 500 rpm, but then falls to zero again. Is there something else I should be doing? i sort of like the 'kchzz' sound as the starter kicks in ... I also can't start the engine with LaRCSim. But as JSBSim is

[Flightgear-devel] ATIS

2002-02-02 Thread Christian Mayer
Hi, the ATIS should report the correct values now (changes are in CVS already). as I don't know how to use the ATIS it'd be great if someone could check it. E.g. get a new current.txt.gz http://129.13.102.67/out/flight/current.txt.gz and fly to different airports and listen to their ATIS.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATIS

2002-02-02 Thread Christian Mayer
D Luff wrote: Christian Mayer wrote: It'd also be great if someone can tell me how to use ATIS myself so that I can try it as well... Look up the atis frequency of your local airport (Googling with ATIS and the relevent airport ICAO code seems to get the frequency in the first

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GeForce4 announced at nVidia [OT]

2002-02-06 Thread Christian Mayer
Jim Wilson wrote: It'll be interesting to see where the 4MX series ends up price wise. The performance numbers looks very promising for those with a tight budget! But note: The GeForce 4MX has hardly anything in common with the GeForce 4. They are *not* based on the same core. So when you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GeForce4 announced at nVidia

2002-02-06 Thread Christian Mayer
Jim Wilson wrote: Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: My previous card was a Voodoo-3 ... this was a 16 bit card, 16 bit textures, 16 bit depth buffer, etc. At the time the mesa based linux drivers had some bugs which led to annoying visual artifacts, and jumpy/jerky motion.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] for the upcoming release

2002-02-12 Thread Christian Mayer
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Here's my list of things that have been changed, fixed, or added for 0.7.9. It's rather long, but if anyone sees any major ommissions or errors in this list, please let me know. Thanks. [...] Nice list. OTOH I don't know any missed items. But the bullets (i.e. the

[Flightgear-devel] Metakit

2002-02-12 Thread Christian Mayer
Hi, metakit still lives in the CVS tree (+ as an additional zip archive there). Is that OK? I thought it's supposed to be kept extra. CU, Christian -- The idea is to die young as late as possible.-- Ashley Montague Whoever that is/was; (c) by Douglas Adams would have been better...

[Flightgear-devel] Latest CVS doesn't run

2002-02-12 Thread Christian Mayer
Hi, the latest version (updated everything, incl. base) doesn't run for me (MSVC as usual) as it's hooked up in an endless loop in cloud.cxx again. I thought we had that fixed already :( Can anybody remember the patch? CU, Christian -- The idea is to die young as late as possible.--

Re: [Flightgear-devel] warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value

2002-02-12 Thread Christian Mayer
Curtis L. Olson wrote: That said, the entire NetworkOLK module is only half implimented, and not really useful at this point. We really need someone to come along and finish it, or perhaps reimpliment this functionality from scratch using the plib networking libs. Please use the PLIB

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Metakit

2002-02-12 Thread Christian Mayer
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Christian Mayer writes: metakit still lives in the CVS tree (+ as an additional zip archive there). Is that OK? I thought it's supposed to be kept extra. Looking at the actual repository, I only see the metakit and zlib tar balls. The unrolled subdirectories

Re: [Flightgear-devel] for the upcoming release

2002-02-13 Thread Christian Mayer
Curtis L. Olson wrote: What I've seen done in more advanced sims is for the operator gui to provide a set of positioning options such as: - at gate - position and hold - 3 mile final - 7 mile final - etc. Yup, that is what we should aim for. But for 0.7.9 we need a solution

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: KSFO ATIS

2002-02-13 Thread Christian Mayer
David Megginson wrote: As long as we're clearing up odds and ends, should we have COM1 default to 118.85 for KSFO ATIS in 0.7.9? That means that the sim will start with the ATIS text scrolling across the top of the screen, but users might not know how to get rid of it. I think that's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New manual available.

2002-02-14 Thread Christian Mayer
Cameron Moore wrote: - p29: I believe binaries are also shipped with SuSE Linux, though I don't think you need to discuss how to install them. Yes they are. At least since 7.0 but I think it was ever earlier than that. CU, Christian -- The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Priorities

2002-02-18 Thread Christian Mayer
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Erik Hofman writes: Alex Perry wrote: I'd move it down the list, but it would be a crowd pleaser. People do ask for it. From the crash reports I've read and pictures I've seen, small planes tend to snap or crumple rather than explode (often none of the

[Flightgear-devel] FGEnvironment [not] vs. WeatherCM

2002-02-23 Thread Christian Mayer
Hi, first I want to say that there's nothing personal in this 'case'. And I don't care too much if it's my code or David's code (or both) that 'survive' at the end. I've written WeatherCM in an attempt to learn the ++ of the C++ and thus it did it's job for me. But what puzzels me is the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Temperature and air pressure

2002-02-24 Thread Christian Mayer
Arnt Karlsen wrote: I'm sticking with sea-level-equivalent values for now, because I know that the FDM people are pretty possessive of their atmosphere models. Later I might add properties and methods for the values at current altitude as well. Possesive? Heh, I hereby

[Flightgear-devel] Basepackage problems

2002-02-24 Thread Christian Mayer
Hi, it seems as there are some files missing in the latest base package CVS. when I want to run the latest CVS version it come as far as Reading timezone info from: Z:\FGFS\FlightGear/Timezone/zone.tab Unable to open file Z:\FGFS\FlightGear/Timezone/zone.tab no wonder as that file doesn't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Temperature and air pressure

2002-02-25 Thread Christian Mayer
Martin Dressler wrote: Is Humidity important? Why not report just air density and viscosity. IMHO viscosity is importanat for count of Reynolds number. Maybe Re don't play big role in currents FDMs but is really important for RC modeling. OT: What are necessary values for FDM. air

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New subsystem: FGEnvironment

2002-02-25 Thread Christian Mayer
Curtis L. Olson wrote: D Luff writes: Fair enough. I was under the impression that it was the disk access taking the time. Registering new textures with opengl can take a noticable amount of time (especially when they are large.) Freeing memory (and any associated garbage

[Flightgear-devel] Valgrind memory checker

2002-02-26 Thread Christian Mayer
Hi, I've just seen an article that mentioned Valgrind, a program that checks for memory access and corruption: http://devel-home.kde.org/~sewardj/ From the homepage it look easy enough to run. Can someone with Linux give it a try? CU, Christian -- The idea is to die young as late as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim changes

2002-02-28 Thread Christian Mayer
Jon S Berndt wrote: Metric isn't perfect either - it's been sort of perverted by ... I don't know who. In my mind, mass is in kg. and force is in Newtons. That's correct. Unfortunately, metric mass terms are used to describe how much something weighs, i.e. a force. This leads to almost

Re: [Flightgear-devel] black and white flightgear

2002-03-12 Thread Christian Mayer
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Roman Grigoriev writes: Guys could you please advice me how to make flightgear in black and white pallete maybe framebuffer operation helps me? if someone covert or render blackwhite image in OGL please help me There might be a clever solution I don't know

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Engine sound problem?

2002-03-15 Thread Christian Mayer
Erik Hofman wrote: Hi, Does anybody else have problems with the engine sound (it doesn't start playing)? I have a very weird problem over here and was wondering if I am the only one. I've got exactly the same problem under W2k/MSVC. CU, Christian -- The idea is to die young as late

[Flightgear-devel] FGSubsytem

2002-03-15 Thread Christian Mayer
Hi, is there a reason why FGSubsystem uses an int as dt? Shouldn't this be a float? And what unit does it have? Seconds or milliseconds? CU, Christian -- The idea is to die young as late as possible.-- Ashley Montague Whoever that is/was; (c) by Douglas Adams would have been

[Flightgear-devel] reduce log output

2002-03-15 Thread Christian Mayer
Hi, when I run a self compiled FGFS I get many of output (keybinding and other stuff). But when I run a version that has been compiled with CygWin it's much less. Is there a #define so so that I can set to reduce the amount of data? CU, Christian -- The idea is to die young as late as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] reduce log output

2002-03-15 Thread Christian Mayer
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Just run ./configure --without-logging With MSVC? Nope. But if you can tell me what --without-logging changes (e.g. defining something or so) I can change my workspace accordingly. CU, Christian -- The idea is to die young as late as possible.-- Ashley

Re: [Flightgear-devel] engine sounds with UIUC models

2002-03-15 Thread Christian Mayer
David Megginson wrote: Jon S Berndt writes: The best solution would be for the UIUC guys to bite the bullet and port their work to use JSBSim. :-) :-) :-) Hmm -- today seems to be a big day for trolls. I wonder if any of Jon's NASA contacts are still waiting for him to bite the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] engine sounds with UIUC models

2002-03-15 Thread Christian Mayer
David Megginson wrote: Curtis L. Olson writes: I'm just about to commit a massive series of changes that converts all the .xml files to more standard .ini files. Oh, shoot, I meant to save that announcement for 4/1/2002. :-) We have to coordinate better -- I'm just finishing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] black and white flightgear

2002-03-16 Thread Christian Mayer
Roman Grigoriev wrote: - Original Message - From: Jon S Berndt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 6:40 PM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] black and white flightgear On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 17:47:37 +0300 Roman Grigoriev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: SuSE new release ad page

2002-03-17 Thread Christian Mayer
Alex Perry wrote: http://www.suse.com/us/products/suse_linux/i386/games.html nearly the same text as for 7.3: http://www.suse.com/us/products/suse_linux/73/games.html CU, Christian -- The idea is to die young as late as possible.-- Ashley Montague Whoever that is/was; (c) by

[Flightgear-devel] Debugging request

2002-03-18 Thread Christian Mayer
Hi, there's seems to be a bug under Linux that I can't reproduce under windows. To triger it, go to /flightgear/src/main/fg_init.cxx and change WeatherDatabase = FGLocalWeatherDatabase::theFGLocalWeatherDatabase; to WeatherDatabase = FGLocalWeatherDatabase::theFGLocalWeatherDatabase;

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ARGGHHH !

2002-03-18 Thread Christian Mayer
Norman Vine wrote: David Megginson writes: Norman Vine writes: IMHO the biggest obstacle to reading and developing FGFS code is the formatting We really need a mechanical formating means that is acceptable to every one as the CVS standard even if it is not perfect or even

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New SimGear does not Build Under MSVC 6.0

2002-03-20 Thread Christian Mayer
Jonathan Polley wrote: I just updated to the newest SimGear and tried to build under Windows using MSVC 6.0. When I did so, I got the following errors: I haven't tried it since the last major checkins :( Linux was just fine. Is there a problem with MS' implementation of STD? That's more

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New SimGear does not Build Under MSVC6.0

2002-03-20 Thread Christian Mayer
Jon S Berndt wrote: On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 22:55:23 +0100 Christian Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So there used to be a lot of STL problems where Linux coders wrote non standard compliant STL code that brok on MSVC. (They are not really to blame as they have no chance to test their code

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New SimGear does not Build Under MSVC 6.0

2002-03-20 Thread Christian Mayer
Norman Vine wrote: The second for loop was causing problems with MSVC because it choked on the for-block-scoped int i declaration. AFAIK only in the new 'net' compiler In the new .NET compiler (i.e. version 7) it's fixed, the old one (MSVC 6) has that problem. Note however that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New SimGear does not Build Under MSVC 6.0

2002-03-20 Thread Christian Mayer
Jonathan Polley wrote: MSVC 6.0 still whines about props.cxx C:\SimGear\simgear\misc\props.cxx(23) : error C2039: 'sort' : is not a member of 'std' C:\SimGear\simgear\misc\props.cxx(23) : error C2873: 'sort' : symbol cannot be used in a using-declaration

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Error running flightgear

2002-04-02 Thread Christian Mayer
D Luff wrote: Latest CVS simgear/flightgear/base compiles OK but crashes when running: Initializing FGLocalWeatherDatabase - Initialising spherical interpolator. [100%] Finished initialising spherical interpolator. out of memory

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FrameRate !!

2002-04-07 Thread Christian Mayer
Norman Vine wrote: This profiling run might be enlightening time seconds secondscalls us/call us/call name 4.07 2.45 0.14 657919 0.21 0.21 fgGetBool(char const 3.49 2.57 0.12 2352563 0.05 0.05 fgGetDouble(char const 3.20 2.92

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FrameRate !!

2002-04-07 Thread Christian Mayer
Norman Vine wrote: Christian Mayer writes: Norman Vine wrote: This profiling run might be enlightening IT's very interesting to see that fgGetBool takes a significantly longer time to run (3x - 10x as long). Perhaps we can optimze the result by returning a int instead of a bool

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FrameRate !!

2002-04-08 Thread Christian Mayer
Jim Wilson wrote: Alex Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Gadds. I don't know...even with an almost completely idle cpu occaisonally I seem to have these weird performance discrepencies. It isn't heat, so who knows. Maybe its something weird about the kernel. Later without changing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] My First Flight

2002-04-08 Thread Christian Mayer
Martin Dressler wrote: On Sat 6. April 2002 14:24, you wrote: Erik Hofman writes: In fact, I have decided to get my pilots license whenever possible, despite the first experience in the simulator. I was surprised by how inexpensive an intro flight is (much less than a modest

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RGB Texture Editing Tools

2002-04-09 Thread Christian Mayer
Paul Deppe wrote: Windoze developers - What tool(s) are you guys using to edit .rgb files? I don't, but you can use JASC PaintShop Pro in the newest version. CU, Christian -- The idea is to die young as late as possible.-- Ashley Montague Whoever that is/was; (c) by Douglas Adams

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3d graphics hardware support

2002-04-09 Thread Christian Mayer
Dawn Ellis wrote: Has anyone tried using the 3d i-glasses with flightgear? We have a NVIDIA GeForce2 Pro graphics card which allows a 3d stereo buffer to be enabled through the driver. Whenever I enable the stereo buffer, flightgear locks up. Well, I haven't (don't have the necessary

Re: [Flightgear-devel] General issues

2002-04-12 Thread Christian Mayer
Well, I didn'T compile or run FGFS for quite a while, but Erik Hofman wrote: * When zooming in, form tower view, the structure of the plane gets unstable and starts showing parts of the interior. I think that's caused by z-buffer fighting. So it'll be quite hard to solve in a general way.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] General issues

2002-04-12 Thread Christian Mayer
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Jim Wilson writes: I'm wondering if we can cull the interior surfaces and fix this (not just the seats, but the inside surfaces of the aircraft). Could the interior be marked as a separate branch of the scene graph and then somehow skipped when viewed from an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] General issues

2002-04-12 Thread Christian Mayer
David Megginson wrote: Christian Mayer writes: So it'll be quite hard to solve in a general way. Drawing the plane last in it's own z-buffer range (IIRC we are doing that now with the normal 3D panel) won't work generally, as there might be other objects 'in the way' (i.e

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim C172 idle

2002-04-15 Thread Christian Mayer
Alex Perry wrote: [... Andrew Ross wrote ...] Here's a gedanken experiment [...] A _what_ ? Is this a valid word in your language ? I'm asking because it definitely has german roots, the word 'gedanken' That's funny, It is a popular word in the USA. Not sure whether this is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] LINUXTAG 2002

2002-04-22 Thread Christian Mayer
Alex Perry wrote: I propose that the PLIB project takes a community booth at LinuxTag http://www.linuxtag.org June 6-9 this summer in Karlsruhe Germany. This PLIB USERS booth would be a place for the dozen-odd projects that conspicuously incorporate plib (and any others that join in) to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Presentation -- shuttle landing simulator

2002-04-25 Thread Christian Mayer
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Dawn, Thanks for sharing about your project. Not to sound picky, but I'm sure many people on the list either don't have access to power point, or do not have easy access to a machine that runs (or has a copy of) powerpoint. I fall into the second category myself.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Propeller animation speed fix

2002-05-03 Thread Christian Mayer
David Megginson wrote: Jon Berndt writes: I was remembering first how the F-16 sim at Link was run at 25 Hz, which is of course 0.04 seconds. Wait ... (thinking, this time). Yes, that's right ;-) Then, I went to the numpad on my keyboard and hit 0.01 as I was typing in the dt

[Flightgear-devel] Linux IDE

2002-05-11 Thread Christian Mayer
Hi, beware of possible flame war as I'm now ready to run Linux frequently, I'm looking for a comfortable IDE for the development. Has anyone exprience? Does KDevelop work nicely together with FGFS? Do I need to make spacial adjustmenst (on anyside)? Oh, BTW, EMACS and VI/VIM are no option

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Linux IDE

2002-05-11 Thread Christian Mayer
David Megginson wrote: Christian Mayer writes: Oh, BTW, EMACS and VI/VIM are no option for me (vim is great to change a file, but not to have a overview over a big project) What kind of an overview do you need? Well, all the stuf a modern IDE gives you. So stuff like syntax

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Build Error with BalloonSim

2002-05-13 Thread Christian Mayer
Jonathan Polley wrote: On Monday, May 13, 2002, at 05:20 AM, David Megginson wrote: Jonathan Polley writes: Sorry, I mistyped the incorrect macro. The block of code reads: #ifdef FG_WEATHERCM sgScaleVec3(fFriction, v, cw_envelope * wind_facing_area_of_balloon *

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Linux IDE

2002-05-13 Thread Christian Mayer
Andy Ross wrote: I could jump in and talk about specific tools, and all the Emacs LISP code that does what you want, but I'll let other people do that. From the way your question is phrased, I interpret that you are trying to make your Linux environment work just like the development

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Environment subsystem status

2002-05-15 Thread Christian Mayer
David Megginson wrote: Currently, the environment subsystem manages the following properties: /environment/visibility-m /environment/temperature-sea-level-degc /environment/temperature-degc /environment/pressure-sea-level-inhg /environment/pressure-inhg

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