Re: [Flightgear-devel] starting the c310u3a-3d

2002-10-11 Thread John Check
: david; state: Exp; lines: +7 -0 Set initial levels for fuel tanks (not quite working yet). So it looks like we haven't been using the JSBsim supplied value for fuel, at least on the stock c172, since mid january. On Friday 11 October 2002 02:50 am, John Check

Re: [Flightgear-devel] starting the c310u3a-3d

2002-10-11 Thread John Check
On Friday 11 October 2002 01:17 am, Jon Berndt wrote: Whats the deal with the x24b fuel wise? That's missing a consumables section as are the shuttle and x15 ?? The JSBSim config files have fuel loaded for the X15, the X24B, the C310, the C172, etc. But NOT the shuttle (we just use it as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] starting the c310u3a-3d

2002-10-11 Thread John Check
On Friday 11 October 2002 07:02 am, David Megginson wrote: John Check writes: Dunno. I checked a few revisions back and didn't see anything. I'm committing wet tanks shortly. Remember that I just fixed FlightGear to stop picking up defaults from c172.xml. Hmm. All the best, David

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Starter problem: solved

2002-10-11 Thread John Check
On Friday 11 October 2002 08:09 am, Norman Vine wrote: David Megginson writes: Instead, we should set the appropriate switches to 'on' in preferences.xml or c172-*-set.xml so that the user can override. For the starter, a default to 'on' is clearly not what we want. NIT *-*-set.xml so

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Starter problem: solved

2002-10-11 Thread John Check
On Friday 11 October 2002 08:20 am, David Megginson wrote: Norman Vine writes: Instead, we should set the appropriate switches to 'on' in preferences.xml or c172-*-set.xml so that the user can override. For the starter, a default to 'on' is clearly not what we want. NIT

Re: [Flightgear-devel] starting the c310u3a-3d

2002-10-10 Thread John Check
On Thursday 10 October 2002 10:49 pm, Curtis L. Olson wrote: I'm not sure what changed, but I can no longer start the c310u3a-3d engines. They will fire and turn over, but as soon as I disengage the starter, they spin back down and refuse to run. Also, they no longer come up running by

Re: [Flightgear-devel] starting the c310u3a-3d

2002-10-10 Thread John Check
On Thursday 10 October 2002 10:49 pm, Curtis L. Olson wrote: I'm not sure what changed, but I can no longer start the c310u3a-3d engines. They will fire and turn over, but as soon as I disengage the starter, they spin back down and refuse to run. Also, they no longer come up running by

Re: [Flightgear-devel] starting the c310u3a-3d

2002-10-10 Thread John Check
On Friday 11 October 2002 12:05 am, Jon Berndt wrote: Who emptied the fuel tanks? Dunno. I checked a few revisions back and didn't see anything. I'm committing wet tanks shortly. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Check Sent

Re: [Flightgear-devel] starting the c310u3a-3d

2002-10-10 Thread John Check
On Friday 11 October 2002 12:08 am, John Check wrote: On Friday 11 October 2002 12:05 am, Jon Berndt wrote: Who emptied the fuel tanks? Dunno. I checked a few revisions back and didn't see anything. I'm committing wet tanks shortly. I forgot to put it in the log message, but I also moved

Re: [Flightgear-devel] starting the c310u3a-3d

2002-10-10 Thread John Check
On Friday 11 October 2002 12:15 am, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Is this a side effect of no longer getting the C172 defaults? That sounds like a reasonable deduction. I'm checking the rest of the planes to see if we need to gas up. I noticed the yasim planes have thier own definition for fuel

[Flightgear-devel] c172-larcsim -why?

2002-10-10 Thread John Check
I was going through the c172 variants and adding the electrical system and I fired up the c172-larcsim. It's got a major problem. It just sits on the runway no matter how much throttle you give it. I took a quick look at the xml file in case it was something obvious. I gave comparative analysis

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: what to do with old 486 laptops

2002-10-09 Thread John Check
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 10:19 am, Jim Wilson wrote: The question is what would you do with it if you had it?: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2058978645 It's a strange world. Best, Jim That would depend on whether or not the drive was wiped

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Startup seg fault

2002-10-04 Thread John Check
On Friday 04 October 2002 05:21 am, Bernie Bright wrote: On Fri, 04 Oct 2002 01:51:32 -0400 John Check [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 03 October 2002 11:52 pm, John Wojnaroski wrote: With the latest CVS for SimGear and FG (updated 20:00 PDT) seeing Unable to detect the current

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Rats! now I have a base package problem

2002-10-04 Thread John Check
On Friday 04 October 2002 02:33 pm, Boslough, Mark B wrote: I downloaded and built the current stable cvs version. When I run it I get the complaint: Base package check failed ... Found version 0.7.11pre1 at: . Please upgrade to version0.8.0 I'll have to check whats going on with that. I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Startup seg fault

2002-10-03 Thread John Check
On Thursday 03 October 2002 11:52 pm, John Wojnaroski wrote: With the latest CVS for SimGear and FG (updated 20:00 PDT) seeing Unable to detect the current language ./test: line 5 9148 Segmentation fault yada yada yada Wasn't paying attention to the discussions on internationalization

[Flightgear-devel] Some 172 animations broken?

2002-09-28 Thread John Check
I just tried a fresh build and I noticed the control surface animations aren't working. The prop animation works fine. Also (this has been like this for a while) if I go to view mode and change the view angle on the vertical axis then center the view (shift+keypad8) the panel reappears but the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightdeck-UI Project Homepage.

2002-09-27 Thread John Check
On Friday 27 September 2002 9:47 am, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Jon Berndt writes: Interesting ... are these people aware of FlightGear? It looks like they are doing cockpit UI type research (?) and they could plug right into FlightGear to drive their displays. Huh? I read into it that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft systems, take 1

2002-09-23 Thread John Check
On Monday 23 September 2002 4:02 pm, David Megginson wrote: I've started a new module, src/Systems/, for major aircraft systems. Currently it contains only a very simplistic vacuum system hard-wired to engine #1, but we can improve it easily (look at VacuumSystem::update in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Base Package size (was 3D clouds)

2002-09-17 Thread John Check
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 5:58 am, Frederic BOUVIER wrote: John Check [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : On Tuesday 17 September 2002 2:53 am, Frederic Bouvier wrote: It also seems that only Data/SkyClouds/field56.cld is needed. I tried to remove the other files and it works. Let me try

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS

2002-09-17 Thread John Check
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 10:38 am, Alex Perry wrote: The stable tree is for all intents and purposes the last released version. For SimGear and FlightGear you have to maintain 2 trees if you want access to the stable or dev versions. The basepackage CVS you can access either, but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] preferences.xml

2002-07-22 Thread John Check
On Monday 22 July 2002 12:13 am, Jonathan Polley wrote: I would like to update the preferences.xml file to include comments telling folks like myself how to read/modify the file. I have commented my local version (mirrors CVS), but would like to insert it into CVS. To take a look at an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] crash

2002-07-18 Thread John Check
On Thursday 18 July 2002 7:43 pm, David Megginson wrote: Alex Romosan writes: i was flying the a4 trying to dodge buildings when i crashed into one of them. the problem is i was some distance away from it as you can see from the picture at http://caliban.lbl.gov/a4_crash.pnm (it's a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB Stick

2002-07-14 Thread John Check
On Sunday 14 July 2002 7:33 am, David Megginson wrote: Victoria Welch writes: As for jscal, I am unable to locate it for mandrake. The source I found (which seems to have been an early version ?!?!?!?!) wants to be compiled into the kernel and I find that just too odd. I'm very

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone using a Saitek Cyborg Gold USB Sticksuccessfully with FG ?

2002-07-13 Thread John Check
On Saturday 13 July 2002 8:26 am, Jim Wilson wrote: Victoria Welch [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Assuming that I have the same results I have had in the past, I'll track down that Docs/README.Joystick.html wherever plib hides it docs. Interesting that looks like one with the same name in the fg

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Splash screens

2002-07-03 Thread John Check
On Wednesday 03 July 2002 1:59 pm, Cameron Moore wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Check) [2002.07.03 00:32]: On Wednesday 03 July 2002 1:19 am, Cameron Moore wrote: I decided to make a couple splash screens out of some nice screenshots, and I'm curious how they look on other systems

[Flightgear-devel] RSYNC base package not up-to-date?

2002-07-02 Thread John Check
On Monday 01 July 2002 4:37 am, Erik Hofman wrote: -snip- I think I've found the problem. I grab the base package using rsync, and that version doesn't seem to be up-to-date. Even the new crop textures aren't included yet. Could someone please take a look at that? Erik It's fixed now,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] We are the champions

2002-07-02 Thread John Check
On Tuesday 02 July 2002 10:37 am, Curtis L. Olson wrote: We'll probably all have a lot more fun and work together a lot more effectively if leave the political discussions to other forums. :-) Regards, Curt. Second that ;) ___ Flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New FGFS merchandise

2002-07-02 Thread John Check
On Tuesday 02 July 2002 7:39 am, Martin Spott wrote: FYI, there are a lot of new FGFS logo items available. http://www.cafepress.com/cp/store/store.aspx?storeid=fgfs_gear The mugs look nice but I have to notice that the colour on the FlightGear Logo Mug starts disappearing after only a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Splash screens

2002-07-02 Thread John Check
On Wednesday 03 July 2002 1:19 am, Cameron Moore wrote: I decided to make a couple splash screens out of some nice screenshots, and I'm curious how they look on other systems -- mainly if they are too dark. They are straight out of FG -- no tampering except for the text, of course. If you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RSYNC base package not up-to-date? (Was: 3dPanel problem)

2002-07-01 Thread John Check
On Monday 01 July 2002 11:53 am, Alex Perry wrote: I think I've found the problem. I grab the base package using rsync, and that version doesn't seem to be up-to-date. Even the new crop textures aren't included yet. It's on my machine, but John Check had a cron job that pushd-updated

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RSYNC base package not up-to-date? (Was: 3dPanel problem)

2002-07-01 Thread John Check
On Monday 01 July 2002 6:14 pm, John Check wrote: On Monday 01 July 2002 11:53 am, Alex Perry wrote: I think I've found the problem. I grab the base package using rsync, and that version doesn't seem to be up-to-date. Even the new crop textures aren't included yet. It's on my

[Flightgear-devel] CVS base down temporarily

2002-07-01 Thread John Check
CVS for base package is down for a little bit. I'll have it back up ASAP. John ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] CVS base back up

2002-07-01 Thread John Check
Okay, we're back in business. J ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Spiffy new panel gadget

2002-06-21 Thread John Check
On Friday 21 June 2002 8:41 am, Jim Wilson wrote: Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Well, it spoiled the fun for me. FPS from 10-15 down to 1 fps :-( Erik Hmmm...that seems a bit extreme. The model as a whole is a lot more complex. Best, Jim

Re: [Flightgear-devel] autopilot problem

2002-06-21 Thread John Check
On Friday 21 June 2002 10:06 pm, Major A wrote: Hi, another nasty question from a user who hasn't bothered browsing through the source code: I have found in the CVS of FlightGear recently that the autopilot's altitude function doesn't work. It reliably steers me into the ground no matter

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a4 panel

2002-06-18 Thread John Check
On Wednesday 19 June 2002 1:23 am, Andy Ross wrote: snip I have backgrounds for some of these that I did a while back, but never integrated. Take a look at http://www.plausible.org/andy/gauges/all.png for the stuff that I have ready. These were all generated by a little perl (and

[Flightgear-devel] CVS base check-ins broken for rest of afternoon

2002-06-11 Thread John Check
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 12:10 pm, Norman Vine wrote: fgfs --help exits with an error message about 'options.xml' missing Shouldn't this be in fgfsbase ?? Cheers Norman Curt sent me the file to commit. Something is up on the server end. Unfortunately, I'm on jury duty today and have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] options.xml

2002-06-11 Thread John Check
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 1:32 pm, Andy Ross wrote: Norman Vine wrote: fgfs --help exits with an error message about 'options.xml' missing Shouldn't this be in fgfsbase ?? Apparently, it is in CVS. But the permissions on the file are incorrect: turban:/andy/src/fgfsbase$ cvs up

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgfsbase cvs ??

2002-06-10 Thread John Check
On Monday 10 June 2002 11:41 pm, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Norman Vine writes: FWIW I haven't been able to get an update from the fgfsbase cvs all day I can connect OK but then cvs gets stuck responding with cvs server: [ $time ] waiting for cvsroot's lock in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] yasim solution failure

2002-06-03 Thread John Check
On Monday 03 June 2002 3:22 pm, Andy Ross wrote: Alex Romosan wrote: it seems to be back. things were working on friday, but this morning when i tried to fly the 747 out of KOAK i get this: It looks like you're using the 747.xml file out of the current fgfsbase CVS. As of the last fix,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] yasim solution failure

2002-06-03 Thread John Check
On Monday 03 June 2002 6:18 pm, Andy Ross wrote: John Check wrote: Andy Ross wrote: Checkins to the base package tend to lag the source tree by a few days. I attached the new file to my mail on Sunday (subject: YASim 747-400 climb). A few days? That really shouldn't be. Everybody

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft

2002-06-02 Thread John Check
On Saturday 01 June 2002 11:32 pm, Jim Wilson wrote: BTW I have the X15 with all the parts labeled. If someone is interested in doing the xml for animations I'll put it in cvs (it's based on the gear down version). I beleive I committed that model. I could be wrong J

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft

2002-06-02 Thread John Check
On Sunday 02 June 2002 5:16 pm, Gene Buckle wrote: ..also, how about a _generic_ Mooney Bonanza? About 300 of Mooney didn't build the Bonanza, Beechcraft did. I have to admit though, a huge formation of forked-tail doctor killers would be a cool thing to see. :) g. forked-tail doctor

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear review in FlightXPress

2002-06-01 Thread John Check
On Saturday 01 June 2002 11:43 am, Michael Basler wrote: Dear developers, I received the June issue of FlightXPress, a German language (actually THE German language) language journal on Flight simulation (http://www.flightxpress.de/) today. snip Unfortunately the review on FG as such is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Failed to load 3D model

2002-05-20 Thread John Check
On Monday 20 May 2002 12:19 am, Alex Perry wrote: How about we have a missing model in the same way as we have a missing texture ? A ten meter cube with that texture on each side ? we used to fall back to the glider model I get a Fatal error when trying to use some aircraft because I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Environment subsystem status

2002-05-15 Thread John Check
On Wednesday 15 May 2002 12:12 pm, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Christian Mayer -- Wednesday 15 May 2002 17:39: David Megginson wrote: /environment/pressure-inhg /environment/density-sea-level-slugft3 [...] But I'm really concerned that these values aren't in SI units. So most of the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Linux IDE

2002-05-13 Thread John Check
On Monday 13 May 2002 7:38 pm, Christian Mayer wrote: snip As written earlier: I didn't like EMACS as I tried it (c'mon, which sane person programms in LISP?). I'll rather try vi (I'm also using it on a few big HPUX at work). Oh, AFAIK you can replace the internal editor of KDevelop with VIM

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Possible virus alert

2002-04-30 Thread John Check
On Tuesday 30 April 2002 9:42 am, Frederic Bouvier wrote: What are these indications ? -Fred Messages with klez attachments and forged from headers with list participant addresses. - Original Message - From: John Check [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Possible virus alert

2002-04-30 Thread John Check
On Tuesday 30 April 2002 11:36 am, David Megginson wrote: John Check writes: Messages with klez attachments and forged from headers with list participant addresses. Yes, having my return address spoofed by someone's Outlook was the last straw for me. At risk of offending some of my

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Possible virus alert

2002-04-30 Thread John Check
On Tuesday 30 April 2002 12:05 pm, Frederic Bouvier wrote: All Outlook users should install security patches from Windows Update. Version 5 has serious flaws and start automatically any attachement when a message is previewed. John is right, these viruses fetch their victims in every mail

[Flightgear-devel] File reorg

2002-04-30 Thread John Check
I started integrating the UIUC stuff into Aircraft/ and part of Michaels strategy is a Aircraft/UIUC for the UIUC configs. While we're at it how about moving the Aircraft-yasim directory the same way? Comments? TTYL J ___ Flightgear-devel mailing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: Cessna 172R or 172M/N/P?

2002-04-30 Thread John Check
On Tuesday 30 April 2002 7:33 pm, Jim Wilson wrote: David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: There are obviously some aerodynamic changes in the 172R as well as the more obvious powerplant and panel changes. Our JSBSim model uses mostly the standard 172/182 coefficients that Roskam

Re: [Flightgear-devel] File reorg

2002-04-30 Thread John Check
On Tuesday 30 April 2002 8:52 pm, David Megginson wrote: John Check writes: I started integrating the UIUC stuff into Aircraft/ and part of Michaels strategy is a Aircraft/UIUC for the UIUC configs. While we're at it how about moving the Aircraft-yasim directory the same way

Re: [Flightgear-devel] File reorg

2002-04-30 Thread John Check
On Tuesday 30 April 2002 10:04 pm, David Megginson wrote: John Check writes: I'd prefer Aircraft/Aero/whatever. When you think about it, everything in a Aircraft/whatever directory except the jsb config file is cosmetic. A clear division there is a good thing That sounds great

Re: [Flightgear-devel] channel parse failed

2002-04-29 Thread John Check
On Monday 29 April 2002 6:25 am, Marcel Wittebrood wrote: IIRC windows requires commandline arguments (or parts thereof) to be quoted. Thanks John, I added localhost and indeed the program opens the channel. Maybe I will add some input- checking on this when I get more experience. I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Movie

2002-04-29 Thread John Check
On Monday 29 April 2002 6:30 pm, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 16:19:08 -, Jim Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Marcio Shimoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I want to make a movie with FG running, but I don't have a video card to capture the

[Flightgear-devel] Possible virus alert

2002-04-29 Thread John Check
I'm seeing some indications that one of our win32 people may be infected with W32.Klez. http:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This would be a good time to update virus dats and have a mcafee. Thanks John ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] channel parse failed

2002-04-26 Thread John Check
On Friday 26 April 2002 9:56 am, Marcel Wittebrood wrote: Dear developers, I work with cygwin under windows 2000 logged in as administrator. Now I have a few questions : I used the following argument to be able to look at the variable tree with telnet: --props=socket,bi,5,5500,tcp One

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Joydev interaction bug?

2002-04-26 Thread John Check
On Friday 26 April 2002 10:50 pm, Alex Perry wrote: You should have a look at the bindings in your joystick.xml file as there a bunch of defaults in there that you probably won't like. I locally have a chproducts.xml file which is used inside the preferences.xml file instead of the standard

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Joydev interaction bug?

2002-04-26 Thread John Check
On Saturday 27 April 2002 12:44 am, Simon Fowler wrote: On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 09:33:23PM -0700, Alex Perry wrote: For example, say I'm a long-time X-Plane user and just can't live with the default FG key bindings. I could create my very own ~/.fgfs/keyboard.xml and completely

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UFO FDM is Running! (was: Enhanced MagicCarpet)

2002-04-25 Thread John Check
On Thursday 25 April 2002 1:23 pm, Curtis L. Olson wrote: David Megginson writes: Alex Perry writes: Are you going to do an interior view ? Do flying saucers have windows? Well, we know Mr. Gate's has a monopoly here on earth, but it's unclear if this monopoly extends significantly

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UFO FDM is Running! (was: Enhanced MagicCarpet)

2002-04-25 Thread John Check
On Thursday 25 April 2002 3:59 pm, Curtis L. Olson wrote: John Check writes: On Thursday 25 April 2002 1:23 pm, Curtis L. Olson wrote: David Megginson writes: Alex Perry writes: Are you going to do an interior view ? Do flying saucers have windows? Well, we know Mr

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3d Cessna 310 u3a

2002-04-25 Thread John Check
On Thursday 25 April 2002 5:57 pm, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Jon S Berndt writes: On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 16:28:12 -0500 (CDT) Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just took the latest 3D Cessna 310 u3a (in cvs) for a spin and wow! I hadn't looked at this for a while and it's really

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UFO FDM is Running! (was: Enhanced MagicCarpet)

2002-04-25 Thread John Check
On Thursday 25 April 2002 7:19 pm, Jonathan Polley wrote: On Thursday, April 25, 2002, at 05:56 PM, Jon S Berndt wrote: On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 20:31:51 +0200 Arnt Karlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do flying saucers have windows? Word has it they use Linux, actually. ..how about the

[Flightgear-devel] Funky tower view

2002-04-25 Thread John Check
I noticed a few oddities with the tower view after flying a bit. This is the first view: http://rockfish.net/fg/towerviewfunk.jpg You can see the runway lights and cloud layer are misplaced. In the next view, the cloud layer is scooting along. It looks way cool, but shouldn't be happening.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: Future of the instrument panel in the 3Dcockpit

2002-04-22 Thread John Check
On Monday 22 April 2002 07:39, David Megginson wrote: Currently, the 2D panel displayed in the 3D model is a kludge. It works enough of the time that you can fly, but some strange things happen from time to time: 1. The 2D panel instruments show through any 3D objects that should

Re: [Flightgear-devel] latest cvs changes

2002-04-19 Thread John Check
On Friday 19 April 2002 04:34 am, you wrote: Jim Wilson wrote: As for the numbering, how about jumping to 0.8 and then continuing on as we have? This will look like a pretty major update with the new models and 3d internal view. I would think 0.8.0 is reserved for a *stable* release.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: LOCAL: FlightGear presentation in Davis,CA - May 7th

2002-04-19 Thread John Check
On Friday 19 April 2002 01:56 pm, you wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: FlightGear flight simulator software for Linux and Windows presented by: Andy Ross of the FlightGear project I'd just like to point out that this is all Alex's fault. I didn't have anything to do with it (other than saying

Re: [Flightgear-devel] perplexing make error

2002-04-16 Thread John Check
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 05:41 pm, you wrote: Keith Wiley writes: Well, I autogened it, configured it, and remaked it. This time it complains that fg_init.cxx is looking for Time/event.hxx on line 111 (which is true) and that there is no such file (which is also true). There is an event.o,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PA-28-161

2002-04-15 Thread John Check
On Monday 15 April 2002 03:15 am, you wrote: Hi all I met one of you guys at LinuxWorld in january, I believe it was Curt, but Curt had other obligations,I beleive it was me. You were at the conference session too, right? not sure. Anyway, I promised him to donate my Cherokee Warrior Info

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim C172 idle

2002-04-15 Thread John Check
On Monday 15 April 2002 09:24 am, you 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.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] My Second Flight

2002-04-10 Thread John Check
On Wednesday 10 April 2002 04:26 pm, you wrote: Again, thanks everyone, w00T! Congrats David! g. Hear hear ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] EAA Wright Flyer

2002-04-09 Thread John Check
On Wednesday 10 April 2002 10:02 pm, you wrote: Microsoft To Join The Centennial Of Flight Celebration As Part Of EAA's Countdown To Kitty Hawk Presented By Ford Motor Company http://www.countdowntokittyhawk.com/news/microsoft.html Go read it for the full details, but it basically says that

Re: (fwd) Re: [Flightgear-devel] FrameRate !!

2002-04-08 Thread John Check
On Monday 08 April 2002 07:41 am, you wrote: I think a series of demos would be a great idea. It would also be nice if there were demos for various terrain types (stress testing). I fly around the Seattle area simply because the mountains drastically impact frame rate. Not only the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Base package access via rsync?

2002-03-26 Thread John Check
On Tuesday 26 March 2002 10:23 am, you wrote: Matthias Heukäufer writes: I've asked this before on FGFS-Users, but obviously nobody has read my mail so far: Will there be a way to get the base package with rsync some day? The snapshots keep my 14kbps modem busy for a long time. You can

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Base package access via rsync?

2002-03-26 Thread John Check
On Tuesday 26 March 2002 02:17 pm, you wrote: Will there be a way to get the base package with rsync some day? The snapshots keep my 14kbps modem busy for a long time. I've got an experimental server that offers scenery via rsync, but it is hardly used. I assert that few

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Viewer Improvements and 3D cockpit

2002-03-25 Thread John Check
On Monday 25 March 2002 11:19 am, you wrote: On a related note, does anyone know how I could convince CVS that the base package tar.gz file contents are a suitable starting point for a cvs update of the base package? You just need a tarball with all the CVS control files (and nothing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Redhat (vs debian) - DEBIAN ISO's obtained

2002-03-17 Thread John Check
You're really better off doing a network install if at all possible. Just download a couple of floppies and you're ready to go. On Sunday 17 March 2002 11:32 am, you wrote: I forgot to say that Debian must REALLY hide their ISO's - I had to get these from www.linuxiso.org Hopefully they

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

2002-03-17 Thread John Check
On Sunday 17 March 2002 02:12 am, you wrote: http://www.suse.com/us/products/suse_linux/i386/games.html ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel Gaaah! What an ugly old

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Redhat (vs debian) / BSD OK?

2002-03-17 Thread John Check
On Sunday 17 March 2002 03:57 am, you wrote: FWIW on a SuSE 7.3 system I had to downgrade (install parallel actually) autoconf. Just pointing out SuSE needed a little tweak too. I would'nt call it that way. Autoconf on SuSE-7.3 works pretty nice. The only tweak is that you have to run

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

2002-03-15 Thread John Check
On Friday 15 March 2002 01:57 pm, you wrote: At 3/15/02, you wrote: [2] Where should we put the sound files. Right now the files are in ~fbfsbase/Sounds. But different aircraft will have different sounds. Should these sound files go in the respective ~fgfsbase/Aircraft directories?

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

2002-03-15 Thread John Check
the files are in ~fbfsbase/Sounds. But different aircraft will have different sounds. Should these sound files go in the respective ~fgfsbase/Aircraft directories? That's a question for John Check, who is working hard to impose more order on the sometimes chaotic base package. snip [3

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Douglas DC-3 Dakota

2002-03-14 Thread John Check
On Thursday 14 March 2002 03:01 am, you wrote: Hi Well, over weekends she's most of the time receiving basic maintenance, so there's endless time in which I can get some very nice pics, info etc. Don't quote me on the following, but I heard that when they designed the DC-3, the engineers

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Model Performance and dc3 donuts

2002-03-14 Thread John Check
On Sunday 10 March 2002 03:20 pm, you wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 06:05:18 -0500, David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: John Check writes: Hey David, I was thinking of getting another controller, what was that one you recommended? I use a Logitech

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Virtual cockpit notes

2002-03-10 Thread John Check
On Sunday 10 March 2002 05:23 am, you wrote: On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 22:08, Jim Wilson wrote: Fly! uses a 3D cockpit. They use 2D for most of the instrumentation, switches and knobs, and 3D models for the things that really need it like levers. More than likely the legability problem is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Virtual cockpit notes

2002-03-10 Thread John Check
On Sunday 10 March 2002 05:32 am, you wrote: I would guess this is a major factor in the relatively small amount of aircraft development for Fly! ... I know of several people who have exterior models, but can't contemplate the effort required to assemble a working panel. I think this is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-10 Thread John Check
On Monday 11 March 2002 02:32 am, you wrote: Sounds like a worth while (sp?) project! The XML files get IMVHO more and more confusing. Maybe lets do the big reorg that Dave speaks about first, with the hope that things won't change often afterwards. When doing the python scripts to generate

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

2002-03-10 Thread John Check
On Monday 11 March 2002 02:32 am, you wrote: snip choose a FDM, panel etc, inputs it into the XMLs, generates a small batch file to call everything, etc. The set files do what said batch file would do. They are the top level aircraft config. ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS question

2002-03-06 Thread John Check
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 07:17 pm, you wrote: snip quite the way you want them. One of the central characteristics of being a geeky hacker type is a strongly held conviction that the rest of the world are idiots and are doing things all wrong. :) Andy Hahahah! Quick somebody notify

Re: [Flightgear-devel] forwarded message from Mike Marhoefer

2002-03-04 Thread John Check
On Monday 04 March 2002 04:54 pm, you wrote: Can anyone confirm or deny this? Wasn't there a similar message a few releases ago? It would be good to check obviously, but IIRC something just matched the virus sig ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear first impression

2002-03-03 Thread John Check
On Sunday 03 March 2002 04:56 am, you wrote: Danie Heath wrote: I finally got the sim running. Here's my first impressions * Ground texturing excellent, except taxiways and ramps We are aware of that. But nobody had been able to create new ones ;-) * I've only seen the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim changes / new XML files

2002-02-28 Thread John Check
On Friday 01 March 2002 12:45 am, you wrote: I just checked in YASim changes that allow for more cleaner export of control output to the property tree (and flaps now extend slowly now, to boot). But this breaks the XML syntax in an incompatible way, so you'll need to update your planes in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Animated C172

2002-02-26 Thread John Check
On Tuesday 26 February 2002 08:52 am, you wrote: Almost all of the major moving surfaces in the C172 are now animated: - propeller - ailerons - flaps - rudder - elevators The nosewheel still doesn't turn, but I'll add that when I get a chance. I'll probably start on the DC-3 first,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Model Performance and dc3 donuts

2002-02-26 Thread John Check
On Tuesday 26 February 2002 10:14 pm, you wrote: Jim Wilson writes: One thing I did notice is that there seems to be significantly greater CPU overhead when running these models as opposed to some of the msfs models I've tried. When taking off in chase view there's a great deal of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Model Performance and dc3 donuts

2002-02-26 Thread John Check
On Tuesday 26 February 2002 10:16 pm, you wrote: Andy Ross writes: The problem is, typical control setups don't have toe brakes on the rudder pedals. So I cheated in the initial configuration and mapped the outer (+/- 0.5-1.0) range of the rudder pedals to the brakes. I thought

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Basepackage problems

2002-02-24 Thread John Check
On Sunday 24 February 2002 12:36 pm, you wrote: 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

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Missing JSBsim/tests

2002-02-24 Thread John Check
On Sunday 24 February 2002 03:49 pm, you wrote: Nope, it isn't in the CVS archive ... someone forgot to check it in ? ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel It's a typo,

[Flightgear-devel] Boo-boo in CVS

2002-02-24 Thread John Check
Had to make a small change to get latest CVS to build: Index: src/Main/fg_init.cxx === RCS file: /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.7/FlightGear/src/Main/fg_init.cxx,v retrieving revision 1.150 diff -r1.150 fg_init.cxx 82c82 #include

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG/Opengc Interface

2002-02-23 Thread John Check
On Saturday 23 February 2002 10:24 pm, you wrote: Andy Ross writes: Undeniably. Unfortunately, the only way to get it closer is to have people work on and provide feedback for the models. I'll freely admit that I don't spend much time in the 747 model, because big jets don't push my

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bye bye, yellow and blue glider

2002-02-22 Thread John Check
On Friday 22 February 2002 02:01 pm, you wrote: I started texturing my C172 3D model this morning. It is not finished (many faces still don't have textures assigned), but it looks reasonable enough to be the default for the c172* aircraft, rather than the old yellow and blue glider, so I've

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