Re: [Flightgear-devel] Global data positional lookup

2006-02-20 Thread David Luff
Thanks for all the suggestions guys. I'm ashamed to say that I'd never heard of the kd tree or the quad-tree before. Yes, the current bucket approach works, and yes I'll probably use it this time (Special User Airspace records for display on the kln89 map page), but the possibility of a more e

[Flightgear-devel] Tutorial System patch (version 5)

2006-02-20 Thread Buchanan, Stuart
Hi All, Another post from me - must mean another iteration of the tutorial patch :) But I've followed FG best-practice this time around ... As before, this is a patch for an XML based tutorial system. The patch does the following: - Provide a framework for writing tutorials in XML that are tied

Re: [Flightgear-devel] runway lights (non-enhanced version)

2006-02-20 Thread Jim Wilson
> > Did something change recently with the non-enhanced runway lights? They > seem dimmer now and seem to zbuffer fight with the runway a lot more > than they have previously? Has anyone else noticed this with the most > recent CVS or is it just me? > > Curt. Back when those lights were don

[Flightgear-devel] AIModels BUG in current CVS

2006-02-20 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi, Just a quick report: This evening I discovered the following bug in current FlightGear CVS. When an AIAircraft object is deleted, variable fp (flightplan) is deleted first in ~AIAircraft() and then again in ~AIBase(). I have fixed this in my current development tree, which I'm hoping to sy

Re: [Flightgear-devel] turn indicator assumes 24 volt electrical system

2006-02-20 Thread Josh Babcock
AJ MacLeod wrote: > On Sunday 19 February 2006 19:12, Dave Perry wrote: > >>David, would it be possible to have this routine get the normalization >>voltage from the electrical system used by the model? I don't see any >>such value in the property tree (an ideal_volts such as is defined by >>the

[Flightgear-devel] Re: problems running FG now

2006-02-20 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Monday 20 February 2006 21:48: [--enable-sdl] > Advantages: Some bugs less. (Such as the keyboard repeat bug.) There's a (minor) disadvantage, too: desktop switching isn't possible in fullscreen. I don't care, because I don't use the built-in fullscreen option, but rather make

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New aircraft for fgfs - English Electric Lightning

2006-02-20 Thread AJ MacLeod
Just a note to say what I disastrously forgot to say in my initial email... The yasim version of the Lightning is badly broken, please use the JSBSim one which is hopefully much less so :-) I only left it in there in case someone else could make the yasim config converge - I might be better hav

[Flightgear-devel] Re: problems running FG now

2006-02-20 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Justin Smithies -- Monday 20 February 2006 21:47: > What are the advantages of using sdl over freeglut ? > Also does this mean i have to compile simgear with this option too or just > FG ? Advantages: Some bugs less. (Such as the keyboard repeat bug.) You only need to configure/compile/link Fli

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: problems running FG now

2006-02-20 Thread Justin Smithies
What are the advantages of using sdl over freeglut ? Also does this mean i have to compile simgear with this option too or just FG ? Cheers Justin Smithies On Monday 20 February 2006 20:38, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * Justin Smithies -- Monday 20 February 2006 21:39: > > freeglut ERROR: Functio

[Flightgear-devel] Re: problems running FG now

2006-02-20 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Justin Smithies -- Monday 20 February 2006 21:39: > freeglut ERROR: Function called without first calling > 'glutIni t'. > > im using freeglut 2.4.0 > > Any ideas ? Yes. Don't use freeglut 2.4.0. :-) It's broken. Either use 2.2.0 or CVS. Or even better: use SDL (./configure --enab

[Flightgear-devel] problems running FG now

2006-02-20 Thread Justin Smithies
Hi guys im having trouble starting FG now after upgrading to xorg 7. I have rebuilt all my packages simgear FG etc but i keep getting this error Reading xml electrical system model from /opt/flightgear/share/FlightGear/Aircra ft/Generic/generic-electrical.xml freeglut (/opt/flightgear/bin/

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Global data positional lookup

2006-02-20 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Norman Vine schrieb: > > IIRC I have been mentioning http://www.sdss.jhu.edu/htm/index.html > > every time these kind of questions arise for years now :-) :) I know. Perhaps it's time that we implement it this time :) CU, Christian -BEGIN P

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Global data positional lookup

2006-02-20 Thread Norman Vine
Christian Mayer writes: > > Mathias Fröhlich schrieb: > > On Sunday 19 February 2006 19:44, Christian Mayer wrote: > >> As my last post to this topic was probably a bit cryptic for some I've > >> looked in the net a bit and have found: > > Hehe, not really cryptic. > > Rather interresting! > > The

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Global data positional lookup

2006-02-20 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mathias Fröhlich schrieb: > On Sunday 19 February 2006 19:44, Christian Mayer wrote: >> As my last post to this topic was probably a bit cryptic for some I've >> looked in the net a bit and have found: > Hehe, not really cryptic. > Rather interresting!

Re: [Flightgear-devel] turn indicator assumes 24 volt electrical system

2006-02-20 Thread AJ MacLeod
On Sunday 19 February 2006 19:12, Dave Perry wrote: > David, would it be possible to have this routine get the normalization > voltage from the electrical system used by the model? I don't see any > such value in the property tree (an ideal_volts such as is defined by > the nasal electrical system