Re: [Flightgear-devel] Guess what plane this is!

2006-05-09 Thread flying.toaster
Looks like an Airbus A300B (missing winglets and ailerons), but then I miss some details to be affirmative (I seem to remember there are boundary layer fences somewhere on the leading edge and engines slung under those pylons ;o) ). Hope I can finish my A340-500 anytime soon to join ;o) Great

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Re: FGLive 0.1 LinuxTag edition

2006-05-09 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 9 May 2006 22:54:18 +1000, Pigeon wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > ..in the /KNOPPIX/etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig style script too? > > (I just started my DL off Martins ftp site, thanks all. :o) ) > > Yes. I fixed in /etc/init.d/knoppix-locales in the basemod, to use > a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Guess what plane this is!

2006-05-09 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 8 May 2006 18:53:03 -0400, Ampere wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~cs233144/fgfs-screen-010.png > > http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~cs233144/fgfs-screen-007.png > > http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~cs233144/fgfs-screen-011.png > > http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~cs233144/fgfs-scr

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Guess what plane this is!

2006-05-09 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
Two new screenshots: http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~cs233144/A300-night1.jpg http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~cs233144/A300-night2.jpg Special thanks to Julien for making these two shots possible. Ampere --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support

[Flightgear-devel] Guess what plane this is!

2006-05-09 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~cs233144/fgfs-screen-010.png http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~cs233144/fgfs-screen-007.png http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~cs233144/fgfs-screen-011.png http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~cs233144/fgfs-screen-005.png http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~cs233144/fgfs-screen-012.png http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~cs233

Re: [Flightgear-devel] F-14 anyone?

2006-05-09 Thread Lee Elliott
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 06:29, flying.toaster wrote: [snip...] > > In many respects the F-14 design is very similar to that of > > the SU-27 family of aircraft. > > True enough, for instance landing gear design (downlocks are > located on the engine nacelle), poded engines, twin tails, > blah, blah

[Flightgear-devel] Backwards compatibility issues (was Re: [RFC] new waypoint dialog)

2006-05-09 Thread Jim Wilson
> -Original Message- > From: Melchior FRANZ > > * Norman Vine -- Tuesday 09 May 2006 17:37: > > (this is not aimed at anyone) [...] one shouldn't forget > > that someone else wrote that code most likely for the same reason one > > wants to change it. i.e it fit their 'vision' > > Su

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737 Autopilot Enhancements & Developement Interest

2006-05-09 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 03:24, Simon Trusler wrote: > Hi All, > I was unsure whether I could actually make a difference but it appears that > I have been able to add functionality to the 737 autopilot that was > documented as needing to be done. Great! That's one of the areas that needed some seri

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Colditz Glider woes

2006-05-09 Thread Dave Culp
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 10:46 am, Steve Hosgood wrote: > I've just been reworking the FDM of my Colditz Escape Glider to get it > to work with 0.9.10 and the new JSBSim .xml format. > 2) If I dive the colditz glider vertically down it manages to hold this > vertical flight until it hits the ground.

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Colditz Glider woes

2006-05-09 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Steve Hosgood -- Tuesday 09 May 2006 17:46: > 1) How do I get the 'autopilot' menu item to grey out and go away > please? I've tried studying the c172p and conclude that it does it by > specifying its own autopilot which automagically greys out the default > one. I don't want one at all. How t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flightgear/FlightGearSDL-0.9.10-0.FC.i386.rpm failing on FC5

2006-05-09 Thread Steve Hosgood
Curtis L. Olson wrote: It should start propogating now. Sorry for the delay. I've had zero spare time to devote to FG in the last couple weeks due to my job situation. Hopefully this will begin to return to normal by the end of May. Curt. Thanks, Curt. --

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [RFC] new waypoint dialog

2006-05-09 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Norman Vine -- Tuesday 09 May 2006 17:37: > (this is not aimed at anyone) [...] one shouldn't forget > that someone else wrote that code most likely for the same reason one > wants to change it. i.e it fit their 'vision' :-) Sure. That's why you need to stay around and defend your code, or

[Flightgear-devel] Colditz Glider woes

2006-05-09 Thread Steve Hosgood
I've just been reworking the FDM of my Colditz Escape Glider to get it to work with 0.9.10 and the new JSBSim .xml format. So far so good, but 1) How do I get the 'autopilot' menu item to grey out and go away please? I've tried studying the c172p and conclude that it does it by specifying

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flightgear/FlightGearSDL-0.9.10-0.FC.i386.rpm failing on FC5

2006-05-09 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Steve Hosgood wrote: Some time back, "andy" wrote: Hi I posted earlier today a msg on the user list about issues with running fgfs on FC5 (c enclosed copy) . After a little more research I found the development list thread about FC5 and the freeglut 2.4. So I tried the following rpm flightg

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [RFC] new waypoint dialog

2006-05-09 Thread Norman Vine
Melchior FRANZ writes: > > * Jim Wilson -- Tuesday 09 May 2006 17:01: > > The second most neglected item (after documentation) in the OSS world is > > backwards compatibility. > > The first item is true, ... > > And the second item is also one of the strengths of OSS. It doesn't > have to carry

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flightgear/FlightGearSDL-0.9.10-0.FC.i386.rpm failing on FC5

2006-05-09 Thread Steve Hosgood
Some time back, "andy" wrote: Hi I posted earlier today a msg on the user list about issues with running fgfs on FC5 (c enclosed copy) . After a little more research I found the development list thread about FC5 and the freeglut 2.4. So I tried the following rpm flightgear/FlightGearSDL-0.9.1

Re: [Flightgear-devel] thumbnail.jpg for ogel aircraft

2006-05-09 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Frederic Bouvier wrote: Selon Torsten Dreyer : Hi, I made a thumbnail image for the aircraft download page for my ogel aircraft. It is here: http://www.t3r.de/fg/ogel/thumbnail.jpg Anybody out there who commits this to cvs? It is committed. Now Curt have to regenerate the download

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [RFC] new waypoint dialog

2006-05-09 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Jim Wilson -- Tuesday 09 May 2006 17:01: > The second most neglected item (after documentation) in the OSS world is > backwards compatibility. The first item is true, although access to the source code makes it much less painful than badly documented closed source software. And bad documentation

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [RFC] new waypoint dialog

2006-05-09 Thread Jim Wilson
> From: Melchior FRANZ > > Was it common practice to use the commands via telnet? (which > can, of course, still be done, but it's a little more verbose: > "set /autopilot/route-manager/input [EMAIL PROTECTED]" etc. See other > mails in the thread.) > Hmmm...it doesn't seem like it is common pr

[Flightgear-devel] Re: flaps

2006-05-09 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Justin Smithies -- Monday 08 May 2006 21:22: > On my aircraft model i need the flaps to step through 7 positions. > But i noticed that the nasal script "controls.nas" is hard coded to 3 equal > positions only. Not true. That's only the fallback mechanism. > How do i get around that without c

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flaps

2006-05-09 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On Monday 08 May 2006 15:22, Justin Smithies wrote: > > > How do i get around that without changing the controls.nas script as other > aircraft might need the 3 equal steps . > I just want mine to have 7 steps we ll in fact if i may go a little further > could i have the following positions ? > >

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [RFC] new waypoint dialog

2006-05-09 Thread Jim Wilson
> From: Melchior FRANZ > > But these points wouldn't explain why the old commands would have had to go. > I made clear at several occasions (twice in the thread, once in the cvs log) > that I would be willing to add the three commands (not the depreciated ones) > again if people think they should

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [RFC] new waypoint dialog

2006-05-09 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Tuesday 09 May 2006 16:39: > Was it common practice to use the commands via telnet? No. AddWayPoint wouldn't even work, because props.cxx has no idea how to handle the target argument. No problem with the new code, *of course*. One more point ... :-} m. ---

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [RFC] new waypoint dialog

2006-05-09 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Tuesday 09 May 2006 16:08: >   AddWayPoint >   PopWayPoint >   ClearRoute If I'd add new versions for those to fg_commands.cxx, should I really use this capitalization? That's inconsistent with all other commands there. Should then probably be: add-waypoint (arg: "targe

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [RFC] new waypoint dialog

2006-05-09 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Jim Wilson -- Tuesday 09 May 2006 15:15: > > From: Melchior FRANZ > > > > FYI: these fgcommands have been removed: [...] > Why? Does the old code have to be removed? > > old-ap-add-waypoint-dialog > > old-ap-pop-waypoint-dialog > > old-ap-clear-route-dialog These commands were marked "

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [RFC] new waypoint dialog

2006-05-09 Thread Jim Wilson
> From: Melchior FRANZ > > FYI: these fgcommands have been removed: > > AddWayPoint > PopWayPoint > ClearRoute > old-ap-add-waypoint-dialog > old-ap-pop-waypoint-dialog > old-ap-clear-route-dialog > Why? Does the old code have to be removed? Best, Jim -- Jim Wilson Kelco Indus

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Re: FGLive 0.1 LinuxTag edition

2006-05-09 Thread Pigeon
> ..in the /KNOPPIX/etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig style script too? > (I just started my DL off Martins ftp site, thanks all. :o) ) Yes. I fixed in /etc/init.d/knoppix-locales in the basemod, to use all .UTF8 instead of @euro Pigeon. -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FGLive 0.1 LinuxTag edition

2006-05-09 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 6 May 2006 22:19:42 +1000, Pigeon wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I just noticed there's a small issue, for German locale, IceWM -> > Start -> Terminal, it doesn't work, but the normal xterm from Start -> > Programs works. Knoppix/Morphix somehow sets locale to [EMAIL PROTE

[Flightgear-devel] Weekly CVS Changelog Summary: SimGear

2006-05-09 Thread Curtis L. Olson
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 2006-05-04_05:58:59 (fredb) /var/cvs/SimGear-0.3/source/simgear/screen/RenderTexture.h Mac fix 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to suppor

[Flightgear-devel] Weekly CVS Changelog Summary: FlightGear source

2006-05-09 Thread Curtis L. Olson
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 2006-05-02_01:19:02 (curt) /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/source/src/AIModel/AIThermal.cxx Dave Culp: I've got some updates for the soaring scenario that will make for a more realistic (and fun) experience. They are: 1) A cap cloud, which

Re: [Flightgear-devel] thumbnail.jpg for ogel aircraft

2006-05-09 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Selon Torsten Dreyer : > Hi, > > I made a thumbnail image for the aircraft download page for my ogel aircraft. > It is here: > > http://www.t3r.de/fg/ogel/thumbnail.jpg > > Anybody out there who commits this to cvs? It is committed. Now Curt have to regenerate the download page. -Fred -- Frédér