Re: [Flightgear-devel] route manager bug (simgear)

2007-04-06 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Csaba Halász -- Friday 06 April 2007: Inserting and deleting waypoints not at the end of the route messes up leg distances. That's probably a bug that I introduced. I'll adopt the patch and apply after testing. Thanks. m.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] lightning tacan

2007-04-06 Thread AJ MacLeod
On Friday 06 April 2007 02:39, Csaba Halász wrote: Nick had some trouble with the tacan on the lightning, so I had a peek at it. Worked for me all right. However, the instrument needle works as if it were a fixed compass card indicator, which it isn't. So there should be an additional rotation

Re: [Flightgear-devel] lightning tacan

2007-04-06 Thread Nick Warne
On Friday 06 April 2007 02:39:24 Csaba Halász wrote: Hello! Nick had some trouble with the tacan on the lightning, so I had a peek at it. Worked for me all right. However, the instrument needle works as if it were a fixed compass card indicator, which it isn't. So there should be an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Error building FG

2007-04-06 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Thursday 05 April 2007 21:02, Alex Romosan wrote: there are two patches i posted. you need to apply both. --alex-- I'm sorry, I can not extract the patches from the mailing list archives on Sourceforge. Can you please repost them here on the devel-list? -- Roy Vegard Ovesen

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Funny rendering bug?

2007-04-06 Thread Tim Moore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefan Seifert wrote: Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Curtis Olson -- Thursday 05 April 2007: It really looks like it might be some sort of osg bug (or possibly our usage of osg?) Yes. I can confirm the bug, even for KSFO:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Error building FG

2007-04-06 Thread Sébastien MARQUE
hi, you can find them on my own website: http://seb.marque.free.fr/fichiers/flightgear/osg.patch and http://seb.marque.free.fr/fichiers/flightgear/osg2.patch, I compiled succesfully yesterday with them, they come from the devel-list too. best regards seb Roy Vegard Ovesen a écrit : On

Re: [Flightgear-devel] lightning tacan

2007-04-06 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Csaba Halász -- Friday 06 April 2007: However, the instrument needle works as if it were a fixed compass card indicator, which it isn't. So there should be an additional rotation applied to adjust for the a/c heading. Umm ... but without the patch it *is* a fixed compass. The scale doesn't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] lightning tacan

2007-04-06 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Friday 06 April 2007: Umm ... but without the patch it *is* a fixed compass. The scale doesn't rotate, Ahh. It works with fg/osg, but not fg/plib. Unfortunately, two developers boycott the plib branch, and someone else has to do their work. Very annoying! m.

[Flightgear-devel] Wild accelerations at low speeds

2007-04-06 Thread Jon S. Berndt
Can someone determine if the improper inclinometer ball indications are still being observed for the JSBSim C-172 in the latest version of FlightGear? In the standalone version of JSBSim, the relevant driving property values are all good, so I'm curious if this has fixed the problem with the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] lightning tacan

2007-04-06 Thread Melchior FRANZ
Committed. * Melchior FRANZ -- Friday 06 April 2007: Unfortunately, two developers boycott the plib branch, and someone else has to do their work. Very annoying! While true, this wasn't the cause here. (I had suspected a connection to the interpolation table bug that someone only fixed in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Wild accelerations at low speeds

2007-04-06 Thread Anders Gidenstam
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Jon S. Berndt wrote: Can someone determine if the improper inclinometer ball indications are still being observed for the JSBSim C-172 in the latest version of FlightGear? In the standalone version of JSBSim, the relevant driving property values are all good, so I'm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Wild accelerations at low speeds

2007-04-06 Thread Jon S. Berndt
Hi, Unfortunately this problem seems to at least partially remain. The ball is pegged to the right when sitting on the runway with parking brakes on and engine running. As soon as the aircraft starts moving after releasing the brakes the ball centers and seems to behave as intended.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Wild accelerations at low speeds

2007-04-06 Thread Anders Gidenstam
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Jon S. Berndt wrote: If the engine is off and the brakes are released, what happens, then? That is, does it only happen when brakes are on, while at rest? When I switch off the engine the ball gets pegged to the left regardless of brake state, but I think this instrument

Re: [Flightgear-devel] lightning tacan

2007-04-06 Thread Csaba Halász
On 4/6/07, Nick Warne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How many people *actually* tested the TACAN and located the tanker aircraft with it, rather than just sit in the cockpit and see the needle/gauges work? I did, at least three times. But I used the refueling_demo_1. Greets, Csaba

Re: [Flightgear-devel] lightning tacan

2007-04-06 Thread Nick Warne
On Friday 06 April 2007 14:00:14 AJ MacLeod wrote: On Friday 06 April 2007 13:29, Nick Warne wrote: OK, I know people think I am seeing things, but I just sussed out what is going on. I'm not so sure :-) Here is what happens for me. The TACAN works, but it doesn't locate the aircraft

Re: [Flightgear-devel] lightning tacan

2007-04-06 Thread Nick Warne
On Friday 06 April 2007 14:00:14 AJ MacLeod wrote: The tanker in refueling_demo doesn't have TACAN at all. In fact, I think we have a bit of needless duplication with those demos, and one of them could be removed without too much pain... OK, Csaba found the bug I was seeing, and he fixed it,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flasher in nasal

2007-04-06 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Roy Vegard Ovesen -- Friday 06 April 2007: I'm trying to create a new flasher for the KAP140 autopilot. This is what I have so far: Why don't you use the sophisticated aircraft.light flasher? Re-inventing the wheel? :-) NewFlasher.flash = func { [...] settimer(me.flash, 1.0); }

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flasher in nasal

2007-04-06 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Friday 06 April 2007 18:28, Melchior FRANZ wrote: Why don't you use the sophisticated aircraft.light flasher? Re-inventing the wheel? :-) Didn't know about that wheel ;-) After playing around with it a bit I see that it does not quite meet the requirements that I have. I need to blink an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flasher in nasal

2007-04-06 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Roy Vegard Ovesen -- Friday 06 April 2007: As far as I can see the aircraft.light class loops through the pattern forever. Yes, until it's turned off. Then the loop is actually stopped and doesn't consume any cycles. You could let a timer turn the light off after the desired time. I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flasher in nasal

2007-04-06 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Friday 06 April 2007 19:53, Melchior FRANZ wrote: Simpler, yes, though not much. What the code does is similar to overloading in C++. Two possible argument sets to the same function. Named args alone wouldn't help here at all. What would help is named args with default values. But that only

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flasher in nasal

2007-04-06 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Roy Vegard Ovesen -- Friday 06 April 2007: I assumed that it was possible to name the arguments when calling the function, like in Python. And that you could then give them in arbitrary order. No, that's not the case in Nasal. How do I add a repeat argument to the aircraft.light.new

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flasher in nasal

2007-04-06 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Friday 06 April 2007: I think the best way is to interpret the switch() method parameter like so: BTW: I intend to implement that later today, but first I need to fix the tower position, which I've broken yesterday. ;-) m.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] lightning tacan

2007-04-06 Thread Vivian Meazza
Nick Warne wrote: On Friday 06 April 2007 14:00:14 AJ MacLeod wrote: The tanker in refueling_demo doesn't have TACAN at all. In fact, I think we have a bit of needless duplication with those demos, and one of them could be removed without too much pain... OK, Csaba found the bug

Re: [Flightgear-devel] lightning tacan

2007-04-06 Thread Nick Warne
On Friday 06 April 2007 23:10:25 Vivian Meazza wrote: Nick Warne wrote: On Friday 06 April 2007 14:00:14 AJ MacLeod wrote: The tanker in refueling_demo doesn't have TACAN at all. In fact, I think we have a bit of needless duplication with those demos, and one of them could be

[Flightgear-devel] Flight tracking

2007-04-06 Thread Curtis Olson
Here's another wrinkle on flight tracking. I've figured out how to plot periodic points of a flight live on the trekme.com site. It's an interesting way to archive your flight tracks if you want. You can also upload gps tracks from hikes, bikes, kayaking adventures, drives, and just about any