Re: [Flightgear-devel] configuration snafu

2010-02-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Jari Häkkinen wrote: I had to remove one line in the simgear/configure.ac to get through compilation: @@ -497,7 +509,6 @@ case ${host} in dnl instead of OSG frameworks on Mac OS X dnl AC_CHECK_LIB(OpenThreads,OpenThreadsGetVersion) -LDFLAGS=$LDFLAGS

Re: [Flightgear-devel] multiple --generic record/playback errors

2010-02-10 Thread Erik Hofman
John Denker wrote: On 02/09/2010 01:14 PM, Curtis Olson wrote: lon/lat are being written out as a float. This should be switched to double. The format specifier is %f but it might be better to specify a fixed number of decimal places appropriate for the required visual precision. I don't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configuration snafu

2010-02-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis Olson wrote: Do we not support the --with-osg=/path on the mac platform? As far as I know it should. Erik -- SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configuration snafu

2010-02-09 Thread Erik Hofman
Erik Hofman wrote: leee wrote: But isn't one of the tasks of ./configure to test that it can find the libs it needs, and isn't this the real problem? Is it not the case that ./configure has run ok, presumably believing that it has found the libs it needs, but then generated a makefile

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Permanent snow line

2010-02-09 Thread Erik Hofman
Andrew Gillanders wrote: I have seen from time to time mention of automatically generated snow lines where permanent snow would be likely to appear. Has anything been done on this? If not, I am thinking I could write a tool to take an elevation file (such as SRTM-3) and produce a shape

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 2.0.0 Announcement text + Summary of ChangeLog

2010-02-09 Thread Erik Hofman
Durk Talsma wrote: Erik Hofman replied: Indeed, I haven't looked at that part yet. It is designed to allow easy addition of it though. I'm just wondering: Should I leave the referring sentence in the announcement, or does it need modification? I would remove it since

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Outerra

2010-02-08 Thread Erik Hofman
Gene Buckle wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, James Sleeman wrote: Heiko Schulz wrote: Just for those who wants to know what's going on in the flight sim world: Outerra is a new 3d-engine for seamless planet rendering. Wow, the video on the page: http://outerra.blogspot.com/ is amazing if it's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] property browsing

2010-02-08 Thread Erik Hofman
John Denker wrote: *) It appears VEC3D and VEC4D property types are defined, but -- they are not fully supported -- there are no examples of them in the main property tree (globals) -- there is some code in simgear/scene/material/mat.cxx and ./Effect.cxx that does a few

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scheduling and threading

2010-02-08 Thread Erik Hofman
John Denker wrote: More generally: Have there been any design decisions made as to what functions should continue to work during pause, and which should not? This is a fundamental discussion that often separates the home simulation use and professional simulators. So far concentration has

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configuration snafu

2010-02-08 Thread Erik Hofman
John Denker wrote: I also point out, again, that I am not asking anybody to help me. I have workarounds for this bug. Have had for years. I am just trying to help Joe User. I was slapped for pointing this out previously, but it remains true. I'm not exactly sure you're actually helping

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 2.0.0 Announcement text + Summary of ChangeLog

2010-02-08 Thread Erik Hofman
Heiko Schulz wrote: Sound * assignment of sound sources to external objects (i.e. AI controlled aircraft) How can we do that? So much as I know it isn't documented yet and still in work? Indeed, I haven't looked at that part yet. It is designed to allow easy addition of it though.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Patch for generic.cxx

2010-02-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Mirko Stanisak wrote: Hello everybody, I'm currently working on interacting flightgear with other applications. For this I use the generic protocol via UDP like this: fgfs --generic=socket,out,10,localhost,1234,udp,exchange -- generic=socket,in,10,localhost,1235,udp,exchange

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configuration snafu

2010-02-07 Thread Erik Hofman
leee wrote: But isn't one of the tasks of ./configure to test that it can find the libs it needs, and isn't this the real problem? Is it not the case that ./configure has run ok, presumably believing that it has found the libs it needs, but then generated a makefile that fails because it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configurator plebis

2010-02-06 Thread Erik Hofman
First of all, I don't think that Jpoe the Plumber should or will compile FlightGear him/herself. Anybody who wants to do so should learn how to do that. John Denker wrote: Another workaround -- the one I actually prefer -- is to let OSG live under .../lib64/ but add

Re: [Flightgear-devel] severe erosion of the terrain

2010-02-06 Thread Erik Hofman
John Denker wrote: Here’s the setup: Start the program as fgfs --airport=KLXV --metar= 012345Z 0KT 99SM CLR 15/M01 A2992 Let the aircraft sit on the runway. There is no need to start the engine. Use the v key to cycle through the available views. The scenery looks normal

Re: [Flightgear-devel] severe erosion of the terrain

2010-02-06 Thread Erik Hofman
Gijs de Rooy wrote: Erik wrote: I never understood this view (model-view) anyhow, what is it supposed to do? In the bottomleft corner of your screen a dialog shows up, that allows you to cycle through helicopter-views from yourself and the other MP pilots. Does this mean this view

Re: [Flightgear-devel] severe erosion of the terrain

2010-02-06 Thread Erik Hofman
Anders Gidenstam wrote: On Sat, 6 Feb 2010, Erik Hofman wrote: Does this mean this view option only works properly when the mutiplayer option is selected? If so the I guess the option should be disabled by default and only bge available when MP is active. No, for me it seems to behave

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configurator plebis

2010-02-06 Thread Erik Hofman
John Denker wrote: On 02/06/2010 02:32 AM, Erik Hofman wrote: As I see it this might actually be a problem for the Linux vendor. They should have added /usr/lib64 to /etc/ld.so.conf That does not fix the main problem. It does not fix the bug that I am reporting. The problem you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configurator plebis

2010-02-06 Thread Erik Hofman
John Denker wrote: No, that is not the bug I am reporting. Beware that the word linker is ambiguous. ld is different from ld.so. More precisely, /usr/bin/ld is different from /lib/libdl.so* ... different program, different purpose, different specifications. For example, I can change

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configuration snafu

2010-02-06 Thread Erik Hofman
leee wrote: John's 'Joe' the non-C++ programmer is a valid scenario. Implying that the problem only occurs when people don't understand the implications of what they're doing is like suggesting that people who can't do their own automobile maintenance and repairs shouldn't drive, or

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Get rid of annoying Failed to load object message

2010-02-03 Thread Erik Hofman
John Denker wrote: The commit messages for these commits seem self-explanatory. commit f38db3f433e77cd59c2332dbda779774768bcf96 Author: John Denker j...@av8n.com Date: Tue Feb 2 22:00:17 2010 -0700 Get rid of annoying Failed to load object message. diff --git a/materials.xml

Re: [Flightgear-devel] materials.xml request

2010-02-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Stuart Buchanan wrote: I managed to do a couple of test-flights to validate Erik's bug report without crashing my GPU. The problem appears to be limited to the case where there are multiple object path elements defined under the object node. In this case, the actual object placed at a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] materials.xml request

2010-02-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Tim Moore wrote: Since the bug is in model choice (not position), affects less than a third of the object definitions in materials.xml, and is being reported very late in our release process, I'm inclined to fix this in a 2.0.1 maintenance release. Another way to fix it is to use a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] materials.xml request

2010-02-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Stuart Buchanan wrote: As I recall, the plib code didn't even attempt to make random object placement consistent across runs and I spent quite some time with help from a number of people in putting together something that provided that consistency. Actually FlightGear did this already for a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] materials.xml request

2010-02-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Erik Hofman wrote: Stuart Buchanan wrote: As I recall, the plib code didn't even attempt to make random object placement consistent across runs and I spent quite some time with help from a number of people in putting together something that provided that consistency. Actually FlightGear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] materials.xml request

2010-02-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Erik Hofman wrote: Tim Moore wrote: Since the bug is in model choice (not position), affects less than a third of the object definitions in materials.xml, and is being reported very late in our release process, I'm inclined to fix this in a 2.0.1 maintenance release. Another way to fix

Re: [Flightgear-devel] materials.xml request

2010-02-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Erik Hofman wrote: Another way to fix it is to use a round-robin method instead of using random for model selection. This would probably be an easy fix. This method is also used for multiple scenery textures. Alright, this is committed to CVS for now. It is tested and works reliably

Re: [Flightgear-devel] materials.xml request

2010-01-31 Thread Erik Hofman
Stuart Buchanan wrote: It's been a long time since I (re-)wrote the random object code for OSG, but my recollection is that we use the same random number seed when generating random model placements, to ensure that a building is in the same place on every computer. Looks like that part

Re: [Flightgear-devel] materials.xml request

2010-01-31 Thread Erik Hofman
Stuart Buchanan wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Looks like that part is gone, at least the part where every random object in the scenery was in the same place every time you start up FlightGear. This used to be working at some point (and could be used for landmark navigation). Hmmm, I've had

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [FlightGear-devel] materials.xml request

2010-01-31 Thread Erik Hofman
J. Holden wrote: I'm a bit confused. Are random objects actually starting up at different points in each run now? I haven't noticed that nor have I seen a report of that. All I've seen in this thread is that the code that resets the random generator in each tile (well, several times per tile)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GUI dialogs suck

2010-01-29 Thread Erik Hofman
Pete Morgan wrote: GUI dialogs suck And now? Erik -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Money and Contributions

2010-01-29 Thread Erik Hofman
Pete Morgan wrote: I would gladly make a contribution to FlightGear. My small contrib would be around £10 per quarter and I would expect this cash to go towards: * Maintaining servers online and similar Is that mechanism in place ? Is FlightGear.com TradeMark in place? Is there a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GUI dialogs suck

2010-01-29 Thread Erik Hofman
Pete Morgan wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Pete Morgan wrote: GUI dialogs suck And now? Erik very helpful erik. Like your comments indeed. If it really sucked then others would have complained already, and most likely it would have been fixed by now. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Money and Contributions

2010-01-29 Thread Erik Hofman
James Sleeman wrote: On 29/01/10 21:20, Erik Hofman wrote: Pete Morgan wrote: I would gladly make a contribution to FlightGear. Please tell me you're not affiliated with FlightPro sim.. Seems to me, that Pete has asked a reasonable question, why shoot back

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Newbie Question

2010-01-27 Thread Erik Hofman
Hi Peter, First of all, welcome! Peter Meyer wrote: Can some one tell me how excatly i can cvs checkout the latest Source? In the Manuals are only Version 0.9 is described but i want to acces the latest Stable and Devel sources. I have try to Modify Flightgear-0.9 to 1.9 and 1.9.1 but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] materials.xml request

2010-01-26 Thread Erik Hofman
J. Holden wrote: As we'll have a lot more areas defined as town in the upcoming scenery build, and there are far too many water towers per square land-area-measurement-category) in FG as it is, and it looks tacky. After the release, I'll try and look at improving the randomly generated

Re: [Flightgear-devel] materials.xml request

2010-01-26 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: Hi Erik, Erik Hofman wrote: It would also be nice to have some more different small(ish) buildings. Feel invited to have a look at the Models/Residential/ folder, there you'll find the content of this chapter: http://scenemodels.flightgear.org/modelbrowser.php

Re: [Flightgear-devel] --lon= --lat= --altitude= --heading= --pitch=

2010-01-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: Martin Spott wrote: # ~ fgfs --lon=-122.050490 --lat=37.417342 --altitude=755 --heading=251 --pitch=-23 --geometry=1152x870 --timeofday=noon --aircraft=ufo should provide a nice view onto a scene at KNUQ. All of the above switches work as expected, just --pitch=

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Please remove 727-230 from CVS- Licence issues!

2010-01-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Heiko Schulz wrote: Hi, For the 727-230 Lufthansa livery and Cruzeiro livery were textures used found on www.cgtextures.com. In my eyes the licences allowed me to use the textures, but their FAQ says now no to OpenSource, and another OpenSorce engine (OpenArenea) ran into trouble, as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] B-1B update

2010-01-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Markus Zojer wrote: Hi all! Could someone please update the B-1B to the more actual version (for fg 2.0) below: Done. Erik -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Please remove 727-230 from CVS- Licence issues!

2010-01-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Erik Hofman wrote: Or maybe it's good enough to replace the texutures with plain white images for now? I've done this until an agreement is reached. Erik -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Please remove 727-230 from CVS- Licence issues!

2010-01-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Stefan Seifert wrote: On Saturday 23 January 2010 10:43:13 Erik Hofman wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Or maybe it's good enough to replace the texutures with plain white images for now? I've done this until an agreement is reached. I hate to be the messenger here, but I think it's really

Re: [Flightgear-devel] --lon= --lat= --altitude= --heading= --pitch=

2010-01-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: Aside from that, I'd assume that setting a pitch for the viewer should be pretty independent from the aircraft and the respective FDM - at least I hope it is :-) Viewer... need to read the whole story next time. Agreed. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Please remove 727-230 from CVS- Licence issues!

2010-01-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Heiko Schulz wrote: It is clear now: the licence doesn't allow me now to use the textures, so please somene remove the whole history as soon as possible! Only Curtis is able to do so. Erik -- Throughout its

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SoundSystem on MacOS

2010-01-21 Thread Erik Hofman
James Turner wrote: On 20 Jan 2010, at 14:28, James Turner wrote: This is especially the case when I switch the tower location from my departure airport to my arrival airport. I *think* fly-by views are okay, but I'll double-check that now. Fly-by views are *not* okay for me, but I must

[Flightgear-devel] SoundSystem on MacOS

2010-01-20 Thread Erik Hofman
Hi, I have read a report an bad doppler for MacOS then asked for some information but got no reply. If this problem still persists could the MacOS users try this patch? Erik Index: soundmgr_openal.cxx === RCS file:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SoundSystem on MacOS

2010-01-20 Thread Erik Hofman
Erik Hofman wrote: I have read a report an bad doppler for MacOS then asked for some information but got no reply. If this problem still persists could the MacOS users try this patch? Never mind this patch contains an error so I've put it in CVS. If it's wrong please tell me and I'll remove

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SoundSystem ALC error

2010-01-20 Thread Erik Hofman
S Andreason wrote: Hi Erik, This morning's cvs for simgear is now giving me a segfault: I did change the code today to prevent this from happening, are you sure you are running the latest code? Erik -- Throughout its

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SoundSystem ALC error

2010-01-20 Thread Erik Hofman
S Andreason wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: I did change the code today to prevent this from happening, are you sure you are running the latest code? I am positive. I see this file updated this morning: Ok, I've committed a work around that silently catches any error prior to calling

Re: [Flightgear-devel] error C5108 unknown semantics

2010-01-18 Thread Erik Hofman
S Andreason wrote: Hi Erik, I have been getting this error since the last week of December, when the first sound plays, gear-lock in my case. (Playing that sound is new behavior I wonder how to stop.) ALC Error (sound manager): ALC_INVALID_DEVICE at load file Geoff mentioned the same,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nominations for Aircraft Selection intheFlightGear 2.0 Release

2010-01-18 Thread Erik Hofman
syd adams wrote: Ok , I understand it when put that way. I guess now my other question would be , is it conflicting to proceed with development under the cc licence on certain models?Can there be 2 versions ? I see no reason why not, especially if it's your own work. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nominations for Aircraft Selection in theFlightGear 2.0 Release

2010-01-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Peter Brown wrote: - Carrier Aircraft : T-2C or F-4N (while the F-14 is carrier capable, Dave Culp has some excellent aircraft that don't fit the omnipowerful jet fighter category) Keep in mind that the aircraft from Dave's hangar are not GPL compatible and hence could not be added to the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nominations for Aircraft Selection intheFlightGear 2.0 Release

2010-01-17 Thread Erik Hofman
syd adams wrote: By the way , I dont understand why (content) needs to be GPL since there is no source code to speak of. GPL is important since the base package is likely to be included in linux distributions of which most are commercial. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/santa/Models/Effects stardust.xml, NONE, 1.1

2010-01-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis Olson wrote: Erik, we may need to discuss Santa theology on the developers list here. Are you just making this stuff up? It's true, it's really true! I saw it myself ... once. I think. Erik -- Throughout its

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ubuntu fatal error - rumble.wav?

2010-01-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Geoff McLane wrote: As expected, the console output shows the line :- ALC Error (sound manager): ALC_INVALID_DEVICE at load file indicating some previous un-check, thus un-handled, ALC error... Ok I'll try to see why that is. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ubuntu fatal error - rumble.wav?

2010-01-13 Thread Erik Hofman
Ok, the returned error turned out to be an uncatched ALC or AL error situation. I've now added the checks for them prior to calling the alutLoad* function. This will probably not solve the problem but it will give a more precise hint on what's going on. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ubuntu fatal error - rumble.wav?

2010-01-12 Thread Erik Hofman
Alan Teeder wrote: Eric Could you let us know which version of Alut and OpenAl you are using for your sound development work. I've been using FreeALUT (CVS version but it has not many changes compared to version 1.0) and have used OpenAL-Sample (CVS), OpenAL-Soft (CVS) and my own OpenAL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terragear-cs genapts stopway bug...

2010-01-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Gijs de Rooy wrote: Note that there is a runway texture template that almost nobody knows about anymore: http://cvs.flightgear.org/viewvc/graphics/runway/runway_layers.xcf?revision=1.3root=TerraGearview=markup Erik Erik, I actually used that template to create the stopway

Re: [Flightgear-devel] --disable-sound

2010-01-11 Thread Erik Hofman
James Sleeman wrote: On 11/01/10 00:02, Erik Hofman wrote: Historically it just muted the sound. I've now updated the code to not initialize the sound manager until specifically requested (which can be at runtime, even when --disable-sound is specified). Thanks, that seems to allow

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terragear-cs genapts stopway bug...

2010-01-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Erik Hofman wrote: Maybe it would be a good idea to look at the runway layout again and recreate the runway textures. Possibly with skidmarks in mind. In the mean time I've added two stopway textures that might be good enough for now (pa_stopway.png and pc_stopway.png). Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] --disable-sound

2010-01-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: Erik, Erik Hofman wrote: Setting /sim/sound/working to 'true' should enable the sound manager at runtime. While you are at it, is /sim/sound/enabled still supposed to have any effect or is/should it now being obsolete ? That property is used for muting the sound

Re: [Flightgear-devel] --disable-sound

2010-01-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Martin Spott wrote: While you are at it, is /sim/sound/enabled still supposed to have any effect or is/should it now being obsolete ? That property is used for muting the sound at runtime (part of the soundmanager keeps running to update positions

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ubuntu fatal error - rumble.wav?

2010-01-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Geoff McLane wrote: Thank you for the reply, but now I am even more confused ;=() Ah wait, I looked at the code for a different ALUT version.. I must have looked at the wrong code because of it ran great a few days ago, when I reported all seemed well... but now... and the code I looked at

Re: [Flightgear-devel] --disable-sound

2010-01-10 Thread Erik Hofman
James Sleeman wrote: Is there a reason that --disable-sound doesn't totally disable sound? Historically it just muted the sound. I've now updated the code to not initialize the sound manager until specifically requested (which can be at runtime, even when --disable-sound is specified). Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ubuntu fatal error - rumble.wav?

2010-01-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Geoff McLane wrote: Hi all, But in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, now get an error exit when running the default c172... it ran great a few days ago, when I reported all seemed well... but now... Running it under gdb, and setting a break point at SGSoundMgr::load(), and on the 2nd time through this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terragear-cs genapts stopway bug...

2010-01-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Ron Jensen wrote: The attached patch against terragear-cs adds stopway texturing and corrects which stopway is on which runway end. Gijs is working on materials.xml and textures. http://www.jentronics.com/fgfs/temp/genapts_stopway05.jpg Note that there is a runway texture template that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Copyrights

2010-01-08 Thread Erik Hofman
J. Holden wrote: LeeE: I appreciate your comments, but in that case, why is FlightGear licensed under the GPL at all if we're not willing to enforce it? The GPL is designed to be as open as possible, but still giving rights to the people who hold the copyright on the product! Well that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Towards Release- Turbulences on JSBSim aircrafts

2010-01-06 Thread Erik Hofman
Heiko Schulz wrote: Hi, I noticed that the turbulences (environment/turbulence...) don't affect JSBSim- aircrafts since some months. I seem to remember Jon implemented a new turbulence model a while back. Maybe that broke it for FlightGear? Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Copyrights

2010-01-05 Thread Erik Hofman
J. Holden wrote: I've been doing research into copyrights and am shocked to see there is no (C) (years)-2010 FlightGear anywhere in FGRun or in the main flight simulation program. Copyrights don't vanish at the beginning of a new year. They start at a given date and expire many years later.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configure.ac patches for FG/SG

2010-01-05 Thread Erik Hofman
Tatsuhiro Nishioka wrote: Hi there, I've updated the configure.ac files on FG and SG. these patches fixes minor bug in addition to providing --with-openal-framework and --with-cocoa-framework. Now you can use your own version of OpenAL.framework for selecting various audio output device.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Patch to fix a crash on sound manager when a sound file is not found, etc.

2010-01-04 Thread Erik Hofman
Tatsuhiro Nishioka wrote: Hi there, I found a bug in sound manager that crashes fgfs. The crash occurs when a designated wav file is not found. Could you file a bug report at Apple? Returning an error number when calling alGetError that is not supported by alGetString() is a no-go. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Patch to fix a crash on sound manager when a sound file is not found, etc.

2010-01-04 Thread Erik Hofman
Tatsuhiro Nishioka wrote: Hi, Thanks for committing my patch, Erik. Could you file a bug report at Apple? Returning an error number when calling alGetError that is not supported by alGetString() is a no-go. I filed a bug report, but I don't think Apple will change their code.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Windows CVS update warnings

2010-01-02 Thread Erik Hofman
Ubuntu Air wrote: Hi FG data cvs maintainers, When updating FG data in Windows, I continually, for quite some time now, get the following CVS warnings :- cvs update: move away Aircraft/A380/Models/a380.rgb; it is in the way It looks like you have local updates that have never been in CVS.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATIS Voice problems

2009-12-29 Thread Erik Hofman
Stuart Buchanan wrote: The reported exception message is: Failed to load wav file: There was already an ALC error on entry to an ALUT function at /home/stuart/FlightGear-0.9/data/ATC/default.wav I've rearranged the alut error checking a bit to hopefully provide some better feedback. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Simgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/simgear/structure subsystem_mgr.cxx, 1.11, 1.12

2009-12-29 Thread Erik Hofman
James Turner wrote: On 29 Dec 2009, at 14:28, Erik Hofman wrote: SGSubsystemGroup::unbind () { -for (unsigned int i = 0; i _members.size(); i++) -_members[i]-subsystem-unbind(); +// reverse order to prevent order dependency problems +for (unsigned int i

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Some bugs

2009-12-26 Thread Erik Hofman
Peter Brown wrote: Erik, if you point out a path to me I'll look, but I don't know where to look to check the version of OpenAL. The CVS I'm using was compiled by Tat on the Mac FG site he hosts. If I could describe more accurately I would say that it sounded like the hz was way off, so

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Some bugs

2009-12-24 Thread Erik Hofman
Peter Brown wrote: -the sound is fine in the cockpit and a few views, but from the tower viewpoint (listen to a flyby) and from the model viewpoint (I think there are 3 actually), the sound is corrupted. While I don't know why, what I did discover was if you moved your location one step in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot broken, Eric maybe?

2009-12-21 Thread Erik Hofman
S Andreason wrote: Hi, Why is the autopilot broken? Specifically on my models like bluebird (or ufo if you prefer), I started to implement a requested feature, but found it does not work like it used to. The property: /autopilot/settings/true-heading-deg acts like it is being set by

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot broken, Eric maybe?

2009-12-21 Thread Erik Hofman
Hey, could we all agree it's not my fault? :) Erik -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot broken, Eric maybe?

2009-12-21 Thread Erik Hofman
Heiko Schulz wrote: Hi, Hey, could we all agree it's not my fault? :) Only if you will correct the airport name: http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/File:Tu154Innsbruck.png - pretty flat for LOWI ! :-P Admittedly I already wondered about it :) But i never thought it would

Re: [Flightgear-devel] segfault in pulseaudio code with Fedora 12 x86_64

2009-12-20 Thread Erik Hofman
Tim Moore wrote: As the subject line says, I'm seeing a segfault in pulseaudio library code on Fedora 12. I just upgraded, so I can't really say when this was introduced, but old code which doesn't use Erik's sound manager development of recent months doesn't show this behaviour. There

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Possible cause of crashing FG at exit - HELP NEEDED

2009-12-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Tatsuhiro Nishioka wrote: Hi there, As many of you already know, FG often crashes at exit (See back trace below). Though the chance of crash varies per platform, it crashes more than 80% on my Mac with very annoying Crash Reporter dialog popping up. This bug must be eliminated before the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Possible cause of crashing FG at exit - HELP NEEDED

2009-12-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Tatsuhiro Nishioka wrote: Hi there, As many of you already know, FG often crashes at exit (See back trace below). Though the chance of crash varies per platform, it crashes more than 80% on my Mac with very annoying Crash Reporter dialog popping up. This bug must be eliminated before the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flight Gear on Windows

2009-12-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Alan Teeder wrote: I am no longer seeing the first two bugs which seem to have been sorted out this week, but do have a similar problem with sound. See my thread with Eric. Is this something I need to look after or is it a matter of finding the proper compile options? Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] simgear version number now a string

2009-12-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Csaba Halász wrote: The recent change which makes a string from the simgear version breaks FG configure. I don't think introducing an incompatible change to the version macro is a good idea. Erik, can you explain why you made the change? I am aware that FG's own version is a string, so I am

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flight Gear on Windows

2009-12-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Alan Teeder wrote: VC90 build is very out of date and quite few new files and libraries have to be added. Honestly try to stay away from the build files, mainly because I have no way to test them. I might completely break building for MSVC and note even know it (typo's are made easily). If

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nan-a-palooza

2009-12-13 Thread Erik Hofman
John Denker wrote: Update: To observe this bug, I don't even need to taxi. I can just sit at the starting point of runway 31L at JFK with the engine off. After sitting about 8 minutes, I observe nan messages on the console. Jon, could you specify if this was with 'real' weather enabled

Re: [Flightgear-devel] sound dialog

2009-12-13 Thread Erik Hofman
Stuart Buchanan wrote: I've just checked in an updated sound dialog with a tabulated layout. Let me know what you think - I'm not sure whether the channel labels should be left-aligned or right-aligned. Very nice, it's about what I had hoped for. No need to change anything if you'd ask me.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgfs compile error, today's cvs

2009-12-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis Olson wrote: I'm not sure the best way to handle this but if you start at the top and run ./autogen.sh followed by ./configure --options I think the error will be cleaned up. Switching files from abc.c to abc.cxx confuses the dependency tracking of automake. Indeed.that's a pity.

[Flightgear-devel] sound dialog

2009-12-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Hi, I've been trying to pity up the sound dialog box without much success. Is anyone with some more understanding of the gui configuration willing to spent a few minutes on it? Erik -- Return on Information: Google

Re: [Flightgear-devel] sound dialog

2009-12-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Stuart Buchanan wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: I've been trying to pity up the sound dialog box without much success. Is anyone with some more understanding of the gui configuration willing to spent a few minutes on it? I can take a look, unless Syd gets to it first :) Thanks, that's much

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [GIT] misc fixes

2009-12-09 Thread Erik Hofman
Csaba Halász wrote: 2) fix a crash in SGSoundMgr::stop() due to invalid iterator usage: http://gitorious.org/~jester/fg/jesters-sg-clone/commit/12604fb231631252b13af1338020926e2ca1a605 Thanks to Vivian for reporting. That one still bites me once in a while. I don't like itterators all that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Debug Assertion Failed in Sample_opneal.hxx

2009-12-09 Thread Erik Hofman
Alan Teeder wrote: Eric Yes, both are 32 bit with identical Visual C++ 2008 (VC09) and Flightgear library setups. OpenALand Alut are from the Creative site. The Vista laptop is Intel dual core, the XP box is an ancient Athlon. I've updated the code slightly to not assign the sample data

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Debug Assertion Failed in Sample_opneal.hxx

2009-12-09 Thread Erik Hofman
Alan Teeder wrote: In debug the program now fails in sample_openal.cxx at line 477 (if(sample-is_file() ) free (sample_data) ;) , reporting a possible heap corruption. That's virtually impossible. You might check the code if you see a problem but this starts to look like a compiler bug. MSV9

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Debug Assertion Failed in Sample_opneal.hxx

2009-12-08 Thread Erik Hofman
Alan Teeder wrote: I suppose the good news is that I am able to duplicate the fault on the XP machine (which normally runs without fault) simply by using debug runtime.. I'm not sure that's good news.. Are both systems the same (64-bit or 32-bit)? Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Debug Assertion Failed in Sample_opneal.hxx

2009-12-08 Thread Erik Hofman
Alan Teeder wrote: Eric Yes, both are 32 bit with identical Visual C++ 2008 (VC09) and Flightgear library setups. OpenALand Alut are from the Creative site. The Vista laptop is Intel dual core, the XP box is an ancient Athlon. Ok at least that excludes the possibility of a buffer overflow

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Debug Assertion Failed in Sample_opneal.hxx

2009-12-08 Thread Erik Hofman
Alan Teeder wrote: Eric This may be of some use. I am getting the debug message:- HEAP[fgfs.exe]: Invalid Address specified to RtlValidateHeap( 02F4, 2EEE0028 ) Windows has triggered a breakpoint in fgfs.exe. _data which free_data is working on is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Debug Assertion Failed in Sample_opneal.hxx

2009-12-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Alan Teeder wrote: Eric An aircraft that I am developing caused Flightgear to crash on the Vista box, but not on the XP one. This I traced to some bad coding in my JSBsim aero file:- table!-- Ch-delta elevator --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sound system improvements...levels, sources, balancing, and devices...

2009-12-06 Thread Erik Hofman
Jacob Burbach wrote: So one last request to do with ATIS, may we have a check box in the sound config dialog to toggle the FlightGear ATIS on and off? Or do we already have a way to do so that I have overlooked? I could not find a reference in the code or in one of the xml files, so I guess

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Debug Assertion Failed in Sample_opneal.hxx

2009-12-06 Thread Erik Hofman
Alan Teeder wrote: First the good news, with the current CVS on XP, VC++2008 Flightgear runs well. The bad news is that on my Vista laptop it stops with a Debug Assertion Failure before the splash screen is replaced by the runtime display. Both machines have an an identical setup as

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