[Flightgear-devel] translate PoV up/down left/right

2007-01-08 Thread John Denker
On 01/08/2007 02:17 PM, Stuart Buchanan wrote: Already available - hold down the [middle] mouse-button when in tile/pan mode and drag the mouse around. 1) Thanks for the clue. I've been relying on my joystick (not mouse) since Day One, so I had never explored the various combinations of mouse

Re: [Flightgear-devel] location-in-air

2007-01-07 Thread John Denker
On 01/06/2007 04:25 PM, Jon S. Berndt wrote: I'm not sure what you are talking about here. Could you be more descriptive? I'll try! Let's start with some use case analysis: Scenario 1: User wants to practice landings. Using command-line options, the user initializes the system to 4 mile

Re: [Flightgear-devel] location-in-air

2007-01-07 Thread John Denker
On 01/07/2007 12:28 PM, Martin Spott wrote: John, actually, what you're looking for is a routine that allows you to dump the whole property tree at runtime into a file and allow re-loading this as a preset. In order not to break current behaviour it would be necessary to compile a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] location-in-air

2007-01-07 Thread John Denker
On 01/07/2007 01:25 PM, Martin Spott wrote: [...] For my purposes (and I suspect a lot of other purposes besides), is much more useful to be able to warp to some improvised place, without ever having been there before. Without ever having been there before I'd say you'll never know in which

[Flightgear-devel] memory leak

2007-01-07 Thread John Denker
My version of fgfs has a rather large memory leak. If I leave the thing parked after a flight, brakes on, simulator paused, it will gobble up about 3 gigabytes of virtual memory overnight. (In contrast, it's only a little over 500 meg after a few minutes of flight.) I'm running the version of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] location-in-air

2007-01-06 Thread John Denker
Hi -- I have extensively reworked the location-in-air.xml popup. It is now much more pilot-friendly. I would appreciated if other folks would play with it and provide feedback. The latest greatest version is at http://www.av8n.com/fly/fgfs/location-in-air.xml there is also a diff

Re: [Flightgear-devel] location-in-air ... magnetic bearings from the reference

2007-01-05 Thread John Denker
On 01/05/2007 04:06 AM, Torsten Dreyer wrote: Less dirty and more correct should be: relocate to the position of the fix, grab the magnetic variation and calculate the transporter coordinates using bearing and distance. Relocate again to these coordinates. You can safely call this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] radials

2007-01-04 Thread John Denker
On 01/04/2007 04:28 AM, Torsten Dreyer wrote: Well - at least on the eastern side of the atlantic, where I do instrument flights in real world, the 090 radial is always EAST of the station, the 270 radial is WEST of the station. A controller advice proceed on radial 090 or intercept radial

Re: [Flightgear-devel] location-in-air ... magnetic bearings from the reference

2007-01-03 Thread John Denker
On 01/03/2007 04:00 PM, Curtis Olson wrote: we do want this to work intuitively so I would welcome any changes to improve the in-air reposition dialog box. :-) I think it makes a lot more sense to focus on the gui dialog box. Agreed. I'm coming at this from the perspective of an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] location-in-air ... magnetic bearings from the reference

2007-01-03 Thread John Denker
I found a way to make it do what I want. Here's my version http://www.av8n.com/fly/fgfs/location-in-air.xml and the diff against the cvs version: http://www.av8n.com/fly/fgfs/location-in-air.diff On 01/03/2007 05:19 PM, Curtis Olson wrote: Only if you are relocating to a nearby position.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] radials

2007-01-03 Thread John Denker
On 01/03/2007 09:07 PM, Dave Perry wrote: This may seem a nit. I had the following quote drilled into my mind by Don Berman in one of his well know Instrument Written Ground School seminars. Radials eminate from the station; direction of flight has nothing to do with location. 1)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] won't compile ... also configuration issues: openAL +- osg +- whatever

2007-01-02 Thread John Denker
On 01/02/2007 12:09 AM, Ron Jensen wrote: I find including more libraries in some of the Makefile.am's does the trick for me... I'm attaching a diff of my debian-etch build tree against today's CVS. Thanks for the patches. They applied cleanly to the bleeding edge package but utterly failed

Re: [Flightgear-devel] out-of-date mailing-list addresses

2007-01-02 Thread John Denker
On 01/02/2007 03:51 PM, Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: You can't possibly mean replacing every occurence of the old list address in the archive. Good point; I didn't mean that. How about starting with places like these: -- http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel --

[Flightgear-devel] implemented: interval timer (aka approach timer) [aka stopwatch]

2007-01-01 Thread John Denker
Hi -- I cobbled up some XML code to implement an interval timer aka approach timer aka stopwatch. Having an interval timer is more-or-less indispensible for performing certain types of instrument approaches. The XML can be found at: http://www.av8n.com/fly/fgfs/stopwatch.xml This

[Flightgear-devel] implemented: Saitek X52 USB stick/throttle configuration

2007-01-01 Thread John Denker
Hi -- Over the weekend I went looking for an X52 configuration file, without success. I found rumors of its existence, but when I tried to fetch the file, either the server was down, or the tarball was gone, or the tarball didn't contain what I needed. Eventually I decided it was easier to

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