Re: [Flightgear-devel] flight control and trim position popup

2007-07-04 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Denker wrote: Let me also point out that the word gremlin is in the dictionary. Its primary meaning explains exactly the purpose of gremlins.nas. Please consider, that not by far not all FG contributors are native English speakers and thus

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flight control and trim position popup

2007-07-04 Thread John Denker
On 07/03/2007 04:28 AM, Vivian Meazza wrote: Remember: P 6 - Piss Poor Peer-review Prevents Proper Performance I agree! IMHO a peer-review that snipes at int ii as opposed to int i -- to the exclusion of any discussion of actual features that pilots can use -- is pretty poor. IMHO it is a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flight control and trim position popup

2007-07-04 Thread Thomas Förster
Am Mittwoch 04 Juli 2007 15:59 schrieb John Denker: If some developer, for development purposes, wants to increase the number of digits in the display, I parameterized the format so that changing it is a simple one-character edit. http://www.av8n.com/fly/fgfs/flight-control.diff I hope

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flight control and trim position popup

2007-07-04 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* John Denker -- Wednesday 04 July 2007: Bottom line: Does anybody have any suggestions and/or questions about this work? Well, there are still two objections concerning the submissions: - the name gremlins.nas. But this could certainly be changed by whoever commits this. I suggested

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flight control and trim position popup

2007-07-04 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* John Denker -- Wednesday 04 July 2007: Well, there are still two objections concerning the submissions: [- fixed size and positions of dialogs] - the name gremlins.nas. But this could certainly be changed by whoever commits this. I suggested failure.nas. The function name

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flight control and trim position popup

2007-07-04 Thread John Denker
On 07/04/2007 10:49 AM, Melchior FRANZ wrote: Well, there are still two objections concerning the submissions: - the name gremlins.nas. But this could certainly be changed by whoever commits this. I suggested failure.nas. The function name gremulate() isn't pretty, either, especially

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flight control and trim position popup

2007-07-04 Thread Stuart Buchanan
--- Melchior FRANZ wrote: * John Denker -- Wednesday 04 July 2007: Well, there are still two objections concerning the submissions: [- fixed size and positions of dialogs] snip But the first problem concerns both submissions, and to reduce noise on the list I combined that. Didn't work

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flight control and trim position popup

2007-07-04 Thread Hans Fugal
FWIW, when flying I have often wanted to see trim indication so I think the popup is valuable. I don't know whether there should be more trim indication in plane cockpits or (because of the already-cramped screen) if a popup is a better approach, but I like the always-available popup idea.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flight control and trim position popup

2007-07-03 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* John Denker -- Tuesday 03 July 2007: This implements a popup to show the position of the flight controls and trim. [...] http://www.av8n.com/fly/fgfs/flight-control.diff Certainly useful for many people. I think a third digit after the comma would be useful for axes, as two are barely

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flight control and trim position popup

2007-07-03 Thread John Denker
On 07/03/2007 06:09 PM, Melchior FRANZ wrote: http://www.av8n.com/fly/fgfs/flight-control.diff Certainly useful for many people. :-) I think a third digit after the comma would be useful for axes, as two are barely enough for even bad joysticks. It depends on the purpose. For

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flight control and trim position popup

2007-07-03 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* John Denker -- Wednesday 04 July 2007: On 07/03/2007 06:09 PM, Melchior FRANZ wrote: What I don't really understand is why local variables need to be ii and nnn. What's wrong with just i and n, like everyone else uses? Skilled programmers double the i and triple the n so that the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flight control and trim position popup

2007-07-03 Thread Melchior FRANZ
Oh, sorry. Forgot this one ... * John Denker -- Wednesday 04 July 2007: I can see making another mode, to serve another purpose, such as debugging joysticks, and /four/ digits would be worthwhile in that case. It would be simple to put a mode-change button on the existing popup. I'd assume