Re: [Flightgear-devel] Memory leak

2006-06-17 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Lee Elliott -- Saturday 17 June 2006 05:02: Is anyone else seeing a memory leak in current cvs? I would be surprised if we had no leaks at all. But in a short test with $ fgfs --aircraft=ufo --airport=kufo ... i didn't see anything like you observed. The memory consumption was quite stable

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Blender to ac3d material exporting

2006-06-17 Thread Robicd
Robicd wrote: Where? Sorry, I've found it. Silly question :-) ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [RFC] HUD

2006-06-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Mathias Fröhlich wrote: I would never use these functions for serious computations, since I doubt that they will pass any IEEE test. They are not designed for that either. It can be useful for sound processing and color adjustments where very high precision isn't necessary. I use it for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [RFC] HUD

2006-06-17 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
On Saturday 17 June 2006 10:05, Erik Hofman wrote: Mathias Fröhlich wrote: I would never use these functions for serious computations, since I doubt that they will pass any IEEE test. They are not designed for that either. It can be useful for sound processing and color adjustments where

Re: [Flightgear-devel] simgear cvs compile errors with gcc 3.3.6

2006-06-17 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
On Saturday 17 June 2006 01:11, Joacim Persson wrote: On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Mathias Fröhlich wrote: Given the error message, I could imagine a that the attached patch helps. Can you please tell me if that patch helps? Compiled without a warning on mat.cxx now. (Was that all? Couldn't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [RFC] HUD

2006-06-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Mathias Fröhlich wrote: Performance is a critical subject to me. But IMO the possible advantages of the fastmath functions are too few compared to the possible problems. I've never advocated using these routines for FMD's or anything like that since it could get messy really quick. But

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [RFC] HUD

2006-06-17 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
Hi Erik, On Saturday 17 June 2006 10:54, Erik Hofman wrote: Mathias Fröhlich wrote: Performance is a critical subject to me. But IMO the possible advantages of the fastmath functions are too few compared to the possible problems. I've never advocated using these routines for FMD's or

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [RFC] HUD

2006-06-17 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Erik Hofman -- Friday 16 June 2006 09:34: It think it would be best to use offset and factor just like most of the other configurations (sound/animations). I'm now using property/factor/offset for all numeric values. Some HUD elements need two values. I'm now just using property n=1/ factor

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Update to the C-182

2006-06-17 Thread Buchanan, Stuart
--- Martin Spott wrote: I got interested in this update as I hopefully will soon have a briefing for the C182Q (D-EVOS). I found applying the patch to result in a difficult task, because I had to arrange the correct mix of DOS line endings and Unix line endings to make 'patch' happy. Finally

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Update to the C-182

2006-06-17 Thread Martin Spott
Buchanan, Stuart wrote: Note that it has a dependency on the pilot model patch (http://www.nanjika.co.uk/flightgear/pilot.tar.gz), but this can be easily removed by editing c182-dpm.xml and removing the model on line 79. I simply removed the complete references to the pilot both in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [RFC] HUD

2006-06-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Mathias Fröhlich wrote: If you feel that they should be used, can you care for them and make them alias safe? Not at this time, I've got other things on my prioritylist. Erik -- http://www.ehtw.info (Dutch)Future of Enschede Airport Twente http://www.ehofman.com/fgfs FlightGear

[Flightgear-devel] Joystick and DEAD-BAND

2006-06-17 Thread Gonzalo Aguilar Delgado
Hi there! I'm trying to configure my joysticks to use it with FGFS. I'm having trouble with the dead-zone setting that seems to do nothing. My joy is not very new and has a big dead zone (-0.1,0.1) and I'm trying to set sead-band to 1.0 or even greater values. But it did not work. How can I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aerobatics using flight gear and JSBSim

2006-06-17 Thread flying.toaster
Looks like a spin, does not it ? ;) That is with stock JSBSim FDM ... attachment: spin.jpg ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aerobatics using flight gear and JSBSim

2006-06-17 Thread Jon S. Berndt
Very cool. I guess you survived, or you would not be writing this. ;-) Did the spin seem to enter and exit normally? Jon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of flying.toaster Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 10:04 AM To: FlightGear developers

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Memory leak

2006-06-17 Thread Lee Elliott
On Saturday 17 June 2006 07:34, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Lee Elliott -- Saturday 17 June 2006 05:02: Is anyone else seeing a memory leak in current cvs? I would be surprised if we had no leaks at all. But in a short test with $ fgfs --aircraft=ufo --airport=kufo ... i didn't see anything

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aerobatics using flight gear and JSBSim

2006-06-17 Thread flying.toaster
Well actually I did not survive that one, I was too busy taking the shot ;) But I did survive many others Entry and exit is by the book : - stall the aircraft with wings level using gentle full back stick and apply full rudder to enter - release the stick and rudder, let the nose point down

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Joystick and DEAD-BAND

2006-06-17 Thread shavlir
On Saturday 17 June 2006 08:18 am, Gonzalo Aguilar Delgado wrote: Hi there! I'm trying to configure my joysticks to use it with FGFS. I'm having trouble with the dead-zone setting that seems to do nothing. My joy is not very new and has a big dead zone (-0.1,0.1) and I'm trying to set

[Flightgear-devel] www/cvs/ftp outage

2006-06-17 Thread Curtis L. Olson
We had some severe storms come through last night with an associated power outage. The power along with the flightgear machines that host www, ftp, cvs, and rsync services are back online. Sorry for any inconvenience. Curt. -- Curtis Olsonhttp://www.flightgear.org/~curt HumanFIRST

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [RFC] HUD

2006-06-17 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
On Saturday 17 June 2006 14:54, Erik Hofman wrote: Mathias Fröhlich wrote: If you feel that they should be used, can you care for them and make them alias safe? Not at this time, I've got other things on my prioritylist. Ok, the ones in fastmath.hxx are easy to fix, I have already prepared

[Flightgear-devel] OT, linking foilgen.f

2006-06-17 Thread Josh Babcock
I'm trying to get some data on the B-47 wing, but I need to generate a .dat file of the airfoil to run xfoil against. Supposedly foilgen will handle 6a series NACA airfoils, but I can't get foilgen to link properly to test it. Does anyone have any suggestions? Josh tower:src$ g77 foilgen.f

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT, linking foilgen.f

2006-06-17 Thread Josh Babcock
Josh Babcock wrote: I'm trying to get some data on the B-47 wing, but I need to generate a .dat file of the airfoil to run xfoil against. Supposedly foilgen will handle 6a series NACA airfoils, but I can't get foilgen to link properly to test it. Does anyone have any suggestions? Like, for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Joystick and DEAD-BAND

2006-06-17 Thread David Miller
On 17 Jun 2006, Gonzalo Aguilar Delgado wrote: My joy is not very new and has a big dead zone (-0.1,0.1) and I'm trying to set sead-band to 1.0 or even greater values. But it did not work. How can I solve this? Because it's terrible to see how controls move from time to time a lot! Lots of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Memory leak

2006-06-17 Thread Vivian Meazza
Lee On Saturday 17 June 2006 07:34, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Lee Elliott -- Saturday 17 June 2006 05:02: Is anyone else seeing a memory leak in current cvs? I would be surprised if we had no leaks at all. But in a short test with $ fgfs --aircraft=ufo --airport=kufo ... i didn't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Memory leak

2006-06-17 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Vivian Meazza -- Saturday 17 June 2006 21:18: I just left the KC135 running airborne - it chewed up VM and finally froze. 2D panel as well. I'm not clear if this is the same phenomenon that you are seeing, or if the 2D panel is significant. The only recent change to the 2D panel was IIRC my

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Memory leak

2006-06-17 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Saturday 17 June 2006 21:23: The only recent change to the 2D panel was IIRC my patch to allow other fonts than just Helvetica.txf and led.txf. I'll try to reproduce and check if that's the cause, and fix it if so. Can't reproduce. You might want to try with that last

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Memory leak

2006-06-17 Thread Lee Elliott
On Saturday 17 June 2006 20:18, Vivian Meazza wrote: Lee On Saturday 17 June 2006 07:34, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Lee Elliott -- Saturday 17 June 2006 05:02: Is anyone else seeing a memory leak in current cvs? I would be surprised if we had no leaks at all. But in a short test

[Flightgear-devel] Simgear compile error: min function

2006-06-17 Thread Jon S. Berndt
I just did an update from cvs and got this when trying to build: In file included from ../../simgear/math/SGMath.hxx:32, from ../../simgear/math/point3d.hxx:54, from ../../simgear/math/sg_types.hxx:41, from sg_socket.hxx:39,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Simgear compile error: min function

2006-06-17 Thread Jon S. Berndt
In file included from ../../simgear/math/SGMath.hxx:32, from ../../simgear/math/point3d.hxx:54, from ../../simgear/math/sg_types.hxx:41, from sg_socket.hxx:39, from socktest.cxx:6: ../../simgear/math/SGQuat.hxx:134:35: macro

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Simgear compile error: min function

2006-06-17 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
On Saturday 17 June 2006 22:06, Jon S. Berndt wrote: In file included from ../../simgear/math/SGMath.hxx:32, from ../../simgear/math/point3d.hxx:54, from ../../simgear/math/sg_types.hxx:41, from sg_socket.hxx:39, from

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Simgear compile error: min function

2006-06-17 Thread Jon S. Berndt
Perfectly legal. That is a static member of SGLimitsT that is basically the same than std::numeric_limits. That in turn has a min static member. On windows, you have that nasty windows.h header defining a min and max macro that will interfere with the ISO C++ standard. Dig into the windows

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Simgear compile error: min function

2006-06-17 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
On Saturday 17 June 2006 22:15, Jon S. Berndt wrote: This is under Cygwin, so it's a little surprising. I've been compiling this way for years and this is the first I've seen of it. Is this a relatively new change in the code? About a year or so ... It is not the first time I hit this nasty

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Simgear compile error: min function

2006-06-17 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Jon S. Berndt schrieb: Perfectly legal. That is a static member of SGLimitsT that is basically the same than std::numeric_limits. That in turn has a min static member. On windows, you have that nasty windows.h header defining a min and max macro that will interfere with the ISO C++ standard.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Simgear compile error: min function

2006-06-17 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Mathias Fröhlich schrieb: On Saturday 17 June 2006 22:15, Jon S. Berndt wrote: This is under Cygwin, so it's a little surprising. I've been compiling this way for years and this is the first I've seen of it. Is this a relatively new change in the code? About a year or so ...

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Simgear compile error: min function

2006-06-17 Thread Jon S. Berndt
This is under Cygwin, so it's a little surprising. I've been compiling this way for years and this is the first I've seen of it. Is this a relatively new change in the code? Jon I could not compile SimGear CVS under CYGWIN for a short time due to this error. Will now try to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Simgear compile error: min function

2006-06-17 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
On Saturday 17 June 2006 22:24, Georg Vollnhals wrote: I could not compile SimGear CVS under CYGWIN for a short time due to this error. Will now try to make the changes recommended. Thank you Jon for making it public. There is a #define that saves windows.h from defining the min and max macro.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Simgear compile error: min function

2006-06-17 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Mathias Fröhlich schrieb: On Saturday 17 June 2006 22:24, Georg Vollnhals wrote: I could not compile SimGear CVS under CYGWIN for a short time due to this error. Will now try to make the changes recommended. Thank you Jon for making it public. There is a #define that saves windows.h from

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Simgear compile error: min function

2006-06-17 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
On Saturday 17 June 2006 22:44, Georg Vollnhals wrote: I am just trying to find that needle but I am blind! But not giving up for the next hour. Ok, google tells me that #define NOMINMAX or equivalently CPPFLAGS=-DNOMINMAX ./configure --whatever-you-like does the trick. Tell me if this is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Simgear compile error: min function

2006-06-17 Thread David Luff
Jon S. Berndt writes: This is under Cygwin, so it's a little surprising. I've been compiling this way for years and this is the first I've seen of it. Is this a relatively new change in the code? Jon I could not compile SimGear CVS under CYGWIN for a short time due to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Simgear compile error: min function

2006-06-17 Thread Norman Vine
Mathias Fröhlich writes On Saturday 17 June 2006 22:44, Georg Vollnhals wrote: I am just trying to find that needle but I am blind! But not giving up for the next hour. Ok, google tells me that #define NOMINMAX or equivalently CPPFLAGS=-DNOMINMAX ./configure --whatever-you-like does

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Simgear compile error: min function

2006-06-17 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Mathias Fröhlich schrieb: On Saturday 17 June 2006 22:44, Georg Vollnhals wrote: I am just trying to find that needle but I am blind! But not giving up for the next hour. Ok, google tells me that #define NOMINMAX or equivalently CPPFLAGS=-DNOMINMAX ./configure --whatever-you-like

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [RFC] HUD

2006-06-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Mathias Fröhlich wrote: Seriously, I *can* think of fast_atan's polynomials being faster than a full blown correct functioin. But those simple fabs, sign or neg function implemented in the header cannot even be faster than the cpu builtin assembler instructions usually available on

[Flightgear-devel] A few notes from Blender's AC3D exporter plugin programmer: Sir William P. Germano

2006-06-17 Thread Roberto Inzerillo
Hi people, I contacted William and asked him to add a simple option to his exporter pulgin. He was soon back with an answer and a new customized ac3d plugin which accomodates my request. He was very kind and, after having read a few archived fgfs-dev threads about the subject, he asked me to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Simgear compile error: min function

2006-06-17 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Jon S. Berndt wrote : I just did an update from cvs and got this when trying to build: In file included from ../../simgear/math/SGMath.hxx:32, from ../../simgear/math/point3d.hxx:54, from ../../simgear/math/sg_types.hxx:41, from

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Simgear compile error: min function

2006-06-17 Thread Jon S. Berndt
Thank you to all who helped to solve the SimGear min function compile error. Jon, I got a second error while further compiling. If you also have the RenderTexture.cpp:1555: Fehler: WGL_SAMPLE_BUFFERS_ARB error then my very ugly workaround might help you. (I am no C-guy and all further is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Simgear compile error: min function

2006-06-17 Thread Jon S. Berndt
However, I did get pages of FlightGear errors similar to the SimGear one - not really unexpected, I guess. I applied the same process for FlightGear as with SimGear and got a good build: CPPFLAGS=-DNOMINMAX ./configure ... etc. Unfortunately, it immediately segfaults. Jon

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Simgear compile error: min function

2006-06-17 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Jon S. Berndt schrieb: ... I didn't get thsi error. However, I did get pages of FlightGear errors similar to the SimGear one - not really unexpected, I guess. example: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/include/c++/bits/locale_facets.tcc:514:57: macro min requires 2 arguments, but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Simgear compile error: min function

2006-06-17 Thread Jon S. Berndt
Unfortunately, it immediately segfaults. Jon I ran FlightGear from within gdb: (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/local/bin/fgfs.exe Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x610ae938 in pthread_key_create () from /usr/bin/cygwin1.dll Does this suggest an error to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Simgear compile error: min function

2006-06-17 Thread Jon S. Berndt
Unfortunately, it immediately segfaults. Jon I ran FlightGear from within gdb: (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/local/bin/fgfs.exe Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x610ae938 in pthread_key_create () from /usr/bin/cygwin1.dll Does this suggest an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A few notes from Blender's AC3D exporter plugin programmer: Sir William P. Germano

2006-06-17 Thread Lee Elliott
On Saturday 17 June 2006 22:35, Roberto Inzerillo wrote: Hi people, I contacted William and asked him to add a simple option to his exporter pulgin. He was soon back with an answer and a new customized ac3d plugin which accomodates my request. He was very kind and, after having read a few

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A few notes from Blender's AC3D exporter plugin programmer: Sir William P. Germano

2006-06-17 Thread Josh Babcock
Lee Elliott wrote: On Saturday 17 June 2006 22:35, Roberto Inzerillo wrote: Hi people, I contacted William and asked him to add a simple option to his exporter pulgin. He was soon back with an answer and a new customized ac3d plugin which accomodates my request. He was very kind and,

[Flightgear-devel] Altimiter error

2006-06-17 Thread Josh Babcock
I'm looking at the B-47 flight manual(s), and they have a correction chart for altimeter error vs. altitude AGL with flaps down. Is this sort of thing a common problem, or is it just some oddity with the Stratojet, possibly due to static port location? It reads -40 ft at 0 AGL, correct at 20, and