Re: [Flightgear-devel] Engine failure in JSBSim

2006-01-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Buchanan, Stuart wrote: Hi All, I've just about finished an improved Nasal tutorial system with take-off, landing and pattern tutorials for the JSBSim c172p. I'm now scripting a tutorial of an engine failure. However, I can't find the correct property to cause the engine to fail in a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FW: Request for comment: runtime validation of input files

2006-01-23 Thread AJ MacLeod
On Monday 23 January 2006 12:50, Jon S. Berndt wrote: As the number of XML files of various kinds (aircraft, engine models, etc.) starts to grow, I'm beginning to think that some kind of run-time validation of the input files could be very helpful. It's hard to catch all kinds of possible

[Flightgear-devel] FW: Request for comment: runtime validation of input files

2006-01-23 Thread Jon S. Berndt
I posted this on the JSBSim list, but I think it applies here, as well. Substitute Flightgear for JSBSim... Jon === As the number of XML files of various kinds (aircraft, engine models, etc.) starts to grow, I'm beginning to think that some kind of run-time validation of the input files could be

[Flightgear-devel] airspeed vs metar

2006-01-23 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
Dear fellow developers, Can somebody please help with a property tree interaction with the weather scenario? I was expecting to read non-zero from /velocities/airspeed-kt during the thunderstorm scenario. When on the ground and facing the wind (15012KT in the Weather Scenario dialog, I didn't

RE: [Flightgear-devel] FW: Request for comment: runtime validation of input files

2006-01-23 Thread Jon S. Berndt
However, a validator with some knowledge of the expected content of tags and possibly values would be very nice indeed and could save quite a bit of time hunting around for the source of errors. I've created a schema for the JSBSim aircraft configuration file. The XMLStarlet utility, xml,

[Flightgear-devel] Re: need_fuel

2006-01-23 Thread dirk clark
I can not add fuel tanks to c172p in larcsim. i add following lines to c172-larcsim-set but nothing changed. So is it my fault or i need to add few lines to larcsim code ?Or are there any other ways to add a consumable fuel tank? thanks that was my fault;) i was looking to wrong xlm file and

[Flightgear-devel] Visual Studio 2005

2006-01-23 Thread Vance Souders
Microsoft has made major changes to the standard C++ and C runtime libraries under Visual Studio 2005. When compiling Flightgear 0.9.9 under VS 2005, you get about 2500 deprecated function warnings because of these changes. So, to build FG under VS 05 with zero errors and zero warnings is

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Visual Studio 2005

2006-01-23 Thread Jon S. Berndt
Maybe they've made improvements, so our code won't need the "hacks" so much ... ? -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Vance SoudersSent: Monday, January 23, 2006 8:05 AMTo: 'flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net'Subject:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Visual Studio 2005

2006-01-23 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Quoting Vance Souders : Microsoft has made major changes to the standard C++ and C runtime libraries under Visual Studio 2005. When compiling Flightgear 0.9.9 under VS 2005, you get about 2500 deprecated function warnings because of these changes. So, to build FG under VS 05 with zero errors

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Visual Studio 2005

2006-01-23 Thread Andy Ross
Vance Souders wrote: Microsoft has made major changes to the standard C++ and C runtime libraries under Visual Studio 2005. When compiling Flightgear 0.9.9 under VS 2005, you get about 2500 deprecated function warnings because of these changes. So, to build FG under VS 05 with zero errors

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Visual Studio 2005

2006-01-23 Thread Andy Ross
Frederic Bouvier wrote: It says that strcpy ( for instance ) is not secure and one should use strcpy_s that is the secured version. Maybe I missed something, but I don't thing strcpy_s is available outside the MS world. They couldn't just implement strncpy ... ? Still, that's a good example

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Visual Studio 2005

2006-01-23 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andy Ross schrieb: Frederic Bouvier wrote: It says that strcpy ( for instance ) is not secure and one should use strcpy_s that is the secured version. Maybe I missed something, but I don't thing strcpy_s is available outside the MS world. They

[Flightgear-devel] two scenery ideas

2006-01-23 Thread Josh Babcock
I. Currently the terrain textures are UV mapped onto the terrain from directly above. This creates all sorts of problems in steep terrain. One of those problems is that cliffs and near cliffs look really bad. Perhaps if terrain with a slope greater than a certain threshold were to be mapped from

RE: [Flightgear-devel] two scenery ideas

2006-01-23 Thread dene maxwell
Hi Josh I posted on this subject a couple of weeks ago there was some discussion as to where the scaling of the texture was done Terragear/FlightGear. There were two points; 1) ... when viewed from above a 45deg slope will only seem 0.7071 of its true length. Hence a stretching issue

Re: [Flightgear-devel] two scenery ideas

2006-01-23 Thread Martin Spott
dene maxwell wrote: Sort of associated with your river issue is the issue of railways and the sections of railways that are through tunnels this particularly effects me as two of the longest rail tunnels in the southern hemisphere are in my local area and it looks silly to have them