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

2009-12-13 Thread John Denker
Update: I now have a workaround configuration that at least allows me to park without anything too terrible happening. The sim will run for an hour, even with the FPE trap enabled. This workaround configuration (call it X) entails: 1) Passing *no* options on the command line, using options in

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

2009-12-13 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi, On Sunday 13 December 2009 01:49:47 am Ron Jensen wrote: On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 16:21 -0700, John Denker wrote: --prop:/sim/ai-traffic/enabled=0 --prop:/sim/traffic-manager/enabled=0 Just to clarify: The AI system that is generating the NaNs, is the old one (i.e. code contained in

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

2009-12-13 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hi, My experience was, that this NaN's only appear with --prop:/sim/ai-traffic/enabled=1 on win32. All other things seems not to produce NaN's. Btw I wonder if we still need ai-traffic, as the interactive traffic works so much better and more nice? Cheers HHS Update: I now have a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] --metar

2009-12-13 Thread Stuart Buchanan
John Denker wrote: I have some basic questions about the --metar command-line option. AFAICT the getstart.pdf manual doesn't mention this option. That's correct - we've still to complete the updates to the manual for the upcoming release. However, it's on my TODO list. If you want to

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] nan-a-palooza

2009-12-13 Thread Jacob Burbach
I never have the ai traffic enabled, but still get nans sometimes. The ai traffic may be triggering a nan, but I'm not sure it's actually the root cause. Debugging nans can be a real pita, with every operation against a nan producing a nan they spread like wildfire. By the time it causes a problem

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear URL verification patch

2009-12-13 Thread Durk Talsma
Folks, Just following up on this old thread, we now have some new insights into FPS, as recently posted in the forum: On Sunday 25 October 2009 04:39:48 pm I wrote: ...to think of it from an advertising point of view: What does every company in the world do to advertise their product?

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

2009-12-13 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi, On Sunday 13 December 2009 09:53:49 am Heiko Schulz wrote: Hi, My experience was, that this NaN's only appear with --prop:/sim/ai-traffic/enabled=1 on win32. All other things seems not to produce NaN's. Btw I wonder if we still need ai-traffic, as the interactive traffic works so much

Re: [Flightgear-devel] --metar

2009-12-13 Thread Csaba Halász
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Stuart Buchanan stuart_d_bucha...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: A I recall, Torsten implemented that feature. There was a description of it on the -dev list a couple of months back, but I've been unable to locate it myself in the archive. Here you go:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] print() from keyboard and joystick

2009-12-13 Thread Csaba Halász
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 7:00 PM, John Denker j...@av8n.com wrote: Not too long ago, it was possible to print to stdout from nasal scripts called from keyboard event handlers and joystick axis handlers. In the current (development) version, print() statements have no effect chez moi.  

Re: [Flightgear-devel] sound dialog

2009-12-13 Thread Stuart Buchanan
Erik Hofman wrote: 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

Re: [Flightgear-devel] releases +- bugs

2009-12-13 Thread Martin Spott
John Denker wrote: It's going to need testing. I'm seeing some peculiar things, e.g. http://www.av8n.com/fly/fgfs/htm/bug-list.htm#bug-jfk-peculiar-taxiways Just for the record: This is caused by a well-known and long-standing 'feature' in the 'genapts' utility, due to the fact that

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.

[Flightgear-devel] Update FG Short Reference

2009-12-13 Thread Stuart Buchanan
Hi All, As John Denker pointed out, the FlightGear Short Reference was very out of date. I've spent an hour or so making the key assignments accurate and improving the mouse mode description. An updated version is available here: http://www.nanjika.co.uk/flightgear/FGShortRef.pdf Comments are

[Flightgear-devel] Version number for the upcoming release

2009-12-13 Thread Stuart Buchanan
Hi All, About this point in the release cycle, it's traditional to have a version numbering discussion, if only so Martin and I can ensure that the documentation matches the final binary! My thoughts are as follows: - The changes we've made in the last year are significant, so incrementing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Update FG Short Reference

2009-12-13 Thread Martin Spott
Hi Stuart, Stuart Buchanan wrote: As John Denker pointed out, the FlightGear Short Reference was very out of date. I've spent an hour or so making the key assignments accurate and improving the mouse mode description. Good idea - I've been lost by far about what the current state of key

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

2009-12-13 Thread John Denker
On 12/13/2009 02:33 AM, Erik Hofman wrote: Jon, could you specify if this was with 'real' weather enabled or disabled? I've seen something similar when it was enabled but haven't seen it without real weather. With an explicit --disable-real-weather-fetch, I still observe an early FPE,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] sound dialog

2009-12-13 Thread willie
Stuart Buchanan wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: 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

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Version number for the upcoming release

2009-12-13 Thread Chris Wilkinson
Hi there, The changes to fg in the past 12 months are very significant and welcome, but the implementation of some of the changes is still in its infancy. That factor, along with the missing shadows, leave me feeling that an update to v2.0 is not yet warranted - not quite! Its getting close,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Version number for the upcoming release

2009-12-13 Thread Jacob Burbach
Traditionally it is MAJOR.MINOR.PATCHLEVEL, definately more than a patchlevel thing, and way more than minor, so either 1.10.x or 2.x.x if your following that standard. 1.10 feels weird, but not sure 2.x is warranted just yet. Could ditch all that and use dates ala ubuntu, making it what...like

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Version number for the upcoming release

2009-12-13 Thread James Turner
On 13 Dec 2009, at 22:10, Jacob Burbach wrote: Nan errors still abound, sound system has lots of rough edges still, the new material system is not finished, route manager not finished, etc, etc. Even if everything could be cleaned up by then, there would be no time left for any real

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Version number for the upcoming release

2009-12-13 Thread Jacob Burbach
Bug-fixing, testing, etc is of course a separate issue - namely that fixing bugs is a lot less fun than writing features. As a developer I certainly won't disagree with that, but they are an absolute necessity for any software, it just comes with the territory. As a user I would also say a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Version number for the upcoming release

2009-12-13 Thread S Andreason
Jacob Burbach wrote: Traditionally it is MAJOR.MINOR.PATCHLEVEL, definately more than a patchlevel thing, and way more than minor, so either 1.10.x or 2.x.x if your following that standard. 1.10 feels weird, Maybe it is wierd. 1.9 is mathematically the same as 1.90 1.10 is less than 1.90 by

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Version number for the upcoming release

2009-12-13 Thread Chris Wilkinson
Hi there, Whoever decided that software versioning should follow such a numbering convention is a goozer, and you can quote me on that! :-) There could have been any number of better ways to express the version number, but they chose to use one that can combine more than one decimal place into

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Version number for the upcoming release

2009-12-13 Thread Scott Hamilton
On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 19:07 -0800, S Andreason wrote: Jacob Burbach wrote: Traditionally it is MAJOR.MINOR.PATCHLEVEL, definately more than a patchlevel thing, and way more than minor, so either 1.10.x or 2.x.x if your following that standard. 1.10 feels weird, Maybe it is wierd. 1.9

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

2009-12-13 Thread Tim Moore
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 10:48 PM, John Denker j...@av8n.com wrote: ... UPDATE: I have a surprising explanation for the previously- reported fact that FPE behavior depends on whether options are passed on the command line or passed via .fgfsrc It turns out that passing --enable-fpe via

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear URL verification patch

2009-12-13 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Stuart, On Sunday 13 December 2009 10:16:24 pm Stuart Buchanan wrote: A clear statement would a) provide a good reference point for any further discussion outside of the community, rather than various people making different comments. b) be visible enough to Google so that anyone doing