Re: [Flightgear-devel] GUI dialogs suck

2010-01-30 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Martin Spott wrote: > Gene Buckle wrote: > >> Assuming that _something_ should be done with the GUI as it stands now, >> what would be more effective, porting the whole thing to Qt or updating >> Pui to address any deficiencies that it has - at least with regard to >> FlightGe

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New Screenshots for Version 2.0

2010-01-30 Thread Isaias Prestes
Vivian, I dont have a good PC to games now (notebook Compaq C770BR)... but the pictures are very nice!! But... i dont find a 707 shot, heehehe. Good work Heiko! Best regards, Isaías V. Prestes 2010/1/30 Vivian Meazza > Durk wrote > > > > Hi All, > > > > Last week, I've been trying to capture

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New Screenshots for Version 2.0

2010-01-30 Thread Vivian Meazza
Durk wrote > Hi All, > > Last week, I've been trying to capture the new graphical features of > FlightGear in a few screen shots. Please find a pre selection here: > > http://www.xs4all.nl/~dtalsma/fgfs2.0/ > > I hope that others will also join in and contribute a few images for our > officia

[Flightgear-devel] New Screenshots for Version 2.0

2010-01-30 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi All, Last week, I've been trying to capture the new graphical features of FlightGear in a few screen shots. Please find a pre selection here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~dtalsma/fgfs2.0/ I hope that others will also join in and contribute a few images for our official gallery. I added a prelimina

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OSG Light

2010-01-30 Thread Isaias Prestes
Whow! So nice!! Great sounds, Vivian!! Thanks, Isaías V. Prestes 2010/1/30 Vivian Meazza > Victhor, > > > > > > Lauri Peltonen (aka Zan) and I have been working on a light using the OSG > stencil technique (Lauri did all the hard and difficult stuff): > > > > ftp://ftp.abbeytheatre2.org.uk/f

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OSG Light

2010-01-30 Thread Vivian Meazza
Victhor, Lauri Peltonen (aka Zan) and I have been working on a light using the OSG stencil technique (Lauri did all the hard and difficult stuff): ftp://ftp.abbeytheatre2.org.uk/fgfs/Screen-shots/lightcone7.jpg It’s as unlikely a light as you can find: The edges are hard, and while

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Money and Contributions

2010-01-30 Thread Martin Spott
Hans Janssen wrote: > I got a bill for almost 1000,- EURO just for umts bandwith use for last > FSWeekend ( wich i managed to smoothtalk down to 150.- though). Oooops . well done ! Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GUI dialogs suck

2010-01-30 Thread Martin Spott
Gene Buckle wrote: > Assuming that _something_ should be done with the GUI as it stands now, > what would be more effective, porting the whole thing to Qt or updating > Pui to address any deficiencies that it has - at least with regard to > FlightGear? Two or three years ago I've been wanderin

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OSG Light

2010-01-30 Thread Victhor Foster
A person called Zan on #flightgear recently came up with a light cone for FG. You might want to ask him. Our IRC server is irc.flightgear.org. Sorry, I don't remember the links for the screenshots. > Hi, > > It´s possible in a FG aircraft add a animation (via XML), or something like, > using O

[Flightgear-devel] OSG Light

2010-01-30 Thread Isaias Prestes
Hi, It´s possible in a FG aircraft add a animation (via XML), or something like, using OSG:Light to create a spotlight, or a beacon that is light emissive and others objects reflect its light? I want to know if is possible create something like http://www.cuboslocos.com/images/OSG_Lighting.jpg r

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GUI dialogs suck

2010-01-30 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Tim Moore wrote: >> As was explained to me on IRC, this is already a solved problem: Qt widgets > can be drawn into OpenGL buffers. That doesn't change the fact that it would > be a great deal of work to port our GUI to Qt, and it would introduce a > very large external depen

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Phantom set files

2010-01-30 Thread Csaba Halász
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Innis Cunningham wrote: > So were is FG hiding this information about old set files.I even ran an A/C > the other day with no set file > in the aircraft folder at all without a problem. > What is happening here?. FG is caching the list of set files in the autosave

[Flightgear-devel] Phantom set files

2010-01-30 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi all I don't know if anyone else has come across this but a couple of times lately while doing some devel work I have had the set file go rogue on me. Today I wanted to try a jsb fdm on an aircraft that had a yasim fdm originally.So I put the yasim fdm and the set file away somewhere safe whil

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Money and Contributions

2010-01-30 Thread Hans Janssen
> Although the booth comes at no cost, there is usually a good amount of money > that has to be spent by the participants. Not only accomodation and travel, > but insurance for equipment was once an issue. Last year, we bought six > (IIRC) > big side screen displays. Donations from a few of us

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Money and Contributions

2010-01-30 Thread Martin Spott
Pete Morgan wrote: > I would expect my "donation" to go to infrastructure costs, eg wiki > Hosting which often complains about limit exceeded. Then, in order to keep the profile low, I'd propose you to talk directly to the respective maintainers - or at least those who made the decision to host

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Money and Contributions

2010-01-30 Thread Pete Morgan
I would expect my "donation" to go to infrastructure costs, eg wiki Hosting which often complains about limit exceeded. pete Martin Spott wrote: > syd adams wrote: > > >> Where does the donation money go ? To who ? And for what ?I dont like >> donating money when I have no idea what Im donati

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Money and Contributions

2010-01-30 Thread Martin Spott
syd adams wrote: > Where does the donation money go ? To who ? And for what ?I dont like > donating money when I have no idea what Im donating to. Now the discussion starts to get interesting, since Curt is not the only person who's spending money in order to promote FlightGear. Several individu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Money and Contributions

2010-01-30 Thread Olivier JACQ
In France we call this "Association Loi 1901." I think we have this in nearly all country. The only problem is to make it world-wide! Cheers, Olivier >Actually, the FSWeekend/LinuxTag crew thought about founding a non profit >(called "gemeinnütziger Verein" in Germany) last year, but didn't pu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Money and Contributions

2010-01-30 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> There is also: > > http://www.cafepress.com/fgfs > > Everything at this particular page is sold "at cost" so there is zero > profit and zero distribution. Torsten's wife did the logo and it came out > extremely cool. I wear my flightgear t-shirt ever day despite the > protests of my kids a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Money and Contributions

2010-01-30 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> Where does the donation money go ? To who ? And for what ?I dont like > donating money when I have no idea what Im donating to. > > This is just another idea since I dont know how one would set this up ... > How about an FSWeekend fund to help out the crew that puts in a good > amount of wor

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GUI dialogs suck

2010-01-30 Thread Martin Spott
Tim Moore wrote: > [...] That doesn't change the fact that it would > be a great deal of work to port our GUI to Qt, and it would introduce a > very large external dependency. Having seen the fit pitched when I started > usineg boost... I think the biggest stumbling block with introducing boost

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GUI dialogs suck

2010-01-30 Thread Tim Moore
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Gene Buckle wrote: > > I think that what I'm looking for is behavior similar to QT > > http://qt.nokia.com/ which I user quite often. > > > > I am sorry and apologize for using the word "sucks". > > > Pete, the problem is that QT doesn't live in the same graphics