Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-18 Thread Gene Buckle
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Stuart Buchanan wrote: > I agree with Jon on this - ideally we should be pro-active about > asking for permission, even if we don't like the answer. > > We could send out a series of emails to all the trademark holders we > can identify, starting with the airlines as the most

[Flightgear-devel] minor spelling mistake...

2011-02-19 Thread Gene Buckle
It's "Golden Eagle". :) Awesome airplane. g. - Log - commit 8a793672e68b9540816f4674b0e5c0e3622626d5 Merge: 723bfc5 96f882b Author: BARANGER Emmanuel Date: Sat Feb 19 10:38:32 2011 +0100 Merge branch 'master' of git://gitor

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Default Aircraft Candidates

2011-02-21 Thread Gene Buckle
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Jack Mermod wrote: > I wasn't planning to get into an argument over the 777-200, but yes it > does have an unrealistic FDM. > > See here: > > http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/891/picture5mj.png > > > Are you telling me this is realistic too? > Tex Johnson did it with a 707 t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Default Aircraft Candidates

2011-02-22 Thread Gene Buckle
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Gary Neely wrote: > Syd places an enormous amount of effort and care into his models. If > it were me, I'd think twice before questioning something he did, and > I'd be darned sure I did my homework first, because it's certain he > will have. But if he says he's interested in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-26 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011, Gary Neely wrote: > There's a saying in English about "bearding the lion in his den". It's > probably better to stay beneath the lion's radar. > Especially considering the rather top-heavy population of fuzzy bunnies we have around here. :D g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-00

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Telnet lag?

2011-02-27 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, Roberto Inzerillo wrote: > Hi everybody, > I'm fooling around with Arduino and FGFS, in order to create a few > physical instruments. > Very cool Roberto! Don't forget to get yourself a Centipede Shield or two. They're $20 each and give you 64 i/o channels each. > Since I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, Vivian Meazza wrote: >>> Just a thought , but maybe asking nicely rather than demands and >>> threats might work better ;) >>> >>> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Jack Mermod >> wrote: >>> I'm planning on contacting Red Bull today. If I get the green light, I bett

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, J. Holden wrote: > It has been very frustrating to watch this community repeatedly trip > over legal issues. This has finally become a great enough source of > frustration to me where all I can say is good luck in the future and > enjoy the scenery (whenever it comes out).

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, Oliver Fels wrote: > Peter Brown wrote: > >> By this definition FG would cease to exist. >> Legislation does not define values, and commercial trademarks are just >> that, commercial. The purpose of enforcing them is to protect their >> _commercial_ business. It has nothing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-28 Thread Gene Buckle
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Oliver Fels wrote: > Gene Wrote: > > >> Vichy FlightGear Overlords. Zey hav >> vays of makingink you comply. > [...] >> you mouth-breathing back-biters > [...] >> In another era, you're the kind that would report your parents to the State >> for discussing forbidden ideas. >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..new speed record for Citroën Deux Chevaux may explain WTC on 9/11

2011-03-09 Thread Gene Buckle
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > Hi, > > ..paste 'n behold: ;o) > arnt@celsius:~/FG-git$ ./run_fgfs.sh --geometry=1920x1200 --httpd= \ > --jpg-httpd=9876 --prop:controls/gear/brake-parking=1 \ > --prop:sim/frame-rate=true --fov=90 --enable-fullscreen \ > --timeofday=noon --aircraft=de

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..new speed record for Citroën Deux Chevaux may explain WTC on 9/11

2011-03-09 Thread Gene Buckle
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Roland Haeder wrote: > Don't feed the trolls. :) Well crap. Now what am I going to do with 300 gallons of Jimmy Dean Cyanide Sauce? g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.simpits.org/geneb - The Me-109F/X Project S

Re: [Flightgear-devel] C172 panel

2011-03-23 Thread Gene Buckle
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Martin Spott wrote: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 01:07:44PM -, I wrote: > >> exactly the panel of the D-EEQA which I have been flying for some >> dozend hours already - some of you probably still remember this photo: >> >> http://foxtrot.mgras.net/bitmap/FGFS/DEEQA-LFLV02.j

Re: [Flightgear-devel] videos

2011-03-29 Thread Gene Buckle
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, cas...@mminternet.com wrote: > Hi, > > posted a short videos from the work on panoramic display and image warping > stuff > > go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/61165268@N06/ for a look see. > > at some point I'll find some time to figure out how git works and post the > sourc

Re: [Flightgear-devel] videos

2011-03-29 Thread Gene Buckle
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, cas...@mminternet.com wrote: > > > He, he, yea.. > > was in a rush to shoot the video for a talk at UCD after one of the > projectors exhibited a problem inverting the image, so had to "re-invert" > all the projectors, recompute the mesh(s), realign, and shoot. After > sendi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] videos

2011-03-29 Thread Gene Buckle
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Gene Buckle wrote: >> > Unless you've got ready access to a CNC router, I'd avoid the collimated > display. It's one of those projects that make you scratch in "11" on the > DIY Difficulty Knob. > I should add that if you DO deci

Re: [Flightgear-devel] videos

2011-03-29 Thread Gene Buckle
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, cas...@mminternet.com wrote: > Hi Gene, > > I've been following your progress on the my cockpit forum and am going to > try a somewhat different approach to produce a 13' diameter mirror. > > Idea is somewhat unorthodox so it may not work. OTOH if it does produce a > reasonab

Re: [Flightgear-devel] videos

2011-03-29 Thread Gene Buckle
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:53:38 -0700 (PDT), Gene wrote in message > : > >> On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Gene Buckle wrote: >> >>>> >>> Unless you've got ready access to a CNC router, I'd avoid the >>>

Re: [Flightgear-devel] videos

2011-03-29 Thread Gene Buckle
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:26:31 -0700 (PDT), Gene wrote in message > : > >> On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> >>> ..how about spraying on your mirror layer onto clear sheets? >> >> You won't end up with an optically pure mirror, and trust me, it >>

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..is Microsoft trying to claim copyright???, was: Can't Compiler the Simgear

2011-03-31 Thread Gene Buckle
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:00:08 +0800, Jin wrote in message > : > >> Hi Everyone: >> >> I Compiler the FlightGear in VS 2008 environment, but the IDE have >> some error so I can't compiler it continue, so I try to compiler the >> Simgear part, it has the err

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Calculating free stick position and forces

2011-03-31 Thread Gene Buckle
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, cas...@mminternet.com wrote: > > He, he, just to be a little pedantic.. > > it's not my simplification and only about 20 pages are devoted to the > subsonic flight region, the transonic takes about 1 page and admits a lack > of understanding in this area and section C is supe

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..is Microsoft trying to claim copyright???, was: Can't Compiler the Simgear

2011-03-31 Thread Gene Buckle
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Arnt Karlsen wrote: Hi Everyone: I Compiler the FlightGear in VS 2008 environment, but the IDE have some error so I can't compiler it continue, so I try to compiler the Simgear part, it has the error: > Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KX165 - serially feeding data to increment a property value. How?

2011-03-31 Thread Gene Buckle
t a few years ago. Here's the Lua end of it: --- -- Cockpit Interface Master - Copyright 2008 by Gene Buckle -- Controls COM1 frequency selection --- -- Get the currently selected

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KX165 - serially feeding data to increment a property value. How?

2011-03-31 Thread Gene Buckle
Here's the protocol file I was using - this basically sets up FG to pump this data out via UDP at whatever update rate you want. I used outbound UDP from FG to send data from the sim to my host interface software and then a telnet based command channel that would be used to set properties. The

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] The Canterbury Project: Linux Distros merge

2011-04-01 Thread Gene Buckle
On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Torsten Dreyer wrote: > For those who use Linux, this might be the most interesting news today: > > http://www.debian.org/ > http://www.archlinux.org/ > http://www.opensuse.org/ > http://www.gentoo.org/ > http://grml.org/ > > All unified in a joint project. > I may have been bo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KX165 - serially feeding data to increment a property value. How?

2011-04-01 Thread Gene Buckle
>> Von: Gene Buckle >> >> I used outbound UDP from FG to send data from the sim to my host >> interface software and then a telnet based command channel that >> would be used to set properties. > > I was not happy with Telnet performance, not even after p

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KX165 - serially feeding data to increment a property value. How?

2011-04-01 Thread Gene Buckle
On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Curtis Olson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Gene Buckle wrote: > >> What could you possibly be sending via telnet that would require >> "performance"? Seriously, the _only_ time you should be sending data TO >> the simulator

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KX165 - serially feeding data to increment a property value. How?

2011-04-01 Thread Gene Buckle
On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Roberto Inzerillo wrote: > >> What could you possibly be sending via telnet that would require >> "performance"? Seriously, the _only_ time you should be sending data >> TO the simulator is if a control state changed. I seriously doubt it's >> physically possible for you to f

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KX165 - serially feeding data to increment a property value. How?

2011-04-01 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sat, 2 Apr 2011, Harry Campigli wrote: > Robertto, > > Another way is to drop a Microchip Pic in your com box, if you use one of > the smaller 18f 40 pin versions you have heaps of analog and bidirectional > digital io pins, and construction wise you only need add an xtal and an > rs232 or Eth

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KX165 - serially feeding data to increment a property value. How?

2011-04-01 Thread Gene Buckle
On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * Gene Buckle -- Friday 01 April 2011: >> Using something like Leo Bodnar's joystick interface would be a good >> start. I think it does work with Linux & MacOS as well as Windows. > > It does on Linux. The BU0836* exp

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KX165 - serially feeding data to increment a property value. How?

2011-04-01 Thread Gene Buckle
On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Roberto Inzerillo wrote: > But I really like to make my own hack with FGFS ... I never really got > into ICs, C++ programming and PICs before. I'm learning a lot using > Arduino as middleware, it pulls down the learning curve and makes people > like me more confortable with the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KX165 - serially feeding data to increment a property value. How?

2011-04-01 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sat, 2 Apr 2011, Roberto Inzerillo wrote: > http://ppjoy.blogspot.com/ Is this PPjoy you're talking about? >>> That's exactly it! >> >> ..it's at http://ppjoy.bossstation.dnsalias.org/ , > > Actually that's a very old web page, the author of PPjoy later on used > his blog instead

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Vostok-1

2011-04-17 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Torsten Dreyer wrote: > > Merge commit 'refs/merge-requests/84' of > git://gitorious.org/fg/fgdata into integration > > > > commit 4a25745ea96dac35a1069a2f85f0b6e72e38ed14 > > Author: Victor Slavutinsky > > Date: Wed Apr 13 16:19:53 2011 +0400 > > > 1) Initial adding of Vostok

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Vostok-1

2011-04-17 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Vivian Meazza wrote: > Gene couldn't resist > >> -Original Message- >> From: Buckle [mailto:ge...@deltasoft.com] >> Sent: 17 April 2011 16:19 >> To: FlightGear developers discussions >> Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Vostok-1 >> >> On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Torsten Dreyer

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Vostok-1

2011-04-18 Thread Gene Buckle
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, AJ MacLeod wrote: > On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 00:39:52 +0200 > Torsten Dreyer wrote: > >> 156MB!? Isn't that a bit - huge? > > Maybe... but it looks like a fantastic model. If only I had the time to > actually work out how to fly it :-) Really impressive work though. Fly it? I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear-devel Digest, Vol 61, Issue 11

2011-05-20 Thread Gene Buckle
On Fri, 20 May 2011, Heiko Schulz wrote: > Emmanuel, > and all here involved or not, TAKE. THIS. OFF. LINE. g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.simpits.org/geneb - The Me-109F/X Project ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Enviro

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (no subject)

2011-05-27 Thread Gene Buckle
On Fri, 27 May 2011, Heiko Schulz wrote: > http://www.gbabrasil.net/images/news.html VIRUS!!! g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.simpits.org/geneb - The Me-109F/X Project ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment A Mu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SimGear compilation problem with MS VisualStudio 10

2011-05-27 Thread Gene Buckle
On Fri, 27 May 2011, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Fri, 27 May 2011 12:55:24 -0400 (EDT), Claus wrote in message > <1780160612.44750.1306515324059.javamail.r...@mail2.gatech.edu>: > >> Hello all, >> >> I am trying to build FG in Windows 7, using Visual Studio 10. > > ..ah. Historically, Microsoft has

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SimGear compilation problem with MS VisualStudio10

2011-05-27 Thread Gene Buckle
On Fri, 27 May 2011, Vivian Meazza wrote: >> Any ideas? >> > > I'm still using boost 1.37.0 - it might be worth trying an earlier version > > You know that we're using 1.44 currently, right? g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.simpits.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SimGear compilation problem with MS VisualStudio10

2011-05-27 Thread Gene Buckle
On Fri, 27 May 2011, Vivian Meazza wrote: > Gene > >> >> On Fri, 27 May 2011, Vivian Meazza wrote: >> Any ideas? >>> >>> I'm still using boost 1.37.0 - it might be worth trying an earlier >> version >>> >>> >> You know that we're using 1.44 currently, right? >> > > I didn't know that - b

Re: [Flightgear-devel] "Pro Flight Simulator"

2011-06-07 Thread Gene Buckle
On Tue, 7 Jun 2011, Tobias Markus wrote: Dear FlightGear Developers,while a video trip through "YouTube", I saw this suspiceous video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3x6Mc3DyuU&feature=player_embeddedI recognised the Chat Box in FlightGear-GUI-Style. Following the link, they sell that for 97$.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] "Pro Flight Simulator"

2011-06-07 Thread Gene Buckle
On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, xsaint wrote: > The only way we can stop or reduce is to educate the folks in the internet. > Doing up various 1 minute video, very similar to the video as shown with > same plane and then uploading with the same keywords can help. In our > video, we should mention Flightgear i

Re: [Flightgear-devel] "Pro Flight Simulator"

2011-06-07 Thread Gene Buckle
On Tue, 7 Jun 2011, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 16:53:54 +0200, Gijs wrote in message > : > >> >> Hi Tobias, >> >>> while a video trip through "YouTube", I saw this suspiceous video: >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3x6Mc3DyuU&feature=player_embedded >>> I recognised the Chat Box i

Re: [Flightgear-devel] "Pro Flight Simulator"

2011-06-07 Thread Gene Buckle
On Tue, 7 Jun 2011, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >>> >>> ..at the bottom of youtube pages, you find the "Copyright" link. >>> Follow that, and we find in the "Content Owner" section, a new >>> link to "Copyright Infringement Notification" with a nice form >>> to fill out. ;o) >> >> ...and unless you're the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] "Pro Flight Simulator"

2011-06-07 Thread Gene Buckle
On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 14:20:32 -0700 (PDT), Gene wrote in message > : > >> On Tue, 7 Jun 2011, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> > > ..at the bottom of youtube pages, you find the "Copyright" link. > Follow that, and we find in the "Content Owner" section, a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] "Pro Flight Simulator"

2011-06-08 Thread Gene Buckle
On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, Robert wrote: > Look what I have found on Dailymotion: > > http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgg2j5_next-generation-flight-simulator-2011-2012-demo_videogames > http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xh4vzn_pro-flight-simulator-2011-review-1_videogames > http://www.dailymotion.com/vid

Re: [Flightgear-devel] "Pro Flight Simulator"

2011-06-08 Thread Gene Buckle
On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > .."protection under the GPL", depends on a willingness on the > part of the copyright owners to actually exercise their rights > under copyright law to defend or enforce their copyrights. > Arnt, while the PFS guys are doing morally despicable things, th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terrain engine

2011-06-08 Thread Gene Buckle
On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, Martin Spott wrote: >> ..easy now, without a willingness to defend FlightGear copyright, > > Just a repetition of the above. Oh my, what an outstanding example of > canned nonsense, > Yeah, but he stamps "New and Improved!" on his can of nonsense, so it's ok, right? *snickers*

Re: [Flightgear-devel] "Pro Flight Simulator"

2011-06-08 Thread Gene Buckle
On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, Stefan Seifert wrote: > On Wednesday 08 June 2011 12:27:30 Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 12:06:48 +0300 (EEST), thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi wrote >> in message >> >>> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I can't see how willingness to exercise >>> copyright under GPL would requi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 4

2011-06-08 Thread Gene Buckle
On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, Stuart Buchanan wrote: > http://hsf-sulzbach.de/indexz51X.php > Stuart, your yahoo account has been comprimised. Please change your password asap! g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.simpits.org/geneb - The Me-10

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 4

2011-06-08 Thread Gene Buckle
On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, Ryan M wrote: > More spam on yahoo accounts? > I think what is happening is people might be getting whacked by drive-by browser attacks or something else. What I've been seeing is a number of people with Yahoo addresses getting hit like this - it seems to be pretty platform

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear gitorious repository corrupted ?

2011-06-10 Thread Gene Buckle
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Frederic Bouvier wrote: >> > -Fred >> works here with the git:// url: >> >> $ git clone -o origin git://gitorious.org/fg/flightgear.git essai >> >> the http:// url fails in the same fashion as your tries. > > Thank you Emilian, I didn't notice the http:// stuff. > > I will c

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear gitorious repository corrupted ?

2011-06-10 Thread Gene Buckle
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Frederic Bouvier wrote: - "Gene Buckle" a écrit : On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Frederic Bouvier wrote: >> > -Fred >> works here with the git:// url: >> >> $ git clone -o origin git://gitorious.org/fg/flightgear.git essai >> >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] "Pro Flight Simulator"

2011-06-12 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011, Michael Sgier wrote: > http://www.androidzoom.com/android_games/cards_and_casino/flight-simulation_xcuh.html > > how long should we tolerate such... Tolerate? Pfft. Just flag it as a scam and move on. g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport Textures (Again)

2011-06-13 Thread Gene Buckle
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, Vivian Meazza wrote: >> >> Hi Syd >> >> Your biggest beef is the lack of any kind of absence in discussion about >> this textures and realted shaders, and help to improve them. >> >> So please stop to blame my work here in the list when you're not >> interested in any kind of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Compile and Hudson builds

2011-06-13 Thread Gene Buckle
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, ThorstenB wrote: > Ok, thanks. And let us know if the libsvn issue is still there. CMake > worked on Hudson (Linux/Mac) - but we're missing the MSVC build machine > for a few days now. Does the Windows slave just need a reboot - or is > anything broken? The service on the mac

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport Textures (Again)

2011-06-13 Thread Gene Buckle
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, HB-GRAL wrote: Am 13.06.11 19:36, schrieb Gene Buckle: I've got this sneaking suspicion that 90% of the problems here are caused by two people, separated by a common language translating engine. :) g. Hm, I guess you can say 100 %, at least on my side. Just foun

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Heads up: scenery download / built-in terrasync

2011-06-15 Thread Gene Buckle
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Csaba Halász wrote: On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 9:50 PM, ThorstenB wrote: the final GUI bits for a new feature are now in fgdata - the last feature addition for the 2.4 release from my part... You can download/update scenery directly from FlightGear now (main menu: Environmen

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Heads up: scenery download / built-in terrasync

2011-06-15 Thread Gene Buckle
> talked to the simulator. You could run it on one machine or on a dedicated > machine. > Gah. Brain to fast for fingers! "You could run it on the SAME machine..or on a dedicated machine..." *facepalm* g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Heads up: scenery download / built-in

2011-06-15 Thread Gene Buckle
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Martin Spott wrote: > "This" is not consistent with Gene's, Csaba's and Ron's view. If you > read carefully, then you'll realize that these three guys have > primarily expressed their opinion on wether to have the GUI inside the > visual system or not. > Precisely. I was offe

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Manager...

2011-06-15 Thread Gene Buckle
In thinking about it a bit and being reminded of the existing HLA interface that FlightGear has, I'm leaning toward proposing something built with Python and the PyQT4 GUI library. Both components are cross-platform and there is a Python binding for the CERTI HLA library (PyHLA). The idea her

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Heads up: scenery download / built-in

2011-06-15 Thread Gene Buckle
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Vivian Meazza wrote: >> > > "This" is indeed more or less consistent with those opinions. Csaba says: > "For example, all the GUI stuff should be thrown out and left to a > launcher/control console application." Gene says: "All the functionality in > the GUI could be provided

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Heads up: scenery download / built-in

2011-06-15 Thread Gene Buckle
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Vivian Meazza wrote: >> The one wrench in the works is aircraft (and their systems) that add >> entries to the GUI menu items... >> > > If you can generate a better way, or even an alternate way - I'll look at > it. Until then you're stuck with it. > I have the option of bein

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Heads up: scenery download / built-in

2011-06-15 Thread Gene Buckle
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, ThorstenB wrote: > absolutely unable to motivate - or at least keep people motivated on > working on our project. That's a major issue we have. Everyone who > spends time is "welcomed" by negative comments - and surprisingly many > leave. And I'm sorry to say, after reading em

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nasal updating properties in the menu

2011-06-19 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011, Hal V. Engel wrote: > I need to over ride one of the default menu items so that I can use a custom > menu. After some effort I have figured out what needs to be changed in the > property tree. The code looks like this: > > # Disable the menu item "Equipment > radio" so we us

[Flightgear-devel] Website update?

2011-06-21 Thread Gene Buckle
Curt - would it be possible for you to change the "Developers" link on the main FlightGear page? Can the "CVS Resource" and "Source Code" menu items be condensed down to a "Portal" link that points to this wiki link: http://wiki.flightgear.org/Portal:Developer ...or give me access and I'll do i

[Flightgear-devel] Build server update..

2011-06-22 Thread Gene Buckle
I've updated the Hudson server to use Jenkins. The system seems to be doing just fine after the upgrade. :) James - you'll need to update the client on your Mac build machine. tnx. g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.simpits.org/ge

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Heads up: scenery download /built-interrasync

2011-06-23 Thread Gene Buckle
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, ThorstenB wrote: > On 23.06.2011 00:32, Vivian Meazza wrote: > Looks like a white space issue to me. >> >> When svn.exe is in the path I get: >> >> Starting automatic scenery download/synchronization. Using external SVN >> utility >> 'svn'. Directory: 'D:/Git_New/terrasync'.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Manager...

2011-06-25 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sat, 25 Jun 2011, Mathias Fröhlich wrote: Hi Gene, On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 21:43:36 Gene Buckle wrote: In thinking about it a bit and being reminded of the existing HLA interface that FlightGear has, I'm leaning toward proposing something built with Python and the PyQT4 GUI li

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shaders and ATI Radeon HD 4670

2011-06-25 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sat, 25 Jun 2011, Vivian Meazza wrote: >> > > The most _likely_ cause is the ATI Radeon HD 4670/256 MB VRAM. The GeForce > 8600M GT is known to be better at handling shaders. 256 Mb VRAM is in both > cases a bit small for FG nowadays. There are other possible contributors to > a low framerate -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Manager...

2011-06-25 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sat, 25 Jun 2011, Alasdair Campbell wrote: >> > in fact I have some python glue code that makes it easy to do python >> > clients with that binding. We have run all this at LinuxTag. Including a >> > small python script that prvides an ogle doing cirgles around a fixed >> > point just as a d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Proposal: Move airplanes to an SVN repository

2011-06-26 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011, Martin Spott wrote: > As a general rule I'd propose to make a clear distinction between a) > datasets, b) hosting sites and c) protocols or revision control systems > (at least). Some people are implying SVN when talking about hosting > large datasets, others are implying Gito

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Matrox TripleHead2Go

2011-06-26 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011, Torsten Dreyer wrote: > Buenos Dias Ezequiel and welcome aboard! > > We have a fairly complex multi-monitor display setup on our presentation > machine. You can find our configuration from last year's FSweekend at > http://wiki.flightgear.org/FSweekend_2010. > In rendering.x

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A new goodie for FlightGear presentations

2011-06-30 Thread Gene Buckle
On Thu, 30 Jun 2011, Torsten Dreyer wrote: > Hi all, > > The conversion into a static simulator will take place at my house some 60km > south of the airfield, so we will start slicing the bird into smaller chunks > for transportation on a truck. This will happen very soon and I fear, it will > be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A new goodie for FlightGear presentations

2011-06-30 Thread Gene Buckle
On Thu, 30 Jun 2011, Hal V. Engel wrote: > On Thursday, June 30, 2011 02:31:15 PM Torsten Dreyer wrote: >> The instruments will be replaced by TFT displays and certainly all >> controls will be functional, I'd even love to see the control surface >> move, have force- feedback and (dreaming...) >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Base Package branch, master, updated. 0b8dee0f4611f0e90478f48d58951995fbe87069

2011-07-09 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sat, 9 Jul 2011, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * Flightgear-commitlogs -- Saturday 09 July 2011: >> commit 0b8dee0f4611f0e90478f48d58951995fbe87069 >> Author: ThorstenB >> Date: Sat Jul 9 12:45:42 2011 +0200 >> >> bo105: make sim reset work when helicopter crashed >> On sim reset properly "

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Release Progress

2011-07-11 Thread Gene Buckle
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Torsten Dreyer wrote: > To make sure, our streams are in a consistent state when I create and > tag the branches, please make sure not to push _any_ commits to simgear, > flightgear and fgdata after Sunday, July 17th 2011 08:00 UTC until > further advice ( hi Gene :-) ). Luck

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG 2.4 consistency

2011-07-13 Thread Gene Buckle
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Martin Spott wrote: > "grth_team" wrote: > >> How are you walking ? on the head ? since you reverse the priority. >> >> The answer from these devel team persons, was a joke, at least to us, > > I think this flavour of 'feedback' is not worth discussing. > Martin, I suspect th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Heads Up: GIT maintenance tomorrow (Sunday 08:00 UTC)

2011-07-16 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sat, 16 Jul 2011, Torsten Dreyer wrote: > will post a message on this list when I am about to start and after I > have finished (or screwed up the whole thing). > > Thanks for your cooperation > > Torsten > > Thank you for your hard work Torsten! It's hugely appriciated! g. -- Proud owner o

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [patch] Improved forests

2011-07-28 Thread Gene Buckle
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Stefan Seifert wrote: > On Thursday 28 July 2011 01:00:10 Hal V. Engel wrote: > >> But there is one minor and very common issue with the code that should be >> fixed. In the for loop >> >> for (..; ..; j++) >> >> should be >> >> for (..; ..; ++j) >> >> if you use j++ the com

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [patch] Improved forests

2011-07-28 Thread Gene Buckle
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Jari Häkkinen wrote: Are you sure about that? I just tried it with a little example and at least gcc compiles both variants to the exact same assembly code. Tried it with and without -O2. That would freak me out. Doesn't "++j" mean "increment j, then test" whereas "j++" m

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Generic Protocol Error --> Error opening serial device "COM27" The system cannot find the file specified.

2011-08-03 Thread Gene Buckle
On Wed, 3 Aug 2011, Curtis Olson wrote: > I personally have never tested the generic protocol over a serial port on > windows. I'm not sure I have tested any IO over a serial port on windows > since the very early days of the project back when we were building with > cygwin. I do recall at the t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Generic Protocol Error --> Error opening serial device "COM27" The system cannot find the file specified.

2011-08-03 Thread Gene Buckle
On Wed, 3 Aug 2011, Csaba Halász wrote: On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Gene Buckle wrote: COM27 is also a suspicously(sp) high port#. That seems to be quite normal for usb adapters. However you are right that this is the cause of the problem. Quote from msdn: I've NEVER seen it h

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Generic Protocol Error --> Error opening serial device "COM27" The system cannot find the file specified.

2011-08-07 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sat, 6 Aug 2011, Derrick Washington wrote: > OK, has anyone actually attempted this method, and got it too work, lol bcus > I just tried it & got the bluescreen of death twice. The syntax definitely > does something but it also take the computer down, any suggestions? Typically when a BSOD hap

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Generic Protocol Error --> Error opening serial device "COM27" The system cannot find the file specified.

2011-08-07 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sun, 7 Aug 2011, Frederic Bouvier wrote: > Gene, > >> Unless you've got 26 other serial ports on that machine, I'd strongly >> suggest researching what caused Windows to assign COM27 to your device. >> It's NOT typical behavior. > > You can assign any number you want to a COM port when it is dr

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to turn off the 3D cockpit

2011-08-08 Thread Gene Buckle
On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, syd adams wrote: > Its in the property tree , you can open the property browser and > change the value there , or you could add it to the -set.xml file like > i do: > > true > > I wonder if this kind of thing would be a good candidate for inclusion in the fgrun tool? g. -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Release 2.4.0: on short final

2011-08-12 Thread Gene Buckle
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Torsten Dreyer wrote: > Some off topic: > Today, Martin and I started to prepare our new simulator for road > transport. Enjoy some pics here: > http://www.c172fg.de/ > I cringe viewing those pictures. I certainly hope you're being careful enough to sell the usable bits to s

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New aircraft: SF-25

2011-08-16 Thread Gene Buckle
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Viktor Radnai wrote: > http://www.avatarzenekar.hu/files/P1020617.JPG > http://www.avatarzenekar.hu/files/P1020618.JPG > Am I the only one that noticed that someone has been mowing a lawn with that prop? :) g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The onl

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] D-EEQA, the FlightGear C172

2011-08-16 Thread Gene Buckle
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Torsten Dreyer wrote: > Hi, > just for the fun of it - here are 55 pictures of the Cessna's > transportation from the tiny airfield of Wahlstedt (EDHW) to my home. > > http://www.c172fg.de/ > That's just awesome. Thanks for the pics! :) g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 h

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2 Questions about library prerequisites

2011-08-17 Thread Gene Buckle
On Wed, 17 Aug 2011, Curtis Olson wrote: > I have 2 quick questions: > > 1. What is our official minimum version of OSG required for the v2.4 > release? > > 2. What is our official minimum version of boost required for the v2.4 > release? > > I'd like to make sure the information on our web site i

Re: [Flightgear-devel] substantial base package size increase

2011-09-10 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Curtis Olson wrote: > I just noticed when I pushed out the latest developer snapshot build that > our setup.exe size has grown from about 410 Mb to 500+ Mb. I think (?) this > may be the new dds textures? I'm not making a judgement, or calling for a > particular action here,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Openstreetmap v. G**gl

2011-09-16 Thread Gene Buckle
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, J. Holden wrote: > For the USA, there is an interesting website chronicling some of these > airports: http://www.airfields-freeman.com/ John, thanks for that link! I'm learning all sorts of neat things about the airfields that used to live in and around Tacoma, WA. :) g.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mapping Airspace

2011-09-21 Thread Gene Buckle
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Curtis Olson wrote: > 11: RC Pilot. Stays under 400' AGL and outside a 3 mile radius from any > airport. Probably flying at a club site and doesn't care about air spaces. > Has no way to estimate if he's over or under 400' AGL and probably is > flying a plane that can climb

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mapping Airspace

2011-09-21 Thread Gene Buckle
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Curtis Olson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Gene Buckle wrote: > >> On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Curtis Olson wrote: >> >>> 11: RC Pilot. Stays under 400' AGL and outside a 3 mile radius from any >>> airport. Probably flying

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mapping Airspace

2011-09-23 Thread Gene Buckle
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, John Denker wrote: > Here's another fun way of mapping airspace: You can get sectional > charts in the form of .tif files from: > > http://www.aeronav.faa.gov/index.asp?xml=aeronav/applications/VFR/chartlist_sect > John, do you know if they provide a version of that data th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Suggested commit log change

2011-10-05 Thread Gene Buckle
On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Martin Spott wrote: > Hi Geoff, > > Geoff McLane wrote: > >> OT: You know, something about your particular >> emails posts here... when I click [Reply] it does >> NOT fill in the address to the dev list... > > Personally I'm convinced that this is intentional, but I'll let Curt

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Suggested commit log change

2011-10-05 Thread Gene Buckle
On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Martin Spott wrote: > Gene Buckle wrote: > >> Martin, this is actually only seen with your messages. I use Alpine to >> read mail and your messages come in with this additional field shown in >> the header: >> >> Newsgroups: list.flightg

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Splitting FGdata (again, but now for real)

2011-10-16 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sun, 16 Oct 2011, Gijs de Rooy wrote: > Hi, > > I started splitting fgdata this morning. Created a project to store > FlightGear aircraft repositories, > under https://gitorious.org/flightgear-aircraft > > More details are available on the wiki: > http://wiki.flightgear.org/FlightGear_Git:_sp

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Southwest Colorado Scenery - beta 3

2011-11-21 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sun, 20 Nov 2011, J. Holden wrote: > http://www.stattosoftware.com/flightgear/Durango.zip > > I have hope as the file size actually went down in this build, but perhaps > something else went awry. > > The only change is remapping "Scrub" to "ShrubCover". Please let me know if > this works. >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Announce: AeonWave 2.1 for Linux available

2011-11-22 Thread Gene Buckle
Congrats on the release Erik! Does your new sound system or OpenAL itself allow you to specify the origin of a sound as an x/y/z offset from a central point? tnx. g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collim

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