[Flightgear-devel] stl string question

2004-09-10 Thread David Luff
I've always thought that using stl strings was generally safer than char*, but could anyone comment on the below? string s = ; s[2] = 'x'; Am I stomping on random memory with the out-of-range character write, or is this protected against because it's an stl string? TaxiDraw currently has a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] stl string question

2004-09-10 Thread Frederic Bouvier
David Luff wrote: I've always thought that using stl strings was generally safer than char*, but could anyone comment on the below? string s = ; s[2] = 'x'; Am I stomping on random memory with the out-of-range character write, or is this protected against because it's an stl string? No,

RE: [Flightgear-devel] stl string question

2004-09-10 Thread Jon Berndt
I've always thought that using stl strings was generally safer than char*, but could anyone comment on the below? string s = ; s[2] = 'x'; http://www.roguewave.com/support/docs/ (see the string docs) You might need to do a resize() first. Jon

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Runway distance remaining signs + placement

2004-09-10 Thread David Luff
On 9/9/04 at 9:00 AM Alex Perry wrote: From: David Megginson davi... On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 21:35:30 +0200, Erik Hofman eri... wrote: I do think so, don't we. I mean, this is an essential part of airfields, but don't know enough about this subject to assert that the numbers are always right

[Flightgear-devel] upcoming release

2004-09-10 Thread Curtis L. Olson
We'd like to do another release of FlightGear/Simgear in the next week or two. I'm starting to roll together the first round of pre-releases. Mostly this release should fix problems and discrepancies with the v0.9.5 release of FlightGear with not a ton of new development. Regards, Curt. --

[Flightgear-devel] From Robin's apt/nav data site ...

2004-09-10 Thread Curtis L. Olson
*From Robin's apt/nav data site ... NEW* Sep 07 2004: *New data for X-Plane 7.40 and later* will be available next weekend (Sep 18 2004), based upon * DAFIF cycle 200409* (valid from Sep 02 2004 - Sep 29 2004). *This data will not work with earlier versions of X-Plane* (such as 7.00 -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] change view

2004-09-10 Thread Jim Wilson
Benno Rieger said: I'm searching for this point in Flightgear source code where my current position in the scenery will be calculatet new , after hit 'v'. Thanks Ben Look at the FGLocation class: /simgear/scene/model/location.?xx This is accessed by the viewer/fdm/ai/scenery/model

Re: [Flightgear-devel] From Robin's apt/nav data site ...

2004-09-10 Thread Chris Metzler
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 14:18:00 -0500 Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *This data will not work with earlier versions of X-Plane* (such as 7.00 - 7.30). I get the impression from this that the file formatting may have changed? The install notes he points to are old and don't say anything

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear logged its first real flight !

2004-09-10 Thread Olivier Soussiel
Around 85 Mb for the vdo taped flight and about the same (or less) for Flight Gear Playback. Olivier - Original Message - From: Ampere K. Hardraade [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FlightGear developers discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 4:28 AM Subject: Re:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear logged its first real flight !

2004-09-10 Thread Olivier Soussiel
Was this just $GPGGA, $GPVTG? Were $GPRMC needed also?I use $GPRMC and $GPGGA but basicly only position, altitude and itstimestamp are required. The rest can be recomputed easily. Are your modifications to FGFS available to the rest of us?Yes but tel me how to proceed. I have very very

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear logged its first real flight !

2004-09-10 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On September 10, 2004 04:34 pm, Olivier Soussiel wrote: Around 85 Mb for the vdo taped flight and about the same (or less) for Flight Gear Playback. That's too big for me to host then. By the way, how did you made a movie out of Flight Gear playback?