Re: [Flightgear-devel] Software Patents.

2004-12-22 Thread Martin Spott
Dave Martin wrote: It is pleasing to see that there are already over 1,700 signatories to the support wiki. When I signed late last night there were only 31. Well, it appears the Polish second minister made our day - our German minister cowardly decided not to attend the meeting :-((

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Software Patents.

2004-12-22 Thread Martin Spott
Dave Martin wrote: AFAIK, Your German minister would have been under strict instructions now to oppose the bill. and she was 'on duty' to attend the meeting. This is what I call coward. Its a shame that the British representatives that I helped to elect can't learn to stand by their

[Flightgear-devel] Weather reporting stations

2004-12-22 Thread Richard Bytheway
An friend of mine is asking questions about weather reporting stations (http://www.linux.org.uk/~telsa/Diary/diary.html, Dec 15th entry) and has been pointed at FlightGear for answers by someone other than me. Can anyone answer her questions? Richard Bytheway

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weather reporting stations

2004-12-22 Thread Martin Spott
Richard Bytheway wrote: Can anyone answer her questions? Either I don't understand the problem with the Aurora airport or the solution is really simple for example by having a look at this page: http://www.aircraft-charter-world.com/airports/centralamerica/guatemala.htm I believe I didn't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weather reporting stations

2004-12-22 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:03:07 + (UTC) Martin Spott wrote: I believe I didn't grasp the difficulties she's running into ;-) I thought she wanted to know the difference between the various types of automated stations. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Flightgear-devel] [RFC] gui/AirportList

2004-12-22 Thread Melchior FRANZ
The good news: I fixed it The bad news: I had to change plib :-/ And this doesn't even come as a surprise. I had to make puValue::getStringValue() in pu.h:538 virtual! The class inheritage is as follows: puValue() -- char *getStringValue(); | v

[Flightgear-devel] Bug in CVS: radio panel hot spots no longer work

2004-12-22 Thread Chris Metzler
Reported in the IRC channel; Melchior and I have since confirmed. Mouse-clickable hot spots on the panel were working fine for me until I updated plib/openal/simgear/flightgear from CVS and recompiled all this morning. Now *some*, but not all, of the hotspots are unresponsive. Specifically,

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Bug in CVS: radio panel hot spots no longer work

2004-12-22 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Chris Metzler -- Wednesday 22 December 2004 16:07: Mouse-clickable hot spots on the panel were working fine for me until I updated plib/openal/simgear/flightgear from CVS and recompiled all this morning. Now *some*, but not all, of the hotspots are unresponsive. My fault. That was caused by

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Compiling with Visual Studio 2003.net

2004-12-22 Thread Drew
Alright, I finally got it running. Thanks again for your help. Drew On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 23:05:19 +0100, Frederic Bouvier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You either have to get libjpeg or remove the file that needs it. http://freshmeat.net/projects/libjpeg/ -Fred Drew wrote : That fixed the

RE: [Flightgear-devel] CVS - Problem compiling under Cygwin

2004-12-22 Thread Vivian Meazza
I wrote: This morning I updated FGFS cvs and tried to compile under Cygwin - it failed with configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating \ .infig.status: error: cannot find input file: \ This evening I downloaded the whole file system to a new directory - same

[Flightgear-devel] Announce: FlightGear-0.9.8-pre1 and SimGear-0.3.8-pre1

2004-12-22 Thread Curtis L. Olson
The first prerelease of FlightGear-0.9.8 and SimGear-0.3.8 are available for download. Please see their respective web sites for details: http://www.flightgear.org http://www.simgear.org It would be great if as many people as possible could download this pre-release and give it a try and

[Flightgear-devel] apt.dat.gz replaces basic.dat.gz and runways.dat.gz

2004-12-22 Thread Curtis L. Olson
I just commited a change to cvs that replaces the old basic.dat.gz and runways.dat.gz files (which were in an old depricated/unsupported format) with apt.dat.gz which is in the X-Plane format. This is the format we now officially support. Having one single format between X-Plane and

RE: [Flightgear-devel] apt.dat.gz replaces basic.dat.gz andrunways.dat.gz

2004-12-22 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Curt Curtis L. Olson writes I just commited a change to cvs that replaces the old basic.dat.gz and runways.dat.gz files (which were in an old depricated/unsupported format) with apt.dat.gz which is in the X-Plane format. This is the format we now officially support. Having one single

Re: [Flightgear-devel] apt.dat.gz replaces basic.dat.gz and runways.dat.gz

2004-12-22 Thread Durk Talsma
On Thursday 23 December 2004 01:00, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Everything seems to work as before, but I haven't tested the ATC/AI/Traffic manager stuff so someone who uses that stuff should do a quick check to make sure I didn't break anything there. I'll have a look at it tomorrow. Cheers,