[Flightgear-devel] 777 vs 787

2008-12-18 Thread Durk Talsma
Gentlemen, Please note that earlier in the week, I upgraded the 787 in CVS. Like I had mentioned previously, I would be inclined to swap the 777 in the base package for the 787. I am still open to that suggestion, but I have hardly had a chance to play with the new 787. I will try to do some

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-18 Thread Stuart Buchanan
John Denker wrote: On 12/17/2008 08:04 PM, Csaba Halász wrote: I assume you are not using sync-to-vblank or fps throttle. That's a correct assumption. Forsooth, I've never heard of sync-to-vblank or fps throttle in this context. The names sound nice, but -- They are not mentioned

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 777 vs 787

2008-12-18 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Hi Durk, I've just implented the livery selection dialog (working over MP) for the 787 yesterday. You can download it from the forum: http://flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4t=1001p=23180#p23180 If wanted, you can commit it to CVS. Regards, Gijs Please note that earlier in the week, I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NAV display proof-of-concept

2008-12-18 Thread James Turner
On 18 Dec 2008, at 01:17, Syd wrote: On the gps display , the default scale is 5nm full deviation,in approach arm mode 1 nm full, but I didnt animate that ... there are still dozens of pages that need done yet. Ive been tempted to switch to the kln89 instead of trying to do this with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NAV display proof-of-concept

2008-12-18 Thread James Turner
On 18 Dec 2008, at 06:54, Syd wrote: Ok , I did some test flights , now I see what you mean With the EFS 40/50 the deviation scale units depend on the navigation source: VOR/TAC 1 dot = 5 degrees ADF 7.5 degrees LNAV or RNAV 2.5 NM LNAV/RNAV appr 0.625 NM

[Flightgear-devel] JSBSim Propulsion Work

2008-12-18 Thread Jon S. Berndt
I want to thank Ron, John, and all of you that are discussing the propulsion / flight modeling problems for the C172P and moving that forward. I'm trying to find time to keep up with the discussion. I think that refining the piston model is a good first task in the job of improving the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-18 Thread Durk Talsma
On Wednesday 17 December 2008 22:18:15 I wrote: Just to make a blunt suggestion, although not completely of my own imagination: would it be an idea to release this version as 2.0?. Initially, we wanted to do a 1.9.0 release, because we felt that the OSG transition wasn't quite there yet. Since

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 777 vs 787

2008-12-18 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Gijs, On Thursday 18 December 2008 10:35:45 Gijs de Rooy wrote: Hi Durk, I've just implented the livery selection dialog (working over MP) for the 787 yesterday. You can download it from the forum: http://flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4t=1001p=23180#p23180 If wanted, you can

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 777 vs 787

2008-12-18 Thread Gijs de Rooy
The throttle doesn't respond to joystick input. The new throttle doesn't respond before the engines are started (they are running, but not started...). The startup procedure is described on the wiki: http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Boeing_787 Gijs

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 777 vs 787

2008-12-18 Thread Heiko Schulz
Thanks for the link. I will have a look. Having said that, after some testing this evening, I do see a number of problems. Most notably, - Most of the panel hotspots are not clickable, at least not in my configuration. - The throttle doesn't respond to joystick input. Seems like a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-18 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Durk Talsma -- Thursday 18 December 2008: I vote for going back to our original consensus, and releasing this version as 1.9.0. Sounds good to me. With the subtitle: technology preview; test it, fire up your editors and fix all the bugs. :-) 1.95 would also have worked for me, but 1.99.5

Re: [Flightgear-devel] plib versions and FG 1.99.5

2008-12-18 Thread francesco
Sébastien MARQUE ha scritto: Hi all, ... best regards seb solution: http://brisa.homelinux.net/download_and_compile.sh use this script for debian / ubuntu or look at it. bye -- Brisa Francesco Via Gabelli 16 22077 Olgiate Comasco (CO) http://brisa.homelinux.net

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-18 Thread Stuart Buchanan
Durk Talsma wrote: Okay, of the people who responded, the vote was unanimously against this idea. If it's up to me, I vote for going back to our original consensus, and releasing this version as 1.9.0. As far as I can tell, this number has the majority vote, and although not Curt's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-18 Thread Martin Spott
Stuart Buchanan wrote: Martin - I'll assume you are happy to generate the manual for the release and check it in. Definitely yet I didn't recieve any updates for The Manual from John D., though ;-) Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its

Re: [Flightgear-devel] plib versions and FG 1.99.5

2008-12-18 Thread Sébastien MARQUE
Oh for me it is not a problem as I compile SG-FG cvs, OSG-plib svn using the script ./compile which is one of my own and install them in my user space (http://seb.marque.free.fr/fichiers/flightgear/compile.tgz can do many other things but coffee :)). Indeed I was mainly thinking about distros

[Flightgear-devel] [Patch] trivial extension to SGRoute

2008-12-18 Thread James Turner
As a precursor to submitting my GPS / route-manager work after 1.90 is released, here's a tiny extension to SGRoute. A small thing, but an important one, at least for my code - it makes the index of the current waypoint available directly from SGRoute. simgear-route-current-index.patch

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2 WinXP issue.

2008-12-18 Thread Bohnert Paul
All, I spent a couple of hours installing all the latest updates. According to the Mirosoft Update site I'm up to date. I loaded FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2 on my Windows XP Pro. SP3 box. FlightGear will not start. Missing MSVCR71.dll not found error. Is this a file I should have? Best

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-18 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Wednesday 17 December 2008 23:04:28 John Denker wrote: A couple more six-legged crawly things: 42:: Instrument: KAP-140: As of rc2, as installed in the c172p and presumably others, on initial startup the display of the Sim World KAP-140 is blank. This is already a bug, because the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGPiston patch RFC

2008-12-18 Thread John Denker
On 12/17/2008 12:18 AM, Ron Jensen wrote: I've made the constant C a configurable item, but I don't have a good name for it. The patch calls it gagg-c but there must be a better name... I just can't think of one. Physically, this C represents internal friction. So, maybe gagg_friction or

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2 WinXP issue.

2008-12-18 Thread Frederic Bouvier
- Bohnert Paul a écrit : All, I spent a couple of hours installing all the latest updates. According to the Mirosoft Update site I'm up to date. I loaded FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2 on my Windows XP Pro. SP3 box. FlightGear will not start. Missing MSVCR71.dll not found error. Is