That did it! Rebuilt SimGear and FlightGear and fgfs fired right up...Loaded quickly too. Very nice!!!
Thank you guys! Felix On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:53:47 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Felix, > > Erik put into CVS a few hours ago a simgear/sound fix that will fix > your problem. > > You will still see a white box on a black background, but this time it > will eventually end with one of the fg startup pictures being shown. > > The problem was an infinite loop specific to mac os x that only showed > up (I think) with gcc 3.3 and greater compilers (which is in the latest > dev tools for mac os x) I think. Earlier compilers didn't seem to have > this problem (at least for me they didn't 8-)). > > You can see which version of the compiler you have with > > gcc --version > > Mine is: > > gcc (GCC) 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1671) > Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is > NO > warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR > PURPOSE. > > I don't know why it's taking so long to put up a picture on the white > box. It will need looking into on one of my better days (darned > weather)! 8-) > > It would definitely be calmer for users (at least THIS user) to see a > picture on the splash screen as soon as possible after the white box > (or hold displaying the white box until the picture is ready, but then > users might think FlightGear is not responding). Perhaps someone could > figure out how to display a text message like "loading > FlightGear-required components. Please wait." in the white box until > the picture is ready for display. (All the pictures are cool, but I > especially like the triplane picture, BTW). > > Thanks to Eric for putting this in, and thanks to all the developers > for the great flightsim AND for supporting Mac OS X! > > TTFN (ta-ta for now) > > Best regards, > > Ima > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d > _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d