Hi Fred, >http://cvs.flightgear.org/cgi-bin/viewvc/viewvc.cgi/source/simgear/debug/logstream.hxx?annotate=1.9&root=SimGear-0.3
Wow, thank you for this pointer ... what a fantastic colour coded 'historic' view you get of the file, ANY file ... I will now REMEMBER this http access ... and then viewing the log showed me that at that moment, your latest patch was 12 hours 41 minutes old ... what precision ;=)) I had already seen them in a CVS update ... And at - http://cvs.flightgear.org/cgi-bin/viewvc/viewvc.cgi/source/src/Main/bootstrap.cxx?view=log I can now read your modification 2 years 6 months ago, to try to 'hide' the console ... hmmm, there was a period about 2.5 years ago where I dropped out of FG for a few months - I moved to Australia for two years, and initially had no computer, nor easy access ;=)) I even turned off the digest ... Anyway, thanks for the quick cvs update ... have updated SG logstream.[c|h]xx, and FG bootstrap.cxx, plus 13 others altered since my last build ;=)), but this does NOT YET solve the 'problem' completely ... In MSVC8, only NOW do I note you have REMOVED the _CONSOLE subsystem define, and put _WINDOWS into the MSVC8 'solution' file ... Yes, I can understand that initially you wanted to NOT open a console window (because it did not look 'professional' ;=/), but after you FOUND that you have to call AllocConsole(), or cerr can freeze, why NOT put FG back to what it is, A CONSOLE APPLICATION?!!!? I had always 'wondered' why using the 'solution' files instead of the DSW/DSP files 'felt' a little different ;=(). BACK TO BASICS! I loaded the DSW/DSP into MSVC8 ... let it do its 'conversion', made the myriad of adjustments to include paths, include libraries, and their respective paths, etc ... and build it all again ... For good measure I chopped out your WinMain in bootstrap.cxx using - #ifndef _CONSOLE #endif // NOT REQUIRED FOR CONSOLE APP but this is not really required ... just as a reminder ... Of course, I ended up building it several times until I got 'everything' RIGHT ... there are so many little things to 'change' ... and some changes cause it to 'start again' ... BAH! Then, am2dsp.pl had not been run for a while so I had to correct the source file list, like removing hud_lat.cxx and hud_lon.cxx ... in fact I got so sick of this, that I ran my own version of am2dsp.pl to generate a 'reasonable' DSP file as a starting point ... A bit like the 'solution' files, it generates a single list of sources all as one FG application ... no separation into 'library' folders ... much easier to find a file in a single alphabetic list ... And I separate source and headers ... this produces a trimmed DSP file ... 75K instead of the original 230K beast ... about the same as the vcproj files ... But my current am2dsp.pl version is pretty messy! At one point I had the idea to use it to modify the vcproj files as well, but eventually abandoned that ... but have not ripped out all the added code ... NOW I HAVE A MSVC8 CONSOLE APPLICATION!, that acts like a console application should ... redirection works fine, and when using fgrun, the messages are to the console, kept open by fgrun ... you have to remember to enlarge the screen buffer, or else you only get a few of the last page ... but it works ... At present, the vcproj 'windows' application will NOT do re-direction, nor use fgrun's console, since WinMain() is called, which sets has_console false ... which causes SG to do the AllocConsole(), etc ... So to Maik, and others ... if you want re-direction, then use the DSW/DSP starting point ... or swap out _WINDOWS define for _CONSOLE before building in MSVC8 ... As stated, thanks for your help on this Fred ... Best regards, Geoff. PS: I have sometimes wondered where the AI planes go, and was 'startled' to find that after chasing one in the UFO - giving the passengers something to talk about - it simply 'disappears' after reaching about 27,000 feet, maybe 10 minutes or so into the flight - now I know they just go into a big bit bucket ;=)) EOF - fgd-005.doc _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
