Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nasal error with YASim aircraft having < 4fuel tanks

2008-01-07 Thread LeeE
On Monday 07 January 2008 10:55, Vivian Meazza wrote:
[snip...]
> > Out of the candidates I tested only the a4f, which appears to
> > be based on the a4, didn't have the problem - I haven't looked
> > into this discrepancy yet.
> >
> > Can anyone else confirm this problem on the OSG cvs branch?
>
> The A4F doesn't use the generic fuel script (or didn't last time
> I looked) so that might explain why it still works.
>
> Vivian

Aha - thanks for that - it now makes more sense.

LeeE

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nasal error with YASim aircraft having < 4fuel tanks

2008-01-07 Thread Vivian Meazza
Lee wrote

> Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nasal error with YASim 
> aircraft having < 4fuel tanks
> 
> 
> On Friday 04 January 2008 19:59, LeeE wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just noticed I was getting a Nasal error with a YASim 
> aircraft I was 
> > working on that had only three fuel tanks.  The error is:
> >
> > Nasal runtime error: props.setDoubleValue() with non-number
> >   at /usr/local/share/FlightGear/Nasal/props.nas, line 26
> >   called from: /usr/local/share/FlightGear/Nasal/fuel.nas, line 93 
> > called from: /usr/local/share/FlightGear/Nasal/fuel.nas, line 125
> >
> > I also got the same error when I tried an aircraft that has 
> only one 
> > fuel tank.
> >
> > I don't think that the problem is actually with the Nasal 
> scripts but 
> > with something else that creates four incomplete fuel tank nodes by 
> > default at start-up.  If there are < 4 fuel tank elements 
> in the YASim 
> > config the last tank's details are left incomplete and I think that 
> > this is what the Nasal script is borking on.
> >
> > With a zero capacity dummy tank in the YASim config the problem 
> > doesn't occur.
> >
> > I had a quick look in options.xml & preferences.xml, aw well as my 
> > .fgfsrc but didn't find anything - can't think of anywhere else to 
> > look:(
> >
> > LeeE
> 
> I thought I'd re-post this as no-one seems to have noticed it and it 
> seems like quite a big problem to me.
> 
> I also started testing the FG aircraft that have < 3 fuel tanks 
> defined and found the same problem with the following aircraft 
> before I decided that there wasn't any point in testing all of 
> them:
> 
> 737-300
> 747
> a24-yasim (A24-Viking)
> A320
> a4
> A6M2
> ...
> 
> Out of the candidates I tested only the a4f, which appears to be 
> based on the a4, didn't have the problem - I haven't looked into 
> this discrepancy yet.
> 
> That isn't even all of the 'A's though and one of them, the A320, is 
> a JSBSim aircraft.  With these aircraft it's not possible to change 
> the initial fuel loads via the menu and there are no values in the 
> tree for the /consumables/fuel/total-* nodes.
> 
> Can anyone else confirm this problem on the OSG cvs branch?
> 

The A4F doesn't use the generic fuel script (or didn't last time I looked)
so that might explain why it still works.

Vivian


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