[Flightgear-devel] Modal mouse thoughts

2002-03-26 Thread Alex Perry
I like the concept of the mice.xml file, but am not really comfortable about having the implied modal state hidden in there. Can we break it out, so that mouse, joystick and keyboard events can be conditional on state variables ? /input/mice/mouse[0]/mode>/property> 0

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MSVC6 - Current cvs - 25 March

2002-03-26 Thread Jonathan Polley
Some good news and bad news with trying to get MSVC to compile the current version of JSBSim. First the good news: I just went through the exercise of changing the names of the methods the confused MSVC (adding _V to the vectors) and got all of JSBSim to compile. Make things easy for the co

Re: [Flightgear-devel] I can't compile flightgear0.7.9 in Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0

2002-03-26 Thread Bernie Bright
way lee wrote: > > I meet a problem when I compile flightgear0.7.9. The VC > compiler told me that there was no mk4vc60s.lib. > > I can't find it in CD-image. > > Can you tell me where is it? > mk4vc60s.lib is the Metakit library. The source is included as a separate tar.gz file in the SimG

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Base package access via rsync?

2002-03-26 Thread Alex Perry
> > > > > Will there be a way to get the base package with rsync some day? The > > > > > snapshots keep my 14kbps modem busy for a long time. > > > > > > > > I've got an experimental server that offers scenery via rsync, but it > > > > is hardly used. I assert that few people in the FGFS com

[Flightgear-devel] I can't compile flightgear0.7.9 in Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0

2002-03-26 Thread way lee
I meet a problem when I compile flightgear0.7.9. The VC compiler told me that there was no mk4vc60s.lib.   I can't find it in CD-image.  Can you tell me where is it?Do You Yahoo!? Æû³µ -- ÓÀ²»Ñá¾ëµÄ»°Ìâ

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFC: View Properties structure Proposal

2002-03-26 Thread Alex Perry
> You can do it with your keypad as well (unless you have a notebook, > like I do). On mine, I can use shifted-arrow-keys for 90 degree steps, or shifted-pageup and shifted-pagedown for the diagonal right views with shifted-home and shifted-end for the diagonal left views. It's better than sillyb

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFC: View Properties structure Proposal

2002-03-26 Thread David Megginson
Andy Ross writes: > Wolfram Kuss wrote: > > I indeed think it is very important while landing to be able to look > > ahead or look at the landing spot with the press of a key. In RL, my > > head swivels between those two views, especially while in base. Don't > > know whether some AI or

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Base package access via rsync?

2002-03-26 Thread John Check
On Tuesday 26 March 2002 02:17 pm, you wrote: > > > > Will there be a way to get the base package with rsync some day? The > > > > snapshots keep my 14kbps modem busy for a long time. > > > > > > I've got an experimental server that offers scenery via rsync, but it > > > is hardly used. I as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3d cockpit

2002-03-26 Thread Alex Perry
Jim, the transparent panel now has the correct viewport but is oversized so the edges disappear beyond the end of the forward view. In contrast, the standard panel is slightly undersized because the compass is not centered. Other than that, it's great and I'll switch my default as soon as the mou

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Base package access via rsync?

2002-03-26 Thread John Check
On Tuesday 26 March 2002 10:23 am, you wrote: > Matthias Heukäufer writes: > > I've asked this before on FGFS-Users, but obviously nobody has read my > > mail so far: > > Will there be a way to get the base package with rsync some day? The > > snapshots keep my 14kbps modem busy for a long time. >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFC: View Properties structure Proposal

2002-03-26 Thread Alex Perry
> Something I've thought would be useful (but don't know how > feasible it is to implement) would be for a user to be > able to configure where [s]he looks while "in the > pattern". It would be nice to enable some kind of > "auto-look" kind of feature that scans various views while > making t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFC: View Properties structure Proposal

2002-03-26 Thread Alex Perry
> I indeed think it is very important while landing to be able to look > ahead or look at the landing spot with the press of a key. In RL, my > head swivels between those two views, especially while in base. Don't > know whether some AI or much user defined stuff is needed for *this* > feature tho

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFC: View Properties structure Proposal

2002-03-26 Thread Andy Ross
Wolfram Kuss wrote: > I indeed think it is very important while landing to be able to look > ahead or look at the landing spot with the press of a key. In RL, my > head swivels between those two views, especially while in base. Don't > know whether some AI or much user defined stuff is needed

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFC: View Properties structure Proposal

2002-03-26 Thread Jim Wilson
Wolfram Kuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I indeed think it is very important while landing to be able to look > ahead or look at the landing spot with the press of a key. In RL, my > head swivels between those two views, especially while in base. Don't > know whether some AI or much user defined

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFC: View Properties structure Proposal

2002-03-26 Thread Jim Wilson
Jon S Berndt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Something I've thought would be useful (but don't know how > feasible it is to implement) would be for a user to be > able to configure where [s]he looks while "in the > pattern". It would be nice to enable some kind of > "auto-look" kind of feature th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFC: View Properties structure Proposal

2002-03-26 Thread Alex Perry
> A tower view could therefore be either "lookat" or "lookfrom" depending on > what it is that you want to see. Tower as defined in the proposal would be > "lookat" and would therefore follow an object down the runway. I should point out that I think of the "lookat" view from a fixed point as th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Base package access via rsync?

2002-03-26 Thread Alex Perry
> > > Will there be a way to get the base package with rsync some day? The > > > snapshots keep my 14kbps modem busy for a long time. > > I've got an experimental server that offers scenery via rsync, but it > > is hardly used. I assert that few people in the FGFS community know > > how to u

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Base package access via rsync?

2002-03-26 Thread David Megginson
Alex Perry writes: > I've got an experimental server that offers scenery via rsync, but > it is hardly used. I assert that few people in the FGFS community > know how to use rsync. I use it with ssh to maintain a Web site, and it's great. With a fast network connection, though, CVS is fine

[Flightgear-devel] RFC: View Properties structure Proposal

2002-03-26 Thread Jim Wilson
Hi Eveybody, The text document linked below outlines a format for view configuration using the new viewer. The interface and backend that could support this is pretty much done. The only thing left is to finish the viewmanager, hence this document. Overview: The "config" branches should be set

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Base package access via rsync?

2002-03-26 Thread Andy Ross
Alex Perry wrote: > > Will there be a way to get the base package with rsync some day? The > > snapshots keep my 14kbps modem busy for a long time. > > I've got an experimental server that offers scenery via rsync, but it > is hardly used. I assert that few people in the FGFS community know

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Base package access via rsync?

2002-03-26 Thread Alex Perry
> Will there be a way to get the base package with rsync some day? The > snapshots keep my 14kbps modem busy for a long time. I've got an experimental server that offers scenery via rsync, but it is hardly used. I assert that few people in the FGFS community know how to use rsync.

RE: [Flightgear-devel] ppm files

2002-03-26 Thread Boslough, Mark B
Thanks, for the tips. I ended up using ImageTool on my Sun. I didn't have anything on my PC that recognized it. I converted it to a jpeg so now I can insert it into Word, PowerPoint, etc. Thanks! Mark > -Original Message- > From: Curtis L. Olson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tues

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ppm files

2002-03-26 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Boslough, Mark B writes: > I am attempting to grab a frame from FlightGear, which saves images as ppm > files. Can someone tell me how to display a ppm file? None of the image > software I have seems to recognize them. Have you tried gimp or xv? I think 'convert' from the imagemagick package w

[Flightgear-devel] ppm files

2002-03-26 Thread Boslough, Mark B
Howdy, I am attempting to grab a frame from FlightGear, which saves images as ppm files. Can someone tell me how to display a ppm file? None of the image software I have seems to recognize them. Thanks, Mark Boslough ___ Flightgear-devel mailing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: next problem ... :-(

2002-03-26 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Melchior FRANZ writes: > * Curtis L. Olson -- Tuesday 26 March 2002 18:01: > > The current runways.mk4 and code is self consistant (and appears to be > > correct) and works properly both on my home machines and work > > machines. > > But it causes a more severe error message in the valgrind run,

[Flightgear-devel] Re: next problem ... :-(

2002-03-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Curtis L. Olson -- Tuesday 26 March 2002 18:01: > The current runways.mk4 and code is self consistant (and appears to be > correct) and works properly both on my home machines and work > machines. But it causes a more severe error message in the valgrind run, than it did before these changes. I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: next problem ... :-(

2002-03-26 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Melchior FRANZ writes: > Oops ... that was the wrong fix. The new runways.mk4 was there for a reason: > Two string entries were written to and read from the runways.mk4 database > as floats. This was, of course, wrong and potentially harmful, but it was > at least consistent and worked without (no

[Flightgear-devel] Re: next problem ... :-(

2002-03-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Curtis L. Olson -- Tuesday 26 March 2002 03:16: > Also, I was crashing with the latest runways.mk4 committed today, but > I regenerated it myself and could run fine. Maybe something got hosed > in the earlier commit ??? so I committed my re-re-generated version > and hopefully that will work fo

[Flightgear-devel] docs-mini/README.xmlsyntax

2002-03-26 Thread David Megginson
I've just added docs-mini/README.xmlsyntax, a very short introduction to the basics of XML syntax. There's not much there that most of you haven't already figured out on your own, but I thought that it would be useful for other FlightGear documentation to reference (to avoid repeating XML syntax

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Base package access via rsync?

2002-03-26 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Matthias Heukäufer writes: > I've asked this before on FGFS-Users, but obviously nobody has read my mail > so far: > Will there be a way to get the base package with rsync some day? The > snapshots keep my 14kbps modem busy for a long time. You can get the base package via cvs. Then, subsequen

[Flightgear-devel] Base package access via rsync?

2002-03-26 Thread Matthias Heukäufer
Hi! I've asked this before on FGFS-Users, but obviously nobody has read my mail so far: Will there be a way to get the base package with rsync some day? The snapshots keep my 14kbps modem busy for a long time. Thanks, Matthias ___ Flightgear-devel m

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3d cockpit

2002-03-26 Thread Jim Wilson
Alex Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > PS. > 5. On the non-3D panel, the transparent instrument panel is still doing > the viewport incorrectly. Oddly, the non-instrument panel viewport is fine. > A few mini-panels were screwed up after a bug fix a couple weeks ago. The default transparent m

[Flightgear-devel] Configurable mouse progress

2002-03-26 Thread David Megginson
The configurable mouse support is now about 75% complete, and it already provides most of the functionality of the old GUI/mouse.cxx module. I'd be grateful if people could start taking a look by building FlightGear --with-new-mouse and looking over $FG_ROOT/mice.xml. I've designed everything to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MSVC6 - Current cvs - 25 March

2002-03-26 Thread Bernie Bright
Geoff McLane wrote: > > Also, such function additions gives the compiler/linker a > chance to really make this 'inline', since the double value > could be 'addressed' in simple lines, when loaded, like > moveax, [0x12345678]; get that double > movedx,[0x12345678+4] > or in 64-

[Flightgear-devel] MSVC6 - Current cvs - 25 March

2002-03-26 Thread Geoff McLane
> > However, I do think we could clean it up a bit with a pre-processor > > #define AEROINTFUNC double (FGAerodynamics::*)(int) const >>> or typedef ... >> ... renaming ... to remove the ambiguity any better? As someone - i think - mentioned, IMHO it would be better to have single getter functio