[Flightgear-devel] BGL Loader Mini Howto

2002-06-08 Thread Jürgen Marquardt
Loading BGL files step by step First you have to check out the latest version of PLIB CVS (http://sourceforge.net/projects/plib) Recomplie PLIB and recomplie Flightgear afterwards (I am currently using FlightGear-0.7.10) It is also recommended to recomplie/relink ppe (Pretty Poly Editor) or

[Flightgear-devel] Java client library

2002-06-08 Thread David Megginson
I have just added the raw beginnings of a Java client library and trivially-simple Swing GUI demo under scripts/java/demo/FGClient/. Here's the Java code to connect to a FlightGear process and increase the current altitude by 1000 feet: FGConnection fgfs = new FGConnection(localhost, 9000);

[Flightgear-devel] Atmosphere and JSBSim

2002-06-08 Thread David Megginson
Thanks to Tony Peden, JSBSim is now (optionally) fully integrated with FGEnvironment, so you can practice takeoffs and climbs under different atmospheric conditions. To enable this support, you must set the /environment/params/control-fdm-atmosphere to true, i.e. fgfs

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Java client library

2002-06-08 Thread David Megginson
Olivier Grisel writes: So if we develop such user friendly tools, it might be a good idea to choose only one gui style so as they get all the same style. You work sounds great. I see no harm in having both Java and Python GUIs -- I'm no Python fan myself (though there are other fgfs

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Java client library

2002-06-08 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: Olivier Grisel writes: So if we develop such user friendly tools, it might be a good idea to choose only one gui style so as they get all the same style. You work sounds great. I see no harm in having both Java and Python GUIs -- I'm no Python fan myself

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Java client library

2002-06-08 Thread Olivier Grisel
It don't like SWING ! It don't like SWING ! :) For Windows users py2exe exists and transorf a wxPython app into a dummy-windows-user friendly .exe file. (but have never tested it since I don't have win) Irix doesn't support motif or gtk ? Some (too early) screen shots

[Flightgear-devel] Re: BGL Loader Mini Howto

2002-06-08 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Jürgen Marquardt -- Saturday 08 June 2002 08:31: First you have to check out the latest version of PLIB CVS (http://sourceforge.net/projects/plib) ... add ssgLoadMDL_BGLTexture.cxx and ssgLoadBGL.cxx to src/ssg/Makefile.am and ... Recomplie PLIB and recomplie Flightgear afterwards m.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] HSIs

2002-06-08 Thread Alex Perry
Taking the practical viewpoint of what is actually in the avionics ... Any OBS, HSI or similar instrument: Receives an analog signal that indicates the needle position. Our FGFS instrument works the same way; an analog angle is available as a property. VOR receivers: Emits an analog signal

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Java client library

2002-06-08 Thread Erik Hofman
Olivier Grisel wrote: It don't like SWING ! It don't like SWING ! :) For Windows users py2exe exists and transorf a wxPython app into a dummy-windows-user friendly .exe file. (but have never tested it since I don't have win) Irix doesn't support motif or gtk ? Actually, it supports

[Flightgear-devel] Where is the time ?

2002-06-08 Thread Olivier Grisel
I can't see the date / time in the property tree. Can we act on it only with the command line options ? Thanks ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

re: [Flightgear-devel] Where is the time ?

2002-06-08 Thread David Megginson
Olivier Grisel writes: I can't see the date / time in the property tree. Can we act on it only with the command line options ? /sim/time/gmt It is in the ISO format -mm-ddThh:mm:ss. At the time of writing, it is approximately 2002-06-08T17:45:00. All the best, David -- David

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Java client library

2002-06-08 Thread Norman Vine
David Megginson writes: Olivier Grisel writes: So if we develop such user friendly tools, it might be a good idea to choose only one gui style so as they get all the same style. You work sounds great. I see no harm in having both Java and Python GUIs -- I'm no Python fan myself (though

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Java client library

2002-06-08 Thread Tony Peden
Norman Vine wrote: David Megginson writes: Olivier Grisel writes: So if we develop such user friendly tools, it might be a good idea to choose only one gui style so as they get all the same style. You work sounds great. I see no harm in having both Java and Python GUIs -- I'm no Python

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Java client library

2002-06-08 Thread Norman Vine
Tony Peden writes: Norman Vine wrote: David Megginson writes: Olivier Grisel writes: So if we develop such user friendly tools, it might be a good idea to choose only one gui style so as they get all the same style. You work sounds great. I see no harm in having both Java and Python GUIs

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Java client library

2002-06-08 Thread Norman Vine
Tony Peden writes: Scripting languages are good stuff ... but they are still languages. Agreed :-) but this was in reference to 'ease of use' for 'users' not 'developers' hmmm maybe FlightGear 'users' all know how to run compilers :-)) Cheers Norman