[Flightgear-devel] Autopilot planning [was RE: progress]

2002-06-11 Thread James Turner
On Tuesday, June 11, 2002, at 02:34 am, Jim Wilson wrote: Not a problem...give me a day or two to get things together. Probably there won't be as much changed as there will be added, but some of the settings need to be exposed in the property tree. yeah, this is basically what I was

re: [Flightgear-devel] Rain, snow and thunderstorm

2002-06-11 Thread David Megginson
Marcio Shimoda writes: Does anybody is working on the weather effects? If you mean the visual effects, no, not to my knowledge. Thunderstorms are a very special case -- visuals aside, they'll require fairly sophisticated weather modelling and good turbulence support from the FDMs even just to

[Flightgear-devel] Template questions

2002-06-11 Thread Jon Berndt
I've got a problem with an undefined reference. I've set up a function template in one of my classes. The declaration is: template class T T IntegrateAB4(double delta_t, T vLast, T* vLastArray); The definition is: template class T T FGState::IntegrateAB4(double delta_t, T vLast, T

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot planning [was RE: progress]

2002-06-11 Thread Jim Wilson
James Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: yeah, this is basically what I was expecting, The current auto-pilot code is a bit hard-coded to use the radio stack for NAV modes, for example, we need a general course deviation or heading deviation (once we decide which) input, and then a NAV/GPS

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot planning [was RE: progress]

2002-06-11 Thread James Turner
On Tuesday, June 11, 2002, at 02:27 pm, Jim Wilson wrote: If I'm not mistaken (and I easily could be) the FMC would usually just feed the autopilot heading and speed data when using non-radio-stack NAV modes. The FMC monitors the course and the AP only needs to follow the commands

[Flightgear-devel] options.xml

2002-06-11 Thread Norman Vine
fgfs --help exits with an error message about 'options.xml' missing Shouldn't this be in fgfsbase ?? Cheers Norman ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot planning [was RE: progress]

2002-06-11 Thread John Wojnaroski
Well, this is where it gets interesting :-) We really need to define the auto-throttle property nodes, so that the FMC/MCDU can set (some of ) those. Or, on the 757/767, this is done via a physical panel, apparently (if I understand Thomas' comments). (the 777 uses a THRUST LIM page). And

Re: [Flightgear-devel] options.xml

2002-06-11 Thread Jim Wilson
Norman Vine [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: fgfs --help exits with an error message about 'options.xml' missing Shouldn't this be in fgfsbase ?? Probably. One other thing though...what happens if your base package isn't in the normal place and you fail to specify it's locaiton? Last I knew

Re: [Flightgear-devel] options.xml

2002-06-11 Thread Tony Peden
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 16:13:50 - Jim Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Norman Vine [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: fgfs --help exits with an error message about 'options.xml' missing Shouldn't this be in fgfsbase ?? Probably. One other thing though...what happens if your base package

Re: [Flightgear-devel] options.xml

2002-06-11 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Yes ... Norman Vine writes: fgfs --help exits with an error message about 'options.xml' missing Shouldn't this be in fgfsbase ?? Cheers Norman ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] options.xml

2002-06-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Jim Wilson wrote: Probably. One other thing though...what happens if your base package isn't in the normal place and you fail to specify it's locaiton? Last I knew fgfs bailed out and would not process the --help directive. Now of course it couldn't anyway, but a minimal help message

[Flightgear-devel] CVS base check-ins broken for rest of afternoon

2002-06-11 Thread John Check
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 12:10 pm, Norman Vine wrote: fgfs --help exits with an error message about 'options.xml' missing Shouldn't this be in fgfsbase ?? Cheers Norman Curt sent me the file to commit. Something is up on the server end. Unfortunately, I'm on jury duty today and have

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] Base CVS update:'FlightGear/FlightGear/Aircraft'

2002-06-11 Thread Jim Wilson
Was this a mistake? Best, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Date: Tue Jun 11 13:06:29 EDT 2002 Author: cvsroot Update of /home/cvsroot/FlightGear/FlightGear/Aircraft In directory bitless:/tmp/cvslck/cvs-serv8782/Aircraft Modified Files: X15-set.xml Log Message: Command line help

Re: [Flightgear-devel] options.xml

2002-06-11 Thread Andy Ross
Norman Vine wrote: fgfs --help exits with an error message about 'options.xml' missing Shouldn't this be in fgfsbase ?? Apparently, it is in CVS. But the permissions on the file are incorrect: turban:/andy/src/fgfsbase$ cvs up options.xml cvs server: cannot open

[Flightgear-devel] Mini-HOWTO: Configuring Views in FlightGear

2002-06-11 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jim Wilson has written a mini-howto for configuring views in flightgear (i.e. cockpit view, tower view, chase view, etc.) These are all dynamically configurable via an xml config file. I have added this HOWTO to the flightgear docs page or you can find it directly using the following URL:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] options.xml

2002-06-11 Thread John Check
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 1:32 pm, Andy Ross wrote: Norman Vine wrote: fgfs --help exits with an error message about 'options.xml' missing Shouldn't this be in fgfsbase ?? Apparently, it is in CVS. But the permissions on the file are incorrect: turban:/andy/src/fgfsbase$ cvs up

Fw: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot planning [was RE: progress]

2002-06-11 Thread John Wojnaroski
If this is a duplicate, my apologies; having a few minor email problems today and not sure what was sent. Well, this is where it gets interesting :-) We really need to define the auto-throttle property nodes, so that the FMC/MCDU can set (some of ) those. Or, on the 757/767, this is done

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot planning [was RE: progress]

2002-06-11 Thread Tony Peden
On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 08:15, James Turner wrote: On Tuesday, June 11, 2002, at 02:27 pm, Jim Wilson wrote: If I'm not mistaken (and I easily could be) the FMC would usually just feed the autopilot heading and speed data when using non-radio-stack NAV modes. The FMC monitors the

[Flightgear-devel] Socket Problem

2002-06-11 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, with regards the glitch with the new socket code. When trying to connect with native_ctrls perror() returns "transport end not connected" after the sock.recv(..) call in the read routine. Is something missing? Something OpenGC and/or FG have to initialize? Regards John W.