Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Modification Project

2003-01-05 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 21:02, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 19:18:26 -0600, > "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > They say some nice things in there too, and we need to stand up and > > take our criticism like adults, they clearly spent

[Flightgear-devel] http://www.dlsproductions.com/fg/

2003-01-05 Thread Arnt Karlsen
Hi, ..in http://www.dlsproductions.com/fg/ you state: "Everyone is encouraged to send me any feedback or point out my stupid mistakes via email." ..on your stupid mistakes: ;-) ..a: Below "2. Tutorials and Other Documents", you link to "2. FlightGear Display Module - Initial Analysis 3. H

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Modification Project

2003-01-05 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 19:18:26 -0600, "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > They say some nice things in there too, and we need to stand up and > take our criticism like adults, they clearly spent quite a bit of > time investigating FlightGear ... ..I'll a

[Flightgear-devel] ./configure doesn't find SimGear when using --with-simgear=wherever

2003-01-05 Thread Johan Walles
Just checked out the latest sources of both FlightGear and SimGear from CVS. SimGear built fine (after configuring with --prefix=/home/johan/install), and it installed fine as well in /home/johan/install. Configuring FlightGear with --with-simgear=/home/johan/install fails however. The reason is

RE: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Modification Project

2003-01-05 Thread Jon Berndt
Curt wrote: > Right, I don't want to be too critical ... they are certainly entitled > to form an opinion based on their experiences. They also may be > giving us poor marks in the area of cross-platform portability for not > doing everything natively on every platform ... there again, that may >

RE: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Modification Project

2003-01-05 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jon Berndt writes: > > I think we should look closely on their conclusion in their reflection: > > > > > > In conclusion, the FlightGear flight simulator is a very nice flight sim > > package that offers great features (for free), but very poor > > extensibility with very few user-friendly too

RE: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Modification Project

2003-01-05 Thread Jon Berndt
> I think we should look closely on their conclusion in their reflection: > > > In conclusion, the FlightGear flight simulator is a very nice flight sim > package that offers great features (for free), but very poor > extensibility with very few user-friendly tools and source code that is > ge

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Modification Project

2003-01-05 Thread Christian Mayer
Erik Hofman wrote: > > Hi, > > Some one must have had a great time: > http://www.dlsproductions.com/fg/ A very interesting page! I think we should look closely on their conclusion in their reflection: In conclusion, the FlightGear flight simulator is a very nice flight sim package that of

[Flightgear-devel] PATCH: validation of XML: materials.dtd etc.

2003-01-05 Thread Julian Foad
I have updated materials.dtd and materials.xml so that they (almost) validate together using xmllint which comes with libxml: xmllint --dtdvalid materials.dtd -noout materials.xml The only bit that doesn't quite work is the section which is allowed to contain arbitrary element tag names. I

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Modification Project

2003-01-05 Thread Erik Hofman
Hi, Some one must have had a great time: http://www.dlsproductions.com/fg/ Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] What's in the job jar?

2003-01-05 Thread David Drum
Quoth Michael Bonar: > Hi David. I get a Forbidden error when I try to reach that link. Terribly sorry. The link should have been http://www.more.net/~david/FlightGear-0.9.1/html/ I turned on about every option available, and also built the graphical class hierarchy. Regards, David K. Drum [

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 747 segfault

2003-01-05 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 13:17, Major A wrote: > Hi, > > this may be out of place given how busy everyone must have been over > the holidays, and it might have been asked before, but: is it just me, > or does the 747-yasim segfault fgfs on everyone's computer? I wouldn't > like to lose one of my favo

[Flightgear-devel] 747 segfault

2003-01-05 Thread Major A
Hi, this may be out of place given how busy everyone must have been over the holidays, and it might have been asked before, but: is it just me, or does the 747-yasim segfault fgfs on everyone's computer? I wouldn't like to lose one of my favourite planes in fgfs... Other than that, there has bee

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Radio frequency range: min/max/wrap

2003-01-05 Thread David Megginson
Norman Vine writes: > > GoF book?? > > esoteric geek speak :-) > http://hillside.net/patterns/DPBook/DPBook.html > > If you can't dazzle em with Nah, it's just shorter than typing "DESIGN PATTERNS: ELEMENTS OF REUSABLE OBJECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE" or "the Gamma/Helm/Johnson/Vlissades b

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Radio frequency range: min/max/wrap

2003-01-05 Thread David Megginson
Norman Vine writes: > Actually I was thinking about writing self documenting code > ie something like > > // virtual base class > class FGProperty : public SGPropertyNode { > FGProperty () = 0 ; > } > > // type specific derived classes for each property 'type' > class FGInt : public

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Radio frequency range: min/max/wrap

2003-01-05 Thread David Megginson
Julian Foad writes: > For those of us with a two-button mouse it's a little awkward; I've > configured Xwindows to emulate a middle button when I press both together. It should be very easy to add action areas over the actual displayed digits -- that way, even one-button-mouse Mac types can be

re: [Flightgear-devel] asi-160-knot-hi.xml

2003-01-05 Thread David Megginson
Julian Foad writes: > asi-160-knot-hi.xml (used by c172-610x-panel.xml) uses "adjust" and > "increment" instead of "property-adjust" and "step". I don't believe > those are valid action tags; what's going on there? Sounds like holdovers from before the 2D panel instruments could use standar

[Flightgear-devel] Grey panel with Radeon 7500 and dri drivers stillthere.

2003-01-05 Thread Albert Tumanov
> FWIW, the grey panel with the Radeon 7500 and the DRI drivers still > persists despite the patch to fix this behaviour with the ATI binary > drivers. I can add that when I run with 3d panel (--aircraft=c172-3d), I can see both the dials and indicators on the cockpit, but the indicators jitter a

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Problem: unrealistic YASim stalls

2003-01-05 Thread Ryan Larson
I understand that many higher-performance aircraft can have quite violent (and even unrecoverable) stalls, as can some trainers like the Traumahawk I have to disagree with that quote.. I did the first 40 hours of my training in a Tomahawk, and I was never able to get a wing to drop.. I know they a