[Flightgear-devel] Latest cvs build error ??

2003-11-27 Thread John Barrett
just tried building latest cvs and got the following error: make[3]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/jbarrett/Desktop/FlightSim/Devel/cvsroot/source/src/Cockpit' if ++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../src/Include -I../.. -I../../src -I/usr/X 11R6/include -g -O2 -MT radiosta

Re: [Flightgear-devel] simgear SGSocket returning -1

2003-11-27 Thread Seamus Thomas Carroll
I have done some extensive testing with read() using tcp and it seems to be working great. Thanks, Seamus On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Bernie Bright wrote: > On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 07:23:30 -0600 > "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Curtis L. Olson writes: > > > Bernie Bright writes: > >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Microsoft SideWinder 3D Pro, and thoughts on XML vs scripts

2003-11-27 Thread Lee Elliott
On Friday 28 November 2003 02:31, Brandon Craig Rhodes wrote: > My Microsoft SideWinder 3D Pro joystick was not recognized by > FlightGear, so I wrote the following joystick configuration file - > which I hereby contribute, and request that it be added to CVS. > > There were two issues that arose

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG logo Slovenian flag

2003-11-27 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:11:26 + Matthew Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10:47 Thu 27 Nov , Erik Hofman wrote: Yeah, but then you'd get a fight over which flag is put in first and which flag is shows just for 0.1 usec (e.g. the last flag) ... Erik Maybe randomise the order ? All the bes

[Flightgear-devel] Microsoft SideWinder 3D Pro, and thoughts on XML vs scripts

2003-11-27 Thread Brandon Craig Rhodes
My Microsoft SideWinder 3D Pro joystick was not recognized by FlightGear, so I wrote the following joystick configuration file - which I hereby contribute, and request that it be added to CVS. There were two issues that arose while writing it, which I think may have the same resolution: (1) Joys

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Orion's belt

2003-11-27 Thread Brandon Craig Rhodes
Brandon Craig Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In response to a private request from another developer, I went > ahead and generated a new star catalogue. I built it from exactly > the same source as it seems to have been built from before - the > YBS.edb file in the xephem distribution ...

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sunken Runways (was TaxiDraw-0.0.5 available)

2003-11-27 Thread Jon Stockill
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Jonathan Richards wrote: > I noticed this at Cardiff a little while ago: > http://www.jnorichards.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/EGFF.jpg > > I downloaded the scenery tile again, and it went away, so I assumed I had got > a mismatch between the airport data and the scenery someho

[Flightgear-devel] Re: the horizon

2003-11-27 Thread Brandon Craig Rhodes
Jonathan Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... if the sim were ever extended to spacecraft, we'd want to get > the geometry exactly right. If with intelligent enough management of levels-of-detail we can model the atmosphere and earth adequately with contemporary hardware, then I suggest we

[Flightgear-devel] Airport Dialog

2003-11-27 Thread David Megginson
Good news: I've just added a dialog box for selecting a new airport from a scrolling list. Bad news: the JSBSim 172 flips upside-down whenever I switch airports. All the best, David ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flig

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: the horizon

2003-11-27 Thread JD Fenech
I'll justify my diagram just a bit more, maybe for a clarification. True, the sun has a diameter much larger than earth. My reasoning for the sizes shown was that even if the sun is much larger, the earth appears to be much bigger by virtue of being much closer. My diagram makes some bad assumpti

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Grass Runway Textures

2003-11-27 Thread Erik Hofman
Matthew Law wrote: I've looked at these and the grass textures look like green-tinted gaussian noise. The dirt runway looks quite like a filter I've seen somewhere before... ;-) It seems quite reasonable to me but it isn't quite symetrical and the X and Y join lines are visible up close. What so

Re: [Flightgear-devel] simgear SGSocket returning -1

2003-11-27 Thread Bernie Bright
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 07:23:30 -0600 "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Curtis L. Olson writes: > > Bernie Bright writes: > > > SGSocket::readline() and SGSocket::read() do act differently. For a > > > server, readline() correctly handles the accept and reads from the new > > > socket.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: the horizon

2003-11-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thursday 27 November 2003 22:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok, i found it now. :) > > It is called "Planet engine" and can be downloaded here: > http://drtypo.free.fr/download.html > > But there are also some bad news, i was wrong, it is only freeware not open > source. :( > It also doesn't ru

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: the horizon

2003-11-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thursday 27 November 2003 20:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thursday 27 November 2003 19:44, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Thursday 27 November 2003 19:29: > > [simulator for planets] > > > > > Does anyone know the name of that simulator? > > > > ssystem? Unfortunately, the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: the horizon

2003-11-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thursday 27 November 2003 19:44, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Thursday 27 November 2003 19:29: > [simulator for planets] > > > Does anyone know the name of that simulator? > > ssystem? Unfortunately, the HP is down. Should be part of > typical Linux distributions. > > m. No, t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG logo Slovenian flag

2003-11-27 Thread Jonathan Richards
On Thursday 27 Nov 2003 9:47 am, Erik Hofman wrote: > Yeah, but then you'd get a fight over which flag is put in first and > which flag is shows just for 0.1 usec (e.g. the last flag) ... Outside NATO HQ in Brussels, the flags are in alphabetical order of national name. English name, though, so

[Flightgear-devel] Re: the horizon

2003-11-27 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Thursday 27 November 2003 19:29: [simulator for planets] > Does anyone know the name of that simulator? ssystem? Unfortunately, the HP is down. Should be part of typical Linux distributions. m. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: the horizon

2003-11-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jonathan Richards wrote: > On Thursday 27 Nov 2003 5:23 am, JD Fenech wrote: > > Not too shabby, but it probably has holes. I do know that the last time > > I checked, FG will display the sun at midnight, especially if you fly up > > high enough, even if the earth is actually in the way, as in dir

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Concorde

2003-11-27 Thread Jonathan Richards
On Wednesday 26 Nov 2003 7:51 pm, Major A wrote: > Hi guys, > > We've just had a really lucky day in Bristol today, as far as weather > goes. There were some dark clouds in the West, I think we wouldn't > have seen much of Concorde's last flight if it had been half an hour > earlier or later! > > A

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: the horizon

2003-11-27 Thread Jonathan Richards
On Thursday 27 Nov 2003 5:23 am, JD Fenech wrote: > > Not too shabby, but it probably has holes. I do know that the last time > I checked, FG will display the sun at midnight, especially if you fly up > high enough, even if the earth is actually in the way, as in directly in > the way. The diagra

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sunken Runways (was TaxiDraw-0.0.5 available)

2003-11-27 Thread Jonathan Richards
On Wednesday 26 Nov 2003 10:38 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Lee Elliott worte: > > You said "If anyone has any requests I'd be happy to add them or move > > them up the list." :) > > > > Not an RAF field but I've noticed that London Stanstead (EGSS) appears to > > have been sunk about 50ft int

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Grass Runway Textures

2003-11-27 Thread Matthew Law
On 18:49 Tue 25 Nov , Erik Hofman wrote: > >So 75x75 textures of these types of surfaces are required, then? I might > >have a go at these during my attempts at modelling EGNF. Are there any > >restrictions to the making of textures that I need to be aware of oether > >than size and color d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Orion's belt

2003-11-27 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Brandon, Thanks for spotting and fixing this problem, the star file has now been updated. Curt. Brandon Craig Rhodes writes: > Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Brandon Craig Rhodes wrote: > > >> Many FlightGear constellations have the wrong shapes ... whoever > >> built your star

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Orion's belt

2003-11-27 Thread Norman Vine
Brandon Craig Rhodes writes: > > I am positive; the coordinates in the stars file were simply wrong, > and fixing them repaired the constellations. Orion before: > > http://www.rhodesmill.org/tmp/orion-before.png > > Orion after: > > http://www.rhodesmill.org/tmp/orion-after.png P

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Orion's belt

2003-11-27 Thread Brandon Craig Rhodes
Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brandon Craig Rhodes wrote: >> Many FlightGear constellations have the wrong shapes ... whoever >> built your star database (the data/Astro/stars file in CVS) made >> the error of applying a negative sign only to the units, and not >> the fractions, of th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Latest stupid helicopter trick

2003-11-27 Thread Matthew Law
On 14:48 Thu 27 Nov , Jon Stockill wrote: > I remember seeing the army display team at RAF Waddington a couple of > years ago - 4 gazelle & 1 lynx all lined up in the hover, then the lynx > pilot backflipped the aircraft out of the lineup. The first time you see > it you really can't believe wh

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Latest stupid helicopter trick

2003-11-27 Thread Maik Justus
Hi, the Westland Lynx has nearly the same rotor than the bo (they both were developed in the same project at boelkow). Maik Matthew Law wrote: On 07:50 Thu 27 Nov , Martin Spott wrote: The first is correct, the latter is not (see above). Pilots love this helicopter because of his outsta

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Latest stupid helicopter trick

2003-11-27 Thread Jon Stockill
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Matthew Law wrote: > Check out the Westland Lynx. I've seen these at a couple of airshows > this year and the pilots did manage quite a bit of inverted flight > during their routines. These too have a rigid rotor head with > elastomeric bearings and the blades are intentiona

Re: [Flightgear-devel] simgear SGSocket returning -1

2003-11-27 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Curtis L. Olson writes: > Bernie Bright writes: > > SGSocket::readline() and SGSocket::read() do act differently. For a > > server, readline() correctly handles the accept and reads from the new > > socket. read() also handles the accept but reads from the master socket. > > I'm not sure if this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] simgear SGSocket returning -1

2003-11-27 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Bernie Bright writes: > SGSocket::readline() and SGSocket::read() do act differently. For a > server, readline() correctly handles the accept and reads from the new > socket. read() also handles the accept but reads from the master socket. > I'm not sure if this is intentional or if its a bug. S

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG logo Slovenian flag

2003-11-27 Thread David Megginson
Erik Hofman wrote: Here's an idea ... now that FlightGear is deathly quiet, I can't tell if FlightGear is doing anything when it is starting up or if my machine has hung. Maybe we could make a progress bar out of the flags of all the countries of people that have contributed to FlightGear. (?) I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG logo Slovenian flag

2003-11-27 Thread Matthew Law
On 10:47 Thu 27 Nov , Erik Hofman wrote: > Yeah, but then you'd get a fight over which flag is put in first and > which flag is shows just for 0.1 usec (e.g. the last flag) ... > > Erik Maybe randomise the order ? All the best, Matt ___ Flightge

RE: [Flightgear-devel] FG logo Slovenian flag

2003-11-27 Thread Richard Bytheway
> > Here's an idea ... now that FlightGear is deathly quiet, I > can't tell > > if FlightGear is doing anything when it is starting up or if my > > machine has hung. Maybe we could make a progress bar out > of the flags > > of all the countries of people that have contributed to > > FlightGear.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Orion's belt

2003-11-27 Thread Erik Hofman
Brandon Craig Rhodes wrote: Many FlightGear constellations have the wrong shapes; in particular Orion's belt has the shape of a "V" rather than a straight line! It seems that whoever built your star database (the data/Astro/stars file in CVS) made the error of applying a negative sign only to the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG logo Slovenian flag

2003-11-27 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Andy Ross writes: I, for one, think it would be immensely cool if the flag bar grew over time. If any revisions are going to be done to the list, though, it should be pointed out that there's no maple leaf on the existing banner. Don't tell David. I told Jon when he made

Re: Time to Refactor (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Nasal integration docs)

2003-11-27 Thread Erik Hofman
Andy Ross wrote: But here's a question on a related subject. How do we handle declaration of Nasal code? The ability to write inline handlers is great, but limited to small functions. The ability to drop module files into the Nasal directory is great too, for globally useful code. But sometimes

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Latest stupid helicopter trick

2003-11-27 Thread Matthew Law
On 07:50 Thu 27 Nov , Martin Spott wrote: > The first is correct, the latter is not (see above). Pilots love this > helicopter because of his outstanding manouverability. It's even > capable of doing serious aerobatic - up to inverted flying (AFAIR with > a modified gear box lubrication), Chec

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Latest stupid helicopter trick

2003-11-27 Thread Martin Spott
Andy Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin Spott wrote: >> No, because the BO105 - contrary to the 'usual' Bell's for example - >> has a rigid rotor. Please have a look here: >> >> http://www.b-domke.de/AviationImages/Rotorhead.html#Eurocopter > Well, that explains my confusion... I guess this