Re: [Flightgear-devel] isnan()

2004-03-02 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Curtis L. Olson wrote: > In Linux isnan() is defined in math.h. Is this a portable function (errr > macro) available to everyone? In the MSVC world, _isnan is defined in , which is included by : http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vccore98/HTML/_crt__isnan.asp -Fre

Re: [Flightgear-devel] isnan()

2004-03-02 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
On Mittwoch, 3. März 2004 04:51, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > In Linux isnan() is defined in math.h. Is this a portable function (errr > macro) available to everyone? I do not remember which standard isnan is according to. I know that SunOS 5.4 and HP-UX 9, all systems from about 4 years ago or olde

Re: [Flightgear-devel] isnan()

2004-03-02 Thread Martin Spott
"Curtis L. Olson" wrote: > In Linux isnan() is defined in math.h. Is this a portable function (errr > macro) available to everyone? I currently don't have a Linux box for a comparison but it appears to me that it could work similarly on Solaris and AIX, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it

RE: [Flightgear-devel] quick gear question

2004-03-02 Thread Jon Berndt
> What drives gear/gear/position-norm? I can't seem to find any place in > the code where this is getting interpolated. I'm actually trying to > figure out how to change the speed that the gear retracts. For JSBSim the gear is driven by the FGKinemat component (see FGKinemat.[cpp|h] in JSBSim/fi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] quick gear question

2004-03-02 Thread Josh Babcock
Andy Ross wrote: Josh Babcock wrote: What drives gear/gear/position-norm? I can't seem to find any place in the code where this is getting interpolated. I'm actually trying to figure out how to change the speed that the gear retracts. For YASim aircraft, this is a configuration issue. It is d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] quick gear question

2004-03-02 Thread Andy Ross
Josh Babcock wrote: > What drives gear/gear/position-norm? I can't seem to find any place > in the code where this is getting interpolated. I'm actually trying > to figure out how to change the speed that the gear retracts. For YASim aircraft, this is a configuration issue. It is driven by a s

[Flightgear-devel] quick gear question

2004-03-02 Thread Josh Babcock
What drives gear/gear/position-norm? I can't seem to find any place in the code where this is getting interpolated. I'm actually trying to figure out how to change the speed that the gear retracts. Josh ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTE

[Flightgear-devel] isnan()

2004-03-02 Thread Curtis L. Olson
In Linux isnan() is defined in math.h. Is this a portable function (errr macro) available to everyone? Curt. -- Curtis Olson Intelligent Vehicles Lab FlightGear Project Twin Cities[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt h

[Flightgear-devel] suggestions

2004-03-02 Thread PAul Valley
Hi All I would love to see full interaction with the tower via voice or some thing similar to msfs has ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A load of YASim engine stuff

2004-03-02 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson wrote: If you had an oil-pressure-psi-idle and oil-pressure-psi-maxrpm property you could then interpolate something reasonable. Oil-temperature could be hacked up from a normal maximum and some combination of rpm, time and outside temp. I'm not sure about fuel-pressure. Is that usua

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A load of YASim engine stuff

2004-03-02 Thread David Megginson
Andy Ross wrote: I'm not quite sure what convincing values for these properties would be. The pressures are pump-driven and are, or should be, static under normal conditions, right? Not quite. First, I think that the main pumps run off the accessory drive (I'll have to check), so they will be a

RE: [Flightgear-devel] A load of YASim engine stuff

2004-03-02 Thread Vivian Meazza
Andy Ross > David Megginson wrote: > > I've been spending a bit of time on the PA-28 model in > YASim, and one > > problem is that the engine idles far too fast sitting still on the > > ground (around 1000 rpm, instead of 600-650 rpm). Is there > any simple > > parameter I can tune to sl

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A load of YASim engine stuff

2004-03-02 Thread Jim Wilson
Andy Ross said: > > What do we need to do to get YASim to publish convincing values for > > these properties for piston engines? > > /engines/engine[*]/oil-pressure-psi > > /engines/engine[*]/oil-temperature-degf > > /engines/engine[*]/fuel-pressure-psi > > I'm not quite sure what convincin

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A load of YASim engine stuff

2004-03-02 Thread Andy Ross
David Megginson wrote: > I've been spending a bit of time on the PA-28 model in YASim, and > one problem is that the engine idles far too fast sitting still on > the ground (around 1000 rpm, instead of 600-650 rpm). Is there any > simple parameter I can tune to slow it down a bit? Not really. Th

RE: [Flightgear-devel] A load of YASim engine stuff

2004-03-02 Thread Vivian Meazza
David Megginson wrote > [This posting is directed primarily at YASim's daddy, Andy > Ross, but I'll be > interested in hearing from others as well.] > > 1. Engine Idle > -- > > I've been spending a bit of time on the PA-28 model in YASim, and one > problem is that the engine idl

[Flightgear-devel] A load of YASim engine stuff

2004-03-02 Thread David Megginson
[This posting is directed primarily at YASim's daddy, Andy Ross, but I'll be interested in hearing from others as well.] 1. Engine Idle -- I've been spending a bit of time on the PA-28 model in YASim, and one problem is that the engine idles far too fast sitting still on the ground

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Automatically change a property

2004-03-02 Thread Lee Elliott
On Monday 01 March 2004 18:20, Andy Ross wrote: > Lee Elliott wrote: > > What I'd like to do is to be able to switch the AP mode from > > Glide-slope hold to this new Touch-down mode automatically at a > > specified agl-ft. > > > > Any ideas how I can do this in xml? > > Probably the best thing to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Some sound problems under Alsa

2004-03-02 Thread Matevz Jekovec
Is it anything vital which need re-compiling when running kernel 2.6.x on a regular basis? I use a tuner card as a PVR by a cronjob and those modules wouldn't come up as usual. Slackware uses a script in /etc/rc.d to load sound modules and it's such a dog to switch between the kernels. If the

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Some sound problems under Alsa

2004-03-02 Thread Roger Andreassen
I was formerly using flightgear-devel but someone suggested to adress technical problems here. ;-) Since Slackware will use Alsa sound from version 9.1 and onwards I would like to mention a sound problem with some planes. Running --aircraft=c310-yasim I'll get no plane sound, just the OM and MM

[Flightgear-devel] ATC readability

2004-03-02 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
I find it a little hard to read the ATC messages that appear on the top of the screen. The dissapear before I get a chance to read them. Maybe I'm a slow reader, but still I would like them to be displayed a little longer. Using multiple lines might be a solution, that way multiple messages can