Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG as scenery generator/VATSIM

2004-09-30 Thread Erik Hofman
Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers wrote: Hi guys, First post on the mailing list after lurking for a while. My name is Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers and I have been active for about five years in a niche of the flight sim world, the (very active) community around Aerowinx 747-400 Precision Simulator (www.aerowinx.com)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Some other BO105 pics - Melchior Franz

2004-09-30 Thread Melchior FRANZ
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 10:36:14PM +0200, Georg Vollnhals wrote: > I let the pics there until you have had a look at them/downloaded them. > Would be nice if you give me two words at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > so that I can delete the page. Thanks. I'll download them on monday and drop you a line

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sub-model and joystick problems

2004-09-30 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Thursday 30 September 2004 04:22 am, Lee Elliott wrote: > The problem with my joystick seems to be related to the recent > plib updates and it isn't being identified properly within FG. > jstest & jscal identify it ok but neither FG or js_demo see it > properly. This was something that a few p

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG as scenery generator/VATSIM

2004-09-30 Thread Boris Koenig
Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers wrote: Hi guys, Hi ! First post on the mailing list after lurking for a while. My name is Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers and I have been active for about five years in a niche of the flight sim world, the (very active) community around Aerowinx 747-400 Precision Simulator (www.aerowinx

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VATSIM/IVAO integration & MCDU/FMC

2004-09-30 Thread Boris Koenig
Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers wrote: If you browse my site, you might find other goodies that could be interesting for FlightGear. I won't do MSFS, so it looks like I'm stuck with you for a while :-) It was kind of an understatement so say "you might find other goodies" :-) There's really A LOT of intere

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG as scenery generator/VATSIM

2004-09-30 Thread Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:49:33AM +0200, Boris Koenig wrote: > I think it is *theoretically* possible, basically one would need to > disable the standard FDMs (flight dynamic models) and let PS1 export the > corresponding values via some simple IPC/sockets mechanism - how is this > currently done

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG as scenery generator/VATSIM

2004-09-30 Thread Boris Koenig
Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:49:33AM +0200, Boris Koenig wrote: My current impression is that this might not even be SUCH a big issue, but I may very well be wrong :-) If FG would have a socket somewhere that will eat control data for the position, attitude, and maybe so

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VATSIM/IVAO integration & MCDU/FMC

2004-09-30 Thread Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 02:54:21PM +0200, Boris Koenig wrote: > Out of personal interest I'd like to know, what specific PS1-variables > you make available to VATSIM/IVAO ? Not many. The SBPC9/10 protocol really is very shallow (I don't suggest tcpdump on it, no). Lat/long, basic attitude in t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATLAS ? (navaids *symbols* ?)

2004-09-30 Thread Jon Stockill
Jon Stockill wrote: Boris Koenig wrote: I like the approach that you're suggesting, it's certainly less involved and time-consuming than really enabling "on-the-fly" ;-) modifcation by default, I will have to check the scenerey for the format that is used, in order to see if I can easily strip the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG as scenery generator/VATSIM

2004-09-30 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers wrote: If FG would have a socket somewhere that will eat control data for the position, attitude, and maybe some other variables to steer the virtual windshield camera around, this certainly should be "easy." We don't want any panel in view, just the forward view (and some peo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG as scenery generator/VATSIM

2004-09-30 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers wrote: Hi guys, First post on the mailing list after lurking for a while. My name is Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers and I have been active for about five years in a niche of the flight sim world, the (very active) community around Aerowinx 747-400 Precision Simulator (www.aerowinx.com)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MCDU/FMC

2004-09-30 Thread Boris Koenig
Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 02:54:21PM +0200, Boris Koenig wrote: http://www.hoppie.nl/mcdu Ready to be abused by any program that can open the socket. Connect a TELNET and off you go. sounds good :-) Windows-specific code: only the part that moves the mouse off the scree

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MCDU/FMC

2004-09-30 Thread Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 04:30:09PM +0200, Boris Koenig wrote: > So, this is also a Tcl/Tk app ? Everything on the site is pure Tcl/Tk, except for the odd .dll such as for the GoFlight panel driver -- those are in C. I stay away from C if possible, especially under Windows, as it reduces my product

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG as scenery generator/VATSIM

2004-09-30 Thread Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 09:14:41AM -0500, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > 1. You need the airport runway and navaid database to match between > FlightGear and PS1. Been there, done that... the major alignment problems between the PS1 database and the MSFS "as real as it gets" stuff are well-known. We ha

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VATSIM/IVAO integration & MCDU/FMC

2004-09-30 Thread Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 02:54:21PM +0200, Boris Koenig wrote: > Harald has even created some preview screenshots of his FMC project: > > http://www.chez.com/tipunch/flightgear Hmmm, do I recognize my own photo there? With the small damage to the MCDU casing near the left annunciators? :-)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sub-model and joystick problems

2004-09-30 Thread Lee Elliott
On Thursday 30 September 2004 09:27, Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: > On Thursday 30 September 2004 04:22 am, Lee Elliott wrote: > > The problem with my joystick seems to be related to the > > recent plib updates and it isn't being identified properly > > within FG. jstest & jscal identify it ok but neit

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sub-model and joystick problems

2004-09-30 Thread Lee Elliott
On Thursday 30 September 2004 09:27, Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: > On Thursday 30 September 2004 04:22 am, Lee Elliott wrote: > > The problem with my joystick seems to be related to the > > recent plib updates and it isn't being identified properly > > within FG. jstest & jscal identify it ok but neit

[Flightgear-devel] Validating XML parser

2004-09-30 Thread Jon S Berndt
I've been wondering about easyXML, if it can be modified to support validation against a DTD? Since it is built on top of eXpat - and I believe eXpat _can_ be compiled to provide validation - is this just a matter of proper compilation of the eXpat library? I ask because it is becoming clear to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Validating XML parser

2004-09-30 Thread Boris Koenig
Jon S Berndt wrote: I've been wondering about easyXML, if it can be modified to support validation against a DTD? it probably can - if I remember correctly there are even some suggestions for DTD's or rather SCHEMA's for FG around ?? Since it is built on top of eXpat - and I believe eXpat _can_ b

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Validating XML parser

2004-09-30 Thread Boris Koenig
Jon S Berndt wrote: Now, this raises another question: do general purpose (or configurable) XML application editors (open source or free, preferred) exist that could be used to author a JSBSim config file? This is what a quick search on sourceforge brought up - I didn't check each package, though

[Flightgear-devel] ATC related resources

2004-09-30 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
Fundamentals of Air Traffic Control ISBN 0-534-12246-9 This book pretty much has everything that you will need. Terminology and phraseology are in Chapter 4. Automation and Systems Issues in Air Traffic Control ISBN 0-387-53903-4 As the title suggested, this book is related to the automation

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Validating XML parser

2004-09-30 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
On Donnerstag 30 September 2004 22:33, Jon S Berndt wrote: > I ask because it is becoming clear to me that, as I compose the new > parsing logic for JSBSim config files - as well as the new config file > format itself - I may need to provide error checking / validation > functions as the data is r