[Flightgear-devel] screen capture causes loss of control

2005-04-19 Thread Dave Culp
I'm running today's CVS FlightGear on a linux box. When flying a JSBSim aircraft and hitting the F3 key to get a screen capture the aircraft goes out of control (looks like a spin, from the external view). The screen capture works fine otherwise. Anyone else getting this? Dave ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] screen capture causes loss of control

2005-04-19 Thread Dave Culp
> I'm running today's CVS FlightGear on a linux box. When flying a JSBSim > aircraft and hitting the F3 key to get a screen capture the aircraft goes > out of control (looks like a spin, from the external view). The screen > capture works fine otherwise. Same thing with Yasim (the A-10). Da

Re: [Flightgear-devel] screen capture causes loss of control

2005-04-20 Thread Erik Hofman
Dave Culp wrote: I'm running today's CVS FlightGear on a linux box. When flying a JSBSim aircraft and hitting the F3 key to get a screen capture the aircraft goes out of control (looks like a spin, from the external view). The screen capture works fine otherwise. Anyone else getting this? Oc

Re: [Flightgear-devel] screen capture causes loss of control

2005-04-20 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Dave Culp wrote: I'm running today's CVS FlightGear on a linux box. When flying a JSBSim aircraft and hitting the F3 key to get a screen capture the aircraft goes out of control (looks like a spin, from the external view). The screen capture works fine otherwise. Anyone else getting this?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] screen capture causes loss of control

2005-04-20 Thread Dave Culp
> >I'm running today's CVS FlightGear on a linux box. When flying a JSBSim > >aircraft and hitting the F3 key to get a screen capture the aircraft goes > > out of control (looks like a spin, from the external view). The screen > > capture works fine otherwise. > > > I could see this happening if

Re: [Flightgear-devel] screen capture causes loss of control

2005-04-20 Thread Dave Culp
> > Anyone else getting this? > > Occasionally, but I think I've seen it with the Fokker Dr.1 (UIUC) also. > It's best the pause the program before taking a screenshot I guess. Maybe the screen capture code should pause the sim first? Dave ___ Flight

Re: [Flightgear-devel] screen capture causes loss of control

2005-04-20 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Dave Culp wrote: This is with autopilot off. Also, I'm using the mouse for control and have no joystick installed. This might be a mouse thing? You could try pausing, taking the screen shot, then unpausing. Curt. -- Curtis Olsonhttp://www.flightgear.org/~curt HumanFIRST Program http:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] screen capture causes loss of control

2005-04-20 Thread Dave Culp
More on the screen capture/fdm problem. It only happens when the mouse is in "flight control mode", indicated by the cursor having a crosshairs shape. If I first right-click to put the mouse into "pointer mode", indicated by the standard arrow cursor, then the screen capture has no effect on t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] screen capture causes loss of control

2005-04-20 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Dave Culp wrote: More on the screen capture/fdm problem. It only happens when the mouse is in "flight control mode", indicated by the cursor having a crosshairs shape. If I first right-click to put the mouse into "pointer mode", indicated by the standard arrow cursor, then the screen capture ha

Re: [Flightgear-devel] screen capture causes loss of control

2005-04-20 Thread Dave Culp
> >It only happens when the mouse is in "flight control mode", indicated by > > the cursor having a crosshairs shape. If I first right-click to put the > > mouse into "pointer mode", indicated by the standard arrow cursor, then > > the screen capture has no effect on the fdm. > > Perhaps something

Re: [Flightgear-devel] screen capture causes loss of control

2005-04-20 Thread Lee Elliott
On Wednesday 20 April 2005 15:39, Dave Culp wrote: > > >It only happens when the mouse is in "flight control mode", > > > indicated by the cursor having a crosshairs shape. If I > > > first right-click to put the mouse into "pointer mode", > > > indicated by the standard arrow cursor, then the scr

Re: [Flightgear-devel] screen capture causes loss of control

2005-04-20 Thread Dave Culp
> What happens if you: start FG, display the hud, put the mouse > into control mode, make a half deflection of the control > surfaces, so that none of them hit their end-stops, and then hit > F3? Do the controls move back to their centered position or do > they end up randomly placed? When I hi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] screen capture causes loss of control

2005-04-20 Thread Lee Elliott
On Wednesday 20 April 2005 18:56, Lee Elliott wrote: > On Wednesday 20 April 2005 15:39, Dave Culp wrote: > > > >It only happens when the mouse is in "flight control > > > > mode", indicated by the cursor having a crosshairs > > > > shape. If I first right-click to put the mouse into > > > > "poin

Re: [Flightgear-devel] screen capture causes loss of control

2005-04-20 Thread Lee Elliott
On Wednesday 20 April 2005 19:41, Dave Culp wrote: > > What happens if you: start FG, display the hud, put the > > mouse into control mode, make a half deflection of the > > control surfaces, so that none of them hit their end-stops, > > and then hit F3? Do the controls move back to their > > cent

Re: [Flightgear-devel] screen capture causes loss of control

2005-04-20 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Dave Culp wrote: When I hit F3 the cursor goes to the bottom-left of the screen. The ailerons and elevator are displaced. If I find the new neutral position and right-click three times to re-enter control mode, then the cursor re-centers. So, F3 causes the cursor to displace very far. When th

RE: [Flightgear-devel] screen capture causes loss of control

2005-04-20 Thread Norman Vine
Curtis L. Olson writes: > > > Hmmm, I wonder if this is a way to "hide" the cursor so it doesn't > appear in the screen shots? Bingo ! Cheers Norman ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailma

Re: [Flightgear-devel] screen capture causes loss of control

2005-04-20 Thread Andy Ross
Curtis L. Olson wrote: > Hmmm, I wonder if this is a way to "hide" the cursor so it doesn't > appear in the screen shots? I'm pretty sure there's a "null" cursor you can set. I remember dealing with that stuff when doing the SDL port. This won't move or change the mouse cursor, but it will make

Re: [Flightgear-devel] screen capture causes loss of control

2005-04-20 Thread Lee Elliott
On Wednesday 20 April 2005 19:41, Dave Culp wrote: > > What happens if you: start FG, display the hud, put the > > mouse into control mode, make a half deflection of the > > control surfaces, so that none of them hit their end-stops, > > and then hit F3? Do the controls move back to their > > cent