Re: [Flightgear-devel] Possibly joystick bug condition

2007-04-02 Thread John Denker
On 04/02/2007 11:17 AM, Nick Warne wrote: > By my reckoning, if a throttle is OFF, then it is OFF, and not 0.15 ON. I beseech you to change your reckoning. 1) As previously mentioned, real aircraft don't work that way. In real aircraft, this is even more noticeable with respect to the full

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Possibly joystick bug condition

2007-04-02 Thread Nick Warne
On Monday 02 April 2007 16:17:31 Nick Warne wrote: > Hi John, > > On Monday 02 April 2007 15:31:43 John Denker wrote: > > So my suggestion is to figure out the /real/ throttle behavior > > of interest, and model that. If floating-point is even the > > slightest obstacle to building a realistic mod

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Possibly joystick bug condition

2007-04-02 Thread Nick Warne
Hi John, On Monday 02 April 2007 15:31:43 John Denker wrote: > So my suggestion is to figure out the /real/ throttle behavior > of interest, and model that. If floating-point is even the > slightest obstacle to building a realistic model, please explain. I wasn't complaining here, just raising

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Possibly joystick bug condition

2007-04-02 Thread John Denker
On 04/02/2007 09:43 AM, Nick Warne wrote: > Yes, as discussed in IRC today, this solution came up, but why on earth are > the throttle values measured with so much accuracy? Surely 1.5e -5 is way > over the top? What's the alternative? If we're not going to use floating point, what are we sup

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Possibly joystick bug condition

2007-04-02 Thread Ron Jensen
On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 14:43 +0100, Nick Warne wrote: > Hi Ron, > > On Monday 02 April 2007 14:19:17 Ron Jensen wrote: > > > > So, how accurate does the throttle need to be? Surely not 1.5e -5? > > > > > > Nick > > > > You probably should change the condition to not depend on a perfectly > > rigg

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Possibly joystick bug condition

2007-04-02 Thread Melchior FRANZ
[throttle precision] * Nick Warne -- Monday 02 April 2007: > Surely 1.5e -5 is way over the top? Depending on the js quality, joysticks can return different number ranges. If I turn off the "cooked" joystick mode in Linux for my 6 axes Saitek Cyborg-Gold-3D-USB: $ jscal -s 6,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Possibly joystick bug condition

2007-04-02 Thread Nick Warne
Hi Ron, On Monday 02 April 2007 14:19:17 Ron Jensen wrote: > > So, how accurate does the throttle need to be? Surely not 1.5e -5? > > > > Nick > > You probably should change the condition to not depend on a perfectly > rigged joystick. Testing for equal is not a great idea any time you are > us

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Possibly joystick bug condition

2007-04-02 Thread Ron Jensen
On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 13:45 +0100, Nick Warne wrote: > Hi all, > > Helping Vivian today on the Spitfire model, the gear warning (stall) klaxon > wasn't working for me [again] although Vivian had fixed the previous issue > why it failed sometimes. > > After investigation, it turns out one of the

[Flightgear-devel] Possibly joystick bug condition

2007-04-02 Thread Nick Warne
Hi all, Helping Vivian today on the Spitfire model, the gear warning (stall) klaxon wasn't working for me [again] although Vivian had fixed the previous issue why it failed sometimes. After investigation, it turns out one of the conditions required for the stall warning to go off is:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] crash with route manager dialog

2007-04-02 Thread Melchior FRANZ
Should be fixed now. m. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash h

Re: [Flightgear-devel] another problem with fgfs-build

2007-04-02 Thread cyprien
Nick Warne a écrit : On Sunday 01 April 2007 14:30:09 Ralf Gerlich wrote: Hi, cyprien wrote: Hi again ! After compiling everything successefully with a make all, i've launch ./install/bin/fgfs, but i've this error : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/fgfs-builder-20070222$ ./ins

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KNID: New Airport layout ant buildings

2007-04-02 Thread alexis bory
Melchior FRANZ a écrit : > * alexis bory -- Saturday 31 March 2007: > > I've modelled KNID (China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station, CA.) > > buildings and taxiways layout. > > > http://croo.murgl.org/fgfs/scenery/ > > That must be the nicest airport available for fgfs (though I haven't > seen most

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Time for a new release?

2007-04-02 Thread Jon S. Berndt
> That is a nice idea mainly if it could include the carrier > functions within > JSBSim (part of External Forces develepoment) :) > > Regards > > -- > Gérard I'm still working on it! :-) Jon - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Inf

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Time for a new release?

2007-04-02 Thread gh.robin
On Fri 30 March 2007 17:43, Stuart Buchanan wrote: > Hi All, > > It hasn't been discussed for at least a couple of months, so I thought I'd > bring up that old chestnut, "when are we going to have a new release?". > > >From the website, here are the pervious release dates: > > 0.9.5 - 2004/07 > 0.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Time for a new release?

2007-04-02 Thread cyprien
Stuart Buchanan a écrit : > Hi All, > > It hasn't been discussed for at least a couple of months, so I thought I'd > bring up that old chestnut, "when are we going to have a new release?". > > >From the website, here are the pervious release dates: > > 0.9.5 - 2004/07 > 0.9.6 - 2004/10 > 0.9.8