Re: [Flightgear-devel] [patch] Get rid of pthread

2008-04-29 Thread Benoît Laniel
> Perhaps you could begin by explaining the problem you are going to solve, and > why your way is better. For windows version of fg, actually there are 2 solutions: - no threads - pthreads-win32 pthreads-win32 is, for me, a hack to ease the porting of *nix code to win32 and may not always be eff

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft start up postion issue.

2008-04-29 Thread Jon S. Berndt
> > Hi, > > > > I recently talked to a guy who complained that some of the > > aircraft are also initially positioned too high above ground, > > which makes them fall down on start and in some cases crash. > > > > Cheers, > > Chris > > Depending on the aircraft, a work-around might be to start wit

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [patch] Get rid of pthread

2008-04-29 Thread fredfgfs01
- "Benoît Laniel" a écrit : > > This is an area where a commit now, test later philosophy could > hurt > > the project because thread related problems can be so nasty to > debug. > > Maybe I should have stated that I didn't know if it was robust. I > surely > agree with you that this patch

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft start up postion issue.

2008-04-29 Thread LeeE
On Tuesday 29 April 2008 11:02, Christian Schmitt wrote: > Markus Zojer wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > This issue still exists. The YASim FDM places the datum of the > > aircraft at the end of the runway as startup position, which > > means that all aircraft with datum=nose start behind the > > runway.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft start up postion issue.

2008-04-29 Thread LeeE
I guess we should just move the vrp from the nose to the tail of the aircraft. It doesn't matter where the vrp actually is, as long as it aligns with the FDM reference point. It's a pity that this didn't occur to anyone when we were discussing the vrp issue, but then no one's perfect. Adjust

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft start up postion issue.

2008-04-29 Thread Christian Schmitt
Markus Zojer wrote: > Hi all! > > This issue still exists. The YASim FDM places the datum of the aircraft > at the end of the runway as startup position, which means that all > aircraft with datum=nose start behind the runway. Maybe we should use > the CG of the aircraft as reference point or c

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft start up postion issue.

2008-04-29 Thread Markus Zojer
Hi all! This issue still exists. The YASim FDM places the datum of the aircraft at the end of the runway as startup position, which means that all aircraft with datum=nose start behind the runway. Maybe we should use the CG of the aircraft as reference point or calculate some offset to the exi