Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal globals.nas, 1.42, 1.43

2008-12-17 Thread Stuart Buchanan
Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * James Turner -- Wednesday 17 December 2008: > > > + var KT2MPS = 0.51; # knots to m/s > > > Personally I think all these constants would be easier to > > read if they were written the same way as the Simgear ones, > > i.e MPS_TO_KT, NM_TO_M and so on.

[Flightgear-devel] units analysis ... factor label method

2008-12-17 Thread John Denker
On 12/17/2008 12:33 AM, James Turner wrote: > On 17 Dec 2008, at 01:03, Melchior Franz wrote: > >> + var KT2MPS = 0.51; # knots to m/s >> + var MPS2KT = 1 / KT2MPS; >> + >> var LB2KG = 0.45359237;# pounds to kilogram >> var KG2LB = 1 / LB2KG; > > Personally I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-17 Thread Frederic Bouvier
- "gerard robin" a écrit : > On mardi 16 décembre 2008, Durk Talsma wrote: > > Hi Fred, > > > > On Saturday 13 December 2008 18:50:51 Frederic Bouvier wrote: > > > I replied that the target is next Friday. After that I may have > > > difficulties to build a binary from where I will be. > > >

[Flightgear-devel] Bug (and fix!)

2008-12-17 Thread James Turner
It seems I introduced a bug in the airports code some time ago, which has gone rather unnoticed, or somehow I escaped the blame for it: in the 'tower' view, where the tower position is explicitly given in apt.dat (most of the larger airports), I was incorrectly treating the tower elevation

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal globals.nas, 1.42, 1.43

2008-12-17 Thread James Turner
On 17 Dec 2008, at 15:44, Syd wrote: > I dont know if this makes sense to anyone else , but to me the first > version is a word , the second option is a sentence :) Agreed completely - the issue is, I think of all these things as sentences (well, phrases, anyway) - so I find FOO2BAR rather lik

[Flightgear-devel] (no subject)

2008-12-17 Thread Stuart Buchanan
Hi All, Attached is a very small patch that fixes the issue reported by Martin where --prop:/environment/weather-scenario=METAR had no effect. I think this is a pretty safe patch that should be included in the release. -Stuart flightgear.patch.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data

[Flightgear-devel] METAR Patch (was : no subject)

2008-12-17 Thread Stuart Buchanan
I wrote: > Subject: > > Hi All, > > Attached is a very small patch that fixes the issue reported by Martin where > --prop:/environment/weather-scenario=METAR had no effect. > > I think this is a pretty safe patch that should be included in the release. > > -Stuart Sorry for the lack of su

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-17 Thread gerard robin
On mercredi 17 décembre 2008, Frederic Bouvier wrote: > - "gerard robin" a écrit : > > On mardi 16 décembre 2008, Durk Talsma wrote: > > > Hi Fred, > > > > > > On Saturday 13 December 2008 18:50:51 Frederic Bouvier wrote: > > > > I replied that the target is next Friday. After that I may have >

[Flightgear-devel] Output communication problem

2008-12-17 Thread Jan Černý
Hello, I have encounterd a little bit strange thing in Flightgear v1.0.0. I'm implementing I/O communication with Flightgear using native-fdm protocol and TPC sockets. I would like implement following communication. 1. In Matlab - Simulink are computed positions, velocities etc using Simulink airc

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-17 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Gerard, > Hello, Durk > > How do you schedule the period test with OSG 2.8 before rolling up the > release ? > OR do you avoid any test with it ? > > Cheers As Fred mentioned, I'm routinely building and testing FlightGear against OSG/SVN. I haven't noticed any problems. I have the impressi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-17 Thread Frederic Bouvier
- "gerard robin" a écrit : > On mercredi 17 décembre 2008, Frederic Bouvier wrote: > > - "gerard robin" a écrit : > > > On mardi 16 décembre 2008, Durk Talsma wrote: > > > > Hi Fred, > > > > > > > > On Saturday 13 December 2008 18:50:51 Frederic Bouvier wrote: > > > > > I replied that the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal globals.nas, 1.42, 1.43

2008-12-17 Thread Syd
Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * James Turner -- Wednesday 17 December 2008: > >>> + var KT2MPS = 0.51; # knots to m/s >>> > > >> Personally I think all these constants would be easier to >> read if they were written the same way as the Simgear ones, >> i.e MPS_TO_KT, NM_T

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-17 Thread gerard robin
On mardi 16 décembre 2008, Durk Talsma wrote: > Hi Fred, > > On Saturday 13 December 2008 18:50:51 Frederic Bouvier wrote: > > I replied that the target is next Friday. After that I may have > > difficulties to build a binary from where I will be. > > > > -Fred > > How would your availability be af

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NAV display proof-of-concept

2008-12-17 Thread Syd
James Turner wrote: > On 9 Dec 2008, at 00:53, Syd wrote: > > >> Looks good so far , Ive been thinking along the same lines for the >> Primus 1000. >> I dont know the specs for that instrument , but the Primus can only >> display a maximum of 4 airports, 4 navaids , etc , which should be >> easi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal globals.nas, 1.42, 1.43

2008-12-17 Thread Alexis Bory - xiii
Melchior FRANZ wrote: > var MPS_TO_KT = MPS2KT; > > What do other Nasal developers think? I'm willing to change it if > others have problems with that, too. (And to change all occurrences > in the repository.) No problem here with shorter names for the constants. For me they are easy to reco

Re: [Flightgear-devel] units analysis ... factor label method

2008-12-17 Thread gerard robin
On mercredi 17 décembre 2008, John Denker wrote: > On 12/17/2008 12:33 AM, James Turner wrote: > > On 17 Dec 2008, at 01:03, Melchior Franz wrote: > >> + var KT2MPS = 0.51; # knots to m/s > >> + var MPS2KT = 1 / KT2MPS; > >> + > >> var LB2KG = 0.45359237;# pound

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-17 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Tat et al., On Tuesday 16 December 2008 18:16:29 Tatsuhiro Nishioka wrote: > Hi guys, > > >> Personally, I think a big build up to an oddball version number like > >> 1.99.5 is a little strange, but again, I'm not so hung up on version > >> numbers as long as they keep increasing. It would also

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-17 Thread Jon Stockill
Durk Talsma wrote: > Just to make a blunt suggestion, although not completely of my own > imagination: would it be an idea to release this version as 2.0?. Initially, > we wanted to do a 1.9.0 release, because we felt that the OSG transition > wasn't quite there yet. Since then, enormous progre

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-17 Thread Heiko Schulz
> > There are still problems with the clouds (the draw order > problem with > particles), and Tim has already mentioned his intention to > start > committing the code required for shadows after this > release. I believe > that code also makes landing lights a possibility. I'd > be tempted to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-17 Thread John Denker
A couple more six-legged crawly things: 41:: c172p: As of rc2, if the pilot is tall or if the pilot's seat is cranked up high, a weird artifact appears in the field of view. To demonstrate this, use the property viewer to set /sim/current-view/y-offset-m to 0.4 (instead of the default value of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-17 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Durk Talsma -- Wednesday 17 December 2008: > would it be an idea to release this version as 2.0?. I'm against that. fgfs is in acceptable shape for a minor release, but it would be an embarrassment for a major release. Curt says he doesn't care about version numbers, but the "community" certainl

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-17 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Wednesday 17 December 2008: > [...] 0.95 (or something like that) Err ... 1.95 > Before we drop the 0.9* idea, [...] and 1.9*. But I guess you got the idea. :-) m. -- SF.Net email is Sponsored by

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (no subject)

2008-12-17 Thread Martin Spott
Stuart Buchanan wrote: > Attached is a very small patch that fixes the issue reported by > Martin where --prop:/environment/weather-scenario=METAR had no > effect. Oh, great ! thanks a lot, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-17 Thread Michael Smith
Ok, this might be a silly question but here it goes, Will the final 1.99 release be on the main flightgear website and replace 1.0 on the site? Thanks -- Michael Smith (mdsmith2) -- SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-17 Thread gerard robin
On mercredi 17 décembre 2008, Frederic Bouvier wrote: > - "gerard robin" a écrit : > > On mercredi 17 décembre 2008, Frederic Bouvier wrote: > > > - "gerard robin" a écrit : > > > > On mardi 16 décembre 2008, Durk Talsma wrote: > > > > > Hi Fred, > > > > > > > > > > On Saturday 13 December

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NAV display proof-of-concept

2008-12-17 Thread James Turner
On 17 Dec 2008, at 20:28, Syd wrote: > Just a request while your tweaking the route-manager , I'll keep my > fingers out of it :) > I use it as an FMS for my aircraft with such instruments , but what > would be convenient is a property to flag when the TTG switches from > hours to minutes ... P

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NAV display proof-of-concept

2008-12-17 Thread Syd
James Turner wrote: > On 17 Dec 2008, at 20:28, Syd wrote: > > >> Just a request while your tweaking the route-manager , I'll keep my >> fingers out of it :) >> I use it as an FMS for my aircraft with such instruments , but what >> would be convenient is a property to flag when the TTG switches

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-17 Thread John Denker
43:: CPU hog: When the sim is paused, it eats CPU cycles. It will happily use 99+% of the CPU if there is no competition. I don't understand why any appreciable CPU cycles are needed during pause. 44:: Memory hog: When the sim is paused, if you leave it alone for 15 minutes or so, it starts

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-17 Thread Csaba Halász
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 3:04 AM, John Denker wrote: > > 43:: CPU hog: When the sim is paused, it eats CPU cycles. It will > happily use 99+% of the CPU if there is no competition. I don't > understand why any appreciable CPU cycles are needed during pause. I assume you are not using sync-to-v

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-17 Thread John Denker
On 12/17/2008 08:04 PM, Csaba Halász wrote: > I assume you are not using sync-to-vblank or fps throttle. That's a correct assumption. Forsooth, I've never heard of sync-to-vblank or fps throttle in this context. The names sound nice, but -- They are not mentioned in --help --verbose -- They

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NAV display proof-of-concept

2008-12-17 Thread Syd
An unrelated question for you - I'm using the B1900d to test my GPS > changes, since it has the best GPS setup that I can find - I'm a > little surprised by the way CDI deviation is handled - I was led to > believe that in normal VOR mode, one 'dot' of CDI deviation usually > corresponded to