[Flightgear-devel] Internet presentation and handling[ was FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo]

2009-06-13 Thread Heiko Schulz
Lol... That's actually a really cool picture! The reflection of the modern jet in the windows in the background. It wasn't my intention just to show a nice pic- I wanted you to just explain, why I'm so strong in convincing you that there are better ways to present the OpenSource FlightGear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Gui - updating gui state dynamically

2009-06-13 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* James Turner -- 6/12/2009 11:05 AM: I guess there is no chance of switching to osgWidgets in the near future? I've not looked at how mature that code is or isn't yet. No. This may take another year, or two. AFAIK, osgWidgets is still nothing more than colored, clickable rectangles with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Internet presentation and handling[ was FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo]

2009-06-13 Thread Jari Häkkinen
I too think that flightgear.org needs to be revamped. As a returning user to fg I'd say that the presentation of the project is poor but the software is great. However, it takes some time to realize the fact that fg actually is usable ... it may be due to the fact that I use a mac and other

Re: [Flightgear-devel] property system extensions redux

2009-06-13 Thread Tim Moore
Curtis Olson wrote: Hi Tim, I have one concern that I may not have voiced clearly before. I tend to think about these design choices in terms of what is often called orthogonality. The idea stems from the world of vectors. ... So if you translate that concept over to computer

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Internet presentation and handling[ was FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo]

2009-06-13 Thread Curtis Olson
The last time we revamped the web site, we had someone put together a demonstration page of the new layout for others to review. We decided we liked it and decided it was worth moving forward, so that person then proceeded to convert the entire site to the new layout. It was a lot of work, but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Internet presentation and handling[ was FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo]

2009-06-13 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hi, Aha... The last time we revamped the web site, we had someone put together a demonstration page of the new layout for others to review. We decided we liked it and decided it was worth moving forward, so that person then proceeded to convert the entire site to the new layout. It was a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Internet presentation and handl ing[ was FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTa g expo]

2009-06-13 Thread Torsten Dreyer
To conclude, open up the maintenance and development of the flightgear.org web site to more users/developers. And, the rest will follow because you (Curt) might realize that it is actually really nice to see someone else do the job you were supposed to do. May I emphasize somehing, Curt said:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] property system extensions redux

2009-06-13 Thread Erik Hofman
Tim Moore wrote: I mostly agree with this, though I continue to maintain that the new types are fully in the spirit of the property system, moreso than array types would be. I'd also suggest that no one here knows the right answer to this question, making the option of playing with the new

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Absolute (calendar) times in properties

2009-06-13 Thread Alez Buzin
Martin Spott wrote: Alez Buzin wrote: May I have miss something but I have in FG properties sim/time/gmt in the form 2009-05-16T12:08:16, sim/time/gmt-string as 12:08:16, and sub-trees sim/time/utc/... and sim/time/real/... containing year, day etc as integers. What problems to use

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Generic fcs,nas

2009-06-13 Thread Tatsuhiro Nishioka
Hi Lee, Thanks for your opinion. I totally agree with that. At this moment, it is generic fcs among fcs capable helicopters, but not enough for all fcs capable aircraft. So Helijah renamed it to helicopter-fcs.nas. Then I updated it to the latest version. For those who use

Re: [Flightgear-devel] terragear

2009-06-13 Thread Geoff McLane
Hi Syd, Be brave, GIVE IT A GO!, as an Australian might say ;=)) First TerraGear is a set of command line 'tools', not a single program... it consists of a suite of tools like :- demchop, fgfs-construct, genapts, gshhs, hgtchop, noaa-decode, ogr-decode, shape-decode, srtmchop, terra,

[Flightgear-devel] makefg, maketg updates

2009-06-13 Thread Geoff McLane
Hi, For those who use my scripts, I have put updates to version 1.1.0 for maketg, and makefg at - http://geoffair.net/tmp/makefg http://geoffair.net/tmp/maketg These script contain a new switch OSGTRUNK, among other things ... I found that chasing the latest OSG trunk was _NOT_ always good

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Internet presentation and handling[ was FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo]

2009-06-13 Thread syd adams
Although I don't waste time on the forum anymore , I like that idea of a web page competition.I might even give it a try :) That's exactly what I wanted to hear! I would suggest this to propose to the community in the FGFS-forum as well, maybe even as a small competition. I will try something

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Internet presentation and handling[ was FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo]

2009-06-13 Thread Heiko Schulz
Fine! Everybody agree too? Von: syd adams adams@gmail.com An: FlightGear developers discussions flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Gesendet: Samstag, den 13. Juni 2009, 21:30:50 Uhr Betreff: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Internet presentation and handling[

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Internet presentation and handling[ was FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo]

2009-06-13 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Hi, just for your information, Since yesterday I'm testing out some ways for a better aircraft/livery download page. You can see the current efforts at http://flightgear.oxyhost.com/liveries/. It's far from perfect right now, but I think it might look/work nice someday. We can extend it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] terragear

2009-06-13 Thread Martin Spott
Hi, Geoff McLane wrote: But to make it 'permanent' - that is not lost in the next FG scenery generation - you should submit your changes to Robin Peel - [...] The file format we're using for FlightGear is not maintained any more - at least not by Robin Peel. Thus, if you'd like to save your

Re: [Flightgear-devel] terragear

2009-06-13 Thread syd adams
Thanks for the tips guys. Looks like my first task though , is to find and compile some dependencies. -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables