Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATC and radio signal attenuation

2011-09-05 Thread Martin Spott
Adrian Musceac wrote: > I have started to implement radio signal attenuation into the ATC subsystem, > with the goal to later move this to it's own location. I'm pretty certain that future will show us many possible uses for a generic implementation (just think of FGCom). Nice to hear about it,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cmake

2011-09-05 Thread James Turner
On 5 Sep 2011, at 17:10, Curtis Olson wrote: > So I have nothing against cmake, it sounds like it offers some nice features. > But I assume those that want to push this change forward, will take some > time to write up some basic howto's so that people who have never used it as > a developer

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The future of FlightGear's support programs

2011-09-05 Thread Martin Spott
Peter Sadrozinski wrote: > I have some experience writing GRASS modules, and I noticed some were being > added to terragear-cs a few months ago. one of which looked like a skeleton > for a btg file exporter. Is anyone actively working on this? If not, I can > continue down that path. You're wel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The future of FlightGear's support programs

2011-09-05 Thread Martin Spott
Hi Peter, glad to meet you here ! Peter Sadrozinski wrote: > Another reason we may wish to stay with my parser is that it offers a bit > more flexibility. I plan on allowing options to set how many segments to > break curves into, (and possibly using more segments for curvier sections > than str

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The future of FlightGear's support programs

2011-09-05 Thread Peter Sadrozinski
Actually, I'm going to continue using my parser for now. It looks like there are still some bugs in the ogr2ogr importer with respect to closing polys with curves. Here's an image showing some of the polys being closed with linear segments instead of bezier. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29968727/Scre

[Flightgear-devel] RE : Cmake

2011-09-05 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Alan, Your bad experience is not a generality. All you have to do is set the MSVC_3RDPARTY_DIR and hit configure again, and all the other directories should be set automatically. Regards, -Fred Alan Teeder a écrit : -Original Message- From: MathiasFröhlich Sent: Monday, September 05

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flight recorder / replay system

2011-09-05 Thread ThorstenB
On 05.09.2011 21:00, Curtis Olson wrote: > While you have your head under the replay hood; Originally the replay > system did not record itself replaying a flight, but along the way, a > subtle code change messed this up so we recorded our replay as if it was > a live flight. This led to an endle

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flight recorder / replay system

2011-09-05 Thread Curtis Olson
Thorsten, While you have your head under the replay hood; Originally the replay system did not record itself replaying a flight, but along the way, a subtle code change messed this up so we recorded our replay as if it was a live flight. This led to an endless playback loop where we'd replay a r

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flight recorder / replay system

2011-09-05 Thread ThorstenB
On 05.09.2011 18:48, Robert wrote: > One question I need to ask: > What is the recording frequency? Can it be adjusted by the user? The replay system uses three buffer levels: short term memory records 60 seconds at full frame rate, mid term buffer records another 10 minutes at 2fps, and the lon

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cmake

2011-09-05 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis Olson wrote: > Is this an option to cmake at the "configure" step, or to make at the > build/install step? The install prefix is set at the "configure" step - CMake is quite similar to Autoconf in this respect. To put an example, configuring SimGear on a setup with TerraSync/SVN explicitl

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cmake

2011-09-05 Thread Alan Teeder
-Original Message- From: MathiasFröhlich Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 4:28 PM To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cmake Hi, On Monday, September 05, 2011 14:47:44 Alan Teeder wrote: > Please don´t. > > I reverted from VC100 to VC90 as the Cmake proc

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATC and radio signal attenuation

2011-09-05 Thread Alex Perry
If you know the phone number of the ATC facility, you should be able to enter it into a popup that looks like a satphone and communicate with them without the attenuation constraint. Oh, and extend the ATC dialog to understand "say phone number" and "on landing call" interactions. On Mon, Sep 5,

[Flightgear-devel] RE : Cmake

2011-09-05 Thread Frederic Bouvier
My intention is, with the help of James and Gene, to convert the current Jenkins build to VS2010 and Cmake in the next few weeks. Cmake and VS2010 combinaison has always worked for me, and I am interested to here about issues. Regards, -Fred Alan Teeder a écrit : Please don´t. I reverted fro

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATC and radio signal attenuation

2011-09-05 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Adrian, > > So far, only ground to AI aircraft and AI aircraft to ground is implemented, > as part of the FGATCController class. > This system, if proven functional, should probably be split into a separate > module and applied to all comunication, including player-to-ground and player- >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flight recorder / replay system

2011-09-05 Thread Robert
Thorsten, this is just amazing! One question I need to ask: What is the recording frequency? Can it be adjusted by the user? cheers Robert 2011/9/4 ThorstenB > Hi, > > I'm currently looking into an overhaul of the replay system. The buffer > mechanisms of the existing replay system itself won'

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cmake

2011-09-05 Thread Curtis Olson
Is this an option to cmake at the "configure" step, or to make at the build/install step? Can this work as an environment variable? What if I want to pick up build libraries from a non-standard location ... maybe I'd like to install a particular version of FG and a particular version of all it's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Links for new FlightGear pilots

2011-09-05 Thread Peter Morgan
anyone looked at docbook. It would solve the problem.. but its a horrible to use.. but there again that was with my experience a few years ago doing a major update to smarty.php (had to it as my team was using it and was paid as thus by my boss) I certainly think that a "html5/xml" approach is coo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cmake

2011-09-05 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis Olson wrote: > Is there support for the --prefix= concept of autoconf? -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${FG_HOME} Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -- --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cmake

2011-09-05 Thread Curtis Olson
Is there support for the --prefix= concept of autoconf? I really struggled to find anything like that in OSG's cmake config and it appeared I would be forced to define a really ugly/long list of environment variables before running make install in order to accomplish a similar thing (installing so

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cmake

2011-09-05 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis Olson wrote: > I'm just hoping the cmake jocks will put themselves in the position of > non-cmake jocks and help ease the transition from multiple fronts for many > of our different classes of users/developers. With CMake there's a list of flags you're appending to the 'cmake' call similar

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cmake

2011-09-05 Thread Curtis Olson
So I have nothing against cmake, it sounds like it offers some nice features. But I assume those that want to push this change forward, will take some time to write up some basic howto's so that people who have never used it as a developer can get up to speed without too many problems? Right now

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cmake

2011-09-05 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
Hi, On Monday, September 05, 2011 14:47:44 Alan Teeder wrote: > Please don´t. > > I reverted from VC100 to VC90 as the Cmake process was always failing. > There is a difference between Hudson saying that all is OK with Cmake and > Visual Studio VC100 producing working executables. > > This was

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Links for new FlightGear pilots

2011-09-05 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On 1 Sep 2011, at 08:37, Jörg Emmerich wrote: > I wanted to introduce that outcome about end of this month to the > dev-team, to see especially whether the "Originators of the getstart" > still find their share in what I did, and concur to this change. I hope > nobody feels offended by my partly dr

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The future of FlightGear's support programs

2011-09-05 Thread Peter Sadrozinski
Sigh, it's true. I became aware of the OGR frontend just as the parser was being completed :( Nothing like a good programming exercise to become familiar with the code, though. Also, after playing with ogr2ogr, I have a couple issues. The first, is that the parser has a couple bugs. These can

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cmake

2011-09-05 Thread Alan Teeder
Please don´t. I reverted from VC100 to VC90 as the Cmake process was always failing. There is a difference between Hudson saying that all is OK with Cmake and Visual Studio VC100 producing working executables. This was all with the de-facto standard 3rd party package from ftp://ftp.ihg.uni-dui

[Flightgear-devel] Cmake

2011-09-05 Thread James Turner
Hello everybody, Following some discussion at LinuxTag, and since, there is a rough consensus from the active C++ developers, to switch the FlightGear build system to Cmake (instead of automake / custom VisualStudio projects). To avoid having multiple build systems maintained in parallel, and c

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Two aircraft-related issues

2011-09-05 Thread thorsten . i . renk
>> ZLT-NT and Nordstern: I can't place the mooring mast, which is supposed >> to be alt+click. > I would suspect the window manager, both aircraft use the same mechanism > and I've seen it working here as recently as yesterday. It should be a > left click while holding the (left, on my keyboard) A