Re: [Flightgear-devel] Patch: FOV automatic compensation for wider screens

2012-10-08 Thread ThorstenB
On 7 Oct 2012, at 15:19, Stuart Buchanan wrote: The use-case is to enable or disable particular views if you don't want to have to spend ages cycling through them. I also quite like this option. Some a/c also provide many additional custom views. It's handy to just enable the personal

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to compile getstart latex source file?

2012-10-08 Thread tong hui
Hi, all I have compiled it successfully ! First of all, I install lndir with: sudo apt-get install xutils-dev And then: sudo bin/makegetstart.sh en pdf All done ! On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 6:15 AM, Pedro Morgan p...@freeflightsim.org wrote: On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Martin Spott

[Flightgear-devel] Useful feedback and the other thing (was: Merge request #181)

2012-10-08 Thread Renk Thorsten
Hi Emilian, Understood... I will refrain from any further tests/opinions on this topic then. Please accept my apologies, and disregard any of the issues I've raised. Everything's working smooth, and looks better than IRL... it's just my imagination playing tricks, better get my eyes checked

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to compile getstart latex source file?

2012-10-08 Thread Martin Spott
tong hui wrote: I have compiled it successfully ! That's great. If I were you, I'd ping Stuart Buchanan to set our source repo up in a way so you can maintain the Chinese translation alongside with the English source (and other translations). At the beginning it'll probably going to require a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to compile getstart latex source file?

2012-10-08 Thread Martin Spott
Pedro Morgan wrote: Umm.. here ? http://www.flightgear.org/Docs/getstart/index.html As written on the Wiki main page, The Manual is hosted here: http://mapserver.flightgear.org/getstart.pdf http://mapserver.flightgear.org/getstart/ (This place wasn't my preferred choice, but it was the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Patch: FOV automatic compensation for wider screens

2012-10-08 Thread James Turner
On 8 Oct 2012, at 07:47, ThorstenB wrote: On 7 Oct 2012, at 15:19, Stuart Buchanan wrote: The use-case is to enable or disable particular views if you don't want to have to spend ages cycling through them. I also quite like this option. Some a/c also provide many additional custom views.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to compile getstart latex source file?

2012-10-08 Thread Martin Spott
Pedro Morgan wrote: Not a bash user, so this stuff is ,kinda new but a new builld script here (more options) and work in progress https://gitorious.org/~ffs/fg/ffs-getstart/blobs/b132c71c290bae8d48b9c3eaa99edb2e6e1d999b/bin/make_getstart.sh Thanks, I'll check. As a side note: I've started

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to compile getstart latex source file?

2012-10-08 Thread tong hui
Why not re-write this manual in markdown? I think markdown is very comfortable for both print and read online. On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Martin Spott martin.sp...@mgras.net wrote: Pedro Morgan wrote: Not a bash user, so this stuff is ,kinda new but a new builld script here (more

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to compile getstart latex source file?

2012-10-08 Thread Martin Spott
tong hui wrote: Why not re-write this manual in markdown? Substitute markdown by everbody's personal favourites and you're getting an idea of past discussions ;-) Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Engine sound and HSI problems with Lightning

2012-10-08 Thread AJ MacLeod
On Sun, 07 Oct 2012 20:53:06 +0200 ThorstenB wrote: Initially, they are both 0 (no voltage output, hence the gyro isn't spinning). When full thrust is applied, voltage output goes to 115.0016 and the gyro starts spinning (voltage seems a bit high, but the code isn't simulating overvoltage

[Flightgear-devel] Stand-alone ATC client and Canvas

2012-10-08 Thread Fernando García Liñán
Hello everyone, Since mid-summer I've been working on a free and open-source stand-alone ATC client written in C++, totally from scratch with the help of the GTKmm GUI toolkit (http://www.gtkmm.org/en/) and the Cairo 2D graphics library ( http://www.cairographics.org/). I started this as a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Stand-alone ATC client and Canvas

2012-10-08 Thread Martin Spott
Fernando García Liñán wrote: So as said in the FlightGear's wiki article about the subject, [...] Do you have an URL available ? Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Stand-alone ATC client and Canvas

2012-10-08 Thread Fernando García Liñán
Sure: http://wiki.flightgear.org/Stand_Alone_ATC_Control_Development 2012/10/8 Martin Spott martin.sp...@mgras.net Fernando García Liñán wrote: So as said in the FlightGear's wiki article about the subject, [...] Do you have an URL available ? Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Stand-alone ATC client and Canvas

2012-10-08 Thread Martin Spott
Fernando García Liñán wrote: Sure: http://wiki.flightgear.org/Stand_Alone_ATC_Control_Development Thanks - I took the freedom to remove the stupid comment ;-) Thanks, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Stand-alone ATC client and Canvas

2012-10-08 Thread Fernando García
But I guess it is not that useless. A stand-alone ATC client can really get affected by Canvas, even more now that people are working on an ATC aircraft using Canvas. I would leave that comment since (at least for me) it was useful. Icecode.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Stand-alone ATC client and Canvas

2012-10-08 Thread Martin Spott
Fernando García wrote: But I guess it is not that useless. Well, but the wording You are advised not to start working on anything directly related to this is highly inappropriate. Apparently someone has completely failed to understand the topic. Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Engine sound and HSI problems with Lightning

2012-10-08 Thread Alan Teeder
The HSI is now stable, but does not agree with the other compasses. Is there a gyro alignment procedure that I need to learn? Alan -Original Message- From: AJ MacLeod Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 11:43 AM To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Engine

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Engine sound and HSI problems with Lightning

2012-10-08 Thread ThorstenB
On 8 Oct 2012, at 14:35, Alan Teeder wrote: The HSI is now stable, but does not agree with the other compasses. Is there a gyro alignment procedure that I need to learn? Yes. It's one of the pilot's duties as part of the pre-start checklist ;-). Also something which needs to be done every

[Flightgear-devel] FG Steering Committee :-) Was: Stand-alone ATC client and Canvas

2012-10-08 Thread Martin Spott
On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 09:33:36PM +, Martin Spott wrote: Well, but the wording You are advised not to start working on anything directly related to this is highly inappropriate. Apparently someone has completely failed to understand the topic. It came to my attention he's a Wiki

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG Steering Committee :-) Was: Stand-alone ATC client and Canvas

2012-10-08 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 9 Oct 2012 00:34:13 +0200, Martin wrote in message 20121008223413.ga1...@cray1.mgras.de: On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 09:33:36PM +, Martin Spott wrote: Well, but the wording You are advised not to start working on anything directly related to this is highly inappropriate.