Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2D panel display problem -- fixed? sort of

2012-06-24 Thread Catherine James
>for me its a feature and not a bug! > D-NXKT I'm fine with having that [2D panel shown regardless of selected view] as an optional feature, but it shouldn't be the default because it doesn't reflect reality. The current menu switch to turn 2D panel on and off is NOT adequate, because I have t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2D panel display problem -- fixed? sort of

2012-06-24 Thread James Turner
On 23 Jun 2012, at 19:50, syd adams wrote: > Back when i started the ATC 'aircraft' , Csaba added an autohide > feature to 2d panels . This keeps them on the display regardless of > view direction. 0 needs to be added to the base > panel xml file. Aircraft/ATC/MP-ATC-panel.xml uses it. Except, i

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2D panel display problem -- fixed? sort of

2012-06-23 Thread syd adams
. Indeed I would prefer to > make it visible for all views (at the moment the panel is only visible in > forward-view direction). I think such a behavior could be an advantage over > the 3D panels. > > > I think there's already a property (and if not I can trivially add one) to > control this behav

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2D panel display problem -- fixed? sort of

2012-06-23 Thread James Turner
On 23 Jun 2012, at 10:56, D-NXKT wrote: > for me it's a feature and not a bug! > I often find it useful to watch the instruments while NOT sitting in the > cockpit. And since the panel can be switched off interactively it's up to the > user or aircraft author to enable it or not. Indeed I would

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2D panel display problem -- fixed? sort of

2012-06-23 Thread D-NXKT
Hello, for me it's a feature and not a bug! I often find it useful to watch the instruments while NOT sitting in the cockpit. And since the panel can be switched off interactively it's up to the user or aircraft author to enable it or not. Indeed I would prefer to make it visible for all views

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2D panel display problem -- fixed? sort of

2012-06-23 Thread James Turner
On 23 Jun 2012, at 08:16, Catherine James wrote: > I recently found a bug in some of the latest git build (next branch, June 13 > and later). When flying planes such as the T-38 with a 2D panel, the 2D > panel is always displayed even when you are using an outside view. This bug > did not ex

[Flightgear-devel] 2D panel display problem -- fixed? sort of

2012-06-22 Thread Catherine James
I recently found a bug in some of the latest git build (next branch, June 13 and later). When flying planes such as the T-38 with a 2D panel, the 2D panel is always displayed even when you are using an outside view. This bug did not exist in 2.6. I've created a patch 3 lines long that fixes t

[Flightgear-devel] 2D panel breakage

2012-03-24 Thread James Turner
As part of some work on cleaning up picking and mouse-interaction in the OSG scene, I recently converted 2D and 2.5D panels to be picked via the 'normal' hit-testing mechanism. Unfortunately this has broken some panels, due to some latent bad behaviour: http://files.goneabitbursar.com/f

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d panel visibility

2011-05-31 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 31 May 2011 15:46:32 -0500, Curtis wrote in message : > Thanks everyone for the responses. > > So far the Anders' suggestion of using screen.nas seems to have the > most promise. Torsten: I have another project I want to use the > fgpanel system for, but with this project we are trying

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d panel visibility

2011-05-31 Thread Curtis Olson
Thanks everyone for the responses. So far the Anders' suggestion of using screen.nas seems to have the most promise. Torsten: I have another project I want to use the fgpanel system for, but with this project we are trying to keep the logistics of starting things up as simple as possible, also I'

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d panel visibility

2011-05-31 Thread Hal V. Engel
On Tuesday, May 31, 2011 11:00:58 AM Curtis Olson wrote: > I could be imagining this, but I seem to recall a while back, someone > asking if it was possible to keep a 2d panel visible all the time, even in > external views. I just took a quick peek at .../Cockpit/panel.cxx and it > doesn't appear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d panel visibility

2011-05-31 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 31.05.11 20:00, schrieb Curtis Olson: Are there any other options or ideas that I'm missing? Can you spawn an external application and render it's output window on top of FlightGear? If so, fgpanel might be worth looking at. You find it in utils/fgpanel and an example how to use it is in Ai

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d panel visibility

2011-05-31 Thread Anders Gidenstam
On Tue, 31 May 2011, Curtis Olson wrote: > I am working on a project where we are modeling a skydiver in free fall, and > we want to display some basic information on the edge of the screen (like > decent rate). But because this is not an aircraft, it makes more sense to > use external views. Al

[Flightgear-devel] 2d panel visibility

2011-05-31 Thread Curtis Olson
I could be imagining this, but I seem to recall a while back, someone asking if it was possible to keep a 2d panel visible all the time, even in external views. I just took a quick peek at .../Cockpit/panel.cxx and it doesn't appear that we have the ability to do this, but I just thought I'd ask i

[Flightgear-devel] 2d panel instruments

2008-09-23 Thread Koch Máté
Hi all, I'm working on a new cockpit and found a problem. I use 2D panel because of some reasons and placed every element of the panel as instrument (even the static, background elements). It looks fine, but has got a big problem: if an instrument is overlapping an other one, it's active area stop

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d panel question

2008-07-23 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 23:27 +0200, Erik Hofman wrote: > The README.xmlpanel file shows what I already seemed to remember: > > Regarding Window Geometry: > - > For the sake of simplicity the FGFS window is always considered to be > 1024x768 so all x/y values for instrum

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d panel question

2008-07-23 Thread Erik Hofman
The README.xmlpanel file shows what I already seemed to remember: Regarding Window Geometry: - For the sake of simplicity the FGFS window is always considered to be 1024x768 so all x/y values for instrument placement should relative to these dimensions. Since FG uses

[Flightgear-devel] 2d panel question

2008-07-23 Thread Curtis Olson
My brain cells are running out of steam this afternoon so I thought I'd post this to the list to see if anyone has a quick answer or suggestion. Here's the situation. I am working on setting up a flight simulator with a cockpit enclosure and physical cockpit controls. The display consists of one

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2D panel and hud

2008-07-17 Thread LeeE
On Thursday 17 July 2008, Bebesi Janos wrote: > Thanks for your help leeE, > > > now i have a new problem. Could you tell me, how can i change the > view sequences in fgfs? Now the 2D panel hide the HUD but i want > to change them. so i want to see the hud before the 2D panel, not > behind that. >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2D panel [OT}

2008-07-17 Thread Vivian Meazza
Lee wrote > > Sorry to go off thread. I've emailed you a couple of times but > > they bounced. I want to resurrect the RNHF Seahawk livery, but I > > seem to have lost it here - do you have a copy? > > > > Vivian > > Hi Vivian, > > were you sending it to my old e-mail address? Had a new one fo

[Flightgear-devel] 2D panel and hud

2008-07-17 Thread Bebesi Janos
Thanks for your help leeE, now i have a new problem. Could you tell me, how can i change the view sequences in fgfs? Now the 2D panel hide the HUD but i want to change them. so i want to see the hud before the 2D panel, not behind that. Thanks for your help. Janos ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2D panel [OT}

2008-07-16 Thread LeeE
On Wednesday 16 July 2008, Vivian Meazza wrote: > Lee, > > Sorry to go off thread. I've emailed you a couple of times but > they bounced. I want to resurrect the RNHF Seahawk livery, but I > seem to have lost it here - do you have a copy? > > Vivian Hi Vivian, were you sending it to my old e-mail

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2D panel [OT}

2008-07-16 Thread Vivian Meazza
Lee, Sorry to go off thread. I've emailed you a couple of times but they bounced. I want to resurrect the RNHF Seahawk livery, but I seem to have lost it here - do you have a copy? Vivian - This SF.Net email is sponsored

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2D panel

2008-07-16 Thread LeeE
On Wednesday 16 July 2008, Bebesi Janos wrote: > Hello, > > Could somebody tell me, how can i creat 2D panel which will be > visible in different views? It shold be visible from outside > view, like from inside view. > > Thanks for your help > > Janos I have not updated my local cvs copy for a whi

[Flightgear-devel] 2D panel

2008-07-16 Thread Bebesi Janos
Hello, Could somebody tell me, how can i creat 2D panel which will be visible in different views? It shold be visible from outside view, like from inside view. Thanks for your help Janos ___ Genertel casco szenzációs áron! A Genertelnél elfelejtheti, amit eddig a casc

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d panel ...

2006-10-24 Thread Mike Dusseault
On 10/23/06, syd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Mike,Ive run across the same problem occasionally , with 2d panels in a 3dcockpit. I think the best solution is to add  something like this...--- snip ---Thanks for the help, Syd!  I'll try that out.  Makes sense.  Well, it wasn't a loss since I learne

[Flightgear-devel] 2d panel ...

2006-10-23 Thread syd
Hi Mike, Ive run across the same problem occasionally , with 2d panels in a 3d cockpit. I think the best solution is to add something like this... panel1 < " dimensions , etc..."> and then a sorting layer like so ... Sort panel1 panel2 cockpit whatever this will set the o

[Flightgear-devel] 2d panel in 3d cockpit drawing over everything

2006-10-22 Thread Mike Dusseault
Ok, I've been trying to figure out how to fix this for HOURS and I really hope someone has a clue how to fix this.  I'm starting out a C172R model with the Nav III avionics (i.e. glass cockpit).  So I'm trying to get the basics up and working properly from the C172R plane. If you try it out and mov

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d panel clipping...

2006-09-26 Thread flying.toaster
My mistake, the right link is http://sfp1.site.voila.fr/images/2dpit.png (case sensitive :( ) > Message du 27/09/06 à 01h59 > De : "Syd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > A : flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Copie à : > Objet : [Flightgear-devel] 2d panel clippin

[Flightgear-devel] 2d panel clipping...

2006-09-26 Thread Syd
> > I have read with some interest the post regarding the new 2D panel > code (clipping within a layer) because I am running into the > following problem with the 2D "aerobatic" panel of the Su-26 : > > http://sfp1.site.voila.fr/images/2Dpit.png > > This screenshot has been taken with the lates

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d panel instruments...

2006-09-19 Thread Syd
Hi all, after updating from cvs a couple of days ago I found that all the 2d instruments I use for displaying info appear to be cropped into the top left hand corner and are now unreadable. Anyone else seeing this? I suspect it's something to do with 're-sizing' them in the panel.xml file - i

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d panel idea / question...

2006-08-22 Thread Dave Culp
> Just wondering if it is possible to clip 2d instruments to keep > textures / text from sliding around on the panel /windshield: AFAIK this has always been a limitation of the 2D panels. > Also could a groundspeed property be added to /velocities property > tree without too much difficulty? I'

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d panel idea / question...

2006-08-22 Thread Syd
Hi all , Just wondering if it is possible to clip 2d instruments to keep textures / text from sliding around on the panel /windshield: I never noticed this before I'm more into 3d panels... but if a 2d instrument could be clipped / cropped it would make PFD's /MFD's ,etc much easier to implement..

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2D Panel memory leak

2006-06-21 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* dene maxwell -- Wednesday 21 June 2006 22:55: > I answered a previous post before before reading yours could this > problem have existed for a while (previous versions)? No. It was a kind of copy&paste error that I committed recently, with this log message: revision 1.47 date: 2006-06-

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2D Panel memory leak

2006-06-21 Thread dene maxwell
>From: Melchior FRANZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: FlightGear developers discussions > >To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2D Panel memory leak >Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 21:54:54 +0200 > >* Lee Elliott -- Wednesday 21

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2D Panel memory leak

2006-06-21 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Lee Elliott -- Wednesday 21 June 2006 21:39: > I haven't tried using other fonts yet either, to establish if > it's just with the LED font or with any font. Fixed. Sorry too all. :-) m. All the advantages of Linux Managed Hosting--Without the Cost and Risk! Fully trained technicians. The hig

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2D Panel memory leak

2006-06-21 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Lee Elliott wrote: > Hi all, > > I think I may have a lead on this now, and it turns out that > there was a connection with the 2D radio stacks but probably not > one that many would suspect. > > First of all I commented out all the instruments on both the vfr > and mini panels to see if just re

[Flightgear-devel] 2D Panel memory leak

2006-06-21 Thread Lee Elliott
Hi all, I think I may have a lead on this now, and it turns out that there was a connection with the 2D radio stacks but probably not one that many would suspect. First of all I commented out all the instruments on both the vfr and mini panels to see if just revealing/loading the panels start

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d panel question

2006-02-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Jean-Yves Lefort wrote: http://javky.rozhled.cz/jprojdwn.php?id=fgfsl410/l410-0.9.9-src-v4.0.tar.gz Search for "JVK" in src/Cockpit/panel* I've added this part of the patch (and I've renamed 'emisive' to 'emissive'). I still have to scan the rest of the patch. Erik -- http://www.ehtw.inf

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d panel question

2006-02-16 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jean-Yves Lefort wrote: On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:16:03 -0600 "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a 2d panel question. I want to make an annunciator light for a 2d panel. But, I don't want it to have any of the default panel illumination at night. I want it to be dark when

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d panel question

2006-02-16 Thread Jean-Yves Lefort
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:16:03 -0600 "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a 2d panel question. > > I want to make an annunciator light for a 2d panel. But, I don't want > it to have any of the default panel illumination at night. I want it to > be dark when the light is off, an

[Flightgear-devel] 2d panel question

2006-02-15 Thread Curtis L. Olson
I have a 2d panel question. I want to make an annunciator light for a 2d panel. But, I don't want it to have any of the default panel illumination at night. I want it to be dark when the light is off, and lit when the light is on. But at night, the default panel illumination makes it diffic