Re: [Flightgear-devel] Training tool

2007-12-19 Thread Shad Young
Stuart Buchanan wrote: > Shad Young wrote: > >> Hi Stuart, >> >> Sadly I have never heard of the Nasal Scripting Language. I will Google. >> > > The short summary is that Nasal is a scripting language that is tightly > integrated with FlightGear itself, and provides a very easy way to ma

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Training tool

2007-12-19 Thread Shad Young
Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * Shad Young -- Wednesday 19 December 2007: > >> I wanted to keep it cross-platform, but now that there is mention of an >> HTML interface, I am going to suggest to my client that a PHP/web >> interface might be a good way to go. But then again, this might require >> a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Training tool

2007-12-19 Thread Stuart Buchanan
Shad Young wrote: > Hi Stuart, > > Sadly I have never heard of the Nasal Scripting Language. I will Google. The short summary is that Nasal is a scripting language that is tightly integrated with FlightGear itself, and provides a very easy way to manipulate the property tree, which is the core

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Training tool

2007-12-19 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Shad Young -- Wednesday 19 December 2007: > I wanted to keep it cross-platform, but now that there is mention of an > HTML interface, I am going to suggest to my client that a PHP/web > interface might be a good way to go. But then again, this might require > an embedded server to provide "out

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Training tool

2007-12-19 Thread Shad Young
Hi Stuart, Sadly I have never heard of the Nasal Scripting Language. I will Google it and see what I can learn. The aircraft in question is the Pilatus PC-9, so I was thinking of extending the existing PC-7 to reflect the more powerful engine etc. Cheers Shad Stuart Buchanan wrote: > Shad You

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Training tool

2007-12-19 Thread Shad Young
Hi Torsten, Thank you for your reply. I have a lot of learning to do before I can begin to start on extending some functionality. I appreciate your pointers to what I need to look at. I wanted to keep it cross-platform, but now that there is mention of an HTML interface, I am going to suggest

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Training tool

2007-12-19 Thread Stuart Buchanan
Shad Young wrote: > I am coming from the MSFS world and have not had a lot of time to > explore FlightGear yet in great detail (been having to much fun flying > it). The next thing to do will be to include specific hydraulic > failures, as these seem to be lacking, or did I miss this? Hi Shad,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Training tool

2007-12-19 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi Shad, what you want to do should be possible. Many internals are exposed through the property tree, which is accesible in many ways. There is a http and a telnet interface ready for use. A powerful thing is the interface with a freely configurable protocol to send and receive properties. Th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Training tool

2007-12-18 Thread Shad Young
Thanks John, As this will be running in Windows (could not convince the client to go Linux), I was going to use a GUI based interface. I was thinking C++ but am open to alternate suggestions. I am coming from the MSFS world and have not had a lot of time to explore FlightGear yet in great deta

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Training tool

2007-12-18 Thread John Denker
On 12/18/2007 06:04 PM, Shad Young wrote: > I have been contracted to help develop a > multi-seat training simulator in which the instructor can trigger > failures to individual users in a 25 seat to 1 instructor classroom. The > school in which I am developing this for would prefer to use

[Flightgear-devel] Training tool

2007-12-18 Thread Shad Young
Hi all, I am new to the list. I have been contracted to help develop a multi-seat training simulator in which the instructor can trigger failures to individual users in a 25 seat to 1 instructor classroom. The school in which I am developing this for would prefer to use FlightGear in that it i