Re: [Flightgear-devel] instrument patches

2010-03-11 Thread syd adams
Hello James , I just updated your commits and tested , thanks. But I see another issue that bothers me ... originally I didnt initialize the parameters UNLESS the airspeed indicator had an overspeed needle ... but now even without , the alt-threshold , ias-limit ,and mach-limit are visible . That

Re: [Flightgear-devel] instrument patches

2010-03-10 Thread syd adams
Thanks Tim, I have occasionally submitted patches , starting way back , nothing significant , so I know what happens... I guess I hoped for more discussion of why the changes were requires , my mine weren't , etc. Just to help me into the flow... But nothing serious , I'm on to the next project :)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] instrument patches

2010-03-10 Thread Tim Moore
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:44 PM, syd adams wrote: > OK I'll consider myself out-voted :) > It is a bit of a turn off though, when I try to fix some minor issues and > get back into the coding side of things. and its immediately rewritten > without notice. > But I guess that's better than it being

Re: [Flightgear-devel] instrument patches

2010-03-10 Thread syd adams
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:29 AM, James Turner wrote: > > On 10 Mar 2010, at 15:44, syd adams wrote: > > > It is a bit of a turn off though, when I try to fix some minor issues and > get back into the coding side of things. and its immediately rewritten > without notice. > > I apologise for commit

Re: [Flightgear-devel] instrument patches

2010-03-10 Thread James Turner
On 10 Mar 2010, at 15:44, syd adams wrote: > It is a bit of a turn off though, when I try to fix some minor issues and get > back into the coding side of things. and its immediately rewritten without > notice. I apologise for committing the modified changes without asking - I felt my modifica

Re: [Flightgear-devel] instrument patches

2010-03-10 Thread syd adams
OK I'll consider myself out-voted :) It is a bit of a turn off though, when I try to fix some minor issues and get back into the coding side of things. and its immediately rewritten without notice. But I guess that's better than it being completely ignored ;) My main wish is that the enabling opti

Re: [Flightgear-devel] instrument patches

2010-03-10 Thread Anders Gidenstam
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, James Turner wrote: > Maybe my comment about 'changed from Nasal' was misleading, I'm not > really suggesting these properties particularly need to be dynamically > configured, but for example it does mean the values can be tweaked in > the Property Inspector during aircraf

Re: [Flightgear-devel] instrument patches

2010-03-10 Thread James Turner
On 10 Mar 2010, at 07:27, adams@gmail.com wrote: > Ive had a better look at the changes you made to my patch ... could you > please change them back ? > I'd prefer the option of setting these in the instrumentation.xml file , and > for safety sake , add the default settings back. > I apprec

Re: [Flightgear-devel] instrument patches

2010-03-09 Thread adams . syd
Hi James , Ive had a better look at the changes you made to my patch ... could you please change them back ? I'd prefer the option of setting these in the instrumentation.xml file , and for safety sake , add the default settings back. I appreciate your time on this , but consider the time i sp

Re: [Flightgear-devel] instrument patches

2010-03-09 Thread syd adams
P.S. - the ias and mach limits are read each frame, so they could (potentially) be updated from Nasal dont know if I like this idea , the intent was to install a specific instrument at startup ... oh well :) Cheers -- D

Re: [Flightgear-devel] instrument patches

2010-03-09 Thread syd adams
Hi James , I have one request (since you have write access) , could you change that option to ? Dont know if that slang would be clear to everyone , but Im sure everyone understands "overspeed". If your planning on further changes , two facts seem to pop up consistently while researching this : 1

Re: [Flightgear-devel] instrument patches

2010-03-09 Thread syd adams
If you see places for improvement or accuracy , updates are welcome . This was based on the nasal code , and I didnt research much other than to read the pages listed in that nasal piece. And thanks for reading and commiting , James. Cheers On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:19 AM, James Turner wrote: >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] instrument patches

2010-03-09 Thread James Turner
On 9 Mar 2010, at 09:18, James Turner wrote: >> Could someone take a look and commit please ? > > I'm testing these now, and will commit in a couple of moments. Committed now, with some changes: - I've switched the pressure-alt source to be configurable, instead of hard-coded; it defaults to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] instrument patches

2010-03-09 Thread James Turner
On 9 Mar 2010, at 07:04, syd adams wrote: > The patch also includes the dme nav2 fix that I posted previously. > > Could someone take a look and commit please ? I'm testing these now, and will commit in a couple of moments. James --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] instrument patches

2010-03-09 Thread Victhor
Thanks! I've been looking for this for ages! :) > Hello , > This patch adds the option of a barber pole in the airspeed > indicator, adapted from K. Hoercher's nasal code for my b1900d... > It is enabled like this in the instrumentation.xml file : > > > airspeed-indicator >

[Flightgear-devel] instrument patches

2010-03-08 Thread syd adams
Hello , This patch adds the option of a barber pole in the airspeed indicator, adapted from K. Hoercher's nasal code for my b1900d... It is enabled like this in the instrumentation.xml file : airspeed-indicator 0 /systems/pitot/total-pressure-inhg /systems