* experimental clean-up / reduction on two of the FG headers:
(I'm going to await feedback on the developers list before doing more of
these, to avoiding going over files multiple times, but in principle it
seems pretty straightforward.)
* final fixes for SG_USING_STD removal
- this exposed a bizarre issue on Mac where dragging in <AGL/agl.h> in
extensions.hxx was pulling in all of Carbon to the global namespace
- very scary. As a result, I now need to explicitly include CoreFoundation
in fg_init.cxx.
- change SG_USING_STD(x) to using std::x
SimGear change. It changes all the SG_xxxx to be the 'real' includes, and gets
rid of many #ifdef SG_HAVE_STD_INCLUDES. As an added bonus, rather than
replacing 'SG_USING_NAMESPACE(std)' with 'using namespace std', I just fixed
the small number of places to use std:: explicitly. So we're no longer polluting
the global namespace with the entire contents of std, in many cases.
There is one more 'mechanical' change to come - getting rid of SG_USING_STD(X),
but I want to keep that separate from everything else. (There's another
mechnical change, replacing <math.h> with <cmath> and so on *everywhere*, but
one step at a time)
* fix a problem where the wrong node-name length was returned
* xmlgrep now also works when only the -e options is specified
* fix xmlgrep to show the correct node-name (it reported the parent
node-name in the previous version)
* add the xmlGetNodeName and xmlCopyNodeName functions
* add the xmlCopyString function
* clean up some code
'xmlgrep -v' now returns the proper node name
* rewrite the code to always recursively walk the node tree when searching
for a particular node. this is required for cases where a node with a
particular name is located deeper in a node with the same name;
for example -r /configuration/device/reference/device would fail in the
previous verion
* rename xmlGetElement to xmlGetNodeNum and add the possibility to request
the nth node with this name
* rename xmlGetNumElements to xmlGetNumNodes
The drawback is that this is approach slows down processing the files a bit,
but at least it can now find any xml node in any xml file.
Also, no more function changes are planned from now on.
* depreciate __xmlFindNextElement and use __xmlGetNode instead
* xmlGetNextElement now returns char* instead of void* for furute use
* add preliminary support for wildcards in the search path ('*' and '?')
a running copy of FlightGear (no need to have FlightGear running on weaker
powered groundstations.)
- Add a test for "valid" gps data.
- Pretty print gps coordinates in debug output.
a aerial photo texture. You need to determine the coordinates of the 4
corners of your image and this utility will use that to build a 3d model
in meters and tell you the information to copy into the proper .stg file.
one file per type in a simple binary conglomeration of packets with no headers
or checksumming (this format is intended for local storage only, not to be
transmitted on the fly over a noisy communication pipe.)
utils/Modeller/Makefile.am src/FDM/YASim/Makefile.am:
Remove -lssg from the linker lines.
Do no longer build threedconvert. A very similar functionality
is available with osgvconv. But leave threedconvert in place
if somebody will need that ...
You'll find attached the modified fgadmin that takes care of
'Objects' and 'Terrain' if they exist. I also implemented the
'Check all' / 'Check none' feature you suggested several months
ago.
passing it along to FlightGear.) I notice that the serial port read only
seems to work correctly if I read one character at a time. Multicharacter
reads seem very unreliable.
Yesterday night it occurred to me that the current handling of missing METAR
strings isn't good enough:
- in case of missing METAR strings, don't re-send the last successful string,
but the last successful string sent to *this* client. (If one client is
running in virtual December, it won't be happy about dropped in summer
weather.)
- fix a bug that allowed -vc notation (options -v and -c), but broke a lot of
other notations (-b/var/tmp). Only -v can now be accumulated again, as
in -vvvv.
Here's a Perl implementation of a METAR proxy server. Tested on Linux only, but
should work on all Unices, and possibly on Windows, too. Its purpose is to:
- provide METAR data for machines without internet connection
- centralize METAR fetching: one machine in a network runs the proxy, all
other connect to the proxy
- deliver defined and reproducible weather for educational purposes
- save weather situations for later use in fgfs
Quick instructions to download the world weather for the last 3 hours
and run proxy and fgfs with it (~ 2MB download; for less bandwidth
consumption see the --record mode):
$ metarproxy --download 3h
$ metarproxy -v -c &
$ fgfs --proxy=localhost:5509 --time-offset=-2 --enable-real-weather-fetch
I made these changes because fltk doesn't recognize path
\\SERVER\SHARE as a normal directory, although plib/ul
function succeed at enumerating the content of such a
path.
I had that problem when I decided to test FG on a loaned
HP xw4100 workstation. I installed it over the network and
the install-source became \\myserver\myshare\. with no
scenery files detected.
I made some changes to current CVS :
- the window is gently resizable, keeping the buttons' height
unchanged, with a minimun size,
- the current activity ( installation or removal ) is displayed
in the progress bar,
- the progress status is exact. For installation, I am
using the total bytes read vs the file size. I had to hack
untarka somehow and bzip2 and Z methods needs to be implemented.
For removal, I am counting files by in-depth traversal, in the
same way remove_dir is working. This seems very quick and
the overhead is unnoticable.
- the Quit button is the only way to quit the program, and it is
deactivated during work. Otherwise, we can get the window hidden
but the program still running in background.
- cleanup on start options that seemed to be copied from fgrun.
Valid options are now :
--silent
to write fgadmin.prefs and stop immediately
--install-source=<DIR>
--scenery-dest=<DIR>
