work on the pa28 idle and without creating ridiculous side effects
(like being able to fly the aircraft with the starter motor, heh).
This one looks pretty good for now, pending work on the propeller to
get its low speed drag in line with reality.
reads the /consumables tree for input to determine weights, but
places output only in /engines/engine[n]/fuel-consumed-lbs where
it gets picked up by the Nasal code.
This is a fix for my earlier "Remove some hardcoded dependencies between fdm,
viewer and acmodel" patch. The problem was discovered when testing the
wrightFlyer.
deriving a class and the base class used this type.) Return to using
const char and hope people compiling against earlier versions of plib
have compilers that think typedef const char cchar; char *abc; is equivalent
to const char *abd;
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.
This patch adds the ability to do a simple scaling of input without having to
add hardcoded helpers. Example:
<reference>
<prop>/autopilot/settings/vertical-speed-fpm</prop>
<scale>0.01667</scale>
</reference>
The message 'Alert: catching up on tile delete queue'
comes from the fact that 48 tiles are scheduled and
added to the cache at startup before the plane location
is initialized. My proposed patch is to initialize
SGLocation with an invalid position and detect this
fact before scheduling tiles. I prefer to do that
rather than testing for lon and lat being 0,0 because
it is a valid position and someone could want to fly
near Accra.
This patch is for windows only. It hides the console window
until there is a message to print. It only support SG_LOG,
that I think is the right way to display something in FG.
Add FGPredictor class to xmlauto. Add support for horizontal navigation based
on flight track as opposed to heading. Add crosstrack-error support to nav.
Simplify error adjust calculation for horizontal nav (better interception).
Fixed potential divide by zero that was producing nan issues in the xmlauto
code.
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>
I've done som more work on the gps instrument.
- You can now input airport-, nav- or fix-ID to select a waypoint.
- You have to specify either "airport", "nav" or "fix" in the waypoint-type
property (some fixes and navs have identical IDs).
- Formatted the time to waypoint output.
- Cleaned up and changed some propery names (wp-heading -> wp-bearing).
- I've also added a name member to the FGNav class so that the gps instrument
can get the name of the nav.
- Changed the airport name parsing in simple.cxx.
I've done some changes to xmlauto.cxx.
Only calculate the derivate filtering if derivate time Td is greater than
zero. This means that one can set Td=0.0 in the xml file to completely remove
the derivate action. (Setting Td to zero in the current version would lead to
a division by zero and crash.)
Setting the integrator time Ti to zero doesn't make sense, right! I've
modified so that setting Ti to zero results in the integral action being
completely removed.
