someguy wrote in Sat Mar 19, 2011 8:03 pm:Gral, I eventually got FGX to work, mostly. I'm using OS X 10.6.6. I frankly don't know what sequence of entering manual paths and switching to and from "built-in" finally got the paths to work; I tried a lot of different things over 30 minutes or so. A few early observations:
First, thanks for testing someguy. "Built-in" deactivates all manually set paths, so when you check "built-in" FGX takes built-in Flightgear program and data. Except for scenery, it will look for downloaded scenery too. When you uncheck "built-in" you have to know a path to another installed Flightgear binary, useful when you like to test a own installation or when you use a nightly build from hudson, or whatelse
someguy wrote in Sat Mar 19, 2011 8:03 pm:All of the installed aircraft appear in the FGX drop-down menu, but fgfs can't find some of them according to the Terminal message, and so it aborts if one of those was selected.
This is not directly related to FGX. The launcher scans the aircraft directory and takes the names of the aircraft folders. Some of the folder names does not correspond with launch name of the xml definition, but as I remember this should be a standard for aircrafts in Flightgear. I will have a closer look to the aircrafts in basic FGX data installation, at least for the small amount of standard aircrafts this should be corrected.
someguy wrote in Sat Mar 19, 2011 8:03 pm:I see Thorsten's local weather in included (yay!). Is it v0.9 or v1.0? METAR seems to work, if I can remember to switch it on in both places.
As I see Fred/Thorsten committed Local Weather 1.0 today (!) to gitorious. So it will be part in the next FGX I prepare.
someguy wrote in Sat Mar 19, 2011 8:03 pm:A whole lot of downloading is happening in the background. It looks like the standard scenery and airport stuff.
This is Terrasync initializising a new custom scenery directory. This will take some time when you launch FGX the first time, but after some minutes this should have gone, and it will download the newest custom scenery with every launch of FGX. This will take only some seconds.
someguy wrote in Sat Mar 19, 2011 8:03 pm:The minimal HUD seems to be missing. I really miss the target circles and velocity vector. I hope this gets fixed.
Oh, I hope too. This is probably something for bugs@flightgear, it is not related to FGX.
someguy wrote in Sat Mar 19, 2011 8:03 pm:Selecting MP does not launch mpmap in the browser, though I appear in mpmap if I go to the map manually.
Right, this feature is not implemented yet. Meantime you can start the browser and follow your plane using urls like:
http://mpmap02.flightgear.org/?follow=CallsignFullscreen is on my todo list.
Also on todo list.
Thanks for your testing. Recently I don’t get it to work on 10.5.8, but I hope it will come soon.
Cheers, gral