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Re: Stuck on Chat-Like Box - No way to get out!!!

Postby legoboyvdlp » Mon Jan 04, 2016 7:44 pm

That 40GB of RAM is kind of a waste of money... the most you NEEDED was 16GB.
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Re: Stuck on Chat-Like Box - No way to get out!!!

Postby MIG29pilot » Mon Jan 04, 2016 7:48 pm

I believe pressing Enter on the numpad will also send the message in the chatbox, although you may hear some funny messages: yyywqebbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb,,,,,......mMMMMMMMnnnNNNssssssssssssssssssss}}}{{{
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Re: Stuck on Chat-Like Box - No way to get out!!!

Postby CaptainTech » Mon Jan 04, 2016 7:52 pm

PINTO wrote in Mon Jan 04, 2016 7:18 pm:To clarify, 3.6 exists as a release candidate. There will be no official 3.6 release.

Also, I've had this bug happen to me while using 3.6RC.


I see. Thanks.
I am sure, that the bug will be fixed in the next version :)
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40 GB RAM

Postby CaptainTech » Mon Jan 04, 2016 7:58 pm

legoboyvdlp wrote in Mon Jan 04, 2016 7:44 pm:That 40GB of RAM is kind of a waste of money... the most you NEEDED was 16GB.

Actually, I create some big physical RamDrives sometimes. I do very various things with them. I also install virtual machines on them.
RamDrives are very fast. So that's why I needed 40 GB.

I'm satisfied with it. But 16 GB is really good too.
6 GB of RAM is the absolute minimum for a Computer in 2016. (FTP Servers just need 256 MB or even less to work properly :mrgreen: ) In 2012, it was a pleasure to have 16 GB. But on average, I needed 7 GB.


Another reason for 40 GB RAM, which is no important one, but it's pleasent:
I can show off in front of my friends. :)

I am a power user.
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Re: Stuck on Chat-Like Box - No way to get out!!!

Postby legoboyvdlp » Mon Jan 04, 2016 9:02 pm

Ah, I see; sorry. :)
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Sorry?

Postby CaptainTech » Mon Jan 04, 2016 9:42 pm

legoboyvdlp wrote in Mon Jan 04, 2016 9:02 pm:Ah, I see; sorry. :)


Why „Sorry“?
You haven't done any mistake ;)
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Re: Stuck on Chat-Like Box - No way to get out!!!

Postby legoboyvdlp » Mon Jan 04, 2016 10:19 pm

Just that I thought you had made a mistake, thinking that 40GB would give you immense frame rates. Sorry; I didn't know that you needed the 40.
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Re: Stuck on Chat-Like Box - No way to get out!!!

Postby Megaf » Sun Jun 25, 2017 5:33 pm

CaptainTech wrote in Thu Sep 03, 2015 4:32 pm:...
My Problem:
I am unable to get out of this Chat window in the middle!!!
...
[color=#028482]Is there any way to get out of this? The normal chat controls or ESC or any other Keystroke is useless. : ? :
ESC asks FlightGear to exit. And everything else i press just goes into that Chat Message Window.
...


Years later and this bug still present, even on development version straight from GIT.

Please, is there any dev who reads this?
IRC #FlightGear channel is pretty much dead, on SourceForge there is not a lot of movement either.

Is FlightGear dead too?
All I see is a lot of resources going on completely useless stuff, yet extremely important bugs and performance issues still exist, for several years...

!!!WAKE UP FLIGHTGEAR COMMUNITY!!!
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Re: Stuck on Chat-Like Box - No way to get out!!!

Postby Thorsten » Sun Jun 25, 2017 6:13 pm

All I see is a lot of resources going on completely useless stuff, yet extremely important bugs and performance issues still exist, for several years...


I'm sure calling other people's priorities 'completely useless' will get you the attention you crave - works reliably in the real world as well if you need something from a volunteer.

I'd suggest if something is extremely important to you, you look into the code (it's completely Open Source), fix it and submit a patch - because apparently it's completely not important to everyone else.
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Re: Stuck on Chat-Like Box - No way to get out!!!

Postby Megaf » Wed Jun 28, 2017 9:27 pm

Gentlemen, any solution for this bug?
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