Simple FG GUI front-end for Linux

[erobo]

I'm happy to announce new FGo! 1.5.4 release, you can download it in the usual place.

Major changes and bug fixes:

• Added support for custom font size. Available under "Miscellaneous" tab in the preferences window. (Florent Rougon)
• Fixed (hopefully) reported earlier in this thread problem where aircraft list was not generated if any directory in aircraft folder was read protected.
• Updated documentation.
• Updated Polish translation.
• Updated German translation. (chris_blues)
• Updated French translation. (f-ojac)
• Updated Japanese translation. (AOKI Kiyohito)
• Updated Italian translation. (Philip Lacroix)
• Updated Spanish translation. (Philip Lacroix, Canseco)

I'd like to thank all the contributors and users - you're great, without your support this project would not remain alive for so many years - thank you all.

P.S. You may wonder why this is version 1.5.4 and not 1.5.3? The reason is that the 1.5.3 was some time ago uploaded to Debian Experimental but as I didn't manage to update the documentation on time, I decided to omit this somewhat incomplete version it in official releases.

P.P.S @ Philosopher: If you're still want me to include your patch to FGo!, please check your PM inbox.

[chris_blues]

Great news! Thanks!

[sambar]

I'm update FGo! package on my ppa for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS(trusty).
Probably that's work under 14.10(utopic), but not tested yet. ... And possibly that's work under 12.04 LTS, but I haven't plan for any test.

https://launchpad.net/~sambar-fgfs/+archive/ubuntu/fgo

[philnx]

Hello All,

for all Slackware users flying out there, a new Slackbuild for FGo! 1.5.4 is now available in the official SlackBuilds.org repository:

http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/games/fgo/

The generated package will install FGo! system-wide, in a clean and non invasive fashion. This will allow different users to have their own FGo! instance and personal configuration, with a single installation. The script will also create a desktop menu entry and will facilitate the creation of an application launcher with your favorite desktop environment's tools.

Have fun.

[erobo]

Thank you sambar and philnx, I added information about to your packages in the FGo! website.

By the way, FGo! 1.5.5 is available. It fixes two small bugs found since last release:

• Help window would not open if language in "Preferences" window was not set and no default system language was detected.
• Fixed typo in "help_pl" file.

[Bjoern]

[bjoern@Xerxes fgo]$ python fgo
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "fgo", line 10, in <module>
from src import run
File "/home/bjoern/Downloads/fgo/src/__init__.py", line 68
print _(CLI_MESSAGE)
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Hm...

(Arch with python2, python-imaging, tcl, tk installed)

If I remove the offending uderscore (probably a bad idea):

[bjoern@Xerxes fgo]$ python fgo
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "fgo", line 10, in <module>
from src import run
File "/home/bjoern/Downloads/fgo/src/__init__.py", line 68
print _(CLI_MESSAGE)
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

(Note: I know nothing about Python.)


- Edit:

I'm dumb. Need to launch it with "python2 fgo" as "python" is reserved for Python 3.

[chris_blues]

Yes, I've put "#!/usr/bin/env python2" into the fgo starter-script in root dir...

[Bjoern]

Now that's a brilliantly simple fix!

[henrikp]

Hello,
really like this simple launcher but some tiny changes could be made.

- The METAR window isn't resizing itself after the real METAR gets loaded into the textfield, the text is not shown in full in my cases:

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Unhandled exception in thread started by <bound method Metar._fetch of <src.gui.metar.Metar instance at 0x7f30fde653b0>>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/henrik/flightgear/fgo/src/gui/metar.py", line 127, in _fetch
    self.master.after(1000, self._bindButton)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 591, in after
    return self.tk.call('after', ms, name)
_tkinter.TclError: out of stack space (infinite loop?)


- Could you implement aircraft sorting per aircraft directory?

[pommesschranke]

Thank you for making FGo. I like it very much.

I have 2 issuse with it:

1.)I installed many ICAO.groundnet.xml files for parking positions at airports.
FGrun and Flightgear show & use all of those parking positions,
but FGo! most of the time not but for KSFO it works.

2.)after I quit FlightGear I have to wait aroud 10 seconds before I can type something in FGo!


I have an idea how we can use all the parking positions from (the latest) apt.dat:
FGo! reads them from apt.dat and then starts flightgear not with --parkpos=
but with --lon --lat

[chris_blues]

I have an idea how we can use all the parking positions from (the latest) apt.dat:
FGo! reads them from apt.dat and then starts flightgear not with --parkpos=
but with --lon --lat

That sounds nice!

[clrCoda]

and --heading= otherwise maybe always point north if the default happens to be 0.

[pommesschranke]

I investigated more into this.
FGo!:
If airport data source is set to: "From scenery"
then it reads groundnet.xml and parking.xml from all configured custom scenery folders.
... but I'm not sure if that works correctly.
If it is set to "Standard" then it
* does NOT read from $FGDATA/Airports or .fgfs/TerraSync/Airports
* does not read groundnet.xml
* does only read parking.xml from $FGDATA/AI/Airports

I hacked it like this:
in mainwindow.py , line 642

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  if True:
                paths = ['/home/d-laser/fg-fgmeta/install/flightgear/fgdata/Airports']


FlightGear:

$FGDATA/Airports has a tree structure: E/H/A/EHAM.groundnet.xml
$FGDATA/AI/Airports has a flat structure: AI/Airports/EHAM/parking.xml

that's confusing!

I use this Airports folder with parking positions for 7125 airports:
http://media.lug-marl.de/flightgear/Airports.tgz

[Tomaskom]

After reverting to simply starting FG from the console for some time, I started using FGo a week ago. I'm really satisfied, I easily set it up for using my rather special setup with multiple aircraft and scenery sources. Thanks!

I noticed only one issue: If I have the same aircraft installed in more than one of the folders used as aircraft source, FGo displays it multiple times in the list, instead of showing only the one from the highest priority folder. Not a real problem, just the only thing i noticed was not perfect

[rominet]

Hello,

People who like FGo! may be interested in this announcement. In short, I am presenting FFGo, a new launcher forked/developed from FGo! 1.5.5.

I am willing to address the issues raised here if they are reproducible with FFGo (most of them should be in FFGo's current state), but probably the best place to discuss them would be in the thread I linked to above.

(I've written a patch for the last one mentioned---duplicates in the aircraft list when having the same aircraft in several --fg-aircraft directories---however, it can only be fixed properly if FlightGear's search order for aircraft paths is predictable, which unfortunately appears not to be the case. More details here...)