Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multi-window display

[Curtis L. O. <cu...@fl...>]

John Wojnaroski writes:
> 
> Has anyone ever tried the multi-window display option? If so has it worked?
> 
> Right now the data is coming across from the client to the server via the
> sockets. Both
> a small test program I wrote and the one provided by Norm confirms that the
> fdm state
> vector is available at the server socket and matches what the client sent.
> However the
> server screen initializes (just sky with no tile) and that's it....
> 
> Client -> fgfs --native=socket,out,30,192.168.2.255,udp (this is the
> broadcast address, any machine
> on tht 192.168.2.xxx network can see the datagram. I've also tried setting a
> specific address and the result
> is the same)
> 
> Server -> fgfs --native=socket,in,30,,udp --disable-panel --fdm=external
> 
> I notice that the writeup in the installation guide states:
> 
>  -protocol= medium,direction,hz,medium_options,...: I/O options, useful for
> running FlightGear over a network or in interaction with external programs
> (preliminary).
> 
> Can I (should I) assume that this function may not be fully debugged and
> operational?
> 
> Regards
> Jack W.

I have had this working many times, however, I"ve not managed to get
it to work with broadcast.  The plib net module supports <broadcast>
as a destination machine so at some point I'd like to convert to using
that for the underlying network layer.

Regards,

Curt.
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