Re: [Flightgear-devel] view change crashes

[Melchior F. <mf...@ao...>]

* Melchior FRANZ -- Wednesday 23 August 2006 08:34:
> Or we can revert all of Mathias' commits in the last four weeks.

This wasn't meant seriously, but rather just as an (undesirable) option
that would be better still than letting fgfs abort for no good reason,
and very frequently, too. Mathias didn't ignore the problem, but simply
couldn't reproduce, so we'll need some more input. I fly about as often
in the bay aread as I'm flying in Austria. Yet, I think I've only seen
the problem twice in the former, but *many* times in the latter area.
The only relevant difference is that no part of Austria lies at sea
level.  :-)  Could this play a role?

As it only happens when switching views (away from cockpit view?),
I'd suspect this change as the most likely cause:

  RCS file: /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/FlightGear/src/Main/viewer.cxx,v
  revision 1.23
  date: 2006-07-27 18:36:22 +0200;  author: frohlich;  state: Exp;  lines: +4 -7;
  Clean up scenery center handling. It is set now less often.

Umm ... maybe not often enough?  :-]

m.