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Old November 1st 04, 08:21 PM
Chris
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Melchior FRANZ wrote in message y.telekom.at...

Shouldn't be hard to do with FlightGear (which is Free & Open Source and can
be downloaded he http://www.flightgear.org/). It has HTTP and telnet
server capabilities built-in. You can connect to a running instance via
network and read and change basically all values from your telnet program
or web browser. You can also read out the current screen contents as JPEG
via HTTP right into your browser. All you need to do is write a simple
script/program that sends all property changes to several instances of
FlightGear, rather than just to one.

m.


Thanks for this post, I was wondering how the networking capability of
FlightGear was handled. But I have a question regarding this type of
senerio. If I have two instances of FlightGear going on two different
machines with a program talking between the two providing updates etc.
Does that mean that I could see the other user's plane fly by etc?
It seems to me that I would, but before I dive into a program to
handle the networking portion, I'm a little curious as to if this is
actually the case.

Thanks in Advance,
Chris Schmitz

PS I love FligthGear, I've been using it for the past few years, and
it's only gotten better,..