Re: Re: webots 5.1.6 and 5.1.7

Hi Gabor,

Yes, this is true... I have to investigate this, as it should not behave 
like this...
I will get back here whenever I found the problem.

-Olivier

Gábor Balázs wrote:
>
> Hello Oliver!
>
> It seems that webots 5.1.9 reloads the controllers after 100 seconds 
> independently on battery state.
>
> Br,
> `bg`
>
>
> On 11/09/06, * Gábor Balázs* <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>
>     Hello Oliver,
>
>     We collected a couple of questions about these webots versions.
>
>     We used 5.1.6 under windows xp (because 5.1.7 became unstable there
>     after the controller modification), and version 5.1.7 under gentoo
>     linux.
>
>     1) In both versions the simulations are finished by the
>     environment after 100 seconds (independently from battery state).
>         Why does it happen? Can you disable it?
>
>     2) In both versions if you press the Alt or the Ctrl button, the
>     environment thinks you never release them,
>         so you have to revert the simulation to get the control back.
>     It is very disturbing after an Alt+Tab pressing.
>         Anyway the robot_keyboard_get_key function hardly notices the
>     keyboard events if we use a few (more than 3)
>         robot_console_printf function call in every simulation step
>     (we only tested it with the 5.1.6 version).
>
>     3) In 5.1.7 version after the simulation finishes I think the
>     robot_die function is not called because the processes are killed
>         and the appropriate string is not printed on the console. It
>     works fine in the 5.1.6 version.
>
>     4) The webots internal text editor is always opened after a
>     simulation revert.
>         Can I disable it somehow? :)
>
>     5) In the 5.1.7 version under linux, it is printed sometimes:
>
>                 transform field # = 0x3
>
>                 ** ERROR **: file api/scene_manager.c: line 140
>                 (scene_manager_read_transform_update): should not be
>     reached
>                 aborting...
>
>        Anyway I don't know when exactly, because I didn't notice any
>     problem in the environment because of it.
>
>     6) I noticed that Aibos' don't have GPS. This info would be good
>     for us later in fitness functions, so I tried to
>         "simulate" GPS by the supervisor function, but I have two
>     questions about the emitter - reciever concept:
>
>                 - How you can set the channel of a receiver like in
>     the case of emitter with emitter_set channel?
>                 - What are the receiver_get_x and receiver_get_z
>     functions?
>                   (these seem to be what is needed for GPS, but I
>     don't know how to use them
>                    and they are not in the API documentation)
>
>     7) Is that possible that the supervisor process pause the simulation?
>         For example to run a new thread from a robot controller which
>     makes some computation until the simulation is paused.
>
>     Sorry for the lot of questions. :)
>     Br,
>     `bg` & cy
>
>
>  



 
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