If user specified --load-tape then failure to load it should be fatal to avoid
confusion. It also avoids needlessly overwriting a valid recovery tape if
/sim/replay/recovery-period is set.
Avoid filling up the logs when the launcher parses broken aircraft XML;
wait until the user actually pick one to fly with, before reporting
XML errors.
This is to avoid console/log spam from jetways.nas in particular,
which uses loadxml to probe for file existence, every 10 seconds. But
in general it seems useful to have this potentially be quiet, since
there is a result code.
This causes QApplication to become unhappy and crash, so use a
graceful exit via a new return code and FG_OPTIONS_EXIT instead.
Sentry-Id: FLIGHTGEAR-6B
FGCom was added to the wrong group, leading it to be shutdown after
FGSoundManager, and hence, after OpenAL wad closed, which causes
crashes.
Sentry-Id: FLIGHTGEAR-66
When the file path is not preset, check for this and don’t let
readProperties() fail with an exception, since this makes for very
noisy event reporting.
When starting at an airport, but not at parking or a runway, create
an empty AIFlightPlan, and ensure the AIManager code doesn’t choke on
empty FPs.
Add a unit-test which simulates the C172 tutorial reposition logic,
which is a little gnarly.
Handle the standard windows-3rd-party setup (used by fgmeta) with no
extra options, and also handle the slightly odd setup we use on Jenkins.
Try to tolerate all permutations of setting MSVC_3RDPARTY_ROOT to
different places in the hierarchy.
We no longer try to guess Boost_INCLUDEDIR by looking at parent dirs of
MSVC_3RDPARTY_ROOT, since this seemed kind of bad to me. Let’s try
it and see.
- fgfs --language=fr-FR now works as expected for the launcher (also with
--language=fr_FR as before): the value added by option --language to
the _languages member of FGLocale is normalized in "underscore" style
(e.g., fr_FR).
- Add-on translations must now use a hyphen in their property node names
in addon-metadata.xml (talking about children of <localized>): i.e.,
use for instance <fr-FR> there, not <fr_FR>. An exception
(addons::errors::error_loading_metadata_file) is thrown if one of
these nodes has a name containing an underscore.
Allow add-ons to define an FGData subdir, and support multiple —data=
command line arguments, to avoid the need to modify FG_ROOT (which might
be read-only). Allow additional data paths to be either higher or lower
priority than FG_ROOT, so that add-ons cannot replace files in FG_ROOT.
Suggested on the tracker, keep log files around longer. Currently we
keep the previous ten files.
Note we still don’t log for secondary running copies, since this would
violate the ‘only one copy can write to FGHome’ principle.
https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/codetickets/2243/
This avoids crashing when using Qt : we cannot call exit() safely since
QGuiApplication won’t shut down correctly. Instead throw a special
marker object and catch this in boostrap.
For an instance of this, see:
https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/codetickets/2070/
Was being shown before locale was selected, so always using default
translation. Fixed by deferring the dialog, and also added an assert
for debug builds, if trying to access translated string too early.
Ensure /orientation/heading-magnetic-deg, etc have a type of double
immediately. Showed up as a bug in the SenecaII, since the property
is created but has NIL value until the first update() call.
Re-work how position-init and ATC-manager work together to do
parking assignment and fallback (when the parking is unavailable).
Improve the logic for the reposition case, and teach ATC-manager about
reposition explicitly.
When the parking is unavailable, explicitly fall back to best-runway
selection in finalizePosition.
Add many additional position-init tests, to cover all of this.
Add translation macros for the text of the lock-file warning dialog,
and update the default text after some discussion on the devel list.
Also allow quiting the app, as an alternative option.
See ticket:
https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/codetickets/2133/
Give the user a chance to intervene, if we select read-only mode.
Offer a button to clear the lock file if it’s stale, and start in
read-write mode.
This is still evolving, but want to get some feedback on it.
Takes special values "FLOLS" and "abeam" to set up
aligned for final approach or at the 180 for the carrier flight
deck. Or alternatively a catapult or parking position.
Support for --carrier-abeam option, which places the aircraft
at the end of a downwind opposite the FLOLS.
Add launcher support for above.
Add carrier display for launcher showing position relative to
carrier.
making the build between Simgear and Flightgear consistent.
- Fix an issue with lib/lib64 path between CentOS/RedHat distributions
and Debian derived distributions.
- Fix a compilation issue with HLA in the Flightgear code.
Allow selecting carriers from scenarios, and starting at either a
parking position, or a distance offset from the FLOLS (effectively
a crude ‘on-final’)
Extend the —carrier startup option to accept a runway ident of FLOLS,
in conjunction with the existing —offset-distance argument.
Previous implementation wasn’t correct, use a better one now. In the
case of a non-clean exit we will leave a stale .pid file in FG_HOME,
but we clear stale files on the next launch.
Still not complete, but now we set the command line args to be UTF-8 on
Windows, we can strip out more of the ‘local 8-bit’ places (which
screw up, generally).
Refactor to break circular references.
New custom target generates the resource files.
FGFS and Test_Suite targets declare a dependency to the generated files.
This prevents the changing of the logstream priority as set by the test suite
permanently to "alert" during the execution of tests. Setting a default value
of SG_ALERT is not required as this is the simgear logstream default anyway.
This is a clean up commit prior to the subsystem API standardisation to simplify
the diffs. It includes all SGSubsystem and SGSubsystemGroup derived classes.
Using Emesary Global Transmitter the following events are notified
* Frame Begin
* Frame End
* Mainloop started
* Mainloop stopped
This integrates with the background threaded Nasal Garbage collection (simgear:nasal/cppbind/NasalEmesaryInterface.hxx) and is also controlled by the properties as follows
* /sim/nasal-gc-threaded (true) - use background threaded GC
* /sim/nasal-gc-threaded-wait (false) - at the start of the frame wait for the previous GC thread to complete.
I initially thought that the wait at the start of the frame would be necessary; however in 100 or so hours of flight without the await for completion at the start of frame no threading problems (or any other problems) were shown; so nasal-gc-threaded-wait is defaulted to false which gives a slight boost in performance.
So what this does is to it removes the GC pause of 10-20ms every 4 seconds (test using the F-15). This change doesn't really give much extra performance per frame because normally GC is only performed when needed.
Neither Torsten nor I can recall why we continued to hard-code this,
so make it dynamic for now. When we remember why we hard-code it,
we can add a BigComment from future-James to future-future-James about
why not to do this again :)
