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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Enhancements suggested by Nikolai Verner-Christensen - support loading
scenarios from {FG_HOME}/Scenarios, {aircraft-dir}/Scenarios and
{add-on}/Scenarios.
Additionally, allow passing the path to a scenario file to
—ai-scenario, eg —ai-scenario=/home/jmt/FGFS/my-test-scenario.xml
When a scenario defines a carrier, and —carrier is used to request a
carrier start, we now auto-load the corresponding scenario, to give
a nicer user experience.
- pass texture cache control properties to simgear
- /sim/rendering/texture-cache/cache-enabled
- /sim/rendering/texture-cache/compress-transparent
- /sim/rendering/texture-cache/compress-solid
- /sim/rendering/texture-cache/compress
- support --texture-cache-dir command line option
- set max reported supported texture size during splashscreen.
The add-on framework now uses the following files in each add-on
directory:
- addon-config.xml (previously: config.xml)
- addon-main.nas (previously: main.nas)
This is consistent with the addon-metadata.xml file that is already part
of the interface between FG core and add-ons. The goal is to make it
clearer, when browsing an add-on directory, which files belong to the
"FG core <-> add-on" interface and which files belong to the add-on
proper. This will be beneficial also when more files are added to the
"FG core <-> add-on" interface, such as possibly addon-events.xml in the
future.
This change is incompatible, thus it is the right time to do *before*
2018.2.1 is out, especially considering that this upcoming release
already has incompatible changes in the add-on API, namely the
requirement of the addon-metadata.xml file and the type of the argument
passed to each add-on's main() function. We'll try harder not to break
compatibility in the add-on API once 2018.2.1 is out. For now, it is
still a good time to try to get the API as clean as possible.
This commit adds C++ classes for add-on management, most notably
AddonManager, Addon and AddonVersion. The AddonManager is used to
register add-ons. It relies on an std::map<std::string, AddonRef> to
hold the metadata of each registered add-on (keys of the std::map are
add-on identifiers, and AddonRef is currently SGSharedPtr<Addon>).
Accessor methods are available for:
- retrieving the list of registered or loaded add-ons (terminology
explained in $FG_ROOT/Docs/README.add-ons);
- checking if a particular add-on has already been registered or
loaded;
- for each add-on, obtaining an Addon instance which can be queried
for its name, id, version, base path, the minimum and maximum
FlightGear versions it requires, its base node in the Property Tree,
its order in the load sequence, short and long description strings,
home page, etc.
The most important metadata is made accessible in the Property Tree
under /addons/by-id/<addon-id> and the property
/addons/by-id/<addon-id>/loaded can be checked or listened to, in
order to determine when a particular add-on is loaded. There is also a
Nasal interface to access add-on metadata in a convenient way.
In order to provide this metadata, each add-on must from now on have in
its base directory a file called 'addon-metadata.xml'.
All this is documented in much more detail in
$FG_ROOT/Docs/README.add-ons.
Mailing-list discussion:
https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/36146017/
Doing the option processing in Options::parseOption() has drawbacks:
- doesn't work well upon reset;
- doesn't work in the built-in launcher Additional Settings box.
Options::processOptions() is invoked both upon reset after the property
tree has been reset, and by the built-in launcher to process options
given in the Additional Settings box. This is not the case of
Options::parseOption() which is better for... parsing. :-)
Also use SGPath::fromLocal8Bit() to decode the path argument of --addon.
using --addon=/foo/bar does
* add /foo/bar/config.xml as propertyfile
* add /foo/bar to aircraft_paths to provide read-access
* sets property /addons/addon[n]/path = "/foo/bar"
* addons get initialized from addons.nas in FGDATA/Nasal
Print an error message and exit if --{enable,disable}-enhanced-lighting
or --adf are used (those deprecated options will be removed in a future
version of FlightGear).
The options.cxx code is not ready to handle recursive use of --config
(for config files). Instead of failing in an ugly way, abort with a
clear error message in such situations. See discussion at
<https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/35838852/>.
Note: it *is* possible to load XML PropertyList files from config files,
so --config is not entirely "banned" from config files.
+ add missing include
Before SimGear commit a962c90b30f36575d01162b64471fa77473237a0,
SGPath::pathListSep was a char in static memory that was not necessarily
followed by '\0'. As a consequence, using &SGPath::pathListSep as a
C-style string could result in a string containing the correct separator
*plus* whatever followed in memory until the first null byte...
SimGear commit a962c90b30 changes this situation by making
SGPath::pathListSep an array of two const chars: the path list separator
followed by a '\0'.
This commit simply adapts FlightGear to this change, which fixes a
couple of bugs where the separator was used, mainly unneeded NavCache
rebuilds due to the "apt.dat", "fix.dat" and "nav.dat" properties in the
SQLite database containing the correct paths separated by a possibly
incorrect separator string (there was no alteration of the cache
contents as far as I can tell, since the db property is only used to
check if the lists of apt.dat, fix.dat and nav.dat files have changed).
