In preparation for caching the groundnet in the NavCache, make taxi-nodes and parkings inherit from FGPositioned. As part of this, make them heap (as opposed to value) classes, disable their copy-constructors, remove many mutating operations, and give them real constructors.
In advance of converting the Map and NavDisplay to use the canvas, expose the full route-path vector for each flight plan leg, as a vector on the leg. Use leg.path() to get this.
E.g.:
var fp = flightplan();
for (var i=0; i<fp.getPlanSize(); i += 1)
{
var leg = fp.getWP(i);
debug.dump(leg.path());
}
Cache the parsed navigation and airport data in a binary file to reduce
startup times and memory consumption (since only referenced FGPositioned
elements are held in memory).
Data will be reimported when the mod-time of any input file is changed.
If a global file is changed (nav.dat, awy.dat, apt.dat, etc), the cache
will be completely rebuilt, which takes approximately 30 seconds on
moderate hardware. (Future work may reduce this).
- Add platform independent clipboard layer for Nasal access
to clipboard (thanks to Hooray for basic code)
- Add Windows clipboard access
- Add partial X11 clipboard access (only reading from clipboard)
- Add fallback clipboard for application internal clipboard if
platform not supported
- Add some helper functions to FGNasalSys
This code is non-functional, but contains most of the stubs to show what's required to add property get/set access, convert to from ghost & C++ types, and manage ownership. Element derived classes & inheritance (e.g., methods on image/path/map elements) will follow, along with some actual functionality!
The routing behaviour now happens entirely in Nasal,
using a delegate, and can be over-ridden or disable
by aircraft authors. Default behaviour should be
unchanged.
Convert the route-manager to use a flight-plan internally, and expose
flightplan, leg and procedure data to Nasal. Move the Level-D parser
into its own file.
Replace SG_GENERAL by more specific log classes in many places.
Allow "," to separate logging classes (using "|" is odd on the
command-line).
Also add new option to make logging more useful for developers.
You can use:
--log-level=debug --log-class=environment
to only get environment debug messages, or
--log-level=debug --log-class=sound,ai
to only get debug messages related to the sound or AI subsystem.
Add a navinfo() Nasal extension function to provide
information about navaids. Inspired by the airportinfo
function.
This is work in progress, do not rely on this in your Nasal
code - the interface might change over the next weeks.
Whenever resolving a (relative) path to an absolute path with
'resolve_maybe_aircraft_path', check if the result is empty and report original
(relative) path as missing. Otherwise no or a meaningless message is
issued ("File '' not found.").
- Allow structuring generic Nasal sources into modules (i.e. support
separate source folders for multiplayer/local weather/... sources)
- Option to enable/disable loading of generic Nasal modules (i.e we only
need to load stuff that is really needed/enabled).
- Provide basic loading sequence: subfolders are strictly loaded _after_
the base directory. So submodules can rely on .nas-scripts like math.nas,
io.nas, debug.nas, ... to be already loaded - dropping the need for
awkward listeners/timers to delay module initialization (loading order
within Nasal/*.nas is still random)
Reported on the forum from Thorsten Renk and analyzed by
Hooray, fixes this issue:
var x="/test/X";
var y="/test/Y";
setprop(x,100); # sets x=100
setprop(y); # sets x=0
setprop(x,100);
setprop(200); # sets x=200
by checking for at least 2 parameters for setprop
Add helper to look for an aircraft branch path in multiple candidate locations.
Update the main subsystems to use the helper, and hence load from any aircraft dir.
- make some char* "const" to silence warnings
This removes the warning that (rarely) occurred if one wrote to a
write protected property with setprop(). While this was a useful
hint, it needlessly floods the terminal if one protected a property
intentionally. (Consider to add an SG_DEBUG warning instead.) It's
now the caller's job to check for the result if it actually cares.