Oolite Bulletins

Hiran, I've rejigged the Oolite Equipment page to try and answer your comments. Could you have a quick decko and let me know if it's any better? Looks better to me indeed. I'd be able to find my way through, and some of the wisdom shared in the chat has made it's way into the wiki. Very helpful. :-)

Scripts are only one part of the data Oolite reads in order to get its universe set up. The other main data that is used is property lists. These are the files with the weird syntax you have already encountered and written a parser for. Plists contain data mainly in the form of arrays and dictionar...

Change it, test, see what breaks, fix, repeat. In this case its a bit worse because its multi platform and its about supporting an extention framework so "regression testing" is horrible. a way to verify successful operation Good question, how would someone know? All 300 or so OXPs work f...

A first evaluation revealed this: I scanned 682 expansions in total and simply counted how many times I would find a path inside. This report is stripping off all paths with less than 4 occurrences. What can be seen from here is that a lot of OXPs actually use similar paths - even where it would not...

This sounds like heavy lifting. However if that piece of work were written down onto a roadmap, with enough hints what to look for and a way to verify successful operation I think it could be done by people interested and having knowledge in JavaScript and Objective-C integration but no need to unde...

Dark the other side is...

Yoda! Shut up and eat your toast!

Thank you a_c and c_x. :-) This explains a lot. So I created code that checks the List of OXPs (I hope to have collected the same URL the Expansion Manager uses), downloads them and reads their manifest. With that information I was able to create an overview page, but not a list of all ships or equi...

Hiran, as we discussed in our PM's, I plan on pruning the optional optionals on the Oolite Equipment page ( http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Oolite_Equipment . Are there any that you added that you think (or does anyone else think) should be kept (as examplars of something different/unique on the e...

So that extension is what I thought it would be. I was even able to purchase it, then I was not able to activate/use it. It may be a hen/egg problem... Definitely is! You need a HUD.oxp loaded which supports MFDs (I presume that the Vanilla game HUD doesn't), and you need to understand the use of t...

Hiran, I'd argue that all this is in Cim's excellent Ship's Manual . Only two problems with it: (i) it has a low profile and I doubt many people realise it exists/download it/look at it. (ii) you have to pay for the MFD version so that you can read it in flight during the long journeys from the wit...

Is it safe to say "only an OXP that has an XXX event handler actually adds a XXX feature to the game?" Or how could the contents of some OXP safely be categorized/understood? No. An OXP can contain graphics, sounds, new models, new textures, planetary system configuration changes, charact...

Is it safe to say "only an OXP that has an XXX event handler actually adds a XXX feature to the game?"
Or how could the contents of some OXP safely be categorized/understood?

It sounds feasible that there is an event handling system in place. This sounds like a publish/subscribe mechanism to me. How does that work? Would Oolite run a script from the OXP so it has a chance to register to events it is interested in? Or does Oolite always send all events and the OXP choose...

Thank you for that response. I will have a look at the doxygen stuff first, but I doubt I would really have to read the source code. If that is the case then it should be worth documenting the API so OXP developers know what they can rely on without needing to know the Oolite internals. And likewise...

So the next release (once again) will focus on graphic improvements. While this is certainly important how about some advancement in game functions as well ? I am pretty sure I am wasting my energy with this post but a wider market, for example, or even the including of some popular OXP's to the co...