Oolite Bulletins

 Galactic News Network reached v1.2. It's the successor to Snoopers, got tidied up quite a bit and should be even easier to use. Hope you will enjoy it.

Library v1.7.1 is required.

For developers: GNN gives you some infos about usage. Just use the console, e.g. worldScripts.GNN._Help();

Bring the world to its knees

Should I remove snoopers before installing, or do they co-exist?

Looks like they can co-exist fine. There isn't an automatic update for OXP's referencing Snoopers. Authors will need to manually edit code to switch over to GNN (although the changes can be pretty minor). So if an OXP needs Snoopers now, it will still need Snoopers after installing GNN.

Yes, the can co-exist. GNN uses completely different names, keys, etc.
And as far as I'm aware only the Vector really needs Snoopers. All other OXPs which were using it have done it optionally to add some flavour. So I guess removing it won't break any other OXP, except Vector, but this is broken already since Oolite 1.80. And CCL, Snoopers, OXPConfig and Hyperradio have been marked deprecated quite some time ago. They are written in and for Oolite v1.77.

Switching to GNN is easy. What I've seen is that OXPs are only using ID, Message, Agency and Priority, if at all. So no more advanced option got used and the mentioned settings have not really changed. Only Agency is now in range 1...4, so OXPs can use 'The Tionisla Chronicle' as well.

Tried removing snoopers and installing GNN, but I get this



Annoyingly, Snoopers doesn't want to download for some reason so I've lost Bloomberg for the moment, which is a shame because there was a lucrative market for precious stones up ahead... (download worked when I reloaded Oolite and tried it again)

Any idea what's happening re GNN and how I fix it?

ffutures wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2018 1:51 am

Any idea what's happening re GNN and how I fix it?

You need to update/download  Library 1.4 then it will work fine

Unfortunately Library 1.4 appears to disable BGS, at least on my computer, and since I really like BGS I think I'm going to have to forget about it for now.

You might need to go into Library Config and turn on BGS in the GUI settings section.

ffutures wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2018 6:15 am

Unfortunately Library 1.4 appears to disable BGS, at least on my computer, and since I really like BGS I think I'm going to have to forget about it for now.

There is  BGS 2.2 available now which actually requests Library 1.4.

Thanks - I'll take a look.

Got there in the end, once I realised I had to uninstall the old background set - GNN seems OK, but I've only had one news flash so far so it's hard to tell. I like the new BGS visually, not so keen on its audio side - see the BGS thread for why. Anyway, I'll stick with it now it's sorted, thanks for all the help.

Noticing the GNN logo off to the right is not aligned properly and partially hidden.
I just installed BSG 2.3 and library 1.5.

BlackWolf wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2018 4:09 am

Noticing the GNN logo off to the right is not aligned properly and partially hidden.
I just installed BSG 2.3 and library 1.5.

If I should guess it's not the model position, but the image scaling. What is your screen / window resolution?

Edit: After taking a quick look at the sourcecode - probably explicitely setting the height will fix it.

Okay, I have no idea how to do that but, thank you. lol
Still a news to all that.

BlackWolf wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2018 10:24 pm

Okay, I have no idea how to do that but, thank you. lol
Still a news to all that.

No worries. It's GNN that needs to do that.-)