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What about an OXP that first logs and then displays your progress as you jump around the current galaxy?

For example, while on the galaxy map, a keypress would display all your Witchspace jumps and shift+keypress would display your jumps in order (maybe one per 0.5 second or so).

I'd find something like that handy - I like to have a good explore, but lack of sleep (due to a recent addition to the brood) means that I can't remember where I've been, in Oolite and worryingly often, Real Life.

I imagine that creating a log file of your progress would be trivial. Not sure about the galaxy map, though...

I have tried to suggest this before without much luck. While I agree that it probably isn't the most sought after and important feature request in Oolite, I still believe it's a good idea.

Anyway, have a look at this thread:

https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p= ... ght=#61761

Thargoid wrote:

Might one suggest the slightly lower TL option of a pad and pen?

That last page of OoliteRS.pdf had me lol literally.

I thought it was a reasonable suggestion. I'm obviously too lazy to log my flights manually.

Is there an area on the wiki that says what is and isn't available to OXP development? Some of the Equipment OXPs seem to significantly change the game.

@snork - Somebody, somewhere, fills these out and has several ring-bound folders of them.

Newt_Othis wrote:

Is there an area on the wiki that says what is and isn't available to OXP development?

Hi, Newt_Othis!

Yes, there is (sort of): The pages listed in the JS-Reference category, and in a broader sense, the ones listed in the Oolite Scripting category, give the complete information about every detail that can be changed. It's our complete toolbox. If something cannot be done with these tools, it isn't available to OXP development. (And if you read through all of it carefully, you'll notice that you won't find a command for manipulating the F6-screen; which buries your idea).

That's the simple answer. Unfortunately all the stuff on the Wiki is by nature very technical, therefore you have to understand it in order to understand it, and no easy list of possibles and impossibles in lay-man's terms can be made from it. (Well, I suppose it probably could, but (a) I guess it would end up being horribly incomplete anyway, and (b) who would do it in the first place?)

Newt_Othis wrote:

I thought it was a reasonable suggestion. I'm obviously too lazy to log my flights manually.

It will be very easy to write an oxp that logs your route. You just must remember to copy the info from the log after each time you quit Oolite.

Currently there are already some oxp that write info to the log. One is big_ships.oxp.

Eric Walch wrote:

It will be very easy to write an oxp that logs your route. You just must remember to copy the info from the log after each time you quit Oolite.

By this I suspect you mean that the OXP will use the standard Oolite log file.
Would it be possible to create a separate file for the flight log and append the information.

As it is right now, there is already a lot of information in the Oolite log file. Adding more "non essential" information while Oolite is still under development, does not sound like a good something bug hunters will appriciate.

Don't know the first thing about OXP writing, but hope that someone will pick up on this.

Hi Commander McLane,

Thanks for the info and I appreciate the warning regarding needing to understand to understand.

I'm keen to get into the OXP writing thing. I just need some time to pick thru some of the existing ones to see how it fits together...

Newt_Othis wrote:

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The good news is that you don't need it for Oolite. Don't ask what my "A"-key looks like, though...

Newt_Othis wrote:

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The Random Hits Space Bar (OXP) is broken?

Commander McLane wrote:

Newt_Othis wrote:

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The good news is that you don't need it for Oolite. Don't ask what my "A"-key looks like, though...

Just make damn sure to avoid all mission screens that don't offer a choice selection

Thargoid wrote:

Commander McLane wrote:

Newt_Othis wrote:

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The good news is that you don't need it for Oolite. Don't ask what my "A"-key looks like, though...

Just make damn sure to avoid all mission screens that don't offer a choice selection

I can always get away from them with F1.

But you're right, the SPACE key is actually used in Oolite on this occasion. Although that seems relatively harmless, compared to the quite common practise to use it for firing your main weapon.

Thargoid wrote:

I'll put together a simple script to log and display your last x jumps (x will depend on how it looks on the screen) when I get a moment.

It should be a simple script to put together, if RL allows...

OK - had a play around and a quick re-hack of the HyperCargo script. So please try out Flight Log OXP v1.00.

To view it, go to the manifest screen (F5 when docked or F5-F5 in-flight) and from there go to the short range chart (F6). You can view the last 10 systems visited (plus your current location), and when you have been somewhere you can dump it out to the latest.log (oolite cannot write to any other log file whilst running for security reasons).

It self-resets when you galactic-jump, and you can also clear it from the view screen.

Will "properly" release it (wiki entry plus an OXP forum post) tomorrow - bedtime now!

Enjoy...