FlightGear version check: Difference between revisions

 

 

If in doubt, people should check the [[About dialog]] or even /sim/version in the property tree using the proeperty brwoser.

 

  <minimum-flightgear-version>4.0.0</minimum-flightgear-version>

Minimum FlightGear version required for this aircraft [http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=28010&p=264797#p264788], note that this is a "soft" requirement - i.e. it will not terminate fg or trigger an error, but only show a warning in the console/fg window using a Nasal script that checks if the property is set. This is mainly intended to make compatibility issues more obvious, i.e. end-users downloading new aircraft and wanting to use them in conjunction with an old version of FlightGear, which is causing quite a bit of workload on the support forum.

We are hoping to also display this info in the [[About dialog]]

[[File:Property-browser-showing-version-info.png|thumb|property browser showing /sim/version info]]

{{Note|This is currently just proof-of-concept code which will need to be refined/reviewed and committed to fgdata.}}

[[$FG_ROOT]]/Nasal/version.nas (this ensures that the check will be executed for each loaded aircraft, without having to touch any -set.xml files, and it will also work with [[Reset & re-init]]).

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# current aircraft

var ac = getprop("/sim/aircraft");

var url = "http://wiki.flightgear.org/FlightGear_Version_Check";

var fgversion = getprop("/sim/version/flightgear");

logprint(3,"FlightGear v."~ fgversion);

var acversion = getprop("/sim/minimum-flightgear-version");

logprint(3,"Aircraft requires FlightGear v."~acversion);

# parse the version number into major/minor and patch level

# http://plausible.org/nasal/lib.html

var (major, minor, patch) = split(".", acversion);

}

)();

[[File:Version-mismatch-dialog-via-pui2canvas.png|thumb|version mismatch dialog created/processed by Canvas via pui2canvas]]