FlightGear version check: Difference between revisions
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# anonymous function that will be called directly | # anonymous function that will be called directly | ||
(func() { | (func() { | ||
var | var url = "http://wiki.flightgear.org/FlightGear_Version_Check"; | ||
var fgversion = getprop("/sim/version/flightgear"); | var fgversion = getprop("/sim/version/flightgear"); | ||
print("FlightGear v.", fgversion); | print("FlightGear v.", fgversion); | ||
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print("Aircraft requires FlightGear v.", acversion); | print("Aircraft requires FlightGear v.", acversion); | ||
if (acversion == nil) return; # not specified | if (acversion == nil) { | ||
print("-set.xml file missing version info, see: http://wiki.flightgear.org/FlightGear_Version_Check"); | |||
return; # not specified | |||
} | |||
# parse the version number into major/minor and patch level | # parse the version number into major/minor and patch level |
Revision as of 13:49, 17 November 2015
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Caution When installing/using aircraft the FlightGear version and the aircraft version must match. Otherwise strange bugs should be expected and the version-mismatch combination will not be supported by the FlightGear community. |
If in doubt, people should check the About dialog or even /sim/version in the property tree using the proeperty brwoser.
For aircraft developers
{{Non-stable]]
<minimum-flightgear-version>4.0.0</minimum-flightgear-version>
Minimum FlightGear version required for this aircraft [1], 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
Fgdata
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).
# anonymous function that will be called directly
(func() {
var url = "http://wiki.flightgear.org/FlightGear_Version_Check";
var fgversion = getprop("/sim/version/flightgear");
print("FlightGear v.", fgversion);
var acversion = getprop("/sim/minimum-flightgear-version");
print("Aircraft requires FlightGear v.", acversion);
if (acversion == nil) {
print("-set.xml file missing version info, see: http://wiki.flightgear.org/FlightGear_Version_Check");
return; # not specified
}
# parse the version number into major/minor and patch level
# http://plausible.org/nasal/lib.html
var (major, minor, patch) = split(".", acversion);
}
)();