Gaming Spaceway project call for testing

[Artlav]

Update 110920:
http://orbides.1gb.ru/sway/sway-110920-pre-win32_en.zip (1.5 Mb)

This is kind of a release candidate for the september burst of development, with site update and all, and a likely pause in development till late fall.

So, if there are any play-breaking bugs, i'd like to hear about them.
"Release" is likely to happen by the end of the week.

Changes:
-Fixed "Error in smobs_render" independent of tweaking cfgs
-Numlock independence of controls
-Stargates on bases are now aligned on interstellar arrivals (@1 address)
-Dynamically updated help, depending on control set selected
-Unwrapped the exit menu, by popular request
-Language fix in vessel editor

Any chance of, say, Orbiter vessels like your Bussard Ram-jet (can't remember the name) being in it?

Hius? Certainly, given time.

 

[Artlav]

You've got to resort to keyboard Shift shortcuts (Lshift for left MFD, Rshift for right), just like in the good old days of Orbiter 2005.

Not for long.

 

[Wishbone]

Confirmed to work under Wine.

 

[Artlav]

About add-on development in latest Spaceway version.
Here is the page with descriptions and function reference.
http://s-way.sourceforge.net/controls_develop.php

Any comments on it's clarity?

 

[Wishbone]

Getter functions somewhat jar the eye. Any plans on going OO?

The best doc snippets are invariably samples, need more of those. Each argument needs unit description. Doxygen may be of help here, methinks.

 

[Artlav]

Getter functions somewhat jar the eye. Any plans on going OO?

Not a chance. Object oriented code is so much cleaner without OO syntax.
Maybe reduce the amount of "get_" prefixes?

The best doc snippets are invariably samples, need more of those. Each argument needs unit description. Doxygen may be of help here, methinks.

Doxygen implies existence of a header file or something with all the functions. So it will be only slightly better than writing by hand.

Examples are in the game...
An example per function would make a huge amount of text, Doxygen or not.
Maybe, if the development continues.

Quite a paradox - for something to get started there should be good documentation, but to motivate writing good documentation something should get started first.

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Anyway, the this burst is coming to an end.
The release 110923 and the Spaceway site update is up.
Anyone still interested can go over to the forums there.