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This proposes a *new method* on IObservatoryCore: `SetGridItems(worker, items)` which does 2 things: * Clears the grid * Adds the given items. Effectively replaces the entire content of the grid -- which is something a handful of plugins now do. Why add this when you could just call Core's Clear + AddGridItems methods?? So it can all be done within the same rendering suppression "scope" to reduce flickering and increase rendering speed. Speaking of rendering suppression, I have implemented such rendering suppression "scope" which uses Listview's built-in Begin/EndUpdate() in combination with temporary removal of the sort comparer (as is done for read-alls). This was also applied to the existing AddGridItems(worker, items) method as well, addressing a TODO.
Elite Observatory Core
Tool for reading/monitoring Elite Dangerous journals for interesting objects. Successor to the original Elite Observatory, rewritten from scratch using .NET 6.0.
IMPORTANT
Observatory Core and it's associated plugins are currently in a state of ongoing development and are neither feature-complete nor using a finalised UI.
Omissions to current functionality include:
- Integration with Frontier's Companion API
- Data submission to IGAU
- Non-grid plugin UI options
- Light mode
- And more...
How To Use
Observatory Core differs from the original Elite Observatory in that it is a fully generic reader for the Elite Dangerous journal files, passing those events along to plugins to do the actual work.
Observatory will attempt to locate your Elite Dangerous journal location in its default location, though other locations can be specified from the settings in the "Core" application tab. Due to the variety of possible system configurations this automatic detection does not function under Linux, so all Linux users will need to browse for the correct location.
The "Read All" button will read all journal files in the specified folder, handing their contents over to all loaded worker plugins. "Start Monitor" will begin watching files in the journal folder for changes, and pass new journal lines as they are created, as well as all changes to the status.json file, over to the worker plugins.
In addition to updating the content of their respective UI tabs, some workers can also send notifications, which will be distributed to all notifier plugins, as well as be passed to Observatory Core's native notification popup.
For specifics on what each plugin does, please refer to their respective wiki pages:
If you're interested in Custom Criteria for Explorer in particular you can find the documentation for writing them in the project wiki.
If you want to chat or collaborate with other users of Observatory you can find us either in the Elite Dangerous forum thread for Observatory, or on the Elite Observatory Discord.
For information on how to create a plugin, refer to this article about ObservatoryFramework.
Prerequisites for use
All you need is .NET 6, which should be installed automatically by the Observatory Core installer.
The portable build has no prerequisites due to bundling the .NET runtime along with the program, though this does make the exe commensurately larger.
Prerequisites for building
C# 9.0, .NET 6.0, and ObservatoryFramework.