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A few changes in preparation for the upcoming Announcer plugin. 1) De-dupe entries in the plugin table in the core settings UI when a plugin implements both Worker and Notifier interfaces. 2) Also add a "Types" column to the plugin table indicating the set of implemented interfaces found. 3) Wrap the pre-reading logic in "Read-all" scope to properly suppress a stampede of notifications (particularly audio ones) when starting the log monitor. 4) Fix the int setting UI. It rendered incorrectly, it didn't get the value from the settings class, nor wrote it back. Also implemented optional value bounding using the new setting attribute (see the related Framework PR). 5) Applied similar fixes to string setting (addressed rendering, write-back although untested). 6) Minor visual fixes (height/vertical alignment) for non-boolean settings to address cut-off/overlapping inputs. Sorry for the larger PR, but these *should* be all the loose ends before we could consider including Basic Announcer...
Elite Observatory Core
Tool for reading/monitoring Elite Dangerous journals for interesting objects. Successor to the original Elite Observatory, rewritten from scratch using .NET 5.0 and AvaloniaUI.
IMPORTANT
Observatory Core and it's associated plugins are currently in an alpha state and are neither feature-complete nor using a finalised UI. Over the coming weeks I will outline in detail what functionality is missing but still planned, and begin work on getting it to feature parity with the original Elite Observatory.
Omissions to current functionality include:
- Voice notification
- Checks based on surface materials (yes, there are checkboxes for them in the Explorer settings, they do not do anything)
- Having an application icon
- Integration with Frontier's Companion API
- Integration with Telegram
- Data submission to IGAU
- More that I'm just not thinking of right now
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 repositories:
For information on how to create a plugin, refer to the repository for ObservatoryFramework.
Prerequisites for use
.NET 5, and by extension one of its supported OSes.
Prerequisites for building
C# 9.0, .NET 5.0, AvaloniaUI 0.10.3, and of course ObservatoryFramework.