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* [Core] Visual improvements to notifications - Notification title was previously missing; it's back! - Fixed window and label backgrounds to be correctly/consistently transparent. The click-thru bit is only partially working (transparent areas are click-thru). * [Core] Reduce notification font size to avoid wrapping Now that titles work, I noticed a few notification titles were wrapping. Examples: - System Discovery Complete (from Evaluator) - Minimum Distance Reached (from BioInsights) To address, I made the following adjustments: * Made the test notification title longer by adding the word "Popup" so it is now "Test Popup Notification". * Reduced the Title font size to 20 (from 24). * Moved the content box up to close the gap a bit. * [Core] Exclude the notification popup colour picker button from themes Noticed it was not the colour it should be and thought the setting was always being reset -- turns out the setting was correct, the button colour was not. Here's a quick hack to fix. * [Core] Further notification title tweaking Now "System Discovery Complete" *actually* fits. * [Core] Widen the native pop-up font selector so you can see variants The previous width was a little bit narrow for the family of fonts like Segoe UI Variable... The new width is 2x the original size and fits all fonts on my system and should do the trick for the moment.
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.