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Cache Your Datarefs

Nearly every X-Plane plugin accesses one or several of X-Plane’s datarefs at runtime. It’s not uncommon to find code like this: 1void set_data(float value) 2{ 3 …

Posted by daemotron on Thu, Apr 20, 2023

Talk to the Log

Making an X-Plane plugin “talk” to us is one of the boilerplate tasks when setting up a new plugin project. X-Plane has its own log file, log.txt, which is found in …

Posted by daemotron on Sat, Jan 14, 2023

CMake Linux Hack

Beginning with its most recent version (3.25 at the time of writing this post), CMake provides the LINUX variable, which I used in my previous post. Of course, developers on Linux …

Posted by daemotron on Wed, Jan 11, 2023

X-Plane Plugin Boilerplate

X-Plane has a well-documented, accessible API, making it relatively easy to write plugins for the simulator. In this post I’m going to demonstrate how a basic plugin …

Posted by daemotron on Wed, Jan 4, 2023

Reload 2023

More than five years without new content — that’s a new sad record, even for me. Time to change things. While originally this site was set up to run with HubPress, it …

Posted by daemotron on Tue, Jan 3, 2023