ReleaseNotes

From X-Plane SDK

• Mach-O is now the base plugin format, CFM is hosted. Should have no effect on plugins.
• Bug fix: previously Mach-O callbacks were not unregistered, now fixed.

! X-Plane 830

• SDK headers modified to not require an explicit DLL path on Linux Pascal.
• DLLs renamed to have platform-relative endings (e.g. shlb, dll, so, framework).

! X-Plane 820

• Plugins work better with dual-monitor setups.
• Fixed bug 40: added new dataref sim/cockpit/electrical/batteries_on for multiple batteries
• Fixed bug 41: added new dataref sim/cockpit/switches/EFIS_map_mode2 for new EFIS modes.
• Fixed bug 43: XPLMGetPrefsPath always returns platform-native separators, even on Linux.

New Datarefs:

heading_mag_copilot
barometer_setting_copilot
dump_all
dump_to_alt
nav1_obs_degm_copilot
nav2_obs_degm_copilot
nav1_course_degm_copilot
nav2_course_degm_copilot
HSI_selector_copilot
RMI_selector_copilot
RMI_l_vor_adf_selector_copilot
RMI_r_vor_adf_selector_copilot
EFIS_map_mode2

! X-Plane 7.40 Release Notes These are the new features being added to the SDK for 7.40:

• Plugins can now override X-Plane's ground handling and provide a ground plane that the plane will roll on. See sim/flightmodel/ground/ for the datarefs.
• All failures are now individual datarefs. The old array required plugins to know Austin's enum scheme, which was not stable. The new datarefs provide direct access to over 100 failures.
• More datarefs: more control over sound (see sim/operations/sound/), access to the airport lighting levels, build date and time for the sim and SDK DLLs(sim/version/), access to the fire key.
• The autopilot state (sim/cockpit/autopilot/autopilot_state) can now be written to to actuate Autopilot modes. In particular, the flight-level-change button, which lacks an enum for XPLMCommandKeyStroke, can be accessed using this dataref.

Important: starting with 7.40, the non-UI fonts are only available when a legacy plane with a custom panel is loaded! This is because those fonts no longer exist in the regular panel system. If you are not using a plugin that is locked to a custom plane, it is not safe to use these new enums. (See XPLMFontID for more enums; only xplmFont_Basic is safe everywhere.)