Library.OXP

Disambiguation:

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• A Library in the programmer's sense: reusable code that people writing OXPs can use. That is to say instead of everyone writing a javascript method to land on a planet, one person does so and everyone else uses that:

Library.oxp - see below on this page
Cabal Common Library.oxp

• A library of books or of ship/station descriptions:

Ship Library on the starting game screen - descriptions of ships, stations, asteroids and missiles mostly from the Vanilla game
View Ship Specifications - as above, but on the F4/4 Ship-Station Interface screen when docked
Gallery OXP does something similar to the above but with all encountered items
Technical Reference Library OXP - similar to Gallery but includes non-encountered ships.
Ship's Library OXP: by Cim (with the Ship's Manual; a half-dozen library books are addable)

The last four are accessed through the F4/4 Ship-Station Interface screen when docked - all under Ship Systems

Overview

Reinventing the wheel is not everybody's taste, so here comes a collection of useful snippets and helpers. Its main purpose is to simplify or unify some common tasks used by OXPers. Library is the successor to CCL, Hyperradio and OXPConfig. The library does not alter any native JS objects (like Array or String) to avoid clashes and does not clutter the global namespace.

This oxp also adds the following items to the F4 ship-station interface page:

Config for AddOns (AddOns category) - for tweaking OXPs
PAD (Captain's Log category) - a personal assistance device with details of naval career, people met, etc.

Note: there are several oxp's that allow for configuring other oxp's:

Library (the most recent, done via the F4 page when docked) by Svengali
OXPConfig (done via the F2 page - press F7 when told to) by Svengali
Station Options by cag: this one is comprehensible, but alas, only a beta version (2018)

Features

Animator

PAD

Starmap

For Documentation just follow the links.

Lib_2DCollision.js - Methods for checking if point is in bounding-box, on line or in poly.
Lib_Animator.js - Tool to create animations on missionscreens (see Demos).
Lib_BinSearch.js - Instantiated search tree.
Lib_Config.js - Configuration interface for AddOns.
Lib_Crypt.js - De-/Encryption for strings.
Lib_GUI.js - Unified GUI image, sound and music handling.
Lib_Main.js - Generic functions for various tasks.
Lib_Music.js - Unified event driven and generic music handling (see Demos).
Lib_PAD.js - Unified logbook, mission-log, diary and interface. Added in v1.7
Lib_Starmap.js - In-System-Maps in 3D (docked and inflight) (see Demos). Added in v1.7