v0.5.20.101
This is a relatively small release. Working from home for the past few weeks and losing the physical work/home separation has robbed me of a lot of my motivation to work on my own projects in my free time, so I apologise to anyone who was hoping for more in upcoming releases.
Nevertheless,I've got a couple of bugfixes and some new functionality added that I'd like to get out to people. All three of the new features were requests from users, so thanks for your suggestions, and keep them coming!
"Uncommon secondary stars" will alert you to the presence of any secondary star that is not main sequence, a brown dwarf, or T Tauri class. These are sometimes non-obvious, especially in systems without planetary bodies where you might not even bother to check your system map.
The auto-clear list option should be self-explanatory. It will clear the visible list of interesting objects any time a scan comes in for an object that doesn't match the system of the previous scan. Keeping your list clean and easier to consume at a glance while flying.
The final new functionality is a new right click option to mark uninteresting bodies as interesting so they stay in the list. Elite Observatory is obviously not the final arbiter of what's interesting. If you see something interesting that's not covered by any criteria you can now stop it from disappearing from the list on next scan, to help ensure that you don't forget it before leaving the system.
Note that this does not persist between sessions, and bodies you mark in this way will not reappear in subsequent results when reading all journals.
Other bugfixes below:
- Added new built-in criteria for uncommon secondary stars
- Add option to auto-clear list on system changes
- Add ability to mark "uninteresting" bodies so they are not removed on next scan
- Fix issue with gold system reporting being repeated
- Periodically trim internal system dictionary to reduce resource usage and improve performance with large journal sets
- Prevent visual flicker when list updates
- Custom criteria sample file now has criteria commented by default
- ">50% size of planet" sample criteria blocked
As with the previous release, you have the option of running the standalone/portable exe, or using the msi to do a "proper" installation.