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atools is a static library extending Qt for exception handling, a log4j like logging framework, Flight Simulator related utilities like BGL reader and more.

atools is a static library extending Qt for exception handling, a log4j like logging framework, Flight Simulator related utilities like BGL reader and more.

Issues can be submitted at https://github.com/albar965/littlenavmap/issues .


Modules (by directory in "src"):

  • fs Microsoft Flight Simulator related functionality. Contains a class that automatically finds flight simulator installations and related paths.

** fs/ap Simple runways.xml reading tool. Needs MakeRunways by Peter Dowson.

** fs/bgl A complete collection of classes that read airport and navigation data information from FS BGL files.

** fs/db A collection of classes that takes the airport and navigation information read from the BGL files and writes them into a relational database format (currently Sqlite). See atools/resources/sql/fs/db/README.txt for schema for more information about the database schema.

** fs/scenery Supports reading of the flight simulator scenery.cfg file.

** fs/pln Support for reading and writing flight simulator flight plan (PLN/XML) files.

** fs/lb Flight simulator logbook reading functionality.

  • io Simple binary file reading functionality also using exceptions to ease error handling. Also a file/log rolling class and a reader for ini files.

  • geo Simple geometry module containing point and rectangle classes as well as various complex calculations.

  • gui GUI and dialog helper classes.

  • logging log4j like logging using the QDebug class. Supports log level filtering into multiple files and file rollover to keep multiple log files.

  • settings Wrapper around the QSettings class to provide the settings system wide as a singleton.

  • sql Wrapper around Qt SQL classes but with added exception handling to avoid excessive boilerplate coding for error checks.

  • util Miscellaneous utilities.

  • zip A copy of the unsupported and Qt zip class. Improved for better error handling.


-- LICENSE -------------------------------------------------------------------

This software is licensed under GPL3 or any later version.

The source code for this application is available at Github: https://github.com/albar965/atools

Copyright 2015-2023 Alexander Barthel (https://www.littlenavmap.org/contact.html).


French translation copyright 2017 Patrick JUNG alias Patbest ([email protected]).