Previously MAVLink data streams recorded by QGC would use a fixed block size of the maximum MAVLink message length and fill in only the bytes written by the message. This wasted space, make manual parsing difficult, and broke compatibility with scripts provided in the MAVLink project (issue #174).

This patch alters logging to output only a packed data stream (64-bit big endian unix timestamp in microseconds since epoch + MAVLink message) instead of the unpacked data stream previously output. Additionally the previous logging code used the system endianness for packing in the timestamp, this has now been switched to always be big endian regardless of platform. All the documentation specifies big endian, so the code now follows the docs here.

Additionally data playback has been modified to playback both the new packed data streams as well as the old data streams, even those with improper endianness for their timestamps.

Finally, a variety of bugs have been fixed, along with some additional features and user experience changes, hopefully for the better. All existing functionality has been preserved as well.

add checkbox for TimeSeries in UI designer file

add option "time serie" option to the XYPlot widget

fix value reading, only real32 was correct.

fix qmin/qmax types

qreal is a double on some platforms (x86) and a float on others (e.g. ARM), cast it to fix build errors like these:

src/ui/designer/QGCXYPlot.cc: In member function 'int
XYPlotCurve::appendData(const QPointF&)':
src/ui/designer/QGCXYPlot.cc:41:39: error: no matching function for call
to 'qMin(double&, qreal)'
             xmin = qMin(xmin, data.x());
                                       ^
src/ui/designer/QGCXYPlot.cc:41:39: note: candidate is:
In file included from
/build/v2013.12/build/tmp-angstrom_v2013_12-eglibc/sysroots/sama5d3_xplained/usr/include/qt4/QtCore/qnamespace.h:45:0,
                 from
/build/v2013.12/build/tmp-angstrom_v2013_12-eglibc/sysroots/sama5d3_xplained/usr/include/qt4/QtCore/qobjectdefs.h:45,
                 from
/build/v2013.12/build/tmp-angstrom_v2013_12-eglibc/sysroots/sama5d3_xplained/usr/include/qt4/QtGui/qwindowdefs.h:45,
                 from
/build/v2013.12/build/tmp-angstrom_v2013_12-eglibc/sysroots/sama5d3_xplained/usr/include/qt4/QtGui/qwidget.h:46,
                 from
/build/v2013.12/build/tmp-angstrom_v2013_12-eglibc/sysroots/sama5d3_xplained/usr/include/qt4/QtGui/qdockwidget.h:45,
                 from
/build/v2013.12/build/tmp-angstrom_v2013_12-eglibc/sysroots/sama5d3_xplained/usr/include/qt4/QtGui/QDockWidget:1,
                 from src/ui/designer/QGCXYPlot.cc:1:
/build/v2013.12/build/tmp-angstrom_v2013_12-eglibc/sysroots/sama5d3_xplained/usr/include/qt4/QtCore/qglobal.h:1213:34:
note: template<class T> const T& qMin(const T&, const T&)
 Q_DECL_CONSTEXPR inline const T &qMin(const T &a, const T &b) { return
(a < b) ? a : b; }
                                  ^

See http://www.qtcentre.org/archive/index.php/t-45475.html

 for some
background.

This fixes #625

Signed-off-by: Koen Kooi <koen@dominion.thruhere.net>

include HIL bit, this makes HIL without RC working again

This reverts commit af0589b2.

Fix Windows installs

Ignoring for now and I’ll work on fix in a separate pull.

Files were not being copied to correct location

Mavericks readme

Mavlink Inspector array bug

Fix bug #603 save INT8/UINT8 parameters to file

Files were not being copied to correct location

Fix GCC compiler warning

primary flight display: actually use airspeed

linux speech synthesis: switch to eSpeak