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.

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>

Removed completely unused variables. Ifdef’ed out variable which is
referenced from commented out code.

Fixes Issue #542

This patch fixes a bug that display 0 for distances to waypoint more
than 10km.

Besides that, it also homogenize the naming of the label to
"distToWaypoint" instead of "distToWP". Old configuration files (in
home directory), should be hacked or removed in order to see this
change.
Signed-off-by: Paul Chavent <paul.chavent@onera.fr>

MainWindow::loadDataView has been commented out for 9 months now.
Removed commented out code instead of leaving cruft in.

showLabel was connected to signal but not set as a slot

There is no such things as a clicked signal on QWidget. You activate
new UAS from right-click menu.

ui->waitingLabel is deleted and set to NULL when mode is PX4. Must
check for NULL before using it.

The connect call was generating debug output to identify that it was
failing. After looking at the code realized that this connect is not
needed. The group box is removed when UASListWidget::removeUAS method
is called.

Second change in the file fixes a crashing bug when the last UAS is
removed. Need to exit the iterator after we modify it.

Right-click menu works cleaner.
Coloring of output text is correct.
Output text now handles all severities of messages.