This mechanism automatically queues data into the correct thread where necessary, otherwise the method is invoked directly with low overhead.

At the same time remove the UDP socket event workaround. It is not a problem.

- Pervasive change to automatically connect to known board types
- Lots of additional changes along with this:
- More exposure of objects/properties to Qml
- Much restructuring in LinkManager and LinkManager clients

- Pervasive change to automatically connect to known board types
- Lots of additional changes along with this:
- More exposure of objects/properties to Qml
- Much restructuring in LinkManager and LinkManager clients

- Pervasive change to automatically connect to known board types
- Lots of additional changes along with this:
- More exposure of objects/properties to Qml
- Much restructuring in LinkManager and LinkManager clients

Link ids were being used interchangeably with the mavlink channel for
the link. Link ids handed out as a numerically increasing integer. Once
the counter went past MAVLINK_COMM_NUM_BUFFERS all hell would break
loose and cause memory corruption.

Moving methods from MainWindow to QGCApplication so that more things
can run without a window. Helpful for testing.

Centralize all connecting and disconnecting of links through
LinkManager::[Connect|Disconnect]Link api. Connect/Disconnect no longer
allowed through LinkInterface. This allows creation of new
LinkManager::setConnections[Suspended|Allowed] methods to disallow
connections as needed.

This api doesn’t make any sense given the fact that LinkInterface
signals bytesReceived with the bytes in the signal. Also the reason why
it is never called!

Converted LinkInterface from a pure-virtual interface into an abstract base class. This centralized the data rate calculation code for all subclasses. Also added the necessary code to provide upstream/downstream data rate calculations for all LinkInterface-derived classes.

Renamed getNominalDataRate to getConnectionSpeed. Also added upstream/downstream data rate functions to all Link classes.

Removed LinkInterface methods which were never being called. Updated various LinkInterface implementation classes to remove the methods. Some methods such as the ones which measure data rates or bits sent/received were implemented in only some of the implementation classes, and in some cases implemented incorrectly. If they were called, the values returned would be incorrect. Although there was some partial implementation for these I removed them as well since in all case they were never being called by any code. In checking Blame, these came across in 2010 and have remained unimplemented since them, so I figure better to clean up than leave crufty, unused, half finished stuff in.

Changed many functions in the abstract *Link classes to be const. This facilitates setting other functions as const. The metadata for specific links are reset when the links are added.

Changed many functions in the abstract *Link classes to be const. This facilitates setting other functions as const. The metadata for specific links are reset when the links are added.

Set the remote address of the xbee via the xbeeconfiguration window and save last address in a txt file. Xbeelink ist still hardcoded to work with series2 xbees