Settings -> Enable Custom Bitmaps was a static bool with no backing store:
it defaulted to off on every launch, so an operator had to re-tick it each
session and any custom plasma art was silently ignored until they did. New
ConsoleSettings persists machine-level menu toggles as XML in
%ProgramData%\Tesla Console\console.settings, alongside RPDefaults.rpd /
BTDefaults.btd / local.siteconfig. It is loaded once from Main and never
from a static initializer: the differential suite drives PlasmaBitmaps
directly and must keep seeing the original defaults rather than whatever
this machine has saved. A missing file is the first-run case; a corrupt one
is ignored and rewritten by the next toggle, because losing a menu setting
must never stop the console starting.
Custom art is now version-controlled and rolls with the release. New
Console\Plasma Images\ is copied into the package, and the lookup searches
%ProgramData%\Tesla Console\Plasma Images first and the exe-relative folder
second, so a release can never clobber a site's own name bitmaps.
install.bat creates the data-dir folder before the icacls grant so an
unelevated operator can write it. Ships with three 128x32 name bitmaps
(Deadmeat, Muerte, Phrogg); Muerte arrived as "Muerte_128x32-2.bmp", a name
the lookup can never build, so it is renamed to match its pilot.
Two fixes fell out of making the flag sticky. Path.Combine ran on the raw
participant name outside the try block, so with the option on a pilot named
"A:B" threw ArgumentException straight out of egg generation; names that
cannot be a Windows file name now just render procedurally. And the art was
loaded with Image.FromFile, which keeps the bitmap backed by the file and
locked for its whole lifetime — it is copied out through a stream now, so
art can be swapped between missions without restarting the console.
Verified against the built net40 exe: all three shipped bitmaps resolve by
pilot name, ProgramData wins over the shipped copy, a wrong-size file is
ignored, an illegal-character name does not throw, the file is not left
locked, and the settings round-trip and corrupt-file tolerance both hold.
Diff suite 106/106.
Version bumped 4.11.4.4 -> 4.11.4.5 across Console, Launcher, vPOD, the
install/build banners, the diff-suite version assertion and the README's
latest-release pointer.
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The Launcher's XP11 port (8730b9b) now extends to everything: one net40
flavor across Console, vPOD, Contract, and SecureConfig (Newtonsoft.Json
everywhere; the net48/System.Text.Json legs and their #if splits are gone
since nothing consumed them).
Console (net40, single TFM like the Launcher):
- The ~31 BinaryFormatter bitmap blobs in the .resx files became raw
embedded files under assets/icons/ (extracted byte-faithfully via a
serialization surrogate — the animated square_throbber.gif survives),
loaded by Properties.Resources.EmbeddedBitmap/EmbeddedIcon. Reason:
System.Resources.Extensions' DeserializingResourceReader is net461+
and cannot load on net40. Strings stay in the .resx.
- IReadOnlyList -> IList in AppRegistry (net45+ interface).
vPOD (net40, single TFM):
- Zip extraction now shares the Launcher's MiniZip.cs (linked source), so
the diff-test install round-trip exercises it against ZipArchive zips.
- RPC args as JTokens; LaunchApps.json persistence via Newtonsoft;
Thread.VolatileRead instead of Volatile.Read.
Contract/SecureConfig: net40-only; Client/** (PodManagerConnection) now
ships in the one build. The Launcher package gains
TeslaSecureConfiguration.dll as a dependency of the client half.
Tests: the net48 xunit host loads the net40 assemblies (both CLR4), so
the suite exercises exactly what ships — 106/106 green. Also verified
live: net40 console provisioned, managed, and ran a full RP mission
against net40 vPOD (beacon/passphrase/RSA, 53290 RPC, egg load,
Run/Stop Mission).
Version: 4.11.4.3 across Launcher, Console, and vPOD (vPOD joins the
suite version line; was 1.0.0). Ship the dotNetFx40 redistributable in
Launcher/assets for XP-era pods.
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Completes the BattleTech console feature to parity with Red Planet:
- BTPrintDocument: the per-pilot landscape score sheet (mech portrait,
placing, kill/death/damage stats, randomized mission-highlights narrative,
pilot-vs-pilot damage matrix, place-over-time chart), mirroring
RPPrintDocument minus the football/lap/boost/score-zone concepts. Wired into
BTGame (Auto Print checkbox + Print Last Mission button) and the shell's File
menu (BT Mission Print Preview / Print BT Mission, loading .btm files).
- BTStrings(.xml): the BT mission-highlight narrative pools (damage tiers,
kill, death-without-honor, recap), loaded from BattleTech\BTStrings.xml like
RPStrings.
- BTDefaultsDialog: two-column (Free For All / No Return) editor for the BT
operator defaults, reachable from Settings (Change/Import/Export BattleTech
Defaults). Verified via UI Automation: opens with all 18 option combos
populated.
- Apps.xml: the BattleTech 4.11 product (btl4.exe on the shared RP411 engine,
same -net/-res/-lc/-mr command line; deploys to C:\Games\BT411) with Game
Client / Live Camera / Mission Review launch entries. CatalogTests updated to
4 products / 8 entries plus the three new BT entry assertions.
Role model spelling corrected to "noreturn": the Mac Console.ini tag and the
game's BTL4.RES role resource are dfltrole/NoReturn; the 4.10 console's eggs
emitted a broken "noretun" that cannot resolve against the RES. BTGoldenEggTests
and BTConfig.xml updated accordingly.
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BTGame mirrors RPGame - same GameStateData/state-machine/NetworkScan engine
driving each pod's MungaGame (take ownership, stream egg on WaitingForEgg,
Run/Abort/Stop, countdown) - with the BT differences: ApplicationID.BTL4, a
pilots grid carrying Mech/Camo/Patch/Badge/Experience, an Advanced Damage
checkbox in place of RP's Score Compression, and the Mech* in-match messages
recorded via BTMissionRecorder into BTMissionResults (.btm, gzip +
BinaryFormatter like .rpm; scores are 1000-based like RP). Free For All and
No Return share the pane; the mode selects the pilots' role. BTDefaults
persists per-mode operator defaults to BTDefaults.btd (no dialog yet).
RPGame's dead decompile members (sStopToIdleStates, IsAllPodsAppState) were
not carried over.
TeslaConsoleForm no longer assumes RP: the "AppID != 0 -> Pod Not Running RP"
check becomes a GameTag map (RPL4 -> RP, BTL4 -> BT, otherwise Unknown Pod
Application) feeding the per-game status strings, and the Games menu gains
BattleTech: Free For All / No Return.
Deferred to phase 4: mech/arena art, BT defaults dialog, BT score-sheet
print document, Apps.xml BT411 product, live-pod verification.
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Co-locate the two cockpit-pod projects into a single repository:
- Console/ : TeslaConsole, the net48 WinForms operator console (decompiled
reconstruction) plus its differential + catalog test suite.
- Launcher/ : TeslaLauncher, the net6 pod-side Service + Agent rewrite.
Adds a combined TeslaSuite.sln, root README documenting the shared wire
contract (and its current duplication, the main follow-up), and a root
.gitignore. Histories were not preserved per request; this is a fresh start
from the current working state of both projects.
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