Paint It Black!
Sky Dolly v0.15 “Flamboyant Fokker” (v0.15) has just been released. This release focuses on upgrading several 3rd-party libraries, most importantly the Qt6 framework and as such is a no-new-features release.
Nevertheless this is a huge jump, paving the way for better SQLite support (enabled “math functions”), gRPC & Protobuf. Stuff that gets developers excited, but what is probably of little interest to flight sim enthusiasts
Internally Sky Dolly is now also using named database connections, laying the foundation for additional import & export plugins - in the Sky Dolly logbook (SQLite) format, that is.
And of course the current Qt 6 framework should iron out some minor quirks that may have been present on Windows 11.
Qt 6 also introduces preliminary dark mode support: this is not yet enabled by default, as it is work in progress in the Qt 6 framework itself. However a sneak preview can be taken by providing some command line arguments.
For the default “Windows” style:
SkyDolly.exe -platform windows:darkmode=2
The “Fusion” style arguably looks currently a bit better:
SkyDolly.exe -platform windows:darkmode=2 -style=fusion
In both cases dark mode needs to be enabled in the Windows (operating system) user settings.
Sky Dolly is open source.
The latest binaries are available at: