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:
