Sky Dolly v0.19 - Free Flight Recorder & Replay, Location Management

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 :wink:

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:

2 Likes