+1 🙂

Dear Snow,

Ben already replyed to me on this question. Here is his reply :

Yes! The sim sends _itself_ the command “sim/operation/load_real_weather” when a rescan is needed. So intercept (but do not OVERRIDE) this command and you can know it happened, whether from a plugin or the sim itself.

I hope it coud help you, it works for me from 11.0.2.

Cheers
Stef

:D, Nice question. Naive

I understand your point of view but I was not pushing this sandbox idea to “fix” the poorly written add-on 🙂

It’s a pity when you have a add-on with the half avionics down just because we use another one just few minutes before.

The idea is more like publishing a contract to the good ones: whatever the previous running addon creates/destroys/updates/breaks/… into the sim, be safe, your freshly created sandbox is perfect for your run and you will not suffer from the damages from the previous one.

It’s a different viewpoint of the very same problem 🙂

Hi Cristophe,

It would be a nice protection to have, but it’s not easily retrofitted into the current design. Unfortunately when we designed a lot of the interfaces to the sim, we didn’t take plugin developer mistakes into account. And even as I can see the benefit of such a feature, it feels weird to work on a feature whose goal is to make a poorly-written add-on seem like a well-written one.

While we talk about plugins: is it possible to think about “sandboxing” an aircraft ?
I use this term because when you change from an aircraft to an other, sometimes – not always, you have to restart XPlane to be able to use properly the second aircraft.

It’s like one of them (the first or the second) didn’t init/use properly one or more variables.

So, I guess that it could be better if an aircraft is always loaded in a fresh sandbox initialized by default data refs by LR itself like when we load the sim from scratch.

Any thought ?

Thanks !