Dictionary

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Dictionary for Oolite jargon

• AddOn = Expansion, Mod, OXP, OXZ

• Expansion = AddOn, Mod, OXP, OXZ

• Hyperspace = the space which the witchspace wormhole tunnel traverses between two different star systems

• Jameson = often used for a saved game file

• Library = this term can be use in three senses:

A library in the programmer's sense: reusable code that people writing OXPs can use. That is to say instead of everyone writing a javascript method to land on a planet, one person does so and everyone else uses that:,

•Library OXP, a programmers aid OXP containing snippets and helpers

•Cabal Common Library OXP, the deprecated predecessor

Or A library of books or of ship/station descriptions:

•Ship Library on the starting game screen - descriptions of ships, stations, asteroids and missiles mostly from the Vanilla game

Or an In-game library (eg,: under "Ship Systems" through the F4/4 station interface screen) when docked:

•Gallery OXP does something similar to the above but with all encountered items

•Technical Reference Library OXP - similar to Gallery but includes non-encountered ships.

•Ship's Library OXP: by Cim (with the Ship's Manual; a half-dozen library books are addable)

• Mod = AddOn, Expansion, OXP, OXZ

• OXP = this term can be used in two senses:

any AddOn, Expansion, Mod, OXP or OXZ

or an unzipped AddOn, Expansion or Mod which often contains a requires.plist. Those with a manifest.plist can be managed by Oolite Starter.

• OXZ = this usually refers specifically to a zipped AddOn, Expansion, Mod, OXP. They should contain a manifest.plist file. When downloaded through the built-in Expansion Manager, they are stored in the ManagedAddOns folder. However, they can be manually installed into the AddOns folder as per other OXPs. OXZ files in the ManagedAddons folder are managed by the in-game Expansions Manager and by Oolite Starter

• Witchspace = the space which the hyperspace wormhole tunnel traverses between two different star systems

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Dictionary for Dark Side jargon

• Array = An ordered collection of descriptions (see Property list)

The order of items in arrays matters.

• Data file = A data file contains descriptions. These can contain dictionaries and/or arrays

• Dictionary = A collection of defining descriptions (see Property list)

The order of items in dictionaries does not matter – they are unordered collections of definitions.

• Plist = Property list. Actually a "data file" containing descriptions. These usually contain dictionaries and sometimes arrays too.

• Script = A script contains instructions ("if" this, "then" do that!).