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Currently #1 is almost done, but 1d80310 had to be done so that the code could flow for tests. Header string is not equal to received string even though they are actually the same.

Might try to manually add the \0 at the end of the UDP packet header. It probably is sendind a @ (code 64 I think). That might be the cause.

Might use the built-in font.
Make a formatted and human-readable list of all the fields.

Should be updated as soon as a new packet arrives with fresh information

A graphics window of 800x480 will be the one used during tests

A glass cockpit still needs bitmaps to help drawing the different elements onscreen.

MessageParser.cpp on Network\ has a function ParsePacket(...) which is responsible for the correct parsing of all incoming UDP packets directly from the buffer.

The first check it does is to determine that the buffer contains at least one segment of data:

int rows_received = (bytesReceived - headerSize) / structSize;
    if (rows_received < 1) {
        status = 1;
        return;
}

This check can successfully bail out of processing when a packet too small is received.

However there is no check in place when an impossibly huge packet is received. X-Plane has a finite amount of data that can be sent at a time from a single packet. This size could be determined and added to the code as an additional check.

The program will then bail out of processing a too big packet.

Change implementation to allow more than one single data source from X-Plane's network tab be parsed and stored inside the program for retrieval by the graphics subset.

At least a Label or textbox with formatting capabilities

Currently at d39f727 the program is able to display the entire rows of data, but there is no way to automatically append a named value to them.

Will need to make a list of the names available as std::strings or something like that.

Make program accept command-line options to see general information, status of running instance, set configuration options, etc.