Namespace globals multiplayer

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Multiplayer
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1) Display chat messages from other aircraft to
the screen using screen.nas

2) Display a complete history of chat via dialog.

3) Allow chat messages to be written by the user.

Classes

Autonomous singleton class that monitors multiplayer aircraft, maintains data in various structures, and raises signal "/sim/signals/multiplayer-updated" whenever an aircraft joined or left. Available data containers are: multiplayer.model.data: hash, key := /ai/models/~ path multiplayer.model.callsign hash, key := callsign multiplayer.model.list vector, sorted alphabetically (ASCII, case insensitive) All of them contain hash entries of this form: { callsign: "BiMaus", path: "Aircraft/bo105/Models/bo105.xml", # relative file path root: "/ai/models/multiplayer[4]", # root property node: {...}, # root property as props.Node hash model: "bo105", # model name (extracted from path) sort: "bimaus", # callsign in lower case (for sorting) }