When optimising the connections (i.e. merging networks), the trigger receivers for triggered networks are now removed from the trigger network. This was previously leading to crashes.

renamed VariableNetwork::addTriggerReceiver() into VariableNetwork::addNodeToTrigger() for better clarity

fixed using out-dated strstream, fixed dump() which was not passing the stream to dump into on to internal calls of VariableNetworkNode::dump()

Made some exception descriptions more elaborate. To achieve this, the dump() functions have been extended to allow writing to an arbitrary ostream.

Rebased the ScalarAccessor and ArrayAccessor classes onto the mtca4u::NDRegisterAccessorBridge class.
Known problems present: code compiles but tests do not run

Fixed a bug that a pointer to a temporary VariableNetworkNode object was sometimes stored (as a trigger receiver or source). Instead now an object with the same data pointer inside is stored.

Adapation to the unified versions of ControlSystemAdapter and DeviceAccess.

Status: Library compiles, tests do not yet compile.

- extended the trigger tests
- removed some debug output

Introduced the DeviceModule class which provides an interface to obtain VariableNetworkNodes for device registers

- performed some code cleaning and refactoring
- store all nodes in a VariableNetwork in a single list, to allow deciding later if a node is feeding or consuming

This commit is an intermediate commit and has known bugs. Almost all tests are failing and the demoApp is not running. Debugging will be done in a next step.

introduced an operator>> and operator<< syntax to connect network nodes. to realise this, the VariableNetworkNode class has been changed into a pimpl pattern.

Allow to make connections directly based on VariableNetworkNodes. This is a first step, more changes have to be made in this direction.

Split the SCALAR_ACCESSOR macro into SCALAR_OUTPUT and SCALAR_INPUT to prevent output accessors to be created in poll mode (which makes no sense). Since some tests were using this, now instead a DeviceAccessor in poll mode is used for these tests.

- fixed a bug in the FanOut which did not wait for the trigger (since ProcessScalar::receive() does not wait)
- fixed a bug in Application::feedDeviceRegisterToControlSystem() not handling the last arugment (trigger) properly
- improved the output produced with VariableNetwork::dump()

added also the consumer-type variables to the XML file

Intermediate commit before the weekend: added options to add an external trigger to a network to handle poll and push properly. Currently it does not work properly.

improved structure of network creation and added a FanOut to distribute values to multiple consumers

Introduced the VariableNetwork describing the connections of variables/accessors before things get actually instantiated. This is needed to generate an XML file containing the published variables based on that information.