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... currently Windows only, and I figured I might as well start by trying to make it run on Linux (of course I skipped the easy way out of trying Wine- or even starting up the Windows installation I have at home). While we're on the disclaimers, I've never even built a layout, beyond a Hornby loop laid out on the floor as a child. In other words: when it comes to this whole modelling business I'm a bit of a novice. So, back to the topic- what needs adjusting for Linux (this is not a complaints list- it's merely a list of things that I'll need to work on):- There are quite a few calls to ShellExecute for opening folders and websites, I've tackled this by consolidating into open_url and open_folder methods which can then contain the code to support all platforms. There are a few more calls for images that for now I've commented out.- Some API's from the 'Windows' unit aren't available, but most of those can by replace by LCLType/LCLIntf on Linux ...
362. Peg Position List
... notch on a mid-point but then you have to align the turntable circle on it. posted: 1 Apr 2020 12:57 from: Martin Wynne Stephen Freeman wrote: Nothing to do with this but it would be useful to be able to put the peg on the radius centre for turntables, unless of course I have missed something (probable) Hi Stephen, I have looked at that in the past. It's a problem (otherwise I would have done it long since), because of the alarming effect when adjusting large radii with the F6 mouse action. Which would give beginners the final reason to chuck Templot out of the window. However, you can put the notch on the radial centre(s) of the control template, geometry> notch> notch on radial centre menu item. Which means that if you position the turntable ring first, you can then align the tracks onto it. Or to move the turntable ring over existing track, use the geometry> shift/rotate> shift radial centre to notch menu item. ...
363. outside slips
... radius). A full make outside-slip function ideally needs to work for irregular diamonds too, because irregular outside-slips are quite common. But that's a major task -- your two years might be optimistic. Unless the boat sinks. cheers, Martin. posted: 16 May 2020 23:37 from: Paul Boyd Hi Martin I've just had a go at this on an old trackplan on which I was struggling a bit with the outside slip- what a difference these new peg positions make! I had to adjust the radius of one of the curves slightly to make it a regular diamond, then following your video it all worked. Thanks for this! Initially I had the slip road on the wrong side but I eventually worked out that I needed to start the diamond with the two through road control and background templates swapped over- that sorted it. Now to do all the partial templates and timbering... Cheers, Paul posted: 17 May 2020 00:03 from: Martin Wynne Hi Paul, Many thanks for the ...
... those of you who know something about these matters for some advice on what are good buys in the stand alone scanner market. Especially anything, including makes, it is best to avoid. My basic preferences/needs are (I think): Flat bed, Good range and choice of scan resolutions (ppi/dpi), Choice of greyscale/colour and pixel resolution (4bit, 8 bit, 24bit etc), Ability to scan from a thickish book, ie "lid" needs to be either removeable or height adjustable, Abilty to scan film negatives and/or transparancies would be nice, but not essential, Works with OS Windows 10, Not too expensive (how long is a piece of string?), Preferably not USB powered. Thanks in advance John from 33820 St Ciers sur Gironde. posted: 23 Dec 2019 20:42 from: PRChappell John I can only offer my own experience. Sorry if this offends but I rejected Epsom which is an excellent brand but their scanners do not do equal dpi(dots per inch ...
... be overcome by using simple pictures to represent buttons Hi Derek, Sorry I don't know anything about that add-on. Yes the standard Windows TButton control is limited to black caption text on a background determined by the user's Windows theme. Even if you set a text colour on the form, it will be black when running. The solution is to use a TSpeedButton instead. (2nd along on the Additional tab). Here are some TSpeedButtons on the top row in Templot: 2_101700_110000000.png There are options for adding bitmaps and adjusting the layout, changing the pressed/not pressed and/or latched-down appearance, etc. They can be grouped to act as "radio" buttons, so that pressing one releases all the others. They can also be made to repeat if held down (as the blue arrows do above). The only drawback is that these are Delphi/Lazarus graphic controls, not Windows controls, so they don't for example have a Handle, or highlight as the mouse moves over them, and they can't receive focus ...
... clear in the notes. When the embedded browser appears it is important that its zoom setting is set to display images dot-for-dot. Otherwise Templot's size calculations for the screenshot will be wrong. This is the case when it first appears, but you need to take care not to change it. To zoom the map, make sure to use the+/- buttons on the map, or click on the map and then use the mouse wheel. That way the web site will receive the wheel activity and adjust the URL accordingly. Take care not to zoom the entire browser page by clicking off the map -- for example on the header section -- and then using Ctrl+ Wheel or the usual browser keyboard shortcuts for zooming. If you do that Templot will not know that you have done it, and the screenshot calculations will be wrong. If you do that accidentally, pressing Ctrl+ 0 (zero) should return you to normal, but may not do so if you are using a hi-res monitor at ...
367. Saunderton
... www.s-r -s.org.uk/html/gwa/S73.htm From which it is clear that the loop has trailing connections from both the up and down lines, but using a plain diamond-crossing, not a slip crossover. For 00 gauge, the best approach is to design the basic track plan first in P4. Align the switch tips with the marked switch toes on the map (not the stretcher bar or the switch front rail joint -- the switch tips are marked across the rails on the templates). Then adjust the size of turnouts for the best match to the plan. Then for each P4 turnout, put the peg on the CTRL-3 DP position. Put the notch under it for each template in turn. There are 12 slots in notch register, which should be enough for the critical turnouts in most track plans. Then convert the plan to 00 gauge (or 0-MF from S7, etc.), using the button on the gauge list dialog. Plain track will convert accurately, but there will be ...
... said The volume is a tad low posted: 25 Sep 2020 20:22 from: Charles Orr I must say that I'm finding this incredibly useful. posted: 25 Sep 2020 20:23 from: Charles Orr Yes I can do that. It's fine now. posted: 25 Sep 2020 20:24 from: Charles Orr I've got a dual monitor setup here. Live Templot on one and Templot Club on the other. posted: 25 Sep 2020 20:26 from: Charles Orr It's fine now Martin, I've adjusted my volume. posted: 25 Sep 2020 20:29 from: Dave Phillips Hi Martin, One watching from NJ. Looks great and volume is loud enough. Dave posted: posted: 25 Sep 2020 20:32 from: Charles Orr The blurryness has stopped now 25 Sep 2020 20:32 from: alan@york watching... posted: 25 Sep 2020 20:40 from: Charles Orr Not that much. I should move the mike back to where it was. Getting a lot of rumbling now ...
... topic: 2726 Timber Shoving. From where to where? posted: 19 Jul 2015 10:28 from: Keith N Hi all I have made up a template for a double junction and got to the point (sic) where the sleepers need to be adjusted. I have had a go at shoving and have got the basics of how it works. But how do I know what goes where? Are there any plans/photos, which show the timbers clearly, which I can use as a guide? Cheers Keith Attachment: attach_2147_2726_Double_Junction_n ew2c.box 201 posted: 19 Jul 2015 17:39 from: Trevor Walling Hello Keith, The timbers are sorted by lengthening some and removing others.2110_191228_080000000.png If you lengthen X8,X7,X6 and X5 right across to the bottom over the short timbers of both routes and then remove the short ones that would be ok,Any short timbers that overlap would be ok if you shove them about so they interlace without touching each other. Different regions and periods have various preferences as to the arranging of timbers.A lot depends ...
... positive about it saying that it is the first time he has seen a Microsoft release with no apparent problems. From my experience of him he certainly wouldn't recommend something that he is not completely happy with. Regards Geoff posted: 8 Aug 2015 17:45 from: Martin Wynne Hi Geoff, I upgraded my tablet computer to Windows 10 with no functional problems at all. Templot runs fine on there. Some of the cosmetics I'm not so sure about -- the white window caption bar and menu bar. That should be adjustable in the display properties, but the settings are disabled at present. I may grow to like it: 2_081235_250000000.png regards, Martin. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Baffled beginners> Puzzled of Pontesbury about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z Index Templot Explained for beginners Please click: important information for new members and first-time visitors. indexing link for search engines back to top of page Please ...
... click action> mouse actions: shapes> shift shape menu item. 7. using the mouse, move the image so that the corner of the baseboards (not the corner of the paper) is over the bottom left grid origin lines. 8. it may be a good idea to zoom in while doing this for greater accuracy. 9. zoom out again so that you can see all of the image. 10. click action> mouse actions: shapes> scale shape menu item. 11. using the mouse, adjust the size of the image until it matches the 1ft grid lines. 12. it may be a good idea to zoom in on the top right corner while doing this for greater accuracy. When you have it right, don't forget to save your background shapes file( .BGS file) before quitting the Templot session. If all that is too difficult, please attach your scanned image here and I will scale it for you. (* more experienced users may not realise that by default image scaling takes place referenced ( ...
372. Radstock S&D
... be at 6ft way again. And so on. cheers, Martin. posted: 6 Dec 2020 12:36 from: Peter Plume Thanks Martin. As far as I can see, Radstock did indeed have 4 double slips. It sits in a valley, surrounded by coal pits- hence the sidings for assembling coal trains. Oh, and the GWR line ran across the end as well! I'd missed the spacing issue. I'm just into my second slip at the moment, so there may be time to make an adjustment. Many thanks. Best regards. Pete Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Share and show> Radstock S&D about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z Index Templot Explained for beginners Please click: important information for new members and first-time visitors. indexing link for search engines back to top of page Please read this important note about copyright: Unless stated otherwise, all the files submitted ...
373. Confused beginner
... engine shed. This what I was trying to do by making a straight track from PR017 and then bending the left end. I couldn't get that to work. So is there a simple recommended way to achieve the piece of track I need? b) OK, I'll leave that until much later. c) OK, I see how to move the ruler about- but would it not be a useful enhancement to be able to grab the ruler as a single item and move it close to the desired point and then adjust the ends to measure something? Sort of F7-Shift function for the ruler? Regards David Martin Wynne wrote: rynd2it wrote: a) after adding some plain track to the turnout road, I can't now bend the end of it to start the next curve. So should I shorten the straight track to the point of beginning the curve and then add a curved piece or is there a way to curve (or bend) around a midpoint (or other location)? b) Is there a way to " ...
374. Transition links
... to/from it. 3. most important, the two curves must not intersect (cross over). Even if extended to a full circle, they must still not intersect. This is the usual cause of problems using transition curves. Here for example at first sight it seems reasonable to want a transition link between these two curves: 2_100824_210000000.png But when the curves are extended, it becomes clear that they intersect (black lines): 2_100825_400000000.png Which means a transition curve between them is mathematically impossible. The solution is to adjust the radius of one or both of the curves, or move the templates, until the curves do not intersect. For example as the white line, when the radius was reduced from 1400mm to 1318mm. To see if they intersect, you can simply extend the length of the template (F4) because it is very likely a dummy template which is going to be discarded and replaced with the transition curve template. If you post a screenshot or box file of your problem, I will make a video clip showing how ...
... the plan, and print just the few pages needed from there. cheers, Martin. posted: 8 Oct 2020 14:49 from: ikcdab Hi Martin, many thanks, that makes sense. Ian posted: 8 Oct 2020 18:23 from: Phil O Ian, Don't forget its possible to omit pages with no template on, this may save the odd sheet or two. Phil. posted: 8 Oct 2020 18:33 from: ikcdab Hi Phil, yes thanks. What I try and do is to adjust the page origin to minimise pages with little or no detail. But I can't move it often as I lose the registration between pages. posted: 8 Oct 2020 18:47 from: Martin Wynne ikcdab wrote: But I can't move it often as I lose the registration between pages. Hi Ian, A trick you can use is to put extra track templates at random places on the plan to act as registration markers. Just because a template is on the plan doesn't mean you have to build it. Straight half ...
... NLS (National Library of Scotland) to a .bgs file that can then be copied to Templot and set to whatever scale and gauge you want. I've just been tinkering with the above plan over the last day or so and have got the basics laid out, it's a case of a bit of timber shoving and a few re-alignments. I'll post a box file of it on here later to show you the rough copy. Most of it has been done using the "make mirror on peg" function, "adjust to length", "curve" and "size" for turnouts. In my case the original Frank Dyer plan(drawn in about 1978) would not transfer directly to templot as Frank used "train set" geometry for the pointwork and some would end up very short radius points. I think when I built the layout in 1979/1980 I used Kings Cross templates using 2' and 3' points to BRMSB standards. Frank used what is now 00sf for the branch line track and you know what, everything ...
... topic: 3787 Background shapes not showing posted: 1 Oct 2020 12:31 from: rynd2it I have a track plan, with baseboard outlines as background shapes plus a JPG image as the background map. Without the image all my shapes are shown when loaded from the .bgs file but as soon as I load the image file it covers the baseboard outlines and I cannot see what settings in the shapes dialog to change to prevent this happening. I really need to see the baseboard outlines and the map to be able to adjust the track plan to avoid awkward track splits on the joins. What am I missing here? Attachment: attach_3156_3787_faringdon_gwr_met ric2.bgs3 21 posted: 1 Oct 2020 13:36 from: Martin Wynne Hi, Background shapes are drawn on the screen in the order listed. To see your other shapes over the map, you need to draw the map first: 2_010806_170000000.png 1. select the picture shape. 2. use the brown arrow buttons to move shapes up and down in the list. In this case you need to move the ...
378. Curving indicator
... topic: 2764 Curving indicator posted: 26 Oct 2015 12:35 from: Martin Wynne Sometimes when zoomed in on the control template it is not obvious whether it is straight, curved, or a transition curve template. Which it may be necessary to know before making adjustments. You can easily find out by clicking the geometry menu to see which of the top 3 items is showing a bullet mark. But I thought it would be convenient to have the information visible at a glance, so I have added a curving indicator on the information panel. This shows: S for a straight template C for a constant radius template T for a transition curve template 2_260732_010000000.png If a slew is present in the template, there is also a tilde character (swung dash) prefix: ~S ~C ~T In the next program update. Martin. posted: 26 Oct 2015 18:55 from: DerekStuart Meanwhile I've just managed to get MS VBA to show "hello world" posted: 26 Oct 2015 19:02 from: Martin Wynne DerekStuart ...
... screen is currently running (Saturday 26th September). Watch at: http://templot.com/companion/live_screen.php If you have any questions or help requests please post them here in this topic, and I will try to answer them. Or just to say that you are watching, so that I know I'm not talking to myself. Thanks. Please note that I have set the microphone volume to maximum here, but I'm aware some viewers find the sound a bit quiet. Please increase the volume on your speakers or adjust your computer volume settings if necessary. I'm planning to get a new microphone, although I suspect the problem is in the streaming service. cheers, Martin. posted: 26 Sep 2020 19:47 from: Kenilworth59 Hi Martin. Just dropped in to see how's it going. Sight and sound are well for me with my XP. Cheers Paul posted: 26 Sep 2020 21:45 from: Rob Manchester Hi Martin, Just having a watch of the live screen. The video is fine. Your voice is very ...
380. Dual gauge turnouts
... topic: 3771 Dual gauge turnouts posted: 15 Sep 2020 16:26 from: John Bristow Templot curves are based on the centre line of the track and the radius shown for a curve is for the centre of the rails, so a standard gauge curve will not align accurately with the Broadgauge curve at the same radius. I have tried adjusting the radius of each curve by half the difference between rails, which results in a much closer curve but not quite close enough. Whilst this is not a problem with plain track, it does present a problem at common crossings. Is there a method for accurately aligning the common curved rail in a turnout? Or, is there a method I could use to create the turnouts in a similar way to a tandem turnout? Secondly. Is there a method to create a common elbow in the template, posted: 15 Sep 2020 16:42 from: Martin Wynne Hi John, Welcome to Templot Club. Overlay the common rail by putting the peg on the rail instead of the centre-line ...
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