... if they didn't work properly. At least the control linkage for these will be clear of the baseboard cross framing! Glad to hear you have started building your new layout Jim, also Paul has made a start. Definitely something in the air. Best wishes Derek posted: 27 Aug 2012 23:58 from: Dellboy Two and a half years and 8,506 chairs later all the S&C has been built and all track laid apart from the coal drops siding and the turntable closure panels so thought I'd show a few pics to prove that there is life beyond Templot !! I have also attached the Templot box file. 1821_271832_500000000.jpg 1821_271830_450000000.jpg 1821_271842_490000000.jpg 29 August- replaced the box file with the correct 'final'! Attachment: attach_1486_1059_This_is_it_EM_REV _E_66_Joggled_T_- _Final.box 341 Last edited on 29 Aug 2012 23:08 by Dellboy posted: 28 Aug 2012 00:10 from: Martin Wynne Derek, that's great. Close on 300 templates, and all built! Many thanks for sharing. Martin. posted: 28 Aug 2012 08:59 from: ...

... 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.- Some API's for Window and Mouse management aren't available at all, those are commented out for now (but I can hopefully find a solution for Linux ...

... path to the template prints in the next program update. Thanks for the suggestion. The last added/saved BGS file is shown in the same place on the background shapes dialog, and from the recent files... button on that dialog. Saved and loaded SK9 sketchboard files are not shown anywhere, so I will look at adding that info somewhere. >>> Note that I said "lasted added" not "opened". Templot doesn't use the Windows Document Model. It seems to be one of the few programs which don't -- I vehemently dislike the WDM, it drives me nuts. So we are not going there! More about this here: http://templot.com/companion/index.html?gs_baffled.htm#files While you are working on a Templot track plan, there isn't a file name. You can load and add templates from as many files as you like, Templot simply extracts the data from the file, it doesn't open the file. Likewise when you want to save your work, you can choose to ...

... recently recommended "Standard Railway Equipment- Permanent Way, 1926" to me from the NERA. It covers LNER, LMS and SR, with GWR going there own way, and is a copy of trackwork diagrams, from the individual chairs (although the S1 chair is missing), through bolts and what-not to chairing details for switches (size A-E ), and common and obtuse crossings. Not all of the chair types are available from the trade, although I think you're 4mm, so you have a few more than us 7mm boys. It is post grouping, so might not help with the Midland. Sorry I could only "help" on 1 of 6 Although if you want my opinion I'd leave ballasting towards the end, so that you can bed in signal posts, point rodding supports, weeds and the like. Richard. Links: http://www.ner.org.uk/ and http://homepages.tesco.net/~david.r.rayner/lumpy/index.html#top posted: 6 Apr 2009 13:37 from: Raymond Paul Hamilton ...

... it again and repeating the process: http://www.templot.com/martweb/videos/flash/starter/em_starter.html Sorry it's now a rather old video. Note also that the F10 swell function at the start is now on CTRL+ F10. But you can of course work the way you want if you prefer. Try this as a test: 1. start Templot from scratch and don't reload your previous session for this test. 2. you should see the control template and nothing else. Press the HOME key a few times to confirm there is nothing else there. 3. use F7 to shift it about. No ghosts ok? 4. press INSERT once to store a copy of it on the background (or click the button with 2 orange down arrows). Don't press or click it again. 5. Press the HOME key a few times to confirm there just the one background template (in blue) and the identical control template still immediately above it (in brown). 6. use F7 to shift the control template ...

... the timbers in the turnout road. Hi Stewart, It doesn't. That's why I suggested a method for a guide line. Interlaced timbering is very much a minority requirement, but I will try to add some additional options in the next pug to make it faster to do. If you don't want a single curvable template, you might find it faster to overlay two lots of plain track as partial templates. You would still need to shove the sleepers along, but they would all be the required length, and only a few would require any twisting, and probably none would need throwing. tools> make split> make plain track turnout road> on internal geometrical radius If it's greyed out, extend some approach track (F3) first. regards, Martin. posted: 17 Aug 2009 00:46 from: sierrasmith71 Stewart McSporran wrote: I've written up some notes on how I create interlaced sleeper turnouts with Templot and posted them on my website. Stewart: I am planing a small On30 layout that will use interlaced (zippered) sleepers ( ...

... topic: 975 Track layout options posted: 19 Nov 2009 09:43 from: Al Crooks Morning all. I've been playing with Templot for a few days now, and am having great fun, thanks Martin! However, being very familiar with electronics PCB layout s/w, I'm perhaps coming at this from a slightly different angle from those more familiar with the more engineering packages such as Autocad, and in a way, I suspect such PCB design packages have more similarities with the way we work than the engineering type do, and perhaps some of the features would be useful in track layout. Some of these might be: 1) Ability to put precisely located pegs, (with editable alignment indication) on the background, to locate entry/exit points or tie in to existing track. 2) Linked track sections, so, say if you edit the first curve in a long length of track, the successive stages stay locked to it and move as one, (it would also be really cool if you could lock the ...

... The problem is that Martin chooses to ignore that fact, in the same way as he ignores one of the basic tenets of the Distance Selling Regulations. (But in fairness, a fair proportions of small model railway traders do the same, so he is not alone). In an earlier message Martin used the Templot Forum as a shield to hide the lack of help documentation, conveniently forgetting that most of us purchased Templot years before the Forum was ever thought of. All this huffing and puffing- and support from a few sycophants cannot disguise the fact that it is a good piece of software, harpooned by the lack of documentation- a piece of carbon, waiting to be transformed into a diamond. Reagrds Brian Lewis. allanferguson wrote: It is not, as I see it, a commercial program; so the same sorts of criteria do not apply. posted: 28 Jan 2010 23:34 from: Martin Wynne Brian Lewis wrote: In an earlier message Martin used the Templot Forum as a shield to hide the lack of help documentation ...

... of bricks and the size of each, and a method to draw itself at a given location on the screen. That could mean drawing the brick outlines, or you could find a nice photo of a brick, and create a row of TImage components on the screen. Or use TShapes rectangles in varying shades of brick red. With a mortar-coloured border. You could make each brick clickable so that when clicked it becomes transparent, to gradually reveal a photograph behind. That might make a children's game to see how few bricks they can remove in order to discover what's behind the wall. Or make each brick play a tune... cheers, Martin. posted: 17 Feb 2020 17:15 from: DerekStuart As ever, your comments are appreciated. I think the brick wall exercise is a good one, especially for what I'd like to eventually learn to do. I've just found a couple of lines of code you've written: // Windows.SetParent(data_child_form.Handle,pad_form.Handle); // 292... if data_child_form.Parent<> ...

... /sun light would fall on the track formation. The reason being that a number of 3D printed materials can weaken under exposure to UV light (indeed, many plastics can), unless you go for the higher cost resin printers which use UV to cure the finished prints. Certainly worthy of experimentation and I look forward to seeing what others come up with. As mobile phones continue to shrink in thinness, battery tech is going to continue to evolve at a fast rate, so even n gauge might be possible in a few years or maybe even less. There are exciting technical breakthroughs in battery technology that are meant to be on the horizon for both mobile computing, mobile phones and cars. One of those being solid state battery tech, which is said to offer much faster recharge rates, and much smaller, less weighty sizes of battery for a given output. Will be a little while still before that trickles beyond cars and high end phones though, but it certainly gives some hope that things could improve going forward. Remember, DCC is ...