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... to get better teched-up for this year's wanderings. Hi Nigel, You have spurred me into action. I have downloaded the camera's app onto my mobile phone, and paired it with the camera. So I now have "Geotagged" GPS location data in the EXIF data on my photos. That's great. I expected it to fail with some incomprehensible error message, but in fact it worked first time. I can also now control the camera from the phone, which will be useful when it's on a tripod, instead of my old-fashioned cable release. On the other hand, the cable release has been working for the best part of half a century without ever needing a new battery. I have also re-activated my Geograph account, which apparently I haven't used since 2008. I'm sure I uploaded some photos, but they are not showing anywhere. I have submitted my photo above from yesterday, but reading their guidelines I fear it may be rejected for having my name on the corner. I found it a very tedious ...
... settings. To have to remove 6-7 ticks, with having to open the drop down every single time, is the most frustrating part of Templot. When I use Templot I do not want radial end marks, outline extension marks, timber centre lines, timber numbering, timber infill, 8'-6" marks on 9' sleepers. I can put the generator settings in the user preferences. But I'm not sure you are using the generator as intended. If you don't want those features on the screen, instead of using the generator, turn those features off at pad> pad background options> pad background templates detail... menu item. They are all on one dialog, you don't have to keep selecting a menu. I can put those in the user preferences too. But when I open the same file another time, I have to do this all over again? Why cannot each file save its own attributes? Because it's a data file, it's not a document. If such things were in the data file ...
... image can be stretched and rotated, made transparent, etc., but there are no controls to change the colours or details. Depending on the size of the original image, it may break up as you zoom in over it. Such drawings can be shared as normal image files, usually in .gif format for ease of making the background transparent. 2_301156_270000000.png There is then an option to have the sketchboard items displayed back on the workpad. In this case they are the other way round, they are behind the track layer instead of being in front of it, so transparency effects don't show: 2_301156_270000001.png Most of the time you won't want to do this because it has a significant effect on the screen response speed for zooming and panning while doing track design, but it's useful at times to see how things will fit. Perhaps you might create a gallery where if anyone creates a new image, it could be uploaded for sharing. I created this topic as somewhere to post images for sharing, either via the existing Image Gallery or as attachments for ...
... wrote: I uploaded them to the Gallery but I can't seem to figure out how to Insert them into the message. This is what I get when I try. (Using Chrome on Windows10.) Hi Andy, Google Chrome is the new Internet Explorer, doing its own thing with web sites. Generally Firefox is the best option for this site (and many others). This is how to insert images using Google Chrome (and Safari): 1. don't use the long Gallery buttons on the posting editor. Instead use the blue Gallery Upload button at the very top of the page. It will open in a new tab, so that you don't lose your post. 2. upload your image(s) to the Gallery. 3. display the required image in the Gallery. 4. right -click on it, and select Copy Image Location or Copy Image Address to get the image URL. 5. back on the posting page, click this button: image.gif 6. paste in the copied URL and click OK. ...
... loose heel of the switch. 2787_031658_470000000.jpg Sprayed and wired, the track is very fragile in this state so I took a tip from Iain rice and soldered some rail across the point work to reinforce it. All I've now got to do is get up the courage to lay it in a bed of glue and ballast it all in one just like Norman Solomon!! Martin I'm aware that this isn't strictly 'correct' continuing in 'Baffled beginners' part of the forum. Would you prefer that I put this under track building topic instead? If so, is it possible to move it if it is more relevant elsewhere? Kind regards and thanks for this really fantastic program. Andrew posted: 3 Oct 2014 23:14 from: Martin Wynne Hi Andrew, Good to see your progress. As you can see, I have moved your message to start a new topic. Your previous topic on track planning Yeovil Pen Mill is at: topic 2326 regards, Martin. posted: 10 Oct 2014 22:28 from: Richard_Jones Hi Andrew Very impressed. ...
... about each new feature as it was introduced. Please scroll to the end of this long topic for information about the most recent changes. Martin. posted: 23 May 2011 17:07 from: Martin Wynne# 2873 30-5 -2011 check for slews before make transition- fixed. background shapes dialog style changed to Normal (was StayOnTop). intersection selector dialog- wording changed. CTRL+ V in Normal mode should cancel mouse action- fixed. (this is a legacy shortcut -- now use INSERT key instead) CTRL+ BACKSLASH is now on reset notch on datum (was snap plain track to nearest sleeper). main-side K-crossing check rail flare -- bug fixed. template> reset menu items removed. CTRL+ Z shortcut now on rebuild group menu item. new modify on rebuild option on storage box for trackbed edges. new menu item for trackbed edges geometry> modify group to match. The trackbed edge settings are now specific to each template. This rebuild function allows fast transfer of the settings to ...
... , and people seem less willing to try to learn how to use it. It's incredibly powerful though if you do take the time to learn it. Please don't move away from Templot's main purpose- Peco templates are not prototypical so have no place here. There are other packages out there more suitable if users want to build train sets. I genuinely don't understand why you would want to import plans from the likes of AnyRail. If you do go for a Lite version, please do it as well as, and not instead of Templot 2! Which bits of Templot2 do you really like? Irregular diamonds. Easily adjustable wing and check rails. The speed at which complex formations can be put together with partial templates. The ability to endlessly tinker with the most trivial of prototypical settings The fact that many key functions are on keyboard shortcuts, speeding things up immensely. I could probably go on... Which bits have you not even looked at? The flippant answer is "I don't know- I haven't looked at them!" Sketchboard ...
... of the chairs before you can shove the timbers otherwise the rail will get slewed over? posted: 30 Jul 2018 18:01 from: Martin Wynne Thanks Rob. The 3D printing stuff is going over my head too. I'm still writing DXF code the same way I did in the 1980s. That's why I started this separate topic to cover the track design aspects. Here is something that will be possible. If you omit a timber when shoving, its chairs go too, as you can see. However, if instead you set its length to zero, making it invisible, its chairs remain unsupported on the rails. Adjacent long timbers can then be extended under them: 2_301256_010000000.png With the timbers invisible, shoving them along will be a way to slide the chairs along the rails to any desired position. 2_301320_510000000.png UPDATE: We now have the keys, and outer jaws on the S1 chairs. Gold-plated: 2_061704_070000000.png Notice the random key positions (and screw heads). There should be a corner radius around the top of the jaw ...
... from: Martin Wynne Most of this topic is obsolete. Irregular diamond-crossings are now fully supported in Templot2. Check rails are adjustable by mouse action in Templot2. I thought I would start a topic where I can report occasionally about what I'm currently working on in Templot. Comments and suggestions welcome, but don't leave it too long or I may have moved on to something else. I'm minded to stop using the term "irregular" diamond-crossing because it has the potential to be confused with an error condition. Instead I'm thinking of calling them "curviform" diamond-crossings. We can't simply call them "curved" because of course a regular diamond-crossing can be curved. Comments welcome: Make Ladder Crossover A ladder track is one which crosses running lines diagonally, comprised of a string of diamond-crossings and/or slips. In Templot a ladder is created by clicking the tools> make ladder crossover menu item repeatedly, once for each diamond-crossing. This makes it possible to change the adjacent track spacing for each ...
10. Thunderbird - OT
... hyperlink in other people's email browsers. posted: 13 Jun 2007 21:33 from: Martin Wynne Paul Boyd wrote: === Talking of signatures, I wonder if there's a way to have a signature when posting on this forum? (Goes off to read the Help pages...) === Hi Paul, This forum software doesn't have conventional signatures. In the words of the devoloper "signature files cause unnecessary visual clutter when reading a topic, and are wasteful of bandwidth". So there! Instead, the idea is that you click the sender's name on the left. That pops up a menu with a multitude of contact options, and if that's not enough you can visit the sender's profile. I've added fields to the profile for phone/fax numbers, postal address, visitor directions, etc., for those who want to publicise this information (e.g. traders). Alternatively, you could create a graphical signature as a personal logo (avatar) image below your name on the left. But it won't ...
... would be quite nice to have, if they're not already there somewhere:- When printing the background templates, any platforms with a solid infill obliterate any text, such as timber numbering or "blunt nose" etc. Could it be arranged so that the platform is always underneath any text? Hatching partially solves this, but even so, the text then becomes chopped up. The other one, which I'm sure is an option somewhere, is to not show the template number on the output, so just "A11" instead of "PL172.A11". Cheers, Paul Last edited on 10 Sep 2019 20:51 by Paul Boyd posted: 12 Sep 2019 19:08 from: Martin Wynne Paul Boyd wrote: Hi Martin, I seem to be finding my way back to Templot again! There's a couple of features that would be quite nice to have, if they're not already there somewhere:- The other one, which I'm sure is an option somewhere, is to not show the template number on the output, so just "A11 ...
... xxxxx then you are familiar with UK pointwork geometry" Hi Rob, Well I'm assuming that if someone arrives at Templot wanting to print a specific individual template, say a B-7 in EM curved onto 6ft radius, then they already know what that is. In which case they have a completely different starting point on the NEW dialog and don't need to know anything about mouse actions and track planning at this stage. So they are better off jumping out of the track planning tutorial and going straight to the template printing video instead. There are a great many users in this "I just want to print a template instead of buying one" category. It was after all the original purpose of Templot. I don't know how else to cater for the differing wants of new users. And I can't provide all the links to other topics from the start, because I haven't yet written them. There is no point in putting "if you don't know x, click here". Because there isn't yet a here to click. That will have ...
... result. What made it worse this time was that my usual work round of setting rail infill to none still didn't enable the rails to be shown. Not sure where to go from here. Any ideas anyone? Gordon Attachment: attach_2211_1540_DSCF7885.jpg 242 posted: 12 Jan 2016 17:12 from: Martin Wynne Hi Gordon, I'm utterly baffled. No-one else has ever reported anything similar, and Templot is now 15 years old. On your 213a print I think I can see that you have set "blank" infill instead of "none". Can you double-check that and try again (and that you were in the output menu and not the trackpad menu). (" blank" in effect fills the rails with white, blanking out the timber detail between the rail edges. "none" simply draws the rail edges as single lines over the timbers.) Is this always on the same computer? If so it may be something in the Windows print spooler. Are both of these printers laser printers? Do you get ...
... 7mm LED's? Hi Gordon, That's looking very neat. The lines will getter wider anyway when we distort it to fit your panel. But do the LEDs need to fit within the line width? This looks OK to me: 2_141605_110000000.png If that is 400mm wide for half of the panel, those dots are about 7mm dia, and the lines are about 3mm wide. How big are the toggle switches which I think you are also planning to fit? To get much wider lines, we need to use centre-lines instead of diagram mode. If you post the box file I will show you what that would look like. cheers, Martin. posted: 14 May 2020 21:46 from: Gordon S Here's the box file as it stands.... I think the toggles are similar to these. http://static.rapidonline.com/pdf/75-0157.pdf I know they have a sprung centre off, but these are momentary whereas stall motors require to be on. They may have something in the electronics I'm not aware of ...
... Lazarus, and nor does: if (Windows.GetParent(data_child_form.Handle)=pad_form.Handle) which leads to the conclusion that the GetParent function hasn't been implemented in Lazarus. We therefore need to keep our own record of the current parent of the form. Shall I look at that or do you want to have a go? There is not much need for if Assigned because all the forms are created in the program unit( templotmec.lpr) before Application.Run; If that failed we would have far more problems than this form not being assigned. Instead of: keep_form.read_info_buttonClick(data_child_form); I would normally call the click method on the button directly: keep_form.read_info_button.Click; If you do the former you get a telling off in Delphi, I can't remember the exact wording of the message. But it works anyway. Because the above lines are in a Tkeep_form.xxx procedure, there is no actual need to specify the form, and a plain read_info_buttonClick(data_child_form); or read_info_button.Click; will work fine. cheers, Martin. posted: 6 Nov 2019 01:33 from: Graeme ...
16. File preview
... . Simon, there are no moderators and no rules on Templot Club. It's been running that way for nearly 15 years now without any trouble, so I intend to keep it that way. Reverting to the actual subject of a file preview, I am going to implement something along these lines, if only because I need it myself. It can't be done in Windows Explorer, and even if it could I wouldn't want to because I want Templot to work as fully as possible under Wine on Linux/Mac computers. Instead I will make a file viewer function within Templot itself. It will take a while to do, but in the meantime you may like to add a dummy template with the name "read me" to your .box files, and add any notes about the file to its memo notes. I suggest making it a short centre-line-only background template, so that you can easily access it to read/edit the notes (edit memo notes is on the pop-up menu for a background template). ...
... change's sake. At present the template number simply represents its position in the storage box list, so the number changes as templates are inserted, deleted, etc., or the list is re-ordered on the storage box. This can be confusing when printing templates at different times because the template numbers (the prefix on the timber numbers) may have changed. There would be an advantage in giving each template additionally a fixed ID number which wouldn't change, and which would be printed as the prefix on the timber number instead of the list number. So I have now made such a change. When a template is added to the storage box it is given a fixed ID number. In principle this is the same as giving it an auto-generated name instead of "no-name" -- the ID number has no numerical significance and is simply a symbolic identifier. The ID number looks like this: TL123 where T=turnout, or P=plain track, or D=half-diamond and L=left-hand ...
... I could work out how to do that, but not how to control when it comes to the end of the window. I shall experiment and let you know when I've achieved it- or failed, as the case may be. Hi Derek, I didn't necessarily mean that you should do any of that. It was just the first thing that came into my head to illustrate the Meccano method that I use -- bolt something on, see if it works, if not scrub it out and bolt something else on instead... There are various ways of doing it. For example a brick wall is quite similar to the staggered printer page outlines in Templot, so you could have a look at how those are drawn on the screen. Or the OOP approach would be perhaps to have a class called row_of_bricks, give it properties such as the number 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 ...
... stage. Hi Gordon, Thanks for that. Does that include the train shed overall roof? Or would you prefer that part to be straight? In theory you could have curved platforms under a straight roof, but it might look a bit odd. Changing the subject, you mentioned using 1mm flangeways. I assume this means you are using the DOGA Fine track gauges and will be widening all your wheel back-to-backs to 14.7mm accordingly? If you haven't already done that you might want to consider 00-SF instead, which avoids the need to adjust the wheels. There is more about that at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/00-SF and some notes from me at: topic 124- message 567 Orders for 00-SF track gauges are now being taken and if you get in quick you might be in time to get some. It does have a slight bearing on the design process in that 00-SF turnouts are a fraction shorter than DOGA-F. regards, Martin. posted: 9 Nov ...
... to be made: 1. You must use an exact scale track gauge, such as P4, S7, etc. EM turnouts are shorter than the same size in P4. 2. You need to use CLM crossing angles. Templot uses RAM angles by default. 3. For many/most sizes of turnout, you need to change to generic V-crossings. 4. On the GWR the 6ft way is 1/2" wider* than other companies, so for extreme accuracy you need to set 134.5" instead of 134" double-track spacing. It makes a small difference to the length of crossovers. *this is a legacy from the earlier use of 3" wide rail. Looking at the 1936 map of Moretonhampstead, it is clear that the platform release crossover has been changed from the earlier maps. It is longer, and moved under the train shed, presumably to make a longer loco release. The question is, when did that renewal take place? The GWR introduced their range of flexible switches (including C ...
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