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... Paul Boyd Hi Martin One area of Templot I have a question about is pegging a group onto a notch. What always seems to happen is that the peg is never in the right position on the template within the group. What I'm doing is to delete that template to current, putting the peg in the right place, storing it to the background then doing the Group select => Toggle thing, noting the warning about the group being linked to the notch. The whole group can then be correctly positioned. This feels clunky, so the first question is:- am I doing this the right way or have I missed something? What would be nice is to be able to shift the peg around within the group as if the whole group was a current template, but I guess that would be a tricky thing to sort out......which is where you say "but that's exactly what you can do by..." Cheers posted: 6 Oct 2010 21:05 from: Martin Wynne Paul Boyd wrote:. ...
... to achieve it. Alan posted: 15 Aug 2007 18:30 from: Martin Wynne Alan Pearmain wrote: PS: trying to edit a quote to leave only the relevant part and then put in my two penn'orth afterwards is very difficult on this board. The editor wants to add the new comments in the quotation box. I finally succeeded, but it took a lot of fiddling about to achieve it. Hi Alan, Which browser are you using? I'm sorry the WYSIWYG editor in IE and Firefox can be a bit clunky until you get used to it. (I chose this forum software for its full email capability and the editor came with it. It does have some advantages, such as the ability to directly paste in working links and image references.) It's best to just start typing (which puts your text above the quote), or press CTRL+ END and then start typing (which puts your text below the quote). Having got your own text started, it's then much easier to edit the quoted part. In ...
... -inch maps are really too small in scale to provide any detailed track planning information. Generally the smallest scale that is usable in Templot as a background guide are the 25-inch maps (1 :2 ,500). If you go to the old-maps web site you will see in the column on the left several 1:2 ,500 maps available at different dates for Boscarne Junction: http://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/Map/204180/67425/12/100954 (It's a clunky web site -- zoom out a bit if you can't see anything.) Unfortunately that site can be expensive -- £9.99 per month subscription to view the maps zoomed in far enough to see clearly (from which you could take a screen capture), or £16 for a PDF A3 download. The Alan Godfrey printed 25" maps are much less expensive, and you may find they have one which covers Boscarne Junction. You could then scan it yourself: http://www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/corn3402.htm OS maps ...
... background Right click on it and delete Repeat steps 7- 15 until all branches have been created and all approach& exit roads deleted After which you will, with a bit of luck and a following wind, have a set of tandem turnouts all following the same transition curve- all that remains is to sort out the connecting track (the recorded plain track template is still in the box), crossings and timbering as per Martins' video... which I'm just about to start. I'm convinced the above is extremely clunky and doesn't use the tool to its best advantage, but, so far, it's worked for me Wish me luck. Best rgds, Dave P posted: 17 Jun 2012 12:30 from: Martin Wynne Hi Dave, Happy Fathers Day. A few points: You don't necessarily need to move templates to avoid selecting the wrong one. If you hold down the SHIFT key, or put the CAPS LOCK on, the template name labels will highlight as you move over them and you can select the template you want ...
... see a map of the UK appear. Keep clicking on the location you want and waiting each time for it to zoom in. Each step can take several seconds. Just when you are finally about to give up exhausted, it will break into vector mapping and show "Planning Portal" in large grey lettering across the map. Change to "Move Map" on the left so that you can drag the map about, then zoom in some more to see the rails. I can only imagine this site is intentionally so clunky to deter folks from getting to the valuable vector mapping free of charge. Don't give up -- it's worth it in the end. regards, Martin. posted: 16 Feb 2010 21:04 from: Mark Leigh Alan Turner wrote: Mark Leigh wrote: Hi Martin, This OS Planning Link doesn't seem to work on my computer. It takes me to the planning portal website with a few tools on the left hand side and a square map viewer box, but no map inside!!! Any Ideas? ...
6. File preview
... you go, try 208f attached below. The button caption is "show files" when no files are showing, and "refresh list" when they are. For myself I'm not convinced and find it irritating to have to click the button every time. But I welcome comments. regards, Martin. posted: 9 Apr 2014 21:39 from: Paul Boyd Hi Martin For myself I'm not convinced and find it irritating to have to click the button every time. I'm with you on that. It makes it very clunky to use whereas previously it was a nice smooth process to quickly zip through various folders. It also seems to be mouse only, and I'm paranoid about unnecessary mouse clicks! (RSI issues) I don't see the problem in letting it start working on all the files in the folder, provided it's possible to change the folder or set the options whilst it's doing this. (without generating List Index errors, of course!) Cheers posted: 9 Apr 2014 23:17 from: Godfrey Earnshaw Hi Martin I'll try ...
... 476 and see where it goes considering it's only 11.5km to the nearest tidal water at the head of Loch Etive. Fraser posted: 12 Apr 2018 21:08 from: Martin Wynne Hi Fraser, Nigel, Thanks for the 3D map info. Decisions, decisions. I installed both Quo and Anquet to try them. Anquet installed flawlessly and works fine (Windows 10). Quo was a battle of wits to install, and keeps saying that it is sending an error report to Microsoft. It is also very slow and clunky in loading tiles and drawing the maps. But... Anquet costs £40 for the 3D Viewer unless you buy full GB mapping. The 3D Viewer in Quo is free and works fine (on the demo maps). Unlike Anquet, Quo also has OpenStreetMap, to which I'm a frequent contributor (it's addictive, don't go near it if you like maps), and it would be great to have that on my tablet with the addition of GPS. Against that Anquet has the latest OS 10K street mapping ...
... saved in the same folder as the BGS file when received. The BGS file contains only the picture shape container, a rectangle of specified size and position. The SK8... file contains the actual image which is stretched to fit in the container. If there is more than one picture shape in the BGS file, there will be a separate SK8... file for each one, numbered SK81, SK82, SK83, etc. You need to send all of them. I'm sorry this system is a bit clunky, it is a legacy from the early days of Templot. I can't easily change it without breaking a lot of existing BGS files. cheers, Martin. posted: 25 Apr 2019 12:09 from: Alan Kettlewell Hi Martin, Many thanks for the explanation. After a bit of thinking (hard work for my little brain cell these days) I twigged on and sent the other.sk81 etc files to him this morning. Hopefully he'll reply positively. Clunky or not, it's great to have Templot. Cheers.. ...
... :36 by davelong posted: 20 Jul 2017 18:20 from: d827kelly An interesting development. Fewer and fewer android tablets are using Intel chips however as Intel has canned most of its low power Atom chips and similar as it has struggled to compete with the sheer popularity of ARM based chips. Perhaps a Templot Viewer application would be more useful for use on a tablet though? I'm not sure how well editing track plans would work using the touch interface without changes to make that work properly as onscreen keyboards tend to be clunky. posted: 20 Jul 2017 18:46 from: davelong Intel are working Apollo lake processors aimed at mid range tablets. They'll probably move away from the android market and into their own market of windows tablets. They may end up in mid to high end android tablets such as Samsung's but the budget end will suffer. posted: 20 Jul 2017 20:19 from: Martin Wynne davelong wrote: Dragging a box for screen zoom or to group several templates etc isn't possible with the touch screen, but if need ...
... topic: 3069 Companion changes posted: 1 Sep 2017 13:26 from: Martin Wynne Dear all, In preparing the next program update for release, it has dawned on me that I have made a big rod for my own back with the multiple formats for the Templot Companion. At present we have: 1. An online version in the responsive web format. This was intended to be better suited to mobile devices, but I can't say I found it easy to use on them, especially the clunky format for the A-Z Index. 2. An embedded version in Templot itself in EWriter format, with content updated from the server every time Templot starts up. When it works I like it, and it provides additional interactive program functions not possible on the web version. But there are problems with the zoom settings and window size on different monitors. It can be very frustrating to get it just right for system you are using. 3. A simplified basic interactive viewer in the program which can't be updated between program versions, ...
... nose -- I guessed 320mm overall from your photo. Then keep trying a different curved switch radius until you get a match to the blunt nose position. You can tweak it by adjusting the crossing entry straight. If you enter your actual measurements in place of my guesses, you should end up with a reasonable match. (The heel offset is measured running-edge to running-edge, NOT over or between the rails.) Bear in mind that this is not the intended way of using Templot, hence the clunky method of trial and error. The intended method is that you start with known prototype dimensions, not model dimensions. *it's convenient to use background shapes for that -- in this case a vertical line at x=320mm. cheers, Martin. posted: 16 Mar 2019 14:33 from: Godfrey Earnshaw Hi Martin, Where does that data panel reside? Thanks Godders posted: 16 Mar 2019 14:48 from: Martin Wynne Godfrey Earnshaw wrote: Where does that data panel reside? Hi Godders, template ...
... time. Hi Graeme, Thanks for taking the trouble to do all that. Yes, I think I mentioned that I intended to use the old Windows ini files format, not least because it is fully supported by Delphi and Lazarus in the TStrings.Values function. It is already used for the save program preferences function, and I'm very comfortable with it. Templot does already include an open-source XML engine, used for the SK9 files for saving the sketchboard (in T2 only at present). But it is much more clunky to use than simple ini files, and the extra functions are not needed for a BOX contents file. Who's this "we"? I haven't said a word about readability, and I really don't see the need for it -- no-one is going to choose a MECBOX file for bedtime reading. Much more important is human decodability, which is easily provided by reference to the encoding list in the files. That's half the reason for making the code files open-source, surely? -s, - ...
13. WYSIWYG posting
... } code button instead. It will appear in a fixed width font, which is useful for creating tabulated info. === So how do you switch between the modes- by default I see the same WYSIWYG editor in Firefox as I do in IE7. The Help page does offer commands if your browser doesn't support WYSIWYG, but the editor still allows me to type a post as WYSIWYG, but changes it WYSINWYG when it actually appears on the forum! === I have to admit the editor is a bit clunky. As far as I can tell the only way to switch modes is to change browser. It's described as WYSIWYG but it isn't really of course, and it can't be using HTML on an unknown user system with unknown user settings. It would be better described as a rich-text editor. You shouldn't be seeing the same editor in both IE and Firefox -- in IE there should be several extra toolbar buttons for cut and paste, spell-check, etc. The spell check puts the error words in ...
14. metafiles!
... cheers, Martin. posted: 6 Nov 2019 02:12 from: Graeme Martin Wynne wrote: And it is Windows only.... A relatively minor glitch- this is still great news! Good luck as you move on with it. Cheers, graeme Last edited on 6 Nov 2019 02:13 by Graeme posted: 7 Nov 2019 11:21 from: Martin Wynne I'm pleased to say that after several trips round the houses I've got something working which I think we can live with. It's a bit clunky -- several things which would have worked in Delphi don't seem to work in Lazarus. That might become clearer when I've spent a lot more time on Lazarus. But I think we have enough to provide the EMF exports (no WMF -- there are online converters if anyone wants the old WMF format), and the print-page previews. Whether it is enough to work in the Sketchboard remains to be seen. Because of licensing issues that will have to be in a separate helper exe anyway, at least ...
15. Templot on Linux
... anywhere provided it has internet access during startup. All your data files would be on there with it. Assuming you are using Templot2, the program will tell you when an update is available and lead you through the download and installation. If you are still using an older version of Templot, i.e. pre-November 2011 (more than 5 years), I strongly recommend that you change to using Templot2. You can have both programs on your computer at the same time. The old version is likely to be very clunky on Wine. regards, Martin. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Templot talk> Templot on Linux 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 to this web ...
... but for some means to mark individual timbers differently from the others. There has never been any demand for that in UK modelling, although modellers do often scribble notes on the templates. I believe in many other countries a popular construction method is to use soldered copper-clad laminate for just a few of the timbers, with plastic or wood for the remainder. (That wouldn't look good in the UK, at least for bullhead track, because chaired bullhead requires a different timber thickness from soldered construction). There are several clunky ways which you might achieve the desired result in Templot, but none very straightforward or helpful. For example you could duplicate a template, set a marker colour on the lower one, and then omit some timbers on the upper template in the shove timber functions so that the coloured ones from below show through. Or you could export template files, and edit and print them in a separate program. For example entities in a DXF file could be edited to any desired colour in a CAD package, and the template printed ...
... up to 12800, although I think the top two settings are interpolated: 2_240811_360000000.png It seems to me that it does everything most users would want, and the results are excellent. The only downside is that it is SLOW at the higher resolutions. If I just want to do a quick scan or make a photocopy of something I tend to use the scanner in the top of my Canon printer instead, which is a lot faster, although the results don't compare with the Epson. The general design and handling is a bit clunky, it's a big lump on your desk compared with some of the sleek designs I have seen. No-one is going to mistake this for an Apple product. I can't say how it compares with other scanners because I haven't used them, but if you want any more info just ask. There is a more expensive V600 model, which I think is the same scanner with extra bundled software for graphics editing. cheers, Martin. posted: 24 Dec 2019 14:11 from: Nigel Brown I still have ...
18. Saunderton
... a simple plan like that. Templot keeps everything aligned if you let it do the work, even if it doesn't exactly match the map. It's more likely that the map is wrong if it's a small 25" OS map rather than a proper railway company plan. I don't know what you did to create the misalignments, so it's difficult to say what you did wrong. I will try to get the video finished tomorrow and then you can see what your problem was. In making the video, I've realised just how clunky it can be for beginners to set the 10ft way for sidings alongside running lines, so I'm also working on another program update to re-work those dialogs. Which means the video might be out of date in a few more days time, but I can't make you wait any longer. cheers, Martin. posted: 11 May 2020 23:26 from: David Gwynne Thanks Martin, much appreciated. I've no idea what I did either. I largely explore by looking at the different menus and then searching for ...
... but not others, split your shapes like this: 1. save a BGS3 file. 2. delete the turntables, maps, etc., which you want to be movable. 3. save another BGS3 file containing only the remaining baseboards, etc. 4. reload the first file. 5. delete the baseboards etc. 6. make the shifts/rotates you want. 7. use files> add file... on the background shapes menus to reload the baseboards file. I agree the whole thing is clunky mess. It's on my list to do something about. The problem is the very primitive legacy BGS format. So far I've managed to kludge stuff into it and still keep all old BGS files usable. I will try to squeeze in a "syncable" option to each shape for the next program update. p.s. turntables can be done as dummy centre-line templates. Buildings can be done as shoved bonus timbers. Then they are not part of the background shapes and move with the templates. You can also ...
... confirm what I did shortly. posted: 10 Jun 2020 16:45 from: Martin Wynne Gordon S wrote: Just back from golf, which made a nice break.... I have found it is possible to print one page full size, but only the one I have shown. Just having a coffee, but will confirm what I did shortly. Hi Gordon, Just this minute got this working. You select the top corner of an area to be printed full-size by right-clicking. That's clunky, but means I can get 226d out tonight. I'm going to suggest that you stop using the 5.4% direct output, and use instead the ancient data-distortion functions from the 1990s. I knew I left them in Templot for a reason, but it has taken me until now to discover what it is. But it needs a video, there is no way to explain it in words without getting in a tangle. But first things first -- what is your required length for this mimic panel? cheers ...
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