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1. File preview
... ,,,, Many applications have the ability to look at files without loading is this feasible in Templot. Appreciate it may not be easy but if you could take a look, I would be grateful. Cheers Godders posted: 14 Feb 2014 20:18 from: Martin Wynne Hi Godders, How would you see this working? I can't see an obvious way to see what's in a .box file without loading it. For new .box files we could perhaps include a screenshot of the trackpad, or a list of the storage box contents, or both, in the .box file for use by a "preview" function. And of course you can always set a meaningful file name, or put them in meaningful folders. But none of that is much help if you already have hundreds of anonymous .box files. A possible new function would be "next file" in which Templot reloads the next file in a folder on a single click or keypress? regards, Martin. posted: 14 Feb 2014 21:01 from: Godfrey Earnshaw Hi ...
... is delete to current. I know this delete to the control/current wording is a bit mystifying, but it's the best I can come up with. It means "delete the previously stored template, and transfer the template data to the generator engine so that I can change things and then store a new one when I am ready". Unfortunately I can't fit all that on the menu. I could put simply "edit this template", but that would imply that: a) the template still exists in the storage box while it is being worked on, or b) the template would be automatically stored again afterwards. If I implemented a) it would be impossible to have the rolling backup function because changes to the storage box would be too frequent. It would also significantly slow down the screen response to all the mouse actions. b) is impossible because Templot has no way of knowing when you have finished editing it. regards, Martin. posted: 2 Nov 2010 19:04 from: Paul Willis Martin Wynne wrote: ...
... be retiring from my job at the end of this year so will have plenty of time on my hands. I have been a modeller for most of my life and now that my kids have all left home, I'm lucky enough to have a space available of 18' square. The room is the converted loft space above a double garage and has been fully fitted out with a proper staircase, heating and lighting to eventually house a multi layer 00 layout. The lower level is under construction now and will have 12 through storage roads, each about 30' long. The lower level will be about 18" below the scenic level which will allow full access to the storage roads for track cleaning and point repair etc. Joining the two levels will be a spiral at a gradient of 1:100 which takes three complete circuits of the room before emerging at the upper level. The scenic side will be mainly urban with brick cuttings and retaining walls. Period will be late '60's, ECML in the transition from steam to diesel. (Don't worry ...
... functions before working on your live track plan. You mention reloading your track plan. It's possible that your plan already contains many duplicated templates, which is why they keep appearing when you try to delete them. As you delete each one, an underlying duplicate becomes visible. Beginners often create lots of duplicate templates, and I don't really know how it happens. Perhaps the word "delete" in "delete to the control" is the problem. There is no easy way to remove duplicates, other than going to the storage box, sorting through the templates, and deleting any duplicates you find. If your track plan consists of only 12 visible templates, there should be only 12 background templates in the storage box. If there are more, some of them must be duplicates. If you would like to post your .box file here I will do that for you and re-post the file. regards, Martin. posted: 14 Sep 2014 23:49 from: Tony W Hi Mike. I am rather intrigued by your problem as ...
... geometry menu support for gaunt turnouts and gauntletted track a dummy vehicle can be placed on the control template and adjusted to check and measure running clearances notch on intersection functions trackbed edges are now template-specific and saved in BOX file trackbed edges can now show ballast edge and cess program preferences can be saved across sessions new file viewer function to browse saved template data .box files rollback register (undo/ re-do changes) now includes template name and memo low-memory mode removed on-screen refresh mode removed startup dialogs simplified storage box searching -- find template by name, sort group templates, find and group templates by name storage box -- move to top or bottom buttons added, move up/down buttons repeat if held down stored templates now have a fixed ID number in addition to an optional name. The ID number is allocated automatically when templates are stored. This makes it easier to find unnamed templates in the storage box. new gauge menu with additional items in the quick list option to hide the pegging notch generator menu disabled for ...
... //templot.com/sk5/starter_track_plan _.sk5 with everything having been explained in the process. Thanks for the feedback. regards, Martin. posted: 29 Jan 2018 00:14 from: Rob Manchester Hi Martin, I think you are doing fine. I can appreciate the difficulties of pitching the information at the right level given such a varied user-base. A user who is new to any software must be prepared to practice, make mistakes and learn- that is how we live all of our life. Explaining the storage box concept is going to be a tricky one as you say. Understanding the concept of the control template and background templates is key to Templot, at least when you move past single turnout design. Are you able to have mouseover prompts for the menu when a user clicks on a background template? A quick prompt as to the use of the make, copy and delete etc may be handy before a beginner ends up with no templates left in the storage box( or duplicate copies of some). Just a thought ...
... . Firstly the answer to the question, but please read the rest of this reply too. The information you want is in 2 places: 1. the last file accessed is shown at the top of the recent files list. That's at the files> recent files> menu items or the recent files button on the program panel dialog: 2_121028_240000000.png You don't have to load a file, just click off the list to cancel it. 2. The path to the last box file added to, or saved from, the storage box is shown at the top of the storage box. If it is too long to fit, simply drag the right border of the storage box wider to see all of it: 2_120937_490000000.png It doesn't appear on the printed templates. The box title (project title) does, and the date and time the page was printed. But that doesn't completely satisfy your request, so I will add the last added/saved file path to the template prints in the next program update. Thanks for the suggestion. The last ...
... File, but I've run out of ideas. I hope that this helps explain this time around. Cheers Max Last edited on posted: 1 Jan 2014 05:03 by MaxSouthOz posted: 1 Jan 2014 02:00 from: Trevor Walling Hello, You should find what you are looking for in E:\TEMPLOT_DEV\BOX-FILES\ Hope that helps trustytrev 1 Jan 2014 05:03 from: MaxSouthOz Thanks, Trev. Where do I find E:TEMPLOT_DEV\BOX-FILES? Now when I open the Storage Box, that bar has disappeared. Cheers Max posted: 1 Jan 2014 05:29 from: Martin Wynne MaxSouthOz wrote: I kept thinking that I was being connected to a website. That's why I kept asking about saving my templates on my own computer. Thanks for posting this. It's very helpful to understand how the program looks to someone seeing it for the first time. The GO button starts Templot running. The first thing it does is connect to the Templot web server to check that you are running the ...
... to have an urban back scene of retaining wall with low relief warehouses frontages and a decent station building servicing the up and down main and branch terminus lines. I had intended the upper level station at the bootom of the page (I call it Hightor) to represent a country stop with the sidings servicing the local cattle and milk industries. I had not intended a massive deal of operations to be performed with the layout more designed for watching trains that shunting yard loads of wagons hence the double main concept I guess. For storage I had thought of a lower level storage facility under the Matlock station with say 4 tracks that came up at a fairly steep 4% grade and joined up to the hidden lines under Hightor at the bottom of the layout thus providing some fiddle yard type terminus storage. Bench work is complete at a constant height around the entire room and the track subroad bed of 12mm plywood will be supported on soft wood risers as required in the vein of US based L girder construction styles. Photo showing that I am not just arm ...
... topic: 3693 OK Acknowledge box hidden after saving posted: 6 Jun 2020 14:33 from: Godfrey Earnshaw Hi Martin, when "saving all templates" and asking for MECBOX to be saved, the OK acknowledgement box is hidden behind the Storage Box. Have to switch out of program and back again to get the "OK acknowledgement box" on top and acknowledge it. Sequence as follows: save all templates save(program returns to screen and) also export a MECBOX file (6) or make it default (3) yes, please Storage Box appears (everything is disabled) Switch out of then back into Templot OK Box revealed press OK Storage Box re-appears (everything is re-enabled) Cheers Godders. posted: 6 Jun 2020 14:55 from: Martin Wynne Hi Godders, Are you using CrossOver/Wine? Try pressing the ESC key (top-left on keyboard). In Windows that OK message is always on top of everything else. Have you tried dragging the storage box to one side before ...
11. Deleting files
... . We haven't had much sun here in Tassy lately which is probably contributing to the problem. Hi Simon, We haven't had much sun here either! I'm not too sure from your question whether you are trying to delete track templates from your Templot .box file, or Templot files from your computer. To delete a track template: 1. Click on it. 2. A menu will appear on the left containing options available for that template. Click the delete menu item on there. Alternatively you can go to the template storage box -- click the control> storage box... menu item. Then find the template which you want to delete using the slider gadget or the left-right buttons. Then press the Delete key on the keyboard, or click the edit> delete template menu item on the storage box menus. If you delete one by mistake you can go to the storage box and click the edit> undo delete menu item or press Ctrl+ U keys on the keyboard while the storage box is showing. (You ...
... -- which on the face of it doesn't make a lot of sense. I've felt for a long time that this area needed changing, without knowing quite what to do about it. Following this recent discussion by Richard and Arthur: topic 370- message 14648 I have been giving it some more thought. I've made some changes for the next program update, although I'm still not entirely sure it is an improvement. Maybe it is just change for 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 ...
13. Storage box
... topic: 1035 Storage box posted: 4 Feb 2010 09:44 from: kenbec I have been trying out various aspects of Templot and have come up with a few what I hope are fairly simple questions. This is one of them. During my wanderings I must have sent something to the storage box. Now when I start up I get the message "Do you want to restore the storage box contents and background drawing from your previous Templot session?" When I go to the storage box it informs me "box empty". How do I delete a template that isn't there according to the storage box? Regards ken posted: 4 Feb 2010 10:06 from: Martin Wynne Kenneth Beckett wrote: Do you want to restore the storage box contents and background drawing from your previous Templot session? Hi Ken, Templot keeps a backup of your work independently of your own files. If you answer "yes" to that question, the empty storage box will be reloaded with the templates that were in it when you quit the previous ...
... user to create as many master templates as they wish, so that as someone develops more than one requirement (possibly in a different gauge or scale) they can have separate bespoke settings? So that at startup they might have a list of options such as:- Templot default My P4 GWR pre-1920 Hi Nigel, But you can already do all that. That's what library templates are for. Just create a .box file with your library templates in it. Load the file, select the template you want on the storage box, click the button to copy it into the control template, and off you go designing a new layout with it: storage_box_library.png The "master template" idea simply automates that process at startup with a single click. If you introduce a range of options, there is no advantage over the existing methods. regards, Martin. posted: 7 Mar 2009 00:59 from: Nigel Brown Hi Martin But that's the point, doing it with a simple click at startup. If you're going to allow a click to ...
... topic: 2211 Storage Box Statistics posted: 5 May 2013 08:26 from: Paul I have some 400 odd templates on my layout design in two gauges Sn3.5 and Sn2. I would like to build a test track first with the minimum radii in both gauges. Is it possible to check statistics on templates? In my case isolating the template with the minimum radius, or would I have to go through all the templates in my Storage Box one by one, as I know I have "forced" some curves? Thanks Paul posted: 6 May 2013 23:33 from: Paul Hi Martin, when I looked at the heading I used I realized it was a bit confusing and can't edit it. It should read something like "Storage Box Statistics" or Access Storage Box template data" Hope you can fix it and maybe even come up with a better title. Cheers Paul posted: 7 May 2013 09:43 from: Richard Spratt Paul, I'm happy with Storage Box and it's name. If you want to edit anything ...
... developing track plan until stored, and not just one of them which happens to be selected. I settled on "control" to emphasize its unique nature, and the target of most of the controls. A better name would have been "generator output graphic", but who wants such a mouthful on a menu? We are already stuck with "background template" in hundreds of places. That was originally called a "keep" in my own version and still is in most of the program code. For example the storage box was the "keeps box". I was persuaded to change it by Brian Lewis, then of C&L, who said it sounded childish. But I have always regretted changing it -- too late now, that was 20 years ago. *recently all deleted by Yahoo. cheers, Martin. posted: 29 Sep 2020 16:54 from: DerekStuart Jerry, Here's my advice. Put a few pieces of track down, press every combination of buttons and menus and see what it does. When ...
... topic: 2591 Storage Yard efficient useage posted: 8 Dec 2014 10:30 from: Godfrey Earnshaw My proposed layout is basically a horseshoe. The storage/fiddle yards will be on one leg of the horseshoe. My question is what is the best arrangement to come from the "horse shoe" toe into the storage yard to give the maximum length of siding in the leg. I am working in 00-SF, the entrance curve is minimum 915mm (36") radius. The sidings are on 60mm centres. I have utilised 1 in 8 curved turnouts and tools>make branchtrack. From this branchtrack I have constructed a transition to the adjacent parallel track. This is repeated, working outwards, until the requisite number, of tracks, is constructed. At the moment this is four. Supplementary question; would I be better using a curviform V-crossing? Cheers Godders posted: 8 Dec 2014 18:20 from: Phil O Hi Godders, Roughly how long and wide are the baseboards you proposing use and what sort of ...
... topic: 236 Mostyn: Fiddle Yard design posted: 15 Nov 2007 21:18 from: Richard Oldfield Dear all, Here is the design of the fiddle yard on our P4 layout, Mostyn, as it will shortly become following two minor modifications:- the introduction of road 17 as a loop from road 16- the introduction of a trailing siding from road 16 for the storage of light engines I'm afraid that not all of the scenic section of Mostyn was 'templotted'- some of it dates from the dark and distant age when we played with paper templates before realising that the complex areas would need the help of Templot. The ruling minimum radius on this design is 1200mm. Regards, Richard Attachment: attach_128_236_Mostyn_Revised17+ newsiding_Nov07.box 567 posted: 15 Nov 2007 21:31 from: Richard Oldfield Dear all, Following on from my first posting here is the design of the baseboards for Mostyn- hopefully showing how tightly packed the fiddle yard is and, now that we're reaching the capacity of the existing fiddle yard, why our thoughts are turning to ...
19. A new trolley
... something similar (though probably not as strong I suspect). We have a couple of dozen Billy bookcases as they are great, although the prices have gone up since we got them. Normally only the top/bottom and centre shelf is screwed to the sides with the other( adjustable) shelves just losely supported on pins. The bolt 'n braces approach is to glue and screw all the shelves in- that assumes your needs for different shelf heights won't change over time. I used the single width bookcases for heavy book storage as the shelves on the double ones sag under the weight of heavy hardbacks- although not as much as most bookcases. The answer to Andrew's original problem is to have a dedicated railway workshop( another name for the third bedroom) but his trolley idea is very good. I like coiled leads on soldering irons, mini drills and the like to, hopefully, reduce all the trailing cables a bit. Rob posted: 17 Oct 2018 11:53 from: Andrew Duncan Thanks Kelly, As to strength only time will ...
... ' posted: 13 Dec 2007 14:29 from: mattots I noticed the other day when using Templot on my laptop that nearly all the other functions I regularly use have a keyboard shortcut assigned to them (which I already use) but 'Wipe to current template' does not. Seeing as this is one of the most frequently used functions, it would be really nice if this could have a keyboard shortcut assigned to it. Matt posted: 13 Dec 2007 16:07 from: renluethi How about double clicking on the storage box items to delete them to the control? René posted: 13 Dec 2007 20:43 from: Alan Turner mattots wrote: I noticed the other day when using Templot on my laptop that nearly all the other functions I regularly use have a keyboard shortcut assigned to them (which I already use) but 'Wipe to current template' does not. Seeing as this is one of the most frequently used functions, it would be really nice if this could have a keyboard shortcut assigned to it. Matt How odd, ...
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