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I hope the attached might be of some use - an updated key chart.

1 - the letter shortcuts on the background template menu are a godsend for someone who hates having to keep dragging the cursor around to click on things.  I seem to have memorised some of them already!

I take it, it's not that easy to do CTRL one key followed by another? For example, Visual Studio has CTRL+E, D for formatting a document. The CTRL key is held down for both keys. Would open up a load more keys (and perhaps grouping them as well.)

They were actually working in 091c, although I have changed some of them.

Likewise on the shove timbers dialog. All the buttons have accelerator keys and using the keyboard is 10 times faster than clicking them with the mouse. Now in Windows 7 you can't even get the underlines to show by pressing ALT.

This is using 0.91c in Windows 7. Just occasionally the accelerator keys are underlined in the background template menu - as can just about be seen in the photo. It's clearer in the image gallery at full size. I can't take a screenshot because the menu disappears when I hit the PrintScreen key. I can't get this to happen with any consistency, but it seems to happen only when the Shift key is held down.

A change in the TDV which you may not have noticed -- when creating picture shapes you can now use JPG, GIF, PNG image formats in addition to BMP. Also it's no longer necessary to have the original image file in the same folder as the BGS file -- the TDV saves an image copy in there in its own sk8 format.

Does the sk8 format automatically save any twisting or other manipulation? This whole area has always seemed to confuse people, so if we can keep the original image safe and have Templot transparently look after the image once imported that would be great.

I am just starting to have a little dabble and found this. I am trying to MAKE SPLIT, SEPARATE EXIT TRACK and I'm only getting MAKE SPLIT AT PEG

Phil O wrote:

I am just starting to have a little dabble and found this. I am trying to MAKE SPLIT, SEPARATE EXIT TRACK and I'm only getting MAKE SPLIT AT PEG

Hi Phil,

Thanks for reporting it.

It's very odd, because none of the relevant code has changed since 091c. I have just tried for several minutes to reproduce it, without success. Can you remember what you were doing immediately before this happened?

What happens if you store the template, and then delete it back to the control template? If it is still the same, please could you post the .box file here?

Has this ever happened on your system in 091c?

If it happens again, try pressing F12, which is the general reset and clean up function.

regards,

Martin.

I can only assume windoz is having an off day.

Anyone else seeing anything similar?

Is TDV "offline"? I've been trying to run it this morning and keep getting the "Error. Unable to connect to Templot Club" message. My internet connection is fine, as evidenced by this post and lots of other internet activity this morning!

I realise that TDV talking to your servers is for all the right reasons, but can you please assure us that this will only ever be for development versions?

I've spotted another quirk with TDV.  If you're adjusting the length of a template, for instance, then hit Ctrl-V to store, the mouse action dialogue box stays open and active

I hope this is a bug and not a design change!

I think I may have found a bug. I've been constructing a regular diamond at 1:1.56 and I had created a partial template to shove the checkrails out of the centre of it. I had increased this partial's angle until that happened and when the checkrail finally disappeared from the template I was left with this spurious angled line that

Phil O wrote:

I can only assume windoz is having an off day.

Hi Phil,

I'm not so sure. We could do with getting to the bottom of it.

But I couldn't reproduce it here or find anything wrong in your .box file, so it's a bit of a mystery. Many thanks for posting it.

Anyone else seeing anything similar?

regards,

Martin.

just keep increasing and decreasing the F5 angle thus making the checkrail appear and disappear and you'll hopefully see it do its dance!

I think I've found a bug in TDV relating to K crossing check rail flares.

// version 0.23 19-10-99. Update keep timestamp so can append existing file after shift keeps, mirror keeps, etc...

Thanks for finding that for me. It was a simple typo in the code -- now fixed.

This works correctly in 0.91c although the window style is completely different.  I'm using Windows 7 - I can't help feeling that that may be relevant in this case!

Real -> switch settings... gives a show switch info button. Clicking on that brings up another window with lots of useful info and a scroll bar to see lots more useful info - except that I can't get that window to gain the input focus so can't scroll it!

When you say it won't fit on small displays, how small is small? I wonder what the smallest display people are using now is?

Not that important, but on my Windows 7 (32 bit) system, the desktop shortcut is still the yellow hardhat icon, whereas the shortcut in the start menu is the new red one. I can manually change it through the shortcut properties (after the 2nd time for some reason).

I know the icon is temporary, so as I say, not that important.

It was then a bit of a fag having to got it back then have to cycle through all the pages to resume where I had left off.

.I'm in two minds what to do about the track plan tutorial. It is so old that in a lot of places there are now much easier ways of doing the same thing. If you compare it with this video:
 http://www.templot.com/martweb/videos/flash/starter/em_starter.html
you will see lots of differences. The tutorial needs a complete re-write to match the videos. On the other hand lots of users say how useful it is in understanding the basics of Templot, and I don't want to lose that.