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Posted 09 January 2017 - 02:43 AM

A "Close" button on the main Open Rails menu screen would be useful and would be in accordance with normal practice.

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Posted 09 January 2017 - 06:59 AM

It's very rare i use any menu to close something down. That red X is just too tempting :whistling:

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Posted 09 January 2017 - 10:53 AM

ALT + F4 can be help too ;-)

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Posted 09 January 2017 - 12:05 PM

 dforrest, on 09 January 2017 - 02:43 AM, said:

A "Close" button on the main Open Rails menu screen would be useful and would be in accordance with normal practice.

What normal practice are you referring to? It's common for applications to have a menu item that exits, in addition to the four build-in/standard options all top-level windows have (icon's menu, double-click icon, [X], Alt-F4), but I don't recall seeing many applications that have a button visible to exit.

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Posted 09 January 2017 - 12:10 PM

 Coolhand101, on 09 January 2017 - 06:59 AM, said:

It's very rare i use any menu to close something down. That red X is just too tempting :whistling:


Me too. http://www.elvastower.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif

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Posted 09 January 2017 - 12:55 PM

 James Ross, on 09 January 2017 - 12:05 PM, said:

What normal practice are you referring to? It's common for applications to have a menu item that exits, in addition to the four build-in/standard options all top-level windows have (icon's menu, double-click icon, [X], Alt-F4), but I don't recall seeing many applications that have a button visible to exit.


I stand corrected!!

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Posted 09 January 2017 - 11:06 PM

And if you're really lazy you can right-click the Title bar...

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Posted 11 January 2017 - 12:59 PM

 Jovet, on 09 January 2017 - 11:06 PM, said:

And if you're really lazy you can right-click the Title bar...


Forgot all about that! :lazy:

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Posted 12 January 2017 - 11:20 AM

If you're running OR in window mode (which I think is the default) rather than full screen, the window has the standard buttons in the top right. Likewise the main menu. So you can close everything in the normal way expected of Windows software. Is the problem with full screen mode? For that, if you don't want to add the usual window controls at the top like MSTS did, a end/return to menu choice should be provided on the ESC popup as was also the case with MSTS. People who never used Win3.1 probably don't know about the Alt-F4 shortcut...

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Posted 12 January 2017 - 10:21 PM

 Mike B, on 12 January 2017 - 11:20 AM, said:

People who never used Win3.1 probably don't know about the Alt-F4 shortcut...

If they're paying attention, they should!.. it's still listed on the window menu ("control menu").
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