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Well, I've been looking into the code at a variety of different topics. You may have seen comments recently regarding activities. Being an "OLD" programmer, I have to refresh my skills a little before tackling anything with the greater ORTS framework, so I decided to look at Trackviewer... Trackviewer mentions in it's comments and in the manual that it is designed to support MSTS paths and that a "future" version would support ORTS specific additions. I've reviewed the "blueprints" that I've been able to figure out how to view and I see very little with respect to ORTS specific content for "Trackviewer", so let's consider this a review of the Requirements for a revised Trackviewer. What are some issues that have been identified (If you know specific issues that have already been listed as part of the ORTS project, please provide me with a link so I can review that issue.) If there are "New" functionality required that is specific to ORTS, please Identify those also. As I am started "fresh" and having to learn a few things, I'm going to define my objectives with this effort.
1. I'm going to start offline (not in the Github repository, however I have downloaded the latest source as of yesterday 4/6/21)
2. Trackviewer utilizes XNA so my objective is to replace that with Monogame.
3. Current functionality will be my Initial Operating Capability (IOC). (I'm going to assume that IOC will be MSTS compatible, Intention is that any enhancements, will be ORTS only and output of datafiles will reflect that)
4. a review and discussion on this forum of any issues Bugs, / enhancements
5. update IOC functionality with bug fixes/enhancements which will comprise Final Operating Capability (FOC)
6. Provide FOC as beta test for user/review/comment
7. Provide update to repository for inclusion into baseline.
I have not set a timeline yet. We'll see how it goes. I intend to update this thread as progress (Hopefully) is made.
Look forward to your comments (tongue in check...but seriously)
Barry.... AKA amtrak115.
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Posted 07 April 2021 - 08:16 AM
Happy to see that another person starts fiddling with the OR sources.
Barry, TrackViewer uses now Monogame like the rest of OR, and not XNA. If you look in the run pack of OR, which includes Trackviewer, you won't see the XNA .dlls.
Barry, TrackViewer uses now Monogame like the rest of OR, and not XNA. If you look in the run pack of OR, which includes Trackviewer, you won't see the XNA .dlls.
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Posted 07 April 2021 - 08:20 AM
I was going by what I saw in code...but I'll be looking deeper into it as I go along. thanks for the info...
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Posted 07 April 2021 - 11:28 AM
Amtrak115, on 07 April 2021 - 08:20 AM, said:
I was going by what I saw in code...but I'll be looking deeper into it as I go along. thanks for the info...
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don't get tricked by the namespaces, which are still using "Microsoft.Xna.Framework" even for Monogame!
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Posted 07 April 2021 - 01:09 PM
yep, just figured that one out.
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Posted 07 April 2021 - 04:16 PM
Weter, on 07 April 2021 - 01:23 PM, said:
Hello, Barry, nice to see that.
Could you tell me, if you'll see it, what is "show mouse action" means in track viewer: I have no idea, what is it, so can't choose an adequate translation.
Could you tell me, if you'll see it, what is "show mouse action" means in track viewer: I have no idea, what is it, so can't choose an adequate translation.
If/When I find it...I'll post here.
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Posted 07 April 2021 - 04:27 PM
Thanks. In advance
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Posted 07 April 2021 - 10:16 PM
from just quickly looking at the code, "show mouse action" doesn't seem to do anything meaningful.
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Posted 08 April 2021 - 12:11 PM
Thank you, I don't see any observable difference, wether that options being checked, or no too.
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Posted 20 April 2021 - 07:26 AM
Just a quick update on progress. I've been able to setup DEv environment on local system and with perpetualkid's help been able to create my own repository on Git as well as pull the source. I've now been able to rebuild locally on my machine. I've been developing activities for routes and in my mind, there were some things about how trackviewer worked that sort of bothered me. So instead of just "complaining" about how it worked, I decided to take the plunge and look into it for myself. so here I am. Having no "formal" training on Object-oriented programing, trying to follow execution paths within the code is not easy..but I'm working through those issues. I wish there were documented "programming" standards for OR, if there are, I haven't found them yet. anyway...I'll press on...like I said just an update..
later
Barry....aka Amtrak115
later
Barry....aka Amtrak115