[Sid P.]

After getting ready to run an activity, opening and closing the "Option" window changes the route selection.

Version 2929: Open the menu, select a route and activity, run it (just starting it is enough) , then exit.
Close the menu. (click on the "x".)

1. Open the menu from your shortcut.
2. Select a different route.
3. Select an activity for this route.
4. Click on the "Options" button, to check your options.
5. Close the option window, without any changes.

--- The menu has switched back to the previously run route.

Sid.

[James Ross]

Yup, this is a known "issue" (it's somewhere between a bug and a feature) - clicking OK reapplies the Content settings, i.e. the list of installation sources, which causes the menu to reload, which causes it to reset to the last saved state, which is saved when you run the game or close the menu IIRC.

Possible fixes include:

• Checking if the content settings have actually changed before reloading the menu.
  
• Saving the menu selection before opening the options.
  
• User clicks Cancel instead of OK. ;)

[Sid P.]

Hi James,
Yes, pressing "Cancel" instead of "OK" avoids the reset. Unfortunately, if you change an option, you have to click OK to set it.
So I guess saving it once after you change the route is the safest.

Interesting. That may be why I didn't always encounter it, and thought that I was imagining things,or was forgetting what I was doing!

Cheers,
Sid.

[Sid P.]

After thinking about it some more, I think that it would be better for the user if clicking "OK" to close the Options page caused OR to save the new Route, Activity, etc.
Consider that the user has:
1. Searched among his drives and routes to find the next route that he wants to use;
2. Searched for and selected the activity or the loco and consist that he wants to use from (sometimes) a long list;
3. Searched for and selected the path he wants to use;
4. Chosen (or verified) the options;
-- Now he clicks OK.
In the present system, all of the above steps except #4 are cancelled, unless he closed the menu and restarted it before doing #4.
If the OK (which in most GUI implies accepting the current state) did the saving, would that not be preferable?
Am I missing something?

Cheers,
Sid.

[James Ross]

Sid P., on 21 March 2015 - 07:12 AM, said:

After thinking about it some more, I think that it would be better for the user if clicking "OK" to close the Options page caused OR to save the new Route, Activity, etc.

That's what I've done in X2936, but note that it will still lose explore mode options and timetable mode options, as neither are currently saved at all.

[Sid P.]

James Ross, on 21 March 2015 - 07:30 AM, said:

That's what I've done in X2936, but note that it will still lose explore mode options and timetable mode options, as neither are currently saved at all.

Nicely done.
Works fine.

Thanks,
Sid