This is the promised version that corrects a number of obscure faults and includes keyboard navigation using either the cursor (arrow) keys or, for left hand use, ‘w’ (up), ‘s’ (down), ‘a’ (left) and ‘d’ (right).
My thanks are due to an anonymous user for suggesting navigation using the keyboard.
The User Manual and on-screen help files have also been modified to include mention of the ability to use keyboard navigation.
The faults corrected are:-
1) If a train was removed by the signaller when occupying an automatic signals route then the signals stayed as they were when the train was present. This version resets the signals.
2) If a train entered the start of an automatic signals route under signaller control and stopped when occupying one or two elements, then changed direction and moved back out again, the first signal stayed at red. This version resets the signal.
3) Train status information has been changed to show speeds in whole numbers of km/h rather than including the first decimal point. This has been found to reduce (slightly) the flickering that occurs when this information is visible. The flickering is due to the screen refresh processes that are part of the Windows operating system and there seems to be little that can be done in the application software – I’ve tried but with only limited success!
I have dropped the ‘Beta’ prefix for this version as the automatic signal route presetting feature now seems to be working satisfactorily.
If you have any problems with this version, either crashing or behaving unexpectedly, please let me know so that I can investigate – thanks.
Regards
Albert