LEGO SYSTEM Trains : 30547


Trains / 30547	30546 \| 30548

Subject:	Re: Beating up, kicking, and verbally abusing an old dead rotted horse...
Newsgroups:	lugnet.trains, lugnet.general
Date:	Wed, 5 Nov 2008 19:13:18 GMT
Viewed:	14008 times

In lugnet.trains, David Graham wrote: > In lugnet.trains, Matthew Bates wrote: > > In lugnet.trains, Rob Hendrix wrote: > > > Track Designer source code??? Anyone??? > > > > I know this is 5 years late but I think I have finally found the source code! > > That is great news, Track Designer is very useful, I use it all the time when I > do a LEGO train show as I have a different layout for each show. It still works > very well but it would be nice to see a few enhancements. > David Now I'm debating whether I should do some development on it myself or let someone else do it or open it up for collaborative development. I have been able to compile it but only with an older version of Visual C++ (version 4.0). Plus I have discovered that some of the source to the help system is missing so I had to do some hacking to get it to build and the help still isn't quite working right. Matt

Message has 3 Replies:

		Re: Beating up, kicking, and verbally abusing an old dead rotted horse...
(...) Well, back when I was searching high and low for it, we wanted to intigrate the source in with visual basic to control our switching and such on the layout. Its great that you've found this gem even if it was 5 years later. I still have a (...) (15 years ago, 5-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)

		Re: Beating up, kicking, and verbally abusing an old dead rotted horse...
(...) Open the source code! My guess is that's the best thing which can be done. Set up a open source project, and even if nobody contributes immediately, maybe a day... and of course you can still develop it (and the source code will never be lost (...) (15 years ago, 5-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)

		Re: Beating up, kicking, and verbally abusing an old dead rotted horse...
(...) For me, the great think about Track Designer is that it runs just fine under the Wine Windows emulator. I've used it that way under my X86-64 Linux machine for several layouts, including working on NALUG layouts for train shows. I've never (...) (15 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)

Message is in Reply To:

		Re: Beating up, kicking, and verbally abusing an old dead rotted horse...
(...) That is great news, Track Designer is very useful, I use it all the time when I do a LEGO train show as I have a different layout for each show. It still works very well but it would be nice to see a few enhancements. David (15 years ago, 5-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)

22 Messages in This Thread:

Entire Thread on One Page:: Nested: All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear: All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:: Nested: All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear: All | Brief | Compact

Custom Search