command line options

[Roads]

This is not a biggie - just wondering.  I run Simutrans from a batch file and use the addons and timeline options.  Are there any options for turning off the station graph and the station names?  That's always the first thing I do when the game comes up...thinking it would be nice if that were not necessary.

[Fabio]

Honestly I doubt too many command line options are a wise choice.
I would go instead for a
Simutrans -cmd:dummy.tab
Where dummy.tab is a text file with all customized options.

[Ashley]

Or just put an option into simuconf.tab?

[Roads]

Thanks to both of you but how would it be phrased?  Could it be something as simple as:


show station names=off
show waiting bars=off

[MagnusA]

Is this what you are looking for (from simuconf.tab):

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# Show name signs and statistic?
# 0 = don't show anything
# 1 = station names
# 2 = statistics
# 3 = names and statistics
# The visual style is added to this number:
#   0 = black name in color box
#   4 = name in player color with outline
#   8 = box left of name in yellow outline
show_names = 0


[Roads]

Yep MagnusA, that is it exactly.  Uh, I can't open that file with notepad, what editor can I use or is this something I need to research for myself?

[An_dz]

If you're running Windows, WordPad will open it.
You can open in notepad, but it don't handle the line breaks correctly, so it'll be very hard to find and hard to correctly edit it.

I use TexPad, it's free and have nice features I like.

For Mac, I don't know if TexEdit handle the line breaks right. Never checked.

[Roads]

Many thanks to all!  Opened it with WordPad.  Might take a look at TexPad, thanks for heads up, An_dz.

[DirrrtyDirk]

Notepad++ is also an alternative.

[Fabio]

Notepad++ is also an alternative.

My favourite too!

[Isaac Eiland-Hall]

I always bring up PSPad, because it's my favorite.

[wipi35]

 And my favorite is:
http://www.editpadlite.com/

[Roads]

By the way guys, I changed all the simuconf.tab files I could find and think I found all of them - used dir simuconf.tab /s at command prompt in root directory.  When I run simutrans it still does not turn off the display of the names or the waiting bars.


Thinking I might need to delete settings.xml in the user directory but was afraid it would screw up my saved games...so waiting until I finish this game to try that.

[An_dz]

Sometimes the simuconf.tab file inside the pakset may be changing your setting in Simutrans base folder. Check it.

[Roads]

Thanks again An_dz.  Either I had simply made the comment in the file that I changed it and forgot the actual change or something had reset it.  At any rate  the change took this time.