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Community => Simutrans Help Center => Topic started by: jncy on December 29, 2022, 08:53:31 PM

Title: Current status of "Follow me" behavior for convoys
Post by: jncy on December 29, 2022, 08:53:31 PM
Holiday greetings from a long-time user and first-time poster!

I was a big fan of the "Follow me" button in the Convoy window that locked the main map screen onto a single vehicle. It was a great tool for visualizing the efficiency of a transit network, or for just sitting back and admiring my own handiwork. :)

It seems that this button disappeared from the Convoy window in SVN r9366, but I can't tell whether the functionality moved elsewhere. The description for r8857 offers a potential clue ("convoi following mode now map setting") but I haven't managed to learn any more; I also tried searching the manual with no luck.

I experimented with both 123.0.1 and nightly releases, built from source on Linux, paired with pak128.

Any advice would be appreciated!

Cheers,

Jason
Title: Re: Current status of "Follow me" behavior for convoys
Post by: Andarix on December 29, 2022, 10:01:03 PM
button in window title

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Title: Re: Current status of "Follow me" behavior for convoys
Post by: jncy on December 30, 2022, 01:58:16 PM
Thanks Andarix.

At first I thought this was a curious choice, but I see now that it's very clever: I can double-click the title bar of each convoy window so that only the title bar is visible, place several of these rolled-up convoy windows at the corner of the screen, and then choose which convoy to follow with a single click. Very nice!
Title: Re: Current status of "Follow me" behavior for convoys
Post by: savingskin on February 21, 2023, 03:54:04 AM
I also tried placing some of these convoy windows in the corner of the screen. Wonderful.


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