Go to Depot Button

[Michael 'Cruzer']

Why not make a go to depot button?
I often have to search for the depot, a button would this make much easier, but there should be a button for each waytype.


For having in every pakset the same shortcut I would suggest the Ctrl+r for road and Crtl+t for train depots.

[Severous]

Hello Michael

The button on each vehicle to be enough in most cases. I don't have to find a depot..it works automatically.



For closing down a busy route, with many vehicles, I sometimes add the depot into the line orders, usually just after the main delivery.  Thus rather than all vehicles heading to a depot now..they go when they have made their delivery.

Have I misunderstood?

[Michael 'Cruzer']

Hello Michael

The button on each vehicle to be enough in most cases. I don't have to find a depot..it works automatically.



For closing down a busy route, with many vehicles, I sometimes add the depot into the line orders, usually just after the main delivery.  Thus rather than all vehicles heading to a depot now..they go when they have made their delivery.

Have I misunderstood?

I think you have misunderstood me.
I mean a button in toolbar[0] with which you can open the window of the nearest depot, for buying there a new train!

[prissi]

There are already depots in map view. Anyway, programmingwise your suggestion is easy to solve.

[z9999]

There are already depots in map view.

I think there are two problems with it.
- Depot marker is too small and it is very hard to find it on minimap for me.
- Depot marker of all players are shown on minimap. So, I can't find mine.

[prissi]

I think the most simutransish solution would be a list of depots like the list of cites, factories an so on.

[jamespetts]

Prissi,

good idea!

[wlindley]

Consider also the current frustration, when you only have a single rail depot, that you click on the depot to the list of vehicles; build a convoy; then start defining a line by scrolling 'round the map to find where it should stop...

At this point there are left and right arrow buttons on the open depot window, but if you only have one, clicking either will do nothing, ...so how do you scroll back to your one rail depot, after getting far away from it?  OpenTTD has a little "eyeball" that zaps right back to the depot's location... in Simutrans, click-"left"-and-then-"right" works, but only if you have more than one depot of that type (rail, road, etc.).  Perhaps the arrow buttons could just go back to the one depot in that case?

I like the "List of Depots" idea.

[prissi]

List of depots implemented in r8903 (caugh is it dusty here.)

[Michael 'Cruzer']

I had no clue anymore that I ever asked for that, but, nice feature. Thank you and anybody else for their work.

[Matthew]

List of depots implemented in r8903 (caugh is it dusty here.)

Necro'ing ancient threads is a terrible habit and ......oh! 

Prissi, thank you for implementing this. It is a small touch that will make almost every player's life easier.

Hopefully this patch will be merged into Extended before this thread is old enough to vote. 

I had a look at the patch and creating new dialogues looks beautifully simple with the new themed GUI system. So thanks to everyone who worked on that, too.

[prissi]

Hmm, but I forgot to actually submit the files with the dialog code ... so done in r8904