We have now completed the technical stuff, so everything should be back to normal.
We have relocated the forum and the CTC user manual to https://forum.webrailroader.com/ and https://ctc.webrailroader.com/ respectively. Notice the “https” – not utterly important for our purpose, but some browser may complain about the regular “http”, so here we go.
The old places will now redirect to the new places.
The manual has now a different look – it little bit bland, but it has the advantage of being mobile friendly, and therefore load more quickly. The contents have also been updated today.
As for CTC – the version 5.3 has now been released, with basically two upgrades:
The Editing of Display-only objects (“Others”) has been upgraded with regard to display of texts: you can now select the anchor position of the text (box) so as you type in text, on the main screen it will flow the way you want it. Also you can save some text parameters has defaults and apply these defaults to other text objects. So you don’t have to rely on the group edit for disp-only objects to make font style, size, and colors the same for multiple text objects.
Also, we implemented a customer suggestion to simplify the linking procedure of blocks which are not so near by. The “Link nearby Objects” function within the block tool will not do only the link nearbys, but also show open connections which you need to care of also, since the tool cannot do it. Those spots are now marked with yellow dots. You just need to click on these dots (the first with the left button, the other with the right button) to connect those ends.
I should have come up with these idea much earlier….
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