Dave,
I have created a possible solution to the emulated cross-over using slips issue.
While doing this I discovered another issue. ?A slip is 2 turnouts that can create up to 4 routes. ?This can be emulated by using two regular turnouts connected at their points ends. ?To emulate a cross-over, the A turnout of one slip is matched to the B turnout of the other slip. ?With my change, clicking either pair member changes its partner. ?The other turnout in the slip is not affected. ?This can result in some interesting combinations.
Dave Sand
On Sep 4, 2019, at 7:27 AM, Dave Barraza <dave@...> wrote:
I apologize for not being more clear. I need two ends of a crossover to act together as on the prototype. To match the prototype, those two turnouts?controlled with one bit act as a crossover with one end being a singleton switch and the other end being one of the two parts of a slip. This works?exactly right without any difficulty if you select the "slip end" as the "supporting turnout" from the single switch end.
The problem comes when both ends of the crossover happen to fall within a slip, because a set of points which happens to lay within a slip does not?have the same options as a set of points which happens to be a singleton turnout. The option missing for the points forming part of a slip layout is the?option to select a supporting turnout.
I'm not asking for the GUI to be changed - Is it possible to just add the supporting turnout into the xml for the slip?
Prototype signal engineers deconstruct slips into their fundamental elements and then no specialized "slip" logic is required: A double slip becomes two?switches point-to-point, and a single slip becomes two single switches whose straight legs are connected by a crossing. Is this the cleaner approach for?Layout Editor? If you create a slip in Layout Editor, could the dialog box contain two buttons for the two nested switches?
One option that is proven to work in this scenario is to avoid using the slip elements in LE and to just draw the sub-elements on the panel as I described?them above. This works, but the panel takes up more space and does not look graphically as much like the physical layout - so I would like to continue?to use the slips as long as this issue can be resolved somehow.
Dave
