Ken,
My experience is that PanelPro generally has few issues opening old xml files. ?As a test, I just did this on the 3.8 file. ?It opened with no errors or warnings. ?
The main issues relate to the evolution of settings and profiles over time. ?There tends to be a lot of junk left behind. ?The "big bang" approach eliminates these issues.
Dave Sand
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Subject: Re: [jmriusers] Resurrection of a layout
Date: Sunday, March 02, 2025 5:58 PM
Chris,
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With the idea of a big jump between versions, the main caveat is that you have to deal with any interesting errors that come up. They likely will be simple but solving some might take a fair amount of work. Watching the system console is critical to this to know what’s happening. Also the ability to manually edit the panel xml file to make some of the corrections might be needed. Or use it as a base and rebuild.
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How easy will depend on lots of things. Which command station? Which types of signals? Did it use how many of the different things? Are there things you would like to add?
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-Ken Cameron, Member JMRI Dev Team
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