Bob,
Provided some telephone help to a friend that was trying to update to the
latest version today. Had trouble getting the decoder list to come out
right. Eventually had him delete the decoder index in the Prefs folder,
then create a new index which solved the problem. Maybe including an empty
Prefs folder index file as part of the update package, along with some code
in the app that automatically creates a new index when the index is empty?
Another thing that came up had to do with the roster. Some of the entries
there were from earlier playing around. I talked him through a manual edit
of the roster file, which solved that problem also but a typo during the
edit caused some extra grief. Any plans to incorporate roster management?
Also there were many old versions of the index and roster files around so I
wondered if anything is planned in the way of file maintenance?
After getting everything ironed out, the app had no problem talking to the
NCE system. However after successfully reading the loco data and saving it
to disk, the NCE was still held in some kind of programming command mode.
Don't know if shutting down the app would have fixed this, but I heard that
turning off the PC did release the NCE.
Robin
Robin Becker
Tucson, AZ
