Shape file manager help

[stlsf4003]

So i'm trying to set up SFM but every time I launch it, it keeps saying "Unable to locate the FFEDITC_UNICODE.EXE program required for the compress/uncompress option."

Dose this have something do with me using OR and not MSTS and if so, is there an alternative free program I can use?

[brama]

I gave up on cfm on Windows 10 and am using MSTS ReCompiler instead. Search for recmp119.zip in the file library here on trainsim.

It has some quirks, but it works just fine if you:
- confirm the target file each time you use either the comp or decomp programme. If not, it wil overwrite the last created target file.
- close the comp or decomp programme after using it. If not, strange things happen with the target file.

Wim

[mmax45581]

Ffeditc_unicode.exe is part of MSTS and usually located in the subfolder UTILS\FFEDIT\ in your MSTS folder structure. So if you don't have MSTS installed, you probably won't have it.
Now, there may be a similar error if you didn't install the .net framework version 1.1, which is needed for SFM to work properly.
If you did install .NET 1.1, and can't locate an ffeditc_unicode.exe, you may want to use the program Archibald, included in the tk_utils package by Okrasa Ghia (available in the file library), to do all of the uncompressing stuff you would have needed ffedit for.
If you could locate ffedit you may drop it into the same folder as SFM and see if it works now.

[stlsf4003]

Ffeditc_unicode.exe is part of MSTS and usually located in the subfolder UTILS\FFEDIT\ in your MSTS folder structure. So if you don't have MSTS installed, you probably won't have it.
Now, there may be a similar error if you didn't install the .net framework version 1.1, which is needed for SFM to work properly.
If you did install .NET 1.1, and can't locate an ffeditc_unicode.exe, you may want to use the program Archibald, included in the tk_utils package by Okrasa Ghia (available in the file library), to do all of the uncompressing stuff you would have needed ffedit for.
If you could locate ffedit you may drop it into the same folder as SFM and see if it works now.

I'm gonna try using Archibald, as i really don't feel like messing with SFM right now.
So how do i use Archibald anyways?

[frankoburns]

Archibald is included in the " tk_utils.zip" package in the library here. There is a readme with instructions on how to use it included. Archibald is capable of editing shapefiles without having to compress/decompress them. Excellent little utility.

[stlsf4003]

Archibald is included in the " tk_utils.zip" package in the library here. There is a readme with instructions on how to use it included. Archibald is capable of editing shapefiles without having to compress/decompress them. Excellent little utility.

Just went over the readme and it didn't really go over how to use it, More like a basic idea of what Archibald is capable of.

The issue i'm having is that i'm trying to modify the SD90MAC shape file that was included in Danny Becks file donations.

archie.jpg
So Here's where i'm at right now.
(Hope the image is big enough.)

[conductorchris]

If my memory is right, isn't FFEDITC_UNICODE.EXE also available in the route riter package?

[slipperman]

If my memory is right, isn't FFEDITC_UNICODE.EXE also available in the route riter package?

NO, sir!

Cheers,
Ged

[baldwin]

impossible to read anything in that picture. However, once Archibald has read the file and reached the point you show, you need to expand the file tree in the usual Windows manner. Click the box with a plus sign and everything under it becomes visible. The first click will get you the various main sections of the file and each section if clicked will show in the same manner. Select what you want to change, make the change in the right side window and save.

[stlsf4003]

Is there a way to make the picture bigger?

Anyways. There's no box with a plus sign to be found and it seems that ever .s file that i run through Archie keeps throwing up an "ILLEGAL_DATA" message with the file text being red.

[crstagg]

Is there a way to make the picture bigger?

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Use Snipping Tool to capture just the window rather than a complete screen capture.

[stlsf4003]

Use Snipping Tool to capture just the window rather than a complete screen capture.

How do i do that? Can't say I've ever used that tool before.

[rdayt]

How do i do that? Can't say I've ever used that tool before.

Hit the Windows key and start typing snip.
Pretty simple to use.

Randy

[crstagg]

Hit the Windows key and start typing snip.
Pretty simple to use.

Randy

And BTW it has been a part of Windows since Win 7.

[stlsf4003]

Capture.jpg

Hows this?

(note. The file is a .png on my system but it keeps being changed to a .jpg every time i post it on here. That could be the root of the issue.)