QT6 version of TSRE 8.006

[eric]

First of all... I think it's awesome that GokuMK and scottb613 are also doing updates to TSRE... We each have different focuses on how to use the tool, and the potential to combine some of those efforts down the line is something that was unimaginable three years ago.

When I started on v8.006, I had two goals: make Settings available in the app to update, and to migrate away from NetBeans and the very outdated QT5, and over to QT6 under Visual Studio Code....

Settings was done in an earlier sprint, and now thanks largely to Peter Groenbaek ( pgroenbaek ) and with a little bit of help from Gemini AI, I was able to get a fully compiled version in the new platform and IDE tonight.

It's here for anyone who wants to try it out.... being in QT6, that means features developed any of the QT6 forks & branches can be merged into other forks & branches with a little less work.

Because of the change to QT6.... do not install the executable directly in a directory that ran previous versions of TSRE.

You can copy your Settings.txt and CERecent.txt files safely, but the other DLL's in the NetBeans / QT5 version are not compatible.

Let me know if you find any oddities or errors opening up the newer version. It's possible that some dependencies may still need to be added to the distribution. DDS support in particular is not working because QT has deprecated it for some reason, but I'll be retrofitting it later based on Goku's work.

TSRE Testing 8.006ndds ---> TSRE-Testing-8.006ndds.zip

(new version with DDS support)

[dgionet]

Hi Eric,

found the following between 8.006n ( first ) and 8.006k (last) shown here.

Same consist here.

Denis
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[eric]

found the following between 8.006n ( first ) and 8.006k (last) shown here.

Yep, DDS support doesn't exist in QT6 so I had to add that.... Newer version added at in the first thread.

[yellowdog]

Hi, Eric.
Thanks for continuing your work on this project! I downloaded the latest testing version--TSRE-Testing-8.006ndds. One thing I noticed was my TRAINSET loaded in the Consist Editor really quickly! Much quicker than other versions I've used. That was a bonus. However, I also noticed that when viewing a piece of rolling stock (either in Consist Editor or ShapeViewer) the selected piece rotates really fast when trying to view the model. I don't know if that's a bug, or something I can change in a setting?

[eric]

I'll take a look

[GokuMK]

\However, I also noticed that when viewing a piece of rolling stock (either in Consist Editor or ShapeViewer) the selected piece rotates really fast when trying to view the model. I don't know if that's a bug, or something I can change in a setting?

That is a bug. QT6 has more changes under the hood than just lacking DDS QImage plugin.
It is related to new way of handling mouse events.

[eric]

That is a bug. QT6 has more changes under the hood than just lacking DDS QImage plugin.
It is related to new way of handling mouse events.

Yep. I have several pages of mouse updates in my current sprint, possibly released by Thursday.

[Whatever2006]

I guess I should make some inputs about TSRE TS Fork V8.006N, the Consists and Activity Consists, Filter, Type and Coupling options are broken for consist editor. Marker, Station and Siding in the Navigation option in Route Editor doesn't work as well.

[Laci1959]

Hello.

I would like to request the activation of an old function. The shape file of Hazard/Hazzard objects does not appear in any TSRE version. This would be necessary for moving and rotating.

My other request is to make the consist files necessary for the animated container crane graphical. Many content creators are put off by editing the consist file with Notepad.
Carló made the animated container loading a long time ago. The consist file was supplemented with one or more LoadData ( ) lines. There should be as many lines as there are containers to be loaded on the wagon.
For example:
LoadData ( Metrans_20ft-Maersk2 common.containerdata Rear)
The first is the container name, the second is the location, the third (new parameter) is the placement.
Details in the manual: 9.5.4. Allocation of the containers on the wagons

Regards Laci1959.