mattventura wrote:

Sorry, the part about the train turning around behind the signal is not in that screenshot. It is possible, though, for a train to turn around at a one-way signal and get stuck behind it, still rendering it useless.

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Yexo wrote:

"An addition to the signal GUI would be a button to place one-way signals in the direction you are using the auto-signal tool, similar to the one-way road toggle."

The autosignal tool can already do this. First place a one-way signal in the correct direction, and then start dragging starting at the tile with the one-way signal. It'll then add one-way signals instead of two-way signals.

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mattventura wrote:

But thats hard to do when you're zoomed out. Like I said, if it's a long mainline, it's very time consuming since you have to zoom in to see them, so you can only do a small section of the track at a time.

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mattventura wrote:

Adding on to my original suggestion, a converter would be nice, like how you can already use the directional drag to convert to one-way signals, but you simply drag over an area (as a grid, like the rail convert tool) and it searches for one-way signals in the selected area, then converts all the other signals in the affected area. This would eliminate the need to do each lane on a wide mainline independently.

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yorick wrote:

You can currently press ctrl with the autosignal tool to signal the whole mainline, drag from an existent signal to get them of a specific type.

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mattventura wrote:

I know you can do that, but on say, a PDA or other touchscreen/stylus based device with limited input capabilities, you can't just start signaling and drag it across the whole mainline, because there is no way to be dragging the autosignal tool while clicking the "zoom out" button. Using the "pan map when cursor is at edge of window" patch not only takes too long, but becomes an annoyance. This feature request is mainly just to make it easier, it is not an important feature, which is why I put it on "low severity". This is more of a convenience than a necessity.

Also, the other problem with the existing tool is that it will turn affected tiles into one-way signals regardless or type, for example, on one of my tracks, I have a compact right-of-way merge from a depot onto the mainline. If I tried to use the existing way of doing it, I might turn the two-way exit signal into a one-way exit signal, which would not work for it.

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yorick wrote:

I just said that when you hold ctrl while dragging, it signals the whole lane for you...

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mattventura wrote:

The problem is that none of the currently in place systems are perfect.

Putting in signals manually takes more time, but you never mess up, unless you mid-click.

Dragging(without control) on a device without the + and - keys is tedious.

Dragging with control held down can place signals where you don't want then.

My proposed system is not tedious, does not require zooming out, does not require a control key, and will not put signals where you don't want them.

Also, since you can place semaphores with the ctrl key anyway, and they have dedicated signal GUI buttons, why would you oppose a button for directional autosignals?

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andythenorth closed the ticket.

Reason for closing: Won't implement

Flyspray clean up: more than 5 years old, and not obvious what should be done with this next, so closing. If this offends, discuss with andythenorth in irc. Thanks.

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