TonyO

If I may add to Chris's always helpful answer, I run RM at home without my eLink connected when I'm writing and testing programs. I have one program for each signal; when a signal is clicked in RM the program sets the route (i.e. points) from that signal to the next signal, sets the signals to red for any conflicting routes and finally sets to green the signal I've just clicked on to show that the program has finished and the train driver can go. The RM layout shows which signal is set to what and also the point directions. When I'm happy with my programs I copy them plus the revised track layout to the running layout, which is at a friend's house. I should add I've also written a program to set all my signals to red before carrying out the program test. When I'm on the "real" layout I do a final check of the program by running trains and ensuring that any real signals change correctly.

Thanks for your comment Ray, that means the topic is still live! You can always record your own sound files and save them in the "Sounds" subfolder of the "RailMaster" folder. The trouble is you would have to record them in that funny echoey and sometimes female voice! Tony

No new desirable features wanted since March 2017? Have all you users happy been with the product as-is since then or has another topic been opened? I would like the locomotives window (with optionally up to ten columns visible) to be separate from the layout window so I could run trains from one screen and set routes on the other (a second connected) screen. I know one can faff around and extend the RM window across to the second screen but this is hard to use when the two monitors (or laptop screen plus one monitor) are of different resolutions. In my case the laptop is 1024 by 768, the attached monitor is HD (1920 by 1080). On the subject of higher resolution monitors, I would also like RailMaster's display resolution to be improved; when I zoom the layout down to 50% text can be hard to read. Finally, please can the layout design program be changed to allow more objects to be imported or drawn. Examples are pictures, boxes and lines. Thank you Hornby!

I notice that the software is out now so I'll start the topic rolling by asking if it can use Hornby's eLink to run the layout?