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hthhs wrote: That's a cool idea! I've added it to the patch on the first post of the thread with a few modifications:
- the icons are now orange, like most of the rest of the text
- the icons are shown between the time and destination, because this was easier to implement
- whether to show them or not can be set in advanced settings

Arrivals boards would indeed be useful. I'll look into adding them this weekend if I have time.

sph wrote: Great! Though I'd prefer to keep the icon silver, that way it's a better visual separation between time and destination. All the orange makes the screen a bit too crowded and harder to interpret.

Logital82 wrote:Just a simple question. I one ending station my train goes on a rail only for wait its time till his next service and not blocking the passenger staion in this time: For example:

A - B - C - B - A - X ( - A - B - ...

The X is a station only for operating not for passengers. In the second A order there is full unload and leave empte so that passenger will not stay in train going to X. In X there is order to not load. In the departureboars the X is the final destination of the train whats doesnt look so nice. Is there a possibility to solve this?

welshdragon wrote:Any Binary? (dare I ask for a Mac one? my Windows PC is in bits at my mum's )

hthhs wrote:I've added an option to display the icons in silver

With regard to showing arrivals as well as departures: it's trickier to do than I hoped it would be, as orders are stored as singly-linked lists, so I can't just traverse a vehicle's orders in reverse to find its origin.

sph wrote: Isn't it sufficient to use the same approach from the departure board? i.e. Search for the last destination in the order list before the current station. This would mean you'd have to loop over all orders in that list but at least you don't have to go backwards

hthhs wrote:Where a departure will terminate isn't necessarily where the arrival should be listed as coming from. Regardless, we can't just use a vehicle's destination as the origin for its next arrival, as it might operate in a triangle, e.g. terminating stations being CBG -> PBO -> SVG and then repeat. The train's destination would be PBO, but we want it to be shown as arriving from SVG.

sph wrote: Assuming we'd start with CBG:
Destination = PBO
As we didn't meet the CBG order while walking over the order list until PBO, we continue.
ArrivalFrom = Destination
Destination = SVG
As we didn't meet the CBG order while walking over the order list until SVG, we continue.
ArrivalFrom = Destination
Destination = CBG
Now on the route to CBG we fulfil the break condition (order==start) at the CBG order again, break the loop and the source station would be in the ArrivalFrom variable which is SVG. So this would require walking over the list only once.

I'll have a look at the actual code this evening, shouldn't be too hard, unless I'm missing something

CBG
ELY
PBO (unload and leave empty)
PBO
SNO
HIT
SVG (unload and leave empty)
SVG
HIT
MEL
CBG (unload and leave empty)

hthhs wrote:I figured out a way of doing it, possibly exactly the one you were thinking of. The patch in the first post has been updated. A binary will appear shortly.

sph wrote: arrivals: A1 (1:00) -> A2 (2:00) -> A3 (3:00)
departures: D1 (1:30) -> D2 (2:30) -> D3 (3:30)

Suppose A1 is two hours late. The board will now look like: D1 (1:30) -> D2 (2:30) -> A1 (3:00) -> A2 (2:00) -> A3 (3:00) -> D3 (3:30). You can see the conflict between D2 and A2.

sph wrote: Also, I don't think there is any need to take lateness into account when sorting in the first place. If a train is late, it will show up at the time it was scheduled to arrive or leave but with the "Expected: ..." message next to it, which is the normal behaviour at our railway at least

hthhs wrote:made me realise just how annoying it can be to have departures keep swapping positions in the list, so the patch has been updated to order them only by scheduled time.

hthhs wrote:In that case, then the computed arrivals list would have been [A2, A1, A3] or [A2, A3, A1], only

sph wrote:This patch fixes it. I've added a Sort method to the SmallVector class. This should also simplify some things in the departure.cpp file, though I haven't changed anything there yet.

hthhs wrote:Cool - I reckon that's probably the most sensible solution. It would have been nice if the computed lists of departures were sorted while they were computed. Oh well. Thank you!