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Train Counter

Posted: 07 Feb 2009 13:43
by FunMaker
I'd like to have a train counter system in a actual patch (better in trunk :D)

old version (post 3)
http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?p=426224#p426224

would be nice to see for load balancing issues

Re: Train Counter

Posted: 07 Feb 2009 14:04
by Roujin
FunMaker wrote:I'd like to have a train counter system in a actual patch (better in trunk :D)
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I thought some time about what you mean by this, because following your link, i found an actual patch. ;)
What you mean is an "up-to-date patch", that's a possible translation of the german "aktuell". (aktuell != actual <- that's a false friend)

Back to the topic, that's a very old patch, one would have to rewrite big parts of it for current trunk. Maybe I'll have a look at it though..

edit: meanwhile, here's something else to play with:
This is a patch originally by Rubidium, that I changed a little to display the colors in a nicer way (imo).
It displays the busyness of railway tracks in the smallmap "Routes" mode: yellow (unused) to dark red (heavily used).

It's not really what you asked for, but maybe you can use it anyway. ;)

Re: Train Counter

Posted: 07 Feb 2009 17:31
by Eddi

Re: Train Counter

Posted: 07 Feb 2009 17:56
by michael blunck
Eddi wrote:Just for the sake of it: Germans think they speak better English than they do :p
Yeah. But read also http://www.iaas.uni-bremen.de/sprachblo ... ing-manie/ , i.e. not everything to be found at your link is really true.

And, BTW: "shrimps" == "Granat". 8)

regards
Michael

Re: Train Counter

Posted: 07 Feb 2009 18:43
by Roujin
Well, I rewrote the patch for current trunk. See here: http://bugs.openttd.org/task/2620

Since the waypoints now have their own window in trunk, I extended that window and put the stats below the viewport.
Here's a screenshot:
waypoint_stats.png
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Re: Train Counter

Posted: 07 Feb 2009 18:46
by CommanderZ
I guess saving longer-term data to generate some nice graphs would be too memory-heavy?

Re: Train Counter

Posted: 07 Feb 2009 18:53
by Eddi
i don't think memory is really a problem, when you don't have 100.000 waypoints and the data is not stored in the map (i hope that it does not)

PS: no, of course, in a satirical text, not "everything" is "true".

Re: Train Counter

Posted: 07 Feb 2009 19:29
by Roujin
no, the values are not stored in the map array :mrgreen:
and no, it wouldn't be too memory-heavy...

just how to display them? If you write more than three lines like it does now, it gets crowded. ;)
Feel free to extend this patch with a nice graph drawing function if you want ;)

Re: Train Counter

Posted: 08 Feb 2009 12:32
by FunMaker
well except the fact that i mixed actual with up-to-date - imho my english is understandable and that's the only thing i want it to - besides there are many false-friends from german->english ;)

oh and thanks for an UP-TO-DATE patch :D