Quirk in scenario editor

[artimrj]

I recently found another new quirk.

When you try to add to front or back or make a drop off. You can pick the siding, but when you try to pick the cars they do not select. I discovered you h ave to close the command window, conect to front or back and drop offs, then when you open it again you will be able to select the cars you want for that operation.

Along with the bidirectional error giving a red x when you know it is right, save and then reloading the scenario usually puts things right again.

Thats two very strange quirks for editor.

[OldProf]

I've run into that same "quirk" ever since the scenario editor first appeared. In my experience, it comes and goes. J. B. Fried taught me a trick that often works when selecting cars one at a time won't: hold down the Shift key while clicking on any one of the cars located on the siding. Oddly enough, the car numbers appear within the instruction box in reverse order, but they do appear. I've also found that sometimes (but only sometimes, of course), by clicking various places on a car symbol in the editor I can find its ticklish spot. That trick goes back to RS days, when we had to "edit" by double-clicking the disks assigned to an engine. First of all, the disk itself did not always respond to double-clicking; secondly, individual cars, which had to be double-clicked to assign them to an instruction disk, often failed to respond, again, until I found their ticklish spot. There must be something about constructing the basic model for a railway car that blocks certain areas of the model from responding to mouse clicks. There's a puzzlement to unravel!

Well, I see that the dear old decrepit Steam installer has descended to "0" again, prolonging even further my latest required reinstall ... I've yet to figure out where to tickle that beast! It's been running well over 12 hours now and has still only downloaded 25 of the 31.3 GBs of my installation, using the Atlanta server, which must have a severe case of southern drawl. Guess it's time to do some yard work!