Problem swapping speed signs in 5.0.5x

[Wikkus]

Hi Mike, guys,

I was looking to swap out some speed signs on a commercial route and ran into a problem.

The route has been cloned and the maincontent.ap has been extracted.

I select the sign I want to swap and choose an alternate and away goes RW_Tools, however, as it nears the end of the process, I get an error:

Error: #438 Object support this property or method
Module: frmListRS
Procedure: Command1_Click

This is repeated twice, followed by a message to say that the operation is complete, however, it does not succeed in swapping the objects.

RW_Tools was installed as administrator and I am running it with administrator priveleges, UAC is off (Windows 7 64-bit). I was using 5.0.55 and updated to 5.0.58 too see if this helped, but it did not.

Hope it's just me being daft

Cheers,

Rik.

[mikesimpson]

Hi Wikkus,

Can you tell me which route and which speed signs you were trying to swap in to it so that I can test this.

However it may be that as speed signs are interactive objects it may not be possible to swap them easily? They are not the same as swapping a building etc as the speed signs are linked to the tracks.

Mike

[Wikkus]

Can you tell me which route and which speed signs you were trying to swap in to it so that I can test this.

WCMLoS, Mike and I'm trying to replace the OxPadd ones with the York-Newcastle ones.

However it may be that as speed signs are interactive objects it may not be possible to swap them easily? They are not the same as swapping a building etc as the speed signs are linked to the tracks.

Hmm, I did wonder... Cheers for looking into it.

Rik

[mikesimpson]

I tried this, and in the 'Substitute Existing Scenery Item' box, you should select 'Track Item' rather than 'Scenery Item' - however that won't help you as upon doing this, you will get a warning 'The object is an interactive object or track section and can not be substituted with this program'.

I remembered there was a problem with these things.

Mike

[Wikkus]

Arrgh... Your initial reply prompted me to try that, so I'm pleased that it's not just me, but that's a darned shame.

Would I be right to think that if I opened the relevant tracks.bin and do a careful find/replace this would work instead?

Cheers for all your help and the most useful bit of software ever, Mike

Rik.

[mikesimpson]

Hi Rik,

Not sure, but you could try cloning a small route and try on that clone to see what happens. If OK, then try it on your major route.

Mike

[Wikkus]

Happy to report that the above does indeed work. There are a few issues in placement for some of them which will need to be corrected by hand, but bulk swapping of the signs appears to have worked using find/replace on tracks.bin.

Cheers,

Rik.

[mikesimpson]

Happy to report that the above does indeed work. There are a few issues in placement for some of them which will need to be corrected by hand, but bulk swapping of the signs appears to have worked using find/replace on tracks.bin.

Cheers,

Rik.

Thanks Rik,

I wonder why I did not use that method in RW_Tools as that is how I removed the overhead lines etc originally.

Brain fade probably...

Mike

[malatzoc]

I have similar errors, when i click on "Edit Selected Scenario":

"Error: #339 Component 'superpicture2.ocx' or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid.
Module: frmShowRoutes
Procedure: Command10_Click"

But the superpicture2.ocx is there with 94208 bytes size, and doesn't seem to be corrupted.

[mikesimpson]

I have similar errors, when i click on "Edit Selected Scenario":

"Error: #339 Component 'superpicture2.ocx' or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid.
Module: frmShowRoutes
Procedure: Command10_Click"

But the superpicture2.ocx is there with 94208 bytes size, and doesn't seem to be corrupted.

There is a FAQ section on my web site with the following answer:-
Why do I get a message that SuperPicture2.ocx is not registered or is missing?
SuperPicture2.ocx is a file which displays pictures in various formats, it MUST be in the RW_Tools folder. Depending upon your PCs security settings, it may need to be registered. To do this, run RW_Tools and from the Options Menu select the option 'Register SuperPicture2.ocx' and then it should work OK.

However, if you download the latest full version of RW_Tools and install it, you should find that this problem is now fixed without your needing to do anything else.

Mike