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8 hours ago, Alban Nanty said:

@coaster I've put online on BlueBrick website the BrickTracks package. Please tell me if you found some issues.

Awesome, thank you!

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@Russell844,

I have no idea how to run this on a iMac, perhaps there is some info on the DOCUMENTATION page tab on the https://bluebrick.lswproject.com/ site?

What I can tell to everyone in that version 1.9.1 is out.

the changes are:

Version 1.9.1

This version is a critical fix for downloading language package and part library package from within BlueBrick. BlueBrick was using the non encrypted protocole (http://), and I've recently updated the bluebrick website to use the secure protocole (https://).

  • BUGFIX (Alban): Update the application to download the part package in https instead of http, since the website has moved to https.
  • BUGFIX (Alban): Fix the height calculation of the preview image in the Export Image Windows.
  • BUGFIX (Alban): Fix the drawing of the watermark when the scrollbar is displayed.

Best regards.

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Hello Winczlav,

You probably need insert a quarter straight track (in the Track tab).

Or maybe you should replace a straight track in the horizontal bottom line by a quarter straight + half straight (to make 3/4 track).

Yours.

Edited by Alban Nanty

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You'll need some combination of unusual length track segments, what trixbrix calls "RC1", "RC2" (1 stud and 1.6 stud long I think) and 4 or 8 stud long tracks. I think you essentially need to replicate the geometry of the middle switch in this picture (source here)... or it might be the switch on the right (without the RC2)

IMG_4606-1.jpg

 

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On 6/29/2023 at 12:38 AM, Black Knight said:

It seems a bit excessive to install a virtual machine just to run BlueBrick: You only need a .NET-runtime (aka "Microsoft-Java") installed; which is also documented on the bluebrick homepage: On MacOS or Linux install mono, on Windows install the Microsoft .NET-Framework.

Thank you for that bit of information. Sadly, didn't work for me. Apple has killed support for 32 bit applications as of recent so BlueBrick still won't run. If interested, here is the error dump I get when trying to run in 64bit mode:

WARNING: The Carbon driver has not been ported to 64bits, and very few parts of Windows.Forms will work properly, or at all

=================================================================
	Native Crash Reporting
=================================================================
Got a segv while executing native code. This usually indicates
a fatal error in the mono runtime or one of the native libraries 
used by your application.
=================================================================

=================================================================
	Native stacktrace:
=================================================================
	0x100a52679 - /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/6.12.0/bin/mono-sgen64 : mono_dump_native_crash_info
	0x1009ea40e - /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/6.12.0/bin/mono-sgen64 : mono_handle_native_crash
	0x100a4c7f6 - /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/6.12.0/bin/mono-sgen64 : altstack_handle_and_restore
	0x7ff8133697f5 - /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SkyLight.framework/Versions/A/SkyLight : SLDisplayBounds
	0x110e923e8 - Unknown
	0x109974a46 - Unknown
	0x100947352 - /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/6.12.0/bin/mono-sgen64 : mono_jit_runtime_invoke
	0x100b587e2 - /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/6.12.0/bin/mono-sgen64 : mono_runtime_try_invoke
	0x100b57408 - /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/6.12.0/bin/mono-sgen64 : mono_runtime_class_init_full
	0x10093ed5c - /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/6.12.0/bin/mono-sgen64 : mono_jit_compile_method_inner
	0x1009428aa - /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/6.12.0/bin/mono-sgen64 : mono_jit_compile_method_with_opt
	0x1009ecf2e - /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/6.12.0/bin/mono-sgen64 : common_call_trampoline
	0x1009ec970 - /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/6.12.0/bin/mono-sgen64 : mono_magic_trampoline
	0x10994b393 - Unknown
	0x1105b9b9b - Unknown
	0x110611a37 - Unknown
	0x1105bec83 - Unknown

=================================================================
	Telemetry Dumper:
=================================================================
Pkilling 0x12980137984x from 0x8605434560x
Entering thread summarizer pause from 0x8605434560x
Finished thread summarizer pause from 0x8605434560x.
Failed to create breadcrumb file (null)/crash_hash_0xcd8634fb8

Waiting for dumping threads to resume

=================================================================
	External Debugger Dump:
=================================================================

=================================================================
	Basic Fault Address Reporting
=================================================================
Memory around native instruction pointer (0x7ff8133697f5):0x7ff8133697e5  89 fb 48 8b 05 0a 6b bc 3c 0f 10 00 0f 10 48 10  ..H...k.<.....H.
0x7ff8133697f5  0f 11 4f 10 0f 11 07 89 f7 48 89 de e8 58 3b fa  ..O......H...X;.
0x7ff813369805  ff 48 89 d8 48 83 c4 08 5b 5d c3 55 48 89 e5 53  .H..H...[].UH..S
0x7ff813369815  48 83 ec 28 48 8b 05 b8 76 bb 3c 48 8b 00 48 89  H..(H...v.<H..H.

=================================================================
	Managed Stacktrace:
=================================================================
	  at <unknown> <0xffffffff>
	  at System.Windows.Forms.XplatUICarbon:CGDisplayBounds <0x000b7>
	  at System.Windows.Forms.XplatUICarbon:get_WorkingArea <0x00072>
	  at System.Windows.Forms.XplatUICarbon:get_VirtualScreen <0x00043>
	  at System.Windows.Forms.XplatUI:get_VirtualScreen <0x00048>
	  at System.Windows.Forms.Screen:.cctor <0x0017a>
	  at System.Object:runtime_invoke_void <0x000a5>
	  at <unknown> <0xffffffff>
	  at System.Windows.Forms.Form:get_CreateParams <0x0062a>
	  at System.Windows.Forms.Control:UpdateBounds <0x00096>
	  at System.Windows.Forms.Control:SetBoundsCore <0x002b2>
	  at System.Windows.Forms.Form:SetBoundsCore <0x0018a>
	  at System.Windows.Forms.Control:SetBounds <0x00187>
	  at System.Windows.Forms.Control:ScaleControl <0x000ca>
	  at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl:ScaleControl <0x00052>
	  at System.Windows.Forms.Form:ScaleControl <0x00052>
	  at System.Windows.Forms.Control:Scale <0x0020b>
	  at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl:PerformAutoScale <0x001ba>
	  at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl:PerformAutoScale <0x00042>
	  at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl:PerformDelayedAutoScale <0x0004a>
	  at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl:PerformDelayedAutoScale <0x000a2>
	  at System.Windows.Forms.Control:ResumeLayout <0x001ba>
	  at BlueBrick.SplashScreen:InitializeComponent <0x0039a>
	  at BlueBrick.SplashScreen:.ctor <0x0004a>
	  at BlueBrick.SplashScreen:.ctor <0x0006a>
	  at BlueBrick.Program:Main <0x000a2>
	  at <Module>:runtime_invoke_void_object <0x000b0>
=================================================================
zsh: abort      mono64 BlueBrick.exe

-Jeff

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On 6/26/2023 at 4:01 PM, Alban Nanty said:

Hello Winczlav,

You probably need insert a quarter straight track (in the Track tab).

Or maybe you should replace a straight track in the horizontal bottom line by a quarter straight + half straight (to make 3/4 track).

Yours.

Hi Alban,

is it possible to have some updates related to the part tracker for the category "City" and Trains"?

Is there a place on the web where somebody has posted some update with the more recent sets?

I guess that an update with the modular buildings after the Detective Office would be very appreciated by a lot of peopleusers.

Thanks for your work

Gabriele

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Hi Gabriele,

Adding part is really time consuming. I got some merge request on github for some new parts, but last time I accepted one merge request, most of the parts were not correctly named, and lost of fields were missing in the xml file. So that took me quite a lot of work to fix the merge request. If someone is interested to be moderator on the brick library, please contact me, and I will be happy to give you the access to update the library.

Just in case: you can try to check if there's new parts available through the "File > Download Additional Part..." menu.

Yours.

Edited by Alban Nanty

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On 7/2/2023 at 8:45 PM, Jeffinslaw said:

Thank you for that bit of information. Sadly, didn't work for me. Apple has killed support for 32 bit applications as of recent so BlueBrick still won't run. If interested, here is the error dump I get when trying to run in 64bit mode:

-Jeff

Oh boy, I haven't followed the .NET-stuff, but it seems mono and .NET (win32 only) are deprecated in favor of .NET Core (which seems to be multi-platform). I have no clue if using this .NET Core helps -- I suspect it deprecated the GUI-elements that BlueBrick is using. But here it is anyway: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/macos

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5 hours ago, Black Knight said:

Oh boy, I haven't followed the .NET-stuff, but it seems mono and .NET (win32 only) are deprecated in favor of .NET Core (which seems to be multi-platform). I have no clue if using this .NET Core helps -- I suspect it deprecated the GUI-elements that BlueBrick is using. But here it is anyway: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/macos

Looks like an interesting rabbit hole to go down this afternoon! I do think this ends on it being a 32bit application issue though.

-Jeff

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