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Unfortunately, you cannot remap this middle button in BlueBrick, but yes, you can alternatively use SHIFT + left mouse button.

Hi CoNSpiracy, You can click on the middle button of the mouse + move the mouse, to pan the view. Yours.

Actually that would be a bit easier to do, since there's already a sorting mechanism implemented for the part library.

Hi Henry, The software does not support by default "illegal moves" technics, like building large curves with straight tracks not fully connected. However with a minimum of effort you could achieve it: you should copy and paste the straight xml file and gif with a different name. Then in the xml file, you should modify the connections angles, to give a slight angle (360° divided by the number of straight you want to use to do a full circle). Not straight forward, requiring some effort, but doable Yours.

Hello Zephyr, You can actually do it in a certain way with the current version. Create a "Favorite" folder inside the "part" folder of your BlueBrick installation. Then move (do not copy, but move) all the part you like (gif+xml) in your "Favorite" folder, and relaunch BlueBrick. You will then have a tab with only the part you like. Don't worry, you will still be able to open a BB layout from someone else, or send you layout to someone else, because BlueBrick doesn't care about the folder of the parts, the BBM file only contains the part ID which is the part name. Then in the preference of the application, you can also set your "Favorite" category as the first one of the tab list, if you wish. However, I understand that it is not a straight forward way to filter your part library. So to do it from inside BlueBrick, I should add a "favorite" feature, where you could tag which part is your favorite across all the library, and display all your favorite parts in a favorite tab, and keep them also displayed inside their original package. That's a nice feature, I will add it to the todo list, however, not sure that one will hit the next release

No, I didn't try, and unfortunately, it seems Mono is less supported on Mac and Linux recently, to the point that I'm afraid the next version won't even work at all...

Sure.

Hello CoNSpiracy, You will be pleased to know that I'm working on the version 1.9 right now. I expect a delivery in one month or two. If you have some all time wanted feature, this is the moment you can speak by replying to this thread. Yours.

Well I rarely design parts myself, but if someone has done those parts, I hope you could share them.

Thanks for these kind words.

Hello, a quick note to tell you that I've released BlueBrick 1.8.2. Still downloadable at the same address: http://bluebrick.lswproject.com/ Enjoy!

Thanks Capparezza. This is really nice from you.

Fortunately for me, the bug is quite rare, and happen for very huge layout with thousand of parts... The 1.8.2 is mainly a bug fix issue, please don't expect new feature. The only new feature I've implemented in 1.8.2 is "Implement the saving of the "Connection Preference List" when saving a group in the library from the File menu.", but I'm quite sure it won't be any use for you, as it is a quite obscure sub-feature of a feature not so many people use (saving a group in the part library). In total, I've fixed 8 bugs in 1.8.2, including the critical one, the other bugs are mainly bugs related to adding a group on the map, or replacing a part in a group. The 1.9 release has some interesting and challenging feature, including the so often asked scrolling bars on the map panel.... grrrr... that feature will kill me... :-( But I don't know when I will start working on 1.9.

Hello Ludo, Since quite a long time now, BlueBrick let you define your own connection types. For this you need to extend the ConnectionTypeList.xml which is located in the "config" folder. However, if you define your own connection for your custom parts, you will also need to provide this ConnectionTypeList.xml file to people, and ask people to override the default one in their "config" folder, which may of course be a bit difficult for some user (or a bit frightening for some other user). Therefore, I'm willing to add those 4 new connection types, in the config file released with the coming 1.8.2 release (that will come in a couple of weeks). However, you should not use numbers for the connection type, the original number 1,2,...5 are legacy implementation. But new connection type should have meaningful names. I would therefore suggest: "mils_terrain", "mils_city", "mils_track" and "mils_airport" I've tested a bit on my side, and choose some colors not to close to the existing colors, and here is the result. Please add the following xml code in the ConnectionTypeList.xml file, and set your connection type to be "mils_xx" in your part xml files, and reload the part library. <!-- The following Connection are used for the unofficial MILS parts. For more details visit http://l-gauge.org/wiki/index.php/Reference_Instructions --> <ConnectionType name="mils_terrain"> <ColorARGB>FF8C5C00</ColorARGB> <Size>1</Size> </ConnectionType> <ConnectionType name="mils_city"> <ColorARGB>FF242EFE</ColorARGB> <Size>1.5</Size> </ConnectionType> <ConnectionType name="mils_track"> <ColorARGB>FF84FF00</ColorARGB> <Size>1</Size> </ConnectionType> <ConnectionType name="mils_airport"> <ColorARGB>FFFFC4A7</ColorARGB> <Size>1.5</Size> </ConnectionType> You can play/adjust with the color and size or keep it like that, and please send me your feedback with the tuning you like by mail (you can find my mail in the about box of BB, or on the BB website), and I will included in the default xml file. Yours. Thanks, it's always a pleasure to hear from people that enjoy my software. Hello Gabrieel, This is FAQ, and I often reply the same way: I prefer spending my limited time on implementing new features rather that creating new parts. However, some AFOL have access to the part library, and can add new parts without me, made by them or by other AFOL. It is true, that I didn't see any new parts recently. If you can motivate your LUG members to create the missing set, as a collective effort, I'm sure I could easily include them in the official part library. Yours.

Good news, I think I found a new way to generate those unique ID, which doesn't break the file compatibility. I worked a bit on this issue today, and I think I'm now happy with what I have. That also lead me to find several bugs that I created during my last refactoring. I will need to test intensively before releasing the 1.8.2, because it is a very sensitive fix. If there are some beta tester volunteers, please contact me at my usual email (can be found in the "About Box" of BlueBrick), especially if you got some unloadable files as @legoboy3998 explained.

@legoboy3998 Actually, I have a know bug, that may appears, especially with large files. The bug rely in the way I generate and save the unique Id of each part. Sometimes this unique id is not unique, and two parts with the same ids get saved in the file, preventing the file to be openable later. You can salvage your file by looking at the offending line in the error message, then edit the bbm file in a text editor, and simply change the id number of the part (or delete the part). Then reopen the file with BB. I've implemented a fix for that bug, but I'm not at all satisfied with the result, this is why I didn't published a new version of BB for fixing this issue. My current fix would also change the file format version, and I would like a fix that can keep the current version. But it is my number one priority for bug fixing in the next patch.

Hello, The best way is by email. My email is written on the top of the Bluebrick website (in case I change my email): http://bluebrick.lswproject.com/ Yours.

Hello, Yes, I still maintain Bluebrick. I will have a look to see why the subdivision impact this, when you disable the subdivision. Thanks for reporting the issue. Yours.

Hello, A quick note, to tell you that I've released the version 1.8.1 of BlueBrick. As usual, downloadable at: bluebrick.lswproject.com Enjoy.

Hello Freestorm, I've renamed the files with the wrong casing and re-uploaded the package to my website. You can download them again if you didn't already have fixed them on your machine. BlueBrick 1.8.1 is coming soon (nothing fancy, though, just some bug fixes for mainly Linux users and maybe Mac users (I'm still investigating the user32 missing dll error)). Yours.

Hi marook, I tried BB recently on a linux machine, and I guess I've installed Mono 4 (because like you said, I could not find Mono 2 for download), and it was just crashing at startup. I've made some fix to it, and succeeded to make it work again on this machine. This is why I plan to release version 8.1 to fix such issues. I don't have a Mac though for testing... If you would like to beta test it, please send me your email in MP, I will send you a 8.1 beta by mail. Thanks in advance.

Hello Spanish Users, I've uploaded a new version of the Spanish translation for BlueBrick 1.8, containing some fix and some new translations that were missing. The translator gave them to me few months ago, sorry to have been too lazy for not updating the dll earlier. If you want to get the new translation pack, you should delete the "BlueBrick.resources.dll" in the "es" folder of your BlueBrick folder. Then relaunch BlueBrick and change again the language to Spanish in the Preference. You will see the Download window appearing. Let BlueBrick download the dll and restart. For all users, I may upload the version 1.8.1 soon, but this will only contains some minor bug fixes, and may be a critical update for the Linux users (nobody complained to me so far, so I guess nobody is using BlueBrick on Linux ). If you have some bugs you want me to fix, it's time to talk to me . Yours.

Hi zephyr, No sorry, I didn't noticed this amazing work before. I may include the package for download on the official BlueBrick website if Michael agrees, however as it is not 100% LEGO, I will leave it as a separated package. Yours.

Amazing work Michael! Thank you very much!

Sure, and then, you can send me your contribution, it will be a pleasure for me to integrate it in the official library.