[Suggestion] Disable "Use destination train stop color" after copying the color from a station to the train

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[Suggestion] Disable "Use destination train stop color" after copying the color from a station to the train

Post by CaptainWarburtons »

When using Shift+Right Click and Shift+Left Click to copy colours from stations to trains, the "Use destination train stop color" tickbox remains ticked. This means that once the train travels to a differently coloured station it will change colours. As a user if I paste a colour from a station onto a train, my expectation is for the train to stay that colour, so the tickbox staying ticked is counter intuitive.

As a test, I also copied the colour from a different train. The tickbox state carried over whenever copying from another train. Likewise, I unticked the "Use destination train stop color" before pasting the station color, and the tickbox stayed unticked.

Default train state
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Train state after pasting cyan station colour
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Unticking the tickbox, both by hand and by pasting train colour from another train with the unticked setting
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Pasting green station colour onto a train with the unticked setting.
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In summary, the Shift+Right Click -> Shift+Left Click tool copies only the information available, in this case, colour for stations and colour + "Use destination train stop color" setting for trains. Having stations with the "Use destination train stop color" set to disabled and not shown on UI would remove the need to manually untick the box after pasting the colours from a station onto a train.
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Re: [Suggestion] Disable "Use destination train stop color" after copying the color from a station to the train

Post by Klonan »

This seems to make sense to me, my post here is as a reminder to myself
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Re: [Suggestion] Disable "Use destination train stop color" after copying the color from a station to the train

Post by boskid »

Also makes sense to me. Implemented for 2.0.42.
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