Pendolino's thread of 27Nov2007 "Random List Rule" reached no satisfactory conclusion as to why a parent rule that does not require resetting (e.g. Trigger Check with 'Trigger only once' box unchecked; Reset List) does not reset its children rules to allow them to operate more than once during a session.
I have experienced a similar problem to Pendolino and have pared the demonstration of it back to the bare essentials. Within Surveyor in a world containing a single loop of track with a locomotive, add a trigger, say Trigger 0. To the default session rules, add:
- Trigger Check (Trigger 0 selected, Any train can trigger, 'Trigger only once box' is left unchecked)
-- Display HTML (I chose "index.html" from 'MN Session Manager' that displays as a blank pop up)
Go to Driver, and set the locomotive off around the loop. The first time through the trigger, the HTML page pops up. All subsequent trigger passes result in NO pop up.
The session rules were edited to:
- Reset List
-- Trigger Check
--- Display HTML
The result in Driver was unchanged.
This must have been encountered earlier by others but a search on 'reset list' revealed only Pendolino's experience. I'm using TC and don't know if the same problem exists in TRS2006. I think this is a fundamental problem in TC , at least, and significantly compromises the usefulness of the Session Rules editor. I'd really like to hear if other people have a similar experience to mine so that, if it's a coding flaw, it can be corrected in the next TC release.
I have experienced a similar problem to Pendolino and have pared the demonstration of it back to the bare essentials. Within Surveyor in a world containing a single loop of track with a locomotive, add a trigger, say Trigger 0. To the default session rules, add:
- Trigger Check (Trigger 0 selected, Any train can trigger, 'Trigger only once box' is left unchecked)
-- Display HTML (I chose "index.html" from 'MN Session Manager' that displays as a blank pop up)
Go to Driver, and set the locomotive off around the loop. The first time through the trigger, the HTML page pops up. All subsequent trigger passes result in NO pop up.
The session rules were edited to:
- Reset List
-- Trigger Check
--- Display HTML
The result in Driver was unchanged.
This must have been encountered earlier by others but a search on 'reset list' revealed only Pendolino's experience. I'm using TC and don't know if the same problem exists in TRS2006. I think this is a fundamental problem in TC , at least, and significantly compromises the usefulness of the Session Rules editor. I'd really like to hear if other people have a similar experience to mine so that, if it's a coding flaw, it can be corrected in the next TC release.