Surveyor and Negative KUID Numbers

[narrowgauge]

For a long time now, despite several reinstallations, TRS2004 insists on giving any new map a negative nine digit KUID. Each number is incremented so that kuid:-123456789 is kuid:-123456788 in the next map. I have been putting up with this but finally lost patience.

I have looked in \settings\kuid.txt. This shows the last number as a negative nine digit number. I have replaced that number with a posiitive one with fewer digits but this has no effect, the next route KUID is still a negative number and replaces the one in KUID.txt. It looks as though Surveyor is looking somewhere else for a 'seed' number but I have not been able to find where it gets it from.

Are there any suggestions apart from moving on to 2006, if it comes to a choice between negative numbers or CMP, the numbers win.

Cheers

Narrowgauge

 

[argee]

Hi

Its a long time since I did this, but have you loaded your user number into TRS04? If I remember rightly, its done from the initial menu or one of the other menus. (Will look tonight when I get home if you need me to.)

Cheers

RG

 

[Euphod]

Does this help?

http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?t=13392

 

[narrowgauge]

Rg

No, that is not the problem, Trainz knows my KUID and is prepending it to the map kuid without a problem.

Euphod

I tried that some time back with no success.

It has also been asked if I saved the file after resetting the kuid.txt. Yes I did do that.

Now with a slightly red face, I will tell you how I just fixed it. All those months and all those curses. I would have sworn that I had done this before, obviously I didn't

I removed all the maps from the \custom\map folder and reset and saved the number in the kuid.txt. Opened Surveyor to a completely empty menu and made and saved a map, Eureka! The new map number was now positive, still nothing like the number I had seeded in the kuid.txt which now had changed to the new map number. The new range is :1000xxxx and I think that the first four digits are added by TRS as default.

It looks as the when Surveyor is loaded or when the 'save' button is clicked, the existing map numbers are read and the highest is incremented by 2 and becomes the new number, which is then entered in the KUID.txt file. Hence the continuation of the negative number. Obvious in retrospect.

Thanks for trying to help.

Cheers

Narrowgauge

 

[HiBaller]

Very happy to see you got that sorted. I remember that happening to you about a year or so ago.

Bill