Generate via route

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With Rocrail 2.1.6171 a dialog to define "via-routes" has been introduced.
The dialog can be opened by clicking to "Rocview Menu → Track plan → Generate via route…"
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Starting point of the route. Read also: Direction in Rocrail
The + option has to be activated if the locomotive should depart from the + side of the starting block.

The "From block" field can be filled by the keyboard or by a click selection of the opened list of blocks.

End point of the route. Read also: Direction in Rocrail.
The + option has to be activated if the locomotive should enter the destination block at the + side.

The "To block" field can be filled by the keyboard or by a click selection of the opened list of blocks.

Select the via blocks and make sure the blocks are in the correct order.
It is a comma separated list of block ID's without white space (blanks).

Using the "…" button for just one via block will help to generate the via block list in the required order.

Hint: as an additional feature the field "Via Blocks" can be left empty to generate a route from one block to a next block.
This is useful to generate alternative routes with different command sets for example.

The dialog includes the standard buttons "?" (Help, link to this Wiki), "Cancel" and "OK".
The buttons "Cancel" and "OK" just close the dialog.

If a route could be generated the Route dialog will popup with the new generated route.

The ID will get the extension "_via_[list of blocks]" The ID may be edited by the user. The "Description" field is with filled a verbal description of the generated route for example "from [bk04] via [bk03,bk02] to [bk01]" "Automatic generated" will be unchecked Attention: in case of alternative routes between two blocks the user should check the command list of the generated route and modify the command list appropriately!

Clicking the OK button will save the generated route.
In addition the list of route IDs of the attribute "routeids" of the affected elements is updated with the newly generated route ID. This ensures that the affected plan elements will be properly illuminated.

Clicking the Cancel button will not save the generated route.

see Messages for problematic situations.

The </> button shows the temporary XML code of the generated route.

The code shows the list of commands. The code shows the list of elements that will receive a new "routeids" entry.

In certain problematic situations the user will be informed by a dialog.

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