New Version 4.93.04

[ArtF]

Hello All:

    The new version is now online as the development download, there is a video to explain the new features
at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqAdGwP51f4

  Have fun, please let me know how it goes, Ive tried to test it as much as possible to ensure its not buggy,
but as always pls let me know if you find it doing things you dont like. :)

Art

[John T]

Hi Art,
The ratchets work as I would expect no problem, however they always have spokes and the enable box doesn't function.  Perhaps this is intentional, however I don't usually have spokes on my ratchets and it would be nice to be able to turn them off.

John

[Teepaco]

Hi Art
Just loaded the version 4.93.04, I just let install over the  previous install. In Gearotic Motion it seems to be working fine but in Gearotic Thoughts I get the following error.
Thanks
Cecil Dupre

[ArtF]

John:

  Thanks ,  I must have messed up on the spoke switch, Ill fix that for next release.

Art

[ArtF]

Teepaco:

  Thx for the bug report. Im not sure why that one is happening as yet.. when you start GT, the first thing it does is kill all files in the TempData folder. It shouldnt fail
in that way. Does the program fail after that or run normally?

Thx
Art

[Teepaco]

Art
Gearotic Thoughts opens normal, I then click on the tools tab, create circular, from circular gear module when i click add wheel to project or pinion, is when the error appears. I can not place any gear into the project.
hope i explained it correctly. :P

[ArtF]

Teepaco:

  Interesting..sounds as if the installer didnt create the TempData folder. Can you verify you have a folder called TempData in your GM main folder?
If you dont, can you create one and see if the error remains?


Thx
Art

[Teepaco]

Art
I do have the TempData, and there is one file in it call "Dummy.txt" I opened it and the only thing it says is "Holder"

[ArtF]

hmm.. That file should be deleted the first time GT is run.  This sounds liek a system security issue.. Have you tried running as admin?

( Anyone else having this trouble as yet?? ))

Thx
Art

[Ya-Nvr-No]

Yep same issue here

Had to go back to 4.93.02 to clear the problem  "tempdata folder"

[John S]

Loaded up fine for me .

can't see how you change a gear through once it's on the projects page.
right clicked a gear and selected strip teeth just to see what it did .
It stripped the teeth !!

Couldn't put the teeth back on though.

Also couldn't change a gear from say 14 teeth to 15 without deleting and staring all over.

Can't delete everything of the projects page, get left with one gear that is then hi lighted in red. then can't add anything to this gear at all and have to bail out.

[ArtF]

Hi Guys:

  Well, something weird is obviously going on... Ill issue a fix shortly...hopefully..

Art

[ArtF]

Hi Guys:

  For those that are getting the error about the .dat file, can you reinstall to the new default location of
C:\Gearotic Motion.... Im thinking you guys have been running GM so long you have a very old default location.

Ill fix this up in any event, but I suspect that will fix you up..

Art

[ArtF]

John:

>>can't see how you change a gear through once it's on the projects page.

  You cant as yet. Its basically the same as GM in that regard. Youd have to delete that gear and replace it.

>>right clicked a gear and selected strip teeth just to see what it did . It stripped the teeth !!

LOL..yes, as it says. Its used when one wants to have a disk with spokes in it. ( I get that request quite often.)
or to show as a spool or whatever.

>>Couldn't put the teeth back on though.

  Well it oes warn you of that. :-)

>>Also couldn't change a gear from say 14 teeth to 15 without deleting and staring all over.

  Very true, at least for now. It will be coded in the end to allow such things, but as in GM, changing a gears size screws up
hundreds of things internally, its now do-able in GT..but I haven't as yet coded it.

>>Can't delete everythin g of the projects page, get left with one gear that is then hi lighted in red. then can't add anything to this gear at all and have to bail out.

  I cant repeat that one yet. You DO have the icon on the top for "new project" dont you? Just press that icon, all gears will disappear.
If you NEED to change one gear it can be done ... you delete the gear in question, make a new one and mesh it to the one the old gear meshed to
then add a link to the new gear to make it drive what the old one drove. If the gear you added is larger, just select the one it drives and press "Move on gear", it will then update everything to fit again.

  Thats all hard to explain, so Ill do a video of the process so you can see it..

Art

[Ya-Nvr-No]

Everything is default.

I am thinking it is a 32bit issue because it works fine on my 64 bit win8 OS
the dat file is created and the dummy file is gone after the add gear button selection.

but not on the 32bit win7 system for me