Devex_TMS_UK Posted March 25, 2023 Posted March 25, 2023 The ability to be able to click and drag chat boxes to position of choice on the screen or even as a pop-out window to move on to second monitor. 8
Dolphin Invasion Posted March 25, 2023 Posted March 25, 2023 Pop-out or simply the ability to see them when focused on the CAD screens so I don't always have to unfocus on the routing the trains just to say whos departing or see what the next station said 3
Gazz292 Posted March 25, 2023 Posted March 25, 2023 Hopefully when we get the SDK's that will allow us to read the data out of SimRail on our local computer, someone can make external versions of things like the chat box, would be nice to have that displayed on my phone or a tablet instead of on the main screen, 1 2
rho_ Posted January 7 Posted January 7 Would be nice to have a button to add a marker line after last message to faster see what messages are new since last marker was set. 3
Animal__Doc Posted March 20 Posted March 20 +1 I was about to suggest this very same thing. It is MOST needed. Main feature to drag them on the screen and additionally to drag them on other monitors if possible. On 3/25/2023 at 4:10 AM, Devex_TMS_UK said: The ability to be able to click and drag chat boxes to position of choice on the screen or even as a pop-out window to move on to second monitor. 1
Gazz292 Posted March 20 Posted March 20 then if you can drag them onto other screens, make an android (or apple if you must ;p) app and have the chat box on your phone, use the phones onscreen keyboard to send replies, then it's like getting text messages on your phone whilst you are dispatching / driving rather than on an imersion breaking box on the main screen.
MBGT Benjamin Posted Sunday at 07:04 PM Posted Sunday at 07:04 PM Am 20.3.2025 um 17:23 schrieb Gazz292: then if you can drag them onto other screens, make an android (or apple if you must ;p) app and have the chat box on your phone, use the phones onscreen keyboard to send replies, then it's like getting text messages on your phone whilst you are dispatching / driving rather than on an imersion breaking box on the main screen. There are already apps for both Android and iOS that can turn your phone (or tablet) into a screen that gets detected by Windows as a normal monitor (or rather Windows doesn't know that it is your phone/tablet) and therefore an extra app (by the SimRail team) wouldn't be needed, at least in my opinion. If multi monitor support isn't possible (in Unity or without major reworks), it could be easier to implement the chat as a web app (like it was done for the EDR), although you would need some sort of support for accounts (for identification) or host a local server (on the PC that runs the game) and connect to that (just like many racing games/sims do it for telemetry data).
Gazz292 Posted Sunday at 07:35 PM Posted Sunday at 07:35 PM i used to use a few of the apps that turned my android tablets into external monitors for my laptop, they can be pretty laggy using wifi, getting the USB connection to work was hard but was a bit better, but they ultimately use more resources than simply plugging a proper usb / display port or even VGA/hdmi monitor in... things may be better now we have WIFI6 and even wifi7 in newer computers. But it's a local app i'd really want to see, which would require access to the data on your pc (pretty much the I/O api a few of us are waiting for to enable us to make 'home cockpit' indicator lights. gauges etc work with the sim) So it would be just like the telemetry data from race games, or the SDK we had with Omsi back in 2012 to read out almost any data variable in the sim and control dashboards, ticket machines, IBIS units, destination displays and so on.
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