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Sounds like a stupid question doesn't it?
But I'm serious.
I'm improving a discovery routine to a program. It has to discover, identify and measure all the Transponding zones on the longest mainline. It will only need to do this once during initial setup.
That is not a problem. That has been working for years.
Now I want to add a progress bar. Just to make the user interface a little simpler.
Since I don't have any idea how long it will take to make it all the way around, the progress bar starts out growing big fast, but then gradually slows down, slower and slower as it gets closer and closer to the end of the bar. The progress bar, will never make it all the way to the end, until the loco actually makes it all the way around.
I'd like for the progress bar to about show half done on the average railroad for most home users when the train is about half way arround.
For that, I need to know how long it takes on most railroads for a train to go arround the mainline.
So, take a guess. Running at the speed you normally operate, about how long would it take for a typical train, without stopping, to make
one complete trip around the longest mainline on your railroad.
If you have, (or had) more than one layout please include additional railroads.
Example 1. My garden railroad has one scale mile of track, I normally run at about 15 scale MPH. So, my first layout is:
(1) G scale = 4 minutes
Example 2. My little N Scale shelf layout is about 1/2 scale mile on the main. I run typically run 30 scale miles per hour. So My second railroad is :
(2) N scale = 1 minute
So, How long does it take for a loco to go around YOUR mainline?
B0B
But I'm serious.
I'm improving a discovery routine to a program. It has to discover, identify and measure all the Transponding zones on the longest mainline. It will only need to do this once during initial setup.
That is not a problem. That has been working for years.
Now I want to add a progress bar. Just to make the user interface a little simpler.
Since I don't have any idea how long it will take to make it all the way around, the progress bar starts out growing big fast, but then gradually slows down, slower and slower as it gets closer and closer to the end of the bar. The progress bar, will never make it all the way to the end, until the loco actually makes it all the way around.
I'd like for the progress bar to about show half done on the average railroad for most home users when the train is about half way arround.
For that, I need to know how long it takes on most railroads for a train to go arround the mainline.
So, take a guess. Running at the speed you normally operate, about how long would it take for a typical train, without stopping, to make
one complete trip around the longest mainline on your railroad.
If you have, (or had) more than one layout please include additional railroads.
Example 1. My garden railroad has one scale mile of track, I normally run at about 15 scale MPH. So, my first layout is:
(1) G scale = 4 minutes
Example 2. My little N Scale shelf layout is about 1/2 scale mile on the main. I run typically run 30 scale miles per hour. So My second railroad is :
(2) N scale = 1 minute
So, How long does it take for a loco to go around YOUR mainline?
B0B