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Shortcut to last saved game 08/12/2022 at 20:15 #149202
Red For Danger
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Not sure if this has been asked before or not, but could I request that a shortcut is added to the loader that allows a user to load the last saved game to avoid having to navigate through the all the sims and folders...?

Thanks.

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Shortcut to last saved game 20/12/2022 at 17:25 #149461
markymark2000
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Yes, I agree. This would be useful
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Shortcut to last saved game 20/12/2022 at 17:37 #149464
JamesN
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Red For Danger in post 149202 said:
Not sure if this has been asked before or not, but could I request that a shortcut is added to the loader that allows a user to load the last saved game to avoid having to navigate through the all the sims and folders...?

Thanks.
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Shortcut to last saved game 20/12/2022 at 18:28 #149466
dhouk
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Red For Danger in post 149202 said:
Not sure if this has been asked before or not, but could I request that a shortcut is added to the loader that allows a user to load the last saved game to avoid having to navigate through the all the sims and folders...?

Thanks.
2nd'd - very helpful! Also for a separate feature request, remembering opened windows and their positions? I use the SimSigTool (?) to do this but would be helpful for the pixel x,y locations and x,y sizes to be stored on resize and re-applied on re-open?

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Shortcut to last saved game 20/12/2022 at 19:43 #149469
MarkC
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There is already a fairly quick way to access the last save.

When you start the loader click on load a previously saved simulation
click on choose, and the pop up that come up you will see near the bottom File Name and a box that you cam type in, how ever to the right of the box you will see a drop down arrow click on that and it will present a list of the last 8 saves (manual saves only) just click on the save you want (the top entry is the most recent) and then click on load and then proceed as normal.

Last edited: 20/12/2022 at 22:02 by MarkC
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Shortcut to last saved game 20/12/2022 at 21:44 #149472
bill_gensheet
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Thanks for noticing that, but seems to function differently here.
I get the last 20 manual saves, not the automatic ones.

Might be a Win7 vs Win10 thing ? It is picking up whatever is in 'recent items' and is a .ssg

Bill

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Shortcut to last saved game 20/12/2022 at 22:00 #149473
MarkC
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bill_gensheet in post 149472 said:
Thanks for noticing that, but seems to function differently here.
I get the last 20 manual saves, not the automatic ones.

Might be a Win7 vs Win10 thing ? It is picking up whatever is in 'recent items' and is a .ssg

Bill
I didn't think to check Win 7 Vs Win 10 or 11, as admittedly I thought it would behave the same.

And now I have spotted I have made a bit gaff, it will only show manual saves on both Win 7 and Win 10/11, I am not even sure how I missed it.

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Shortcut to last saved game 20/12/2022 at 23:15 #149474
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A bit of a random and slightly related question - when loading a save, the simulation it refers to appears in a drop-down menu. Does this serve any purpose (the menu, I mean) or is it just a quick and easy way of displaying the sim?
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Shortcut to last saved game 21/12/2022 at 00:56 #149476
GeoffM
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bill_gensheet in post 149472 said:
Thanks for noticing that, but seems to function differently here.
I get the last 20 manual saves, not the automatic ones.

Might be a Win7 vs Win10 thing ? It is picking up whatever is in 'recent items' and is a .ssg

Bill
It's a Windows feature, nothing to do with SimSig. Windows remembers what you put into the Save dialog box, and that dialog is not used for automatic saves, hence not appearing.

Admittedly I didn't know it existed either. I'll close that other ticket as it's clearly superfluous.

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Shortcut to last saved game 21/12/2022 at 01:49 #149477
GeoffM
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Splodge in post 149474 said:
A bit of a random and slightly related question - when loading a save, the simulation it refers to appears in a drop-down menu. Does this serve any purpose (the menu, I mean) or is it just a quick and easy way of displaying the sim?
Firstly, confirmation of the sim. Secondly, if you have more than one version of a sim then there'll be more than one option here.

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Shortcut to last saved game 21/12/2022 at 12:17 #149489
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GeoffM in post 149476 said:
It's a Windows feature, nothing to do with SimSig. Windows remembers what you put into the Save dialog box, and that dialog is not used for automatic saves, hence not appearing.

Window's start menu also includes that kind of LRU list, but there'd have to be a way of directly loading an .ssg-file in order for that to work (i.e. some sort of command line option for launching a save file plus a corresponding file type association for Windows).

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