Hi,

Now my train landscape is finished, I am programming some scenario's using advanced events of the CS3. Nothing really exotic. Some things work very well, but I have
an issue with an IF statement that I want to repeat in a loop.

The goal is to make a train pass the station on one pass, and the next time pass on a track outside the station.

I have created two events for the train, one to set the turnouts so the train goes to the station and stops there. A second one to set the turnouts so the train does not go to the station but the parallel track.

I have next created an IF macro. The train is starting stationary. I test on a contact rail. If the train is on the parallel track, the sequence to send it to the station is called, otherwise the sequence to send the train to the parallel track is called.

I want this to repeat indefinitely. So I created an event which contains a loop. In the loop I call the event with the IF clause.

This (with my background as programmer, a long time ago), should do the trick. However, it does not :(

It seems that as soon as the IF decision is made, and the right event is called, the IF test immediately repeats itself, not stopping for the called event to finish first.

Is there a way to force the IF to wait to test again until the called event is finished (e.g. taking the train to the station and stopping there)?

Or am I completely misunderstanding the Marklin logic? And if my method is wrong, what could be a good method with Marklin events?

Thank you very much for any time spend to answer this beginners question.

Dodi

Oh, maybe that's the problem I have with getting the delay executions to work right.

Yes, indeed. That's how I finally understood the IF fell through rapidly. The execution red line jumped back and forth quickly over the IF statement.

Dodi