James,
JMRI Warrants also allow you to simply click on the entry and then exit blocks. If there is more than one possible route then it will prompt you for your desired choice at each alternate point. It does not make choices itself, nor change once a route is setup.
Dick :)
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On 08/16/2018 12:55 PM, Dave Sand wrote:
James,
NX is a standard JMRI feature:
The dispatcher (human) selects an entry sensor and an exit sensor. ?The system sets the turnouts and allocates the blocks. ?The sensors are assigned to block boundaries using the right click context menu, the same procedure for assigning signal heads and signal masts.
The IECC video appears to be using NX or a variation because the mouse was clicking points on the panel to assign blocks.
Dave Sand
On Aug 16, 2018, at 6:23 AM, jamespetts via Groups.Io <jamespetts@... <mailto:jamespetts@...>> wrote:
Jay,
that is most interesting. I have had a look over the general instructions, which give me an idea of what you have achieved but not so much how you have achieved it, and it would be most useful to know more about the latter.
For example, the instructions refer to NX switches for a system in which the dispatchers click a starting location and an end location and the train will move and be signalled from the former to the latter. Did you have to write full pathfinding code for the selection of the appropriate transits - indeed, did you even use transits for this?
As another example, you have a timetable: is this in any way represented in the control software, or is it just a set of instructions for human operators? If it is represented, did you have to write your own code for parsing the text/XML/etc. file containing the timetable or similar and other things at such a low level, or were you able to use (undocumented?) higher level features of JMRI to achieve this?
To what extent is the code that you have written layout specific and/or timetable specific?
Thank you very much for your post: it was most interesting to read about the Jenzen Family Trains layouts.
James.
