Nick.
Sorry, I was not as clear as I should have been. The track diagram is drawn with the Layout Editor track components such as turnouts, track segments, end bumpers, anchor points, etc. On my demo panel, I formatted the track lines to LOOK like Panel Editor track icons by setting the width and color. The ¡°gaps" are hidden track segments. The track plan is logically consistent and supports signal masts and signal mast logic.
The background panels, levers and indicators are standard JMRI icons which can be used by any of the editors.
The CTC logic is provided by the new CTC tool that was added to JMRI at 4.16. It eliminates the need to create Logix or scripts. A table of control points is created which defines the CTC rules and generates the internal sensors for levers and indicators.
Dave Sand
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On Sep 2, 2019, at 1:18 PM, Nick via Groups.Io <cornwall9@...> wrote:
Thanks Dave,
My limited understanding of Layout editor shows. I was under the uninformed impression that layout editor required interconnections of the various icons to form links between components with specific requirements in their use to build detection blocks, signals, turnout controls that would assist in creating logic for signals, routes and train control.
Where Panel Editor has no :requirements" involved with adding graphic icons that need no "real" connections to connected hardware unless it represented something like a turnout, sensor, or signal that could be added with no necessary connections to other items while using , for example, SSL for a single signal.
Is my understanding incorrect ?
Nick
"I'm not a failure. I started at the bottom and I found it easily attainable. Life is too short to set unattainable goals"
- Nick Kulp
Nick,
Separate panels are no longer required. Layout Editor can use all of the same panel, lever and indicator icons as Panel Editor and provide the track connectivity. See /g/jmriusers/photo/79886/0?p=Created,,,20,2,0,0
Dave Sand
On Sep 2, 2019, at 12:17 PM, Nick via Groups.Io <cornwall9@...> wrote:
Wayne,
There are some good videos on Youtube but you might get more from using one of the step-by-step clinics. They have links one the JMRI website or rr-cirkits,com also has his clinics on his website.
You didn't say what you wanted to do . The videos on Youtube show specific things like using LCC equipment , Or Arduinos for multiple tasks .Simply looking for PanelPro videos will get pretty frustrating without a specific search.
There are several types of panels you can create.
Layout Editor will provide the tools to create a trackplan of your layout with all the loops, crossovers, power/occupancy blocks, and is basically and "overhead" view of your layout.
Panel Editor will create a "graphic" panel in virtually any method you like using icons in partnership with your hardware BUT, the items are not "linked" together to follow certain "rules" of inter connectivity that Layout Editor requires, nor are you bound by the logic it uses in relationship to operating your layout.
You can also create a panel using both types of editors . One to show the train status on the "layout", the other to represent a US&S CTC panel that functions just like the prototype.
Are you currently using DecoderPro ?
What DCC system are you using ?
What type of hardware are you going to use to interact with the panel?
What do you want your panel to do ? Signaling, Automatic train control ? Control yard routes for classification yards ? Provide realistic CTC , ABS, APB signaling ?
I made the very first clinic on creating a panel for my Cornwall Railroad around 2002, and the basics are very true.
To truly help you, Some very basic information is needed. I have copied the "how to ask questions" instructions below to provide some guidance.
I can help IF you are using Windows on a PC.
I still need the information to help you though.
Regards,
Nick Kulp
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On Monday, September 2, 2019, 09:17:55 AM EDT, Wayne via Groups.Io <rwsnyder2002@...> wrote:
Guys,
New to Panel Pro, are there any videos on how to use Panel Pro? I¡¯m having a hell of a time getting one setup.
Wayne Snyder
