At 11:21 AM -0700 7/22/02, peter smith wrote:
bob,I was interested to see that I was not the
only one having problems downloading the other
programs used with the decoder pro.we(my friend
and I) have installed decoder pro and find i
very easy to run and itworks good on the system
(NCE) that we have.But now that all the power units
had been identified we are lost as to the next
step of running them.Any help you can give would be
great.Thank
pete smith(trainman2543@...
If I understand your question properly, there are two parts to the answer.
Right now, "running trains" has only rudimentary support in the code. People seem to have been more interested in aspects of decoder programming, so that's were the work seems to be happening. You can flip turnouts, etc, but there's nothing as handy as the nice screens you see in programs like RR&Co and WinLock. And there's almost no documentation.
Still, progress is being made, with more stuff each couple of weeks.
The "JmriDemo" program (sometimes written as JMRIdemo and JMRIDemo; we're not too consistent on that) contains all of the code that exists. It's got a complicated menu bar with lots of things to try, and it's missing even the most basic of instructions, so it's not really a good demo or tutorial.
Perhaps I can interest somebody in putting something together? That would be a real contribution.
As to downloading these: In the most recent files, they come with DecoderPro as part of the package. On windows, look in the JMRI group in the Start menu and you should see them. On other systems, there should be runnable icons in the "JMRI" directory or folder. E.g. on MacOS X, look for the "JmriDemo" icon and double-click, etc.
If those don't run, please let me know.
Bob
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