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<h1 id="Top">DecoderPro® Main Window</h1>
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<h2>Roster Menu</h2>
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<h3>Roster</h3>
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<p>Opens a window showing the complete roster. (See <a style="font-weight: bold;" href=
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"../../../../manual/3-6_DecoderPro3/index.shtml" target="_blank">DecoderPro Manual.</a>)</p>
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<p><img src="images/Main_DP3Roster.png" alt="DP3 Roster" height="527" width="899">
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</p>
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<h3>Create Entry...</h3>
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<h4>New Roster Setup Pane</h4>
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<p class="dp-center"><img src="images/Main_RosterMenu01.png" alt="Create Roster" height="483"
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width="391">
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</p>
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<p>Select a decoder that matches the one installed in your Locomotive. The Open Programmer
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button will now become activated and you'll be able to move on with the Programmer selected
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from the drop-down list, then click on the <strong>Open Programmer</strong> button, the
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selected Programmer window will open. All programmers, Basic and Comprehensive, open to the
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<a href="Comp_Setup_Roster.shtml">Roster Entry pane</a>.</p>
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<h3>Edit Entry...</h3>
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<h4>Edit Roster Entry Setup Pane</h4>
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<p class="dp-center"><img src="images/Main_RosterMenu02.png" alt="Edit Roster setup" height=
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"162" width="275">
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</p>
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<p>Select the roster entry from the drop-down list that you wish to edit. Select the
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Programmer format that you wish to use from the drop-down list. Click on the Open Programmer
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button and <a href="Comp_Setup_Roster.shtml">Roster Entry Pane</a> of selected programmer
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will open.</p>
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<h3>Copy Entry...</h3>
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<h4>Select roster entry dialog box</h4>
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<p class="dp-center"><img src="images/Main_RosterMenu03.png" alt="select roster entry"
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height="123" width="309">
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</p>
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<p>From the drop-down list select the roster that you wish to process, then click on the
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<strong>OK</strong> button. Click <strong>Cancel</strong> button if you wish to abort this
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function.</p>
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<h3>Import Entry...</h3>
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<h4>Input prompt</h4>
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<p class="dp-center"><img src="images/Main_RosterMenu04.png" alt="input dialog" height="127"
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width="299">
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</p>
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<p>Type the name of the new roster you wish to process then click on the <strong>OK</strong>
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button. Click <strong>Cancel</strong> button if you wish to abort this function.</p>
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<h3>Export Entry...</h3>
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<p>Opens the <a href="#SelectDialog">Select roster entry</a> dialog box. Next the
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<strong>Save</strong> dialog will be displayed, select the location where you would like to
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save the roster file.</p>
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<h3>Delete Entry...</h3>
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<p>Select the Locomotive that you wish to delete from DecoderPro in the Roster drop-down
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list. Click <strong>OK</strong> and the Confirmation box <strong>Delete entry <em>[file
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Name]</em>?</strong> is displayed. Clicking <strong>Yes</strong> deletes the file,
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<strong>No</strong> aborts the operation.</p>
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<p class="dp-center"><img src="images/Main_RosterMenu05.png" alt="Delete Roster" height="119"
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width="305"> <img src="images/Main_RosterMenu06.png" alt="confirm delete" height="122" width=
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"432"></p>
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<h3>Print Summary...</h3>
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<p>Opens your operating systems Print... dialog and when <strong>Print</strong> is selected,
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prints a complete summary of your roster entries. (typically 5 entries per page, so be
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prepared to print several pages). Printing to PDF file can save a lot of paper.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 722px; height: 649px;" alt="summary" src=
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"images/Main_RosterMenu07.png">
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</p>
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<h3>Print Preview Summary...</h3>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Preview Roster Summary<img style=
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"width: 669px; height: 605px;" alt="Summary Preview" src="images/Main_RosterMenu07a.png"></p>
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<h3><a href="Main_RosterGroup.shtml">Roster Groups</a>
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</h3>
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<p>Roster Grouping allows you to allocate Roster Entries into different groups. If for
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example you run multiple layouts with different locomotives, you can allocate those
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Locomotives to the relative group, thus when you select a roster group to work with, the drop
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down lists in the Throttle or Edit Roster entries will only contain Locomotives that are in
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that specific list.</p>
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<p style="margin-left: 40px;">When working with a Roster Group, some of the functions above
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change slightly:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><strong>Create Roster Group</strong>
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</li>
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<li><strong>Delete Roster Group</strong>
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</li>
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<li><strong>Table Association</strong>
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</li>
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<li><strong>Add Roster Entry to Group</strong>
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</li>
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<li><strong>Remove Roster Entry from Group</strong>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><img src="images/separator.png" alt="sep" height="4" width=
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"340">
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</div>
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<h3>Export Complete Roster...</h3>
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<p>Opens the Save dialog box to allow you to select directory and name the file.</p>
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<h3 id="speedProfiling">Speed Profiling</h3>
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<p>The Speed Profiling tool is designed to create a profile of a loco at various speed steps
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to help with the automatic running of a loco within JMRI. Primary goal is to help with the
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principle of getting a loco to stop within a specific distance from a known throttle
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setting.</p>
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<p>The tool works on the principle of timing a loco over a known distance at a given speed
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step, in both the forward and reverse direction. Currently it requires three sensors which
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monitor the occupancy of a section of track. Ideally the section of track that the timed runs
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are performed over should be straight, and a minimum of 1 m long, the longer the length the
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better the result. For this profiling to work correctly acceleration / deceleration should be
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disabled on the loco decoder.</p>
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<table style="text-align: left; width: 100%;">
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<tbody>
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<td><img style="width: 408px; height: 465px;" alt="speed profile" src=
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"images/Main_Roster_SpeedProfile.png">
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</td>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;">
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<ul>
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<li><strong>Block Length</strong> - This is the length in Millimeters of the middle
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section which the timed run will be measured.</li>
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<li><strong>Start Sensor</strong> - This is the Sensor on the initial section of
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track that the Locomotive will start its initial run from.</li>
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<li><strong>Block Sensor</strong> - This is the Sensor related to the section of
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track that the timed run will be taken over.</li>
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<li><strong>Finish Sensor</strong> - This Sensor is related to the section track
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immediately after the timed section.</li>
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<li><strong>Roster Entry</strong> - Select the Locomotive that the profiling is to
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be performed on.</li>
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<li><strong>Cancel</strong> - Cancels the profiling or test run.</li>
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<li><strong>Profile</strong> - Starts the profiling.</li>
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</ul>
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</td>
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</tr>
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</tbody>
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</table>
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<p>To profile the loco, fill the above details into the window, place the loco in the
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starting section facing forwards towards (but not on) the section of track that the timed run
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will be taken over, then press profile.</p>
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<p>What happens is that the tool will set the loco off running in the forward direction at
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speed step 1, when it activates the timed section sensor it starts a timer. Once the finish
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section sensor is activated the timer is stopped, and the speed is calculated in Millimeters
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per Second, this is then recorded against the roster. The tool will then ensure that the loco
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is clear of the timed section sensor, then repeat the procedure again but in the reverse
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direction. Once the loco is back at the initial start section, the whole procedure is
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repeated again for the next speed step, this occurs until a profile of all speed steps has
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been completed.</p>
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<h4>Testing</h4>
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<p>Having completed the profiling, it is possible to test the profile out. Place the loco in
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the starting section again facing forward toward the timed section, ideally some distance
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away from it. Enter in a starting speed step number in the box next to the Test Button, then
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press test. What will occur is that the tool will set the loco off running at the given speed
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step, then it will attempt to gradually stop the loco before it reaches the far end. Results
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will vary especially at the higher speed steps, where you will more likely experience an over
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run.</p>
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