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<title>Throttle: Getting Started</title>
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<meta name="Description" content="Throttle documentation for JMRI project">
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<meta name="Author" content="Paul Fraker (paul@frakers.com)">
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<h1>Current Throttle documentation</h1>
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<p>Please note that the Throttles Help was updated. Current version:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>The <a href="ToolsMenuThrottleEntry.shtml">Throttle menu in JMRI</a>
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</li>
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<li>The <a href="BasicThrottleWindow.shtml">Throttle Window itself</a>
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</li>
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<li>The <a href="ThrottleWindowMenus.shtml">Throttle Window menus</a>
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</li>
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<li>The <a href="ThrottleToolBar.shtml">Throttle Window toolbar</a>
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</li>
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<li>The <a href="AdvancedThrottleControl.shtml">Throttle Window controls</a>
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</li>
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<li>The <a href="ThrottlesListWindow.shtml">Throttles List Window</a>
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</li>
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<li>The <a href="ThrottlesPreferencesPane.shtml">Throttles preferences pane</a><br>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<h1>Throttles in JMRI v2.x</h1>
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<h2>Where Do I Find the Throttles?</h2>
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<p>Chances are, if you are reading this text, then you probably saw reference to the
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"throttles" in the JMRI user group postings. And the first question that probably came to
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your mind was, "where the heck do I find these throttles?"</p>
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<p>Well you've started at the right place. The first thing this section is going to do is
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show you how to gain access to the throttles. This section will also touch on the menu
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options that are available.</p>
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<p>First, it is important to understand that the JMRI Project is a group of many
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"<strong>tools</strong>" for your railroad - with many contributions from different
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programmers. There are four primary startup applications available</p>
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<li><strong>DecoderPro</strong> (the most widely and commonly known piece of the
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project)</li>
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<li><strong>JMRI Demo</strong>
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</li>
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<li><strong>Loco Tools</strong>
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</li>
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<li><strong>PanelPro</strong>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<p>For the purposes of this user guide, the <strong>JMRI Demo</strong> startup application
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was used for the purposes of writing these pages. However, you will find that many of the
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tools "cross over" to multiple startup applications. The <strong>Throttle Tool</strong> is a
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good example of this. No matter which of the above mentioned applications you start with, you
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will be able to find the throttles.</p>
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<h2 id="MainMenu">The Main (or Primary) Menu</h2>
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<div style="margin-left: 2em">
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<p>In each of the startup applications noted above, there is always a "<em>primary</em>"
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main window displayed on your screen (similar to that shown below in figure 1-1). Close
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down this window and the whole application will terminate. This main window contains a
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primary set of menu options. This is where you will find most of the tools and options
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available - including the Throttles.</p>
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<ul style="list-style-type: square">
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<li>Click on "<strong>Tools</strong>".<br></li>
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<li>This will open a submenu.<br></li>
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<li>Navigate your mouse pointer down until you locate
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"<strong>Throttles</strong>".<br></li>
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<li>This will open another submenu.<br></li>
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<li>This is the Throttles Menu (refer to figure 1-2).<br></li>
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</ul>
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<p style="text-align: center; font-size: xx-small"><img width="410" height="228" src=
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"images/jmri010.jpg" title="JMRI main menu structure" alt="menu structure"><br>
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Figure 1-1: JMRI main menu structure</p>
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<h2 id="ThrottlesSub">The Throttles Submenu</h2>
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<div style="margin-left: 2em">
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<p>The Throttles submenu (as shown in figure 1-2 below) contains the following menu
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options, which are defined as:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><strong>New Throttle...</strong> opens a single new Throttle window with default
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Throttle settings enabled.<br>
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<br></li>
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<li><strong>Save Throttle Layout...</strong> saves one or more currently opened Throttle
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windows to a user-named file on your hard drive.<br>
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<br></li>
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<li><strong>Load Throttle Layout...</strong> opens a previously saved Throttle file. This
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file can contain one or more Throttle windows depending on how the layout was originally
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saved.<br>
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<br></li>
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<li><strong>Save Throttle Preferences...</strong> allows you to set up your overall
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preferences for all Throttle windows.</li>
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</ul>
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<p style="text-align: center; font-size: xx-small"><img width="359" height="225" src=
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"images/jmri009.jpg" title="JMRI Throttles submenu structure" alt="sub menu"><br>
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Figure 1-2: JMRI Throttles submenu structure</p>
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<p>Use the links below to advance to the next chapter to walk through the process of opening
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up a new Throttle window and setting up some of the available options, and lets not forget...
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run a Locomotive.</p>
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