[Edwin]

My interests are primarily a realistic signalling VDU panel and interlocking but also it would be good to have automatic driving of some trains. I've taken a look at various products before deciding I would really have to fork out for RR&Co. In the case of JMRI I was put off by the lack of basic instructions on how to get it up and running and straightforward how-tos. I even found some words like "use the meta-key for this, it's called that on a Mac but don't know what it is on a PC".

Possibly the people who use it are too clever to worry about such simple things. Got the impression I wasn't one of them. I wrote my own software for signalling on the real railway a long time ago but I just didn't know where to start with this system!

 

[Edwin]

QUOTE (Nigel2001 @ 24 Mar 2009, 12:44) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>If the documentation is weak, then like any public domain project, those who think it could be improved can submit changes. They get incorporated.

True enough. I for one would have been very happy to contribute to the project by way of better documentation. However the entry-level documentation was such that I couldn't actually find a way in to using the software!