<title>Station List Help</title>

<h1><strong>Station List</strong></h1>


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<strong>Station List</strong> shows information and has controls to filter and list different <a href="station.txt">Stops</a> (but not off-shore Stops), where vehicles pick-up and drop-off goods & passengers.
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To open: click on station-list-tool in <a href="list.txt">List Management</a>. <strong>Station List</strong> has four option buttons, two are used to order items in a list and two are used to apply options to select items to show in list. Below buttons is a list of <a href="station.txt">Stops</a> that fit criteria for filter options.<br>
{Tips: If no Stops are listed change <em>Filter</em> options. If items in list are only partially visible, then <a href="mouse.txt">re-size</a> <strong>Station List</strong> or scroll list with slider-bar.}
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Click on buttons to cycle through options (changes name of option-button) or open Filter Settings controls:
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<em>Sorted by:</em> two option-buttons determine the order of <a href="station.txt">Stops</a> shown in list.
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- <em>Type</em> lists <a href="station.txt">stops</a> by type of vehicle that is accepted.<br>
- <em>unsorted</em> ?lists <a href="station.txt">Stops</a> in random order.<br>
- <em>Name</em> lists stops alphanumerically within ASCII-code order (capital letters before lower case letters) of assigned <a href="station.txt">name</a>.<br>
- <em>waiting</em>lists <a href="station.txt">Stops</a> by amount of goods & passengers present in relation to waiting capacity and transport service provided.
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- <em>ascending</em> / <em>descending</em> reverses order of list.
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<em>Filter:</em> Two option buttons, switch on/off selection criteria for list and access controls to change criteria.
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- <em>enabled</em> / <em>disabled</em> click to toggle filter criteria.
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- <a href="haltlist_filter.txt"><em>Settings</em></a> click to open controls to change filter criteria.
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Click on a item listed in<strong>Station List</strong>to see more <a href="station.txt">information</a> about that Stop.<br>
Items listed for each Stop include:
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<em>status-colour-bar:</em> colours indicate operation of <a href="station.txt">Stop</a> with regards to how overcrowded it is. The colour-bar is also used in Stop Information and Line Management and is the same colour displayed in the colour-bar above Stop in game-display:<br>
- <em>yellow:</em> no transport service.<br>
- <em>green:</em> no improvemments necessary.<br>
- <em>orange:</em> improvements possible.<br>
- <em>red:</em> improvements recommended.<br>
{Tips: Use [!] to toggle colour-bar above Stop in game display.}
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<em>name</em> that has been assigned to <a href="station.txt">Stop</a>.
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<em>number</em> of <a href="station.txt">Stop</a> (Stops are numbered if option is selected in simuconf.tab).
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<em>vehicle icon(s)</em> indicate which types of vehicle can use <a href="station.txt">Stop</a>. Icons include: bus (for passengers), truck (for goods), train, boat and airplane. Trams can be indicated by a bus-icon or a train-icon depending on type of station.
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<em>freight icon(s)</em> indicate which items (passengers, goods and/or mail) can be picked-up or dropped-off at <a href="station.txt">Stop</a>.<br>
{Tips: adding appropriate extensions can change the categories of freight a stop can handle. <a href="special.txt">Post offices</a> can be added to stops to enable handling of mail}.
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<em>waiting</em> details of different goods and passengers at <a href="station.txt">Stop</a>.
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