I would greatly appreciate some help here being that I am getting frustrated.
1. When I go to Files to look at the different ccf's, am I doing that to find a design that I like or to try and find one with the same equipment as mine?
2. I did find my receiver under Denon and downloaded, now what??

My Pronto should be arriving anyday now and I'm concerned that I'm not going to beable to utilize it properly cause I read everything posted here and it makes little sense to me.
Yes, I do have Pronto edit, Q & A and the instruction manual, guess I need to study it more.
Thanks anyone!!!

"1. When I go to Files to look at the different ccf's, am I doing that to find a design that I like or to try and find one with the same equipment as mine?"

Either or both. :-)

"2. I did find my receiver under Denon and downloaded, now what??"

Load the CCF into ProntoEdit. You can merge it with your existing one if you have already started making your own CCF. Then either use the one you found as it is or rearrange it, or even cut'n'paste all the IR codes to your own compeletely different layout if you want.

Hope that helps!

When you download somebody's CCF, you can use the merge option (when you open the CCF in ProntoEdit) to merge it with your own. When you do so, you will get all the panels/buttons and codes from their remote and still keep the ones you've entered so far. You can take those panels and use them as is...or you can opt to take their layouts and reprogram the buttons with your own codes (by teaching the Pronto using the original remote) or you can supply your own buttons and copy and paste the codes to your own buttons.

On this site, there are also "gallery" CCF's which contain just different styles of buttons with no codes. If you merge a gallery CCF file with yours, you can then copy and paste the buttons into your own panels. Once this is done, you will have to supply the codes by teaching the Pronto from your original remote.

I should also mention that when your device may not be listed as a CCF on this site, you can sometimes take another devide from the same brand and use the codes for those since the codes are usually the same. If you pick a model higher than yours, sometimes you may even get a few button codes that didn't exist on your original remote!

It'll all make more sense once you start playing with the software more. BTW: the emulator provides a true representation and you won't even need the Pronto to set up your system completely

Thank-you both Leo and Ray,I appreciate your help! This all seems so confusing to me, learning codes and what-not, I fear that with what I'm reading, I may never beable to use the Pronto to it's max.

So let me ask another question - how would I create a home panel that says for instance: Welcome to Lori & Mark's home theater!

thanks again

If you find a CCF that you like merge it with yours and if it has a good home theater home page might be able to erase there name and put yours..
G

1. Create a new panel in the home group
2. Add a frame
3. Click on the Name property and type the text you want into the frame (you might more than one frame as you can only have one line of text per frame).
4. Add a button
4. Put an action on the button that jumps to whatever panel you want to see next

Mark,
Like you, I was confused by all the technical babble regarding copying this and pasting that, learning codes, ccf’s and the rest. It wasn’t until I started to play around with Prontoedit to see what it could do that it all made sense. Just remember that once you have taught the Pronto all your remotes’ settings and uploaded this to your computer, make a copy of those settings by doing a "save as". Call it something like "My original settings" and then put it somewhere safe. That way, if you make a complete mess of your settings in Prontoedit you’ve always got that one to fall back on.

Best of luck
Caroline