Eric Scace wrote:
> First off, I LOVE being able to position the data where I want it.
> (That's why these are called "personal" computers.)
>
> As a newbie, I started off trying to fit windows around within the main
> WriteLog space. It was a frustrating exercise: windows locked into
> unanticipated locations. If I docked the Check Super Partial window on the
> side, for example, it could not be sized to be any taller than the Log part
> of the window.
Eric:
You may already know this. Undock the particular window and put outside the
main writelog window. Size it, then re-dock where you want it. Sizing can be
done outside the main window.
>
>
> Plan B was to make everything (beam heading, rate, check super partial,
> check call, etc.) its own independent window. This worked great! Almost!
>
> For instance, the Rate window contains time on/off information. During
> the IARU contest this data is not useful. So I covered that part of the
> Rate window up with the Beam Heading window. All fine... until I saved
> WriteLog & exited. When I re-entered, WriteLog remembered where the windows
> were located on the screen -- but did not remember the sequence of overlap.
> The Rate window was in front of the Beam Heading window.
>
> SUGGESTION: WriteLog should remember the sequence of overlaps between its
> various windows.
>
> SUGGESTED SIMPLIFICATION: It seems like the user can accomplish everything
> he wants with everything as a separate, independent window. Maybe it's time
> to drop the mechanism for docking data within the Log window.
>
> I created two Bandmap windows (left and right radios) and stacked them on
> top of each other on the left side of the screen. This is because my "left"
> and "right" radios are actually stacked on the left side of my desk. With
> fidgeting, I was able to get each of the two windows to be about identical
> in size... filling up the screen vertically... and just wide enough to
> display a column of calls. When I save the configuration, saved my log,
> exited WriteLog, and the re-opened the Log, the Band Map windows blew up to
> their original sizes and stacked themselves in "cascade" fashion on top of
> everything else. I had to go through the whole re-sizing and re-positioning
> exercise again.
>
> SUGGESTION: WriteLog should remember the size, location, and stacking
> sequence of the Band Map windows.
>
> SUGGESTION: The title bar of the Band Map window should be titled to
> correspond to the Radio Name being displayed in the QSO Entry window. At
> the moment the windows are titled "1-Bandmap" and "2-Bandmap"... and one has
> to experiment to figure out which one is "right", "left", etc. (The
> workaround is to change frequency on one of the radios in the QSO Entry
> screen, and observe which Band Map shows the corresponding frequency.)
>
> SUGGESTION: A "tile band maps vertical/horizontal" function would make it
> easier to create the Band Maps of equal size within a given space on the
> screen.
>
> -- Eric R3/K3NA
> scace@uu.net
>
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73,
Richard Thorne - N5ZC (EX. KA2DSY, N2BHP, WB5M)
Amarillo, TX
http://www.tcac.net/~rthorne/
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