Right on Eric. Time outs could be a disaster.
I have always felt that it is important to know whether it is 'smart' to do
some things in a program.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Scace K3NA" <eric@k3na.org>
To: "WriteLog" <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 00:14
Subject: RE: [WriteLog] Re: issues--HOME key - return focus to log
> I am a little confused by all the requests for a keystroke to put one's
keyboard focus back into the QSO Entry window. There is
> a key for this: Ctl-P.
>
> However, there are a few cases where Ctl-P doesn't do this task. The
bandmap is a notorious place to get stuck in, because the
> bandmap runs as a separate application on the machine.
>
> Personally, I am generally against the idea of timeouts causing the
keyboard focus to jump back to the QSO Entry window. There
> are many reasons why someone might be in the middle of a task elsewhere
(e.g., playing around with message contents, writing a note,
> entering an annotation to a QSO), get interrupted by something else (a
chance to listen to a weak signal and start trying different
> antennas, turning the rotator, etc), and then come back to the keyboard to
finish up that note, message, etc. A timeout can cause
> whatever you were typing to be put in the wrong place... which then means
you must BOTH erase the bad stuff in the QSO Entry window
> AND get back to the other window to finish up the previous task.
>
> If Wayne wants to put it in, that's OK... as long as there is a way to
turn it off!
>
> -- Eric K3NA
>
>
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