Well that's almost exactly what I told Alex. He asked if I tried it (I
hadn't). The method
freezes the window only so long as the mouse is moving. I think it is somewhat
unnerving
when it unfreezes and catches up, but I think it's workable and sure is an
interesting
solution.
Mark. N2QT
> On Oct 3, 2014, at 12:28 PM, Rick Ellison <rellison@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Mark..
> Re this:
> "VE3NEA, who is the author of RTTYSKimmer came up with another possibility
> with a dynamic way of freezing the data input window based on the mouse
> movement. He has a demo of this approach as well as its source code. This
> program simulates an RTTY client program that prints received characters and
> allows you to click on the words in the scrolling window. To see this in
> action, please download the freezer demo from
>
> (http://www.dxatlas.com/private/freezer.zip)
>
> extract Freezer.exe from the zip file, and play with it. While it doesn't
> have real callsigns you can quickly get the sense of how it operates.
>
> If this gets picked up by the various contest logging programs, it is maybe
> a way to make the discussion of cr/lf moot."
> This is Implemented in N1MM + sort of. In N1MM+ there is an option called
> "Use RX Window Callsign pause Routines" What this does is when your mouse is
> over a callsign it freezes input to the RX window as soon as you move away
> from the callsign it unfreezes the RX window input.
>
> Alex's idea is a good one but during a contest my mouse never leaves the RX
> window so if using Alex's idea the window would be paused all of the time.
> When I am in a contest I use my mouse for grabbing callsigns and exchanges
> but also I use the Right click for progressing the ESM sequence. For some
> contests I can work the whole contest and never touch my keyboard or without
> the mouse outside of the rx windows..
>
> 73 Rick N2AMG
>
>
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