There is a reason that WL prints into the RTTY window the way that it does.
If it always printed at the bottom of the screen and pushed text up, then
when you wanted to click on a call or report, you would have to chase it up
the screen. This is how some of the other RTTY programs work.
Since WL keeps the text in one place and moves where it is printing, things
stay where you can click on them.
There is the obvious trade off of trying to find the cursor (I noticed that
problem a few times myself this weekend) but it is better than what would be
the alternative. Perhaps there could be a better way to indicate where the
new text is coming in, but I can't think of what it would be.
Randy, K5ZD
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Lodewyck [mailto:ronl@toto.csustan.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 6:13 AM
snip
> Also desirable would be printing always on the same line and the text
> scrolls up in the window from there. We found it very difficult to keep
> searching for the current print position so we could click the cursor on a
> callsign or report. It would be MUCH easier if the current print line
> remained fixed so you could easily find the call/report and click on it.
> The wide band decode line works this way, EXCEPT you can't click
> on a call
> in there as I recall...
>
>
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