The color bar on the left side of the window doesn't do it for me. Maybe
a reverse color scheme on the line printing? I never thought about the
"clicking on moving text" problem, but it makes sense now.
BTW, using the sound card & usually the "wide mode" last weekend I was
suprised a number of times that it printed replies that I didn't hear. A
couple of times I hit F6 again only to look up & see the station replying
even though I could not pick it out through the hash & noise. Using a
cyrix 200mhz/64meg/Yamaha 64 bit card. I was impressed. But then the only
thing I have to compare it to is my old Kantronics UTU.
At 01:12 PM 01/09/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>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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