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RE: [WriteLog] Re: issues--HOME key - return focus to log

To: Steve Baron - KB3MM <SteveBaron@StarLinX.com>,WriteLog <writelog@contesting.com>,Eric Rosenberg <wd3q@starpower.net>
Subject: RE: [WriteLog] Re: issues--HOME key - return focus to log
From: Eric Scace K3NA <eric@k3na.org>
Reply-to: eric@k3na.org
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 07:48:50 -0500
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   I probably change something in the INI file before almost every contest, in 
order to tweak WL for that specific contest.

-- Eric K3NA

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Sent: 2003 December 16 21:29
To: WriteLog; Eric Rosenberg
Cc: eric@k3na.org
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Re: issues--HOME key - return focus to log


How many times a year do you change your INI file?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Rosenberg" <wd3q@starpower.net>
To: "WriteLog" <writelog@contesting.com>
Cc: <eric@k3na.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 00:57
Subject: RE: [WriteLog] Re: issues--HOME key - return focus to log


> I agree with Eric.
> 
> The additions being suggested are all interesting and could certainly 
> be implemented.. but only if, as Eric states, "as long as there is a 
> way to turn it off!"
> 
> That's the key!
> 
> One suggestion I would really like to see is a better way to get at the 
> ini file.  A pull down box with tabs for the various categories would 
> be great.  The ini file has been a big problem for me.
> 
> Eric W3DQ
> Washington, DC
> 
> 
> At 07:14 PM 12/16/03 -0500, Eric Scace K3NA wrote:
> 
> >    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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