[RTTY] software

[Jerry Flanders]

I like it. What do we have to do to get you to convert your products 
to Windows?

Jerry W4UK

At 04:23 PM 1/13/2011, Kok Chen wrote:



>I had an interesting thought over this Roundup weekend.
>
>cocoaModem has an option in its contest interface to convert all 
>CR/LF into space characters.  But it really is not what you always 
>want either (it will still jump a line up occasionally, and you also 
>know when it is coming).  But the appearance is not what the 
>transmitting station intended (especially those that line up their 
>multi line exchanges with extra spaces and dots!).
>
>So this idea occurred to me: don't capture a callsign during a mouse 
>down button action (cocoaModem uses the right mouse button for 
>callsign and exchange captures).  Instead, capture the callsign only 
>at the time that you release the mouse button.
>
>While the button is depressed, freeze the screen (buffer any 
>additional input away).  You can then steer the mouse cursor to 
>where you want on a static screen (with the button held down) and 
>release the mouse button when the cursor is on the callsign.
>
>One of the keyboard control keys can also be used to freeze the 
>screen.  But it is probably a faster GUI (using a single hand) to 
>hold the screen while the mouse button is down and selecting the 
>callsign when you release the mouse button.  This should reduce some 
>of the "jumping-line stress syndrome."  As far as ergonomics, I 
>wouldn't be surprised if it becomes natural after a short while.
>
>Should be a trivial change in any software.
>
>73
>Chen, W7AY
>
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