FW: [TRLog] S&P to CQ switching and other Suggestions

[Jon, W4ZW]

Jon Hamlet, W4ZW
Casey Key Island, Florida

"A little bit of paradise in the Gulf of Mexico"


-----Original Message-----
From: Juhan Poldvere [mailto:juhan@chem.ut.ee]
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 1999 8:44 AM
To: Jon, W4ZW
Subject: Re: [TRLog] S&P to CQ switching and other Suggestions


Hi,

W4ZW:

> I also agree about the edit key.  A downcursor should simply accept the
edit
> and place you into the call window. ESC in all other cases does what you
> would expect, clear the decks of whatever you're trying to stop.  The
> intuitive action is to down cursor.

I generally agree, but then we'd probably have to have
CONFIRM ESCAPE WITHOUT SAVING  in addition to
CONFIRN EDIT CHANGES

> As for the CQ/S&P changeover, I would suggest the " ~ ` " key just below
the
> ESC key.

I, too, get bitten by the ESC key several times every contest, and I do wish
to have a way to disable S&P --> CQ mode changeover by the ESC key. I feel
that the present TAB/SHIFT TAB pair do the job well and there is no need to
add any new. "~'" is not a good choice too - you'll be hard pressed to find
this key on many european keyboards, and some do strange things with it.
Escaping further than necessary happens to me when I start sending the
unintended or unintendedly. TRlog sends out at least three letters before
responding to ESC (1000 or more QSOs in the log, 66MHz 486 or 100MHz P5).
Enough time to hit ESC again. With UPDATE RESTART BIN FILE = TRUE it's even
worse.

>             The color change is great, but a single key to toggle would be
> great.  A color coded Function Key overlay would also be a great help.
One
> color for CQ, and one for S&P, with a quick "Alt-Key" map like the old DOS
> Wordperfect overlays we all relied on when we were learning WordPerfect.

When I was a TRlog novice, I tried to program CQ MENU and EX MENU with
colors from ANSI.SYS sequences - only to discover that Tree does not honor
dos interrupts and other such stuff. Colored function key legends would be
nice, and changing menus when Alt or Ctrl are pressed are even nicer. Mostly
a cosmetic feature, though.

> Another struggle for me was the great feature of automagically putting the
> names into the exchange window when they were available from the master
> database, but it seems in NA that everybody now changes his name every
> contest.  I spent as much time deleting the default name as I did entering
> the new one. I didn't want to ESC to clear the field since I had already
> typed in the exchange.  Anyone have any hints or tricks for this?

Try  INITIAL EXCHANGE = NONE or CUSTOM or some other.

73,
--
Juhan Poldvere, ES5QX



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