[Trlog] 1B67LAX Bug

[Tod - ID]

Tree:

Leave things as they are. Tell people that is the way it is going to be.
Then we will simply learn how to use the bug/feature (take your pick). Spend
your time on stuff that is fundamental and doesn't have work arounds.
Contesting comes to mind.

Tod, KØTO
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: trlog-bounces at contesting.com 
> [mailto:trlog-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Tree
> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 3:03 PM
> To: trlog at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [Trlog] 1B67LAX Bug
> 
> > >It's a shortcut...provided by the software designer.  
> Maybe, at some 
> > >point, the operator should adjust to the software and move on.
> > 
> > Dale, you're diminishing Tree to the "it's the thought that counts" 
> > school of amateur programming.  If the program is supposed to be 
> > superior because you can type in the exchange without 
> spaces, and this 
> > is used as a selling point, then the software should make 
> good on the claim.
> > 
> > I suggest the software could ALWAYS do this when you type the SS 
> > exchange elements in either 1) the correct order, or 2) the 
> > CK-SEC-NR-PREC order (when TRlog helpfully inserts the 
> check and section in the exchange field).
> > This represents probably 98% of the QSOs we make, I would guess.
> > 
> > For the record, none of these look remotely like callsigns: 
> 1BN5OT71OK 
> > 1B71OK, 71OK1B.  I believe there is no reason they should 
> ever wind up 
> > automatically overwriting the callsign field.
> 
> Well, 1B71OK sort of looks like a callsign to me.  Compare it 
> to a call like 3C0AN.  If has the same pattern: some numbers, 
> some not numbers, some more numbers and then some more not numbers.
> 
> The *real* issue here is "which came first"?  The callsign 
> update feature can after the SS syntax "feature".  True, 
> using the callsign update feature does cause some problems if 
> your don't put your space between in the middle of the exchange.  
> 
> As it turns out, the CALLSIGN UPDATE ENABLE feature is 
> normally disabled as a default.  In my enthusiam towards 
> making the defaults for the SS the "same"
> as how I used the program, I have made it turn on when using 
> the SS. You can see this documented in the FCONTEST.PAS file 
> under the code for the SWEEPSTAKES.
> 
> Perhaps this was a mistake and I should have left this alone.  
> 
> I did try to mitigate this by sending this message to the list:
> 
> http://lists.contesting.com/_trlog/2003-10/msg00139.html
> 
> BTW - the ad was written well before this feature was added as well.  
> 
> Tree
> 
> PS: I have looked at the "undo" key.  It is a lot of work, 
> but may happen someday.
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