[WriteLog] Alt-K - Konfusion

[George Johnson]

I will echo the comments by Steve, N1NB, in my use of WL and the RITTY
combination.  This pattern has been present for me since using RITTY last
March.  I was caught "off guard" when the type ahead buffer suddenly
appeared but soon found out that it was associated with the window focus.

I had to make sure the QSO input 'window' was in focus and (in my case) not
the RITTY window.  Clicking on a call does not shift the focus as Steve
observed.  It sounds like this pattern in true for RTTYrite and MMTTY.

I also get the following patterns that have been observed by others:

1.  The Alt-K buffer does not wrap around and text continues to the right.
Maybe once in a hundred uses and a very long transmission will cause a wrap
around.

2.  There is no transmission until the first character is actually typed.
This applies to the Alt-K condition when the QSO input window is in focus.
This can impair the receiving station in its ability to decode the first
character accurately.

I will try Jorgen's suggestion about the initial focus at startup and see if
that changes anything.  I will use it with RITTY in addition to testing it
with MMTTY.

System info:  AMD 233 MHz, Abit MB, Win98se, WL10.26B, RITTY 4.53.

George .. W1ZT


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Holton" <sholton@optonline.net>
To: <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 10:03 AM
Subject: [WriteLog] Alt-K - Konfusion


> One of the problems that may be causing confusion in the way ALt-K behaves
> is that it varies with where the focus is in the Writelog-Rttyrite
windows.
>
> And here the use of the term "focus" is really means which window is "on
> top" - not necessarily which windows title bar is Blue (darkened), this is
> because it's quite possible to have no window darkened even though the
> focus is on one the Writelog "family" of windows. This is not normally
what
> one typically might expect in Windows - but of course it is Windoze
> programming, been there done that - can be really ugly at times!
>
> If the Rttyrite window is on top (and in this case it seems to be always
> have a highlighted title bar) I get the type ahead window on Alt-K.
> If the Writelog window is on top (and it may not be highlighted) then I
get
> the immediate transmit window on Alt-K.
> If you grab a call from the Rttyrite window with the mouse this doesn't
> change the focus from the writelog window so Alt-K is the immediate
transmit.
> Further if the Rttyrite window is in focus and you grab a call with the
> mouse the focus is moved to the Writelog window (though all title bars are
> greyed) which yields immediate transmit on Alt-K.
> And of course if the Writelog RTTY receiver window is in focus then Alt-K
> does nothing. This wouldn't normally ever be the case unless you had
> selected it to move it, ......
>
> I'm using Rttyrite with soundcard FSK (will move to MMTY shortly). I have
> dual boot Win2000 and Win98 on the same machine. Both give the same
behavior.
>
> Steve Holton N1NB
>
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