[WriteLog] What should change in WriteLog w.r.t. this review?

[Bob Naumann - N5NJ]

No, as much as I hate this term: "My bad".

I keep forgetting about RTTY.

I see RTTY as so totally different, that I am not surprised that I have to change lots of things when I go to that mode.

I did send a suggestion to Wayne earlier that perhaps contest-specific INI files would be better to handle these types of things.

When you select what contest you want to run, it would load the INI file that corresponds to that contest, and of course, when you do an SSB contest, you just don't need to load the RTTY window.

Also, the positions and sizes of the windows are different for the different contests too.  These things could be stored in the contest-specific INI files.

The regular Writelog.INI file that we all are familiar with would lose some of it's power, but instead focus on those things that do not change for different contests.  Things like what port my radios are connected to, what cluster I connect to, etc. would remain there.

Oh, and there would need to be separate INI files for SSB & CW versions of each contest - e.g.;

SSCW.INI
SSSSB.INI
etc.

73,
Bob N5NJ





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From: Bill Turner <wrt at dslextreme.com>
Date: 2004/02/06 Fri AM 10:24:04 CST
To: n5nj at gte.net
CC: K4SB <k4sb at earthlink.net>,  <writelog at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] What should change in WriteLog w.r.t. this review?

On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 15:25:48 -0600, Bob Naumann - N5NJ wrote:

>I must be missing something - what are you guys changing in the INI file when you change modes?
>
>I just change modes and make no changes.  What am I doing wrong?
>
>-Bob

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It has to do with which windows are loaded.  With my RTTY .ini settings
active, if I load a CW contest, I get the MMTTY window displayed,
obviously not needed.

Likewise with the CW .ini file active, when I start a RTTY contest there
is no MMTTY window.

This problem affects ALL windows which are loaded, not just the one I
mentioned.  Perhaps Bob is using an external TNC instead of MMTTY?  If
all his other window settings are the same from contest to contest, he
might not notice a difference, but I have a distinctly different set of
windows for each mode.

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73, Bill W6WRT

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