[WriteLog] % L in rtty F key memory not working

[Gary AL9A]

Hi Jim,

Glad to hear %L is now working for you.

To use the call stack first review the Help manual section "Entry Push/Pop 
Call Queue".  There are several things you can do to your writelog.ini file 
to make manipulation of the stack very easy.

First, create a new section in your writelog.ini file as below:

[RttyContextMenuEntries]
1=PUSHCALL

The default in Rittyrite is if you right click on a call a drop box opens 
with some default selections.  One of these is to Push Call to the stack. 
If you add the above line to your ini file the drop box goes away as the 
only option left is PUSHCALL.  This now becomes the default of a right mouse 
click on a call.  There is no visible feed back, but the call is added to 
the stack.  If the CALL field is empty you can see the first three calls in 
the stack just to the left of the CALL box where the next number is usually 
shown.

Now you need a way to manipulate the stack if necessary.  I did this by 
creating two keyboard shortcut keys, the "[" and "]" keys which were unused 
for anything else.  You can use the Setup/Keyboard Shortcuts... utility in 
WriteLog or just add the following two lines to your KeyboardShortcuts 
section in your ini file if you have one.

[KeyboardShortcuts]
OPEN_SQUARE=EntryPopCallFromQueue
CLOSE_SQUARE=EntryPushCallToQueue

These two keys when toggled one after the other will cycle through all the 
calls in the stack - Pop, Push, Pop, Push, etc.  If you have a call you want 
to delete from the stack just cycle through the stacked calls until the one 
you want is in the CALL field and then hit Alt+W to wipe it out of the 
stack.  I rarely have more than two or three calls in the stack so it is 
fairly easy to manage.

I now create two shortcut macros for RTTY use.

F8 - "%R%C TU %L "
F9 - "NOW %C 599 nnn %C "

During a run if I am called by more than one station whose calls print 
clearly I click on the first call I want and hit Insert.  This starts 
sending my exchange message to him.  After hitting Insert, while my exchange 
is being sent, I right click on the second call to Push the call onto the 
stack.  After my exchange message ends I receive the exchange from the first 
station and left click the report into the correct fields in the Entry 
window.  When his exchange info to me is ready to log I hit the F8 key 
followed immediately by the F9 key.  This logs the first call and his 
information, Pops the next call from the stack into the CALL field and sends 
the combined macro strings together to parse the NOW... message.

Really easy and seamless way to manage the pileup.  Give it try and I'm sure 
you will agree.

73,
Gary AL9A


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Balls" <makidoja at gmail.com>
To: <writelog at contesting.com>
Sent: January 22, 2013 1:28 AM
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] % L in rtty F key memory not working


> Hi all
>
> OK got it working now
>
> I'm interested in this statement from Gary
>
>
>
>> Fn = "%R%C TU %L ", which should  send TU to the current call, log that
>> call and then pop the next call from the stack into the Call field.
>>
>
> which part of that puts the next call in the stack into the call field
>
> What happens if it's a busted call? just manually edit?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jim M0CKE
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