[WriteLog] Delay Using Fkeys

[Hal Kennedy]

If you are pulling the transmitter up using PTT, try this:

Open Setup>Ports>CWPTT, then close it.  See if the problem goes away.  
Let us know what happened.....

73
Hal N4GG

On 1/5/2015 7:32 PM, Ted Boerkamp wrote:
> Hello everyone....I just wanted to respond to this issue as I also noticed the same
> delay/hesitation in the actual transmission of the function key macros (after the key is pressed)
> this past weekend during the rtty contest. I also use writelog v 11.21 currently on a win7 pc.
> I thought it was an adjustment I could tweak later until I saw others complaining of the same thing.
> Just my two cents.
> Thanks
>
> Ted VE3SS
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WriteLog [mailto:writelog-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Kostas SV1DPI
> Sent: January-05-15 7:26 PM
> To: writelog at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Delay Using Fkeys
>
> HNY to all.
> Steve pse which is your writelog version?
> I have noticed the same delay-freeze in the last cq ww cw but 1)without fkeys, normal operation with function keys 2)my version was 11.21 3)operating system is windows 7 and writelog is installed in a different directory from the default 4)I had two computers in network 5)this happened more often when we had more qsos 6)computer was an old pentium 4 with 3gb memory any common with me?
>
> 73 Kostas SV1DPI
>
> On 5/1/2015 8:39 μμ, Keith Regli wrote:
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> There isn't any delay built into FKeys for most things.  A couple of
>> the complex macros require a few milliseconds, but the vanilla stuff
>> like "Press F3" just insert the equivalent of the key press into the
>> command loop for Writelog.  Hence, nothing you can adjust.
>>
>> I can imagine that heavy use of the packet windows could cause some
>> congestion in the Writelog message loop, but I'd expect it to be the
>> same for a key press.  Possibly a combination of that and competition
>> of other programs could add up.  I'll be curious to see if others noticed an issue.
>>
>> I use a pretty simple setup with no other connections and I don't
>> notice any delay.
>>
>> Keith (K7KAR)
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Steve AI9T <steve at ai9t.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> This weekend I noticed a delay when using the Fkeys program to key my
>>> macros during the roundup. Sometime there is a delay of nearly 1/2 a
>>> second or more. When pushing the Fkey on the keyboard there is no delay at all.
>>>
>>> Did anyone else notice this? Or is there some timing setting I can tweak?
>>>
>>> --
>>> 73
>>>
>>> Steve AI9T
>>>
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