I am going to try to do one relatively easy thing in the upcoming (non-Windows) release.
I will add an option to generate a .CSV file instead of a .HTML file. The spreadsheet will have placeholders for all grids, starting at AR09 (upper-left) and ending at RA90 (lower-right). If you have confirmed a grid, it will show up in the spreadsheet like "FN42" (UPPER case). If you have only worked it, it will show up like "dn79" (lower case). I don't know what do about non-worked grids yet. If I leave the cells empty, the spreadsheet will be filled with blanks, and you don't have any idea what they are. At least this way, you can open the file in Excel and print any part of it you want. Don't forget to turn on grid lines! I'm thinking about another approach, but it's very different from this utility. Stay tuned! - Jim On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > I started to work on this utility again (as I've been fairly active on > 6 meters lately, picking up new grids since moving to CO): > > Create VUCC Map from DX4WIN Award Listing > http://dx4win.ad1c.us/vucc.htm > > I believe John W9RPM may have asked about this in the not-too-distant > past. John has worked all 488 continental US grid squares and I think > is one QSL away from completing the Fred Fish Memorial Award > (http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Fred%20Fish.pdf). > > I made some changes today so the utility works with DX4WIN8 (DX4WIN7 > still works). The utility also now treats submitted/approved credits > as confirmed. I'm also going to improve the title bar so you know > what fields are being displayed. Including the full name in each grid > square of the output prevents it from fitting on a single page. > > Unfortunately, it's still a command-line program, that I'll release > sometime this weekend. > > I'll create a Windows interface in the next release (after this one, > no timetable). With the Windows interface, there will be a button so > you can see the output immediately in your web browser of choice (then > print it). > > Here are some ideas I've come up with, though I don't know how to > implement some of them: > > 1. Overlay the grid data on top of a real map (don't know how to do this) > 2. Print the field names in the background of each field (don't know how yet) > 3. Rotate the page as landscape, so instead of 3x4 it's 4x3 (this > means text has to rotate also, which may not be supported in HTML) > 4. Color-code the field backgrounds (maybe add a legend). Is there > any value in this? > 5. Larger output, i.e. print more fields on a 11x17 printer (everyone > has one of these, right)? > > Does anyone else have other ideas that I don't have time to work on? :-) > > 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us ______________________________________________________________ Dx4win mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Dx4win@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
