Hi Folks, After playing with Excel for a couple hours this morning, I could not get exactly what I wanted.
I'm going to keep the program the same as before (HTML output), but I've made two changes: 1. The program will print the 2-letter field abbreviation in the background of each 10x10 grid. 2. Three formats of output: Portrait 4R/3C (default), Landscape 3R/4C, 11x17 4R/8C I could really use some help. I wonder if someone can help me make GIF files for the 2-letter field abbreviations (images) using Microsoft Paint? There are 324 images total (AA through RR). I've made about a dozen covering most of the USA. I could continue to do it, but it would probably be on an as-need basis. Let me know if you're willing to help, and I can tell you exactly what I want, as well as sending sample files. I'll release the updated program on Sunday, no matter how many field images I have. 73 - Jim AD1C On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > 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
