Brendan...did you ever expand on my 'little' idea! Everything you added makes great sense to me!
Ron N5IN ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brendan Minish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 10:53 AM Subject: [DXBase] Enhancement Request DXinfo window > At 09:00 28/11/2002 -0600, Ron Stordahl wrote: > >Why not simply discard all but the last 'n' spots AUTOMATICALLY where the > >user can specify 'n'? I can't see the purpose in retaining very old spots. > >Ron N5IN > > This has been a gripe of mine since DXB2002, it (in my opinion of course!) > should work like this. > > 1/ Spots get discarded after they are older then a user defined no. of > minutes. Spots are time sensitive and old spots are not a lot of use after > 30 min or so. > Put discard age of 0 for current behavior if anyone actually wants to > continue doing it the current way. > > 2/ newer spots for the same station should always displayed at the bottom > of the list, the newer spots often contain additional information such as > more up to date split info or QSL routes and confirm the station is still > on frequency. The older spot can be removed from the list IF it is on the > same band segment. > > 3/ When a user has scrolled back to see an older spot, new incoming spots > SHOULD NOT automatically move the list back to the bottom again. I,e > Scrolling back should (temporarily ) disable screen updates. The Current > behavior is EXTREMELY irritating on a contest weekend. > > 4/ how about allowing wild cards in the callsign alerts filter, I.e I > normally only want HF CW and 6m CW/SSB spots But I want to know about ALL > spots for, say JT stations so I put JT* into the alerts filter. > > 5/ NO VHF window on startup IF no TNC is enabled, An option to allow DXB to > auto-connect to an Internet cluster at startup. Keep alive function for VHF > cluster connections that require it. > > 6/ Support for more than one format for extracting spot info, I.e DXB > recognizes DX DE as a spot but it would be nice if it also recognized spots > starting with the frequency which is the format used by many clusters when > the SH command is used. This would allow loading up the DX info pane with > recent spots when connecting to a cluster for the first time or following a > change of the filter settings. > For example many clusters can be configured to show the last N spots when a > connection is made. DXB should be able to parse this information correctly > even though it is in many cases in a different format (the SH/DX format, > frequency first ) than normal incoming spots (DX DE ... ) > > 7/ right clicking a spot to enter it into the log should always read the > radio VFO for frequency / mode Not take this from the spot UNLESS no radio > is interfaced to DXB. > > It would be nice to disable the resize row / column option as I am > endlessly resizing the rows when trying to select a row in a hurry. this > could apply to all DXB windows! resizing rows (or columns )is not something > that I do very often > > Brendan EI6IZ > > _______________________________________________ > DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase >
