[Elecraft] Looking for an ASCII Elmer

2015-02-22 Thread Suite, Wayne
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Re: [Elecraft] Looking for an ASCII Elmer

2015-02-22 Thread Jack Brindle
Excellent suggestions. For the K3, we have an even easier solution to start playing with rig commands and their effects. We use the Elecraft K3 Utility all the time for updating the K3, but clicking on the Command Tester / K3 Macros tab will give most of us an excellent platform for playing

Re: [Elecraft] Looking for an ASCII Elmer

2015-02-22 Thread Walter Underwood
Sorry to be negative, everyone. I need to take my own advice and be helpful. I recommend starting with the rigcontrol package, written in Python. It is OK if you don’t know Python. This code is very straightforward, so you don’t need use any fancy Python features. It comes with a number of

[Elecraft] Looking for an ASCII Elmer

2015-02-21 Thread Dauer, Edward
Sometime soon I mean to program my K3's Pig Knob to do what I'd like, rather than the factory defaults. If someone who is adept with using ASCII on the K3 is willing to help, I would appreciate meeting you off-list. Requirements - the patience to put up with someone (me) who knows niente about

Re: [Elecraft] Looking for an ASCII Elmer

2015-02-21 Thread Walter Underwood
I am pretty sure that the question about ASCII programming was about the ASCII protocol to Elecraft rigs. That truly is ASCII, complete with control characters. And yes, I know about Unicode and UTF-8. I was doing multibyte character set programming before Unicode. I’ve done some Elecraft

Re: [Elecraft] Looking for an ASCII Elmer

2015-02-21 Thread Jack Brindle
ASCII? That is a character set that is a subset of Unicode, which is now used on all modern computers. It isn’t something you program with, it simply represents characters. On the Mac we do not use ASCII coded characters, but rather Unicode characters, usually coded in UTF-8. What is it that

Re: [Elecraft] Looking for an ASCII Elmer

2015-02-21 Thread Phil Hystad
ASCII... Well, the UTF-8 character set is indeed designed to be backward compatible with ASCII but it is far more than that -- and even these days many programmers do have trouble with UTF-8. Why? Because UTF-8 is a multi-byte, variable length character encoding system. Sure, the backward