[Dx4win] Error creating new selection names
Jim Reisert AD1C
[email protected]
Fri, 18 Apr 2003 23:14:00 -0400
A while back I reported a problem with creating new filter selection
names. Here's the scenario:
Filter -> Selection.
Click on Add, and the top box now says "Replace this Name" -- so you start
typing in that box.
Here's the problem:
If the first letter you type matches an *existing* selection, you are now
editing *THAT* selection, and not the new one you created!
For example, I have a selection called "2000 IARU". Say I want to add a
date selection for calendar year 2000. I start typing "2000" in the top
box, and now all of a sudden, the dates and check boxes get filled in as if
I'm editing the "2000 IARU" selection, which I am! If you save this
selection, you will have over-written the old one.
I found a work-around, which I don't recommend (it involves editing your
.DXL file). Give the new selection some weird name like XYZZY -- it must
be at least one character LONGER than the name you really want. Then save
it. Exit DX4WIN and edit your <call>.DXL file using an editor like
Emacs. Search for the weird name XYZZY and change it to what you want (in
the .DXL file, it said "XYZZYce this name", so I changed this to "2000Yce
this name"). In my case, since "2000" was shorter than "XYZZY", I went
back into the selection editor and carefully deleted just the last
character from "2000Y" to get "2000" clicked Update than OK.
Paul, I hope you understand this problem and can come up with a fix in the
next revision.
73 - Jim AD1C
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