[Dx4win] Error creating new selection names

Sat, 19 Apr 2003 08:56:45 -0400

I noticed something similar creating a new Radio entry...

I created a new entry starting with a character never used... ( i.e.
ZIC781) then edited the resulting name later...

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Jim Reisert AD1C
Sent: April 18, 2003 11:14 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Dx4win] Error creating new selection names

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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