[Dx4win] DX spot colors revisited

Wed, 03 Sep 2003 23:34:00 -0400

Jim,

The next release has an extra priority added, so I can deal with the
band / mode combinations too. The rest is as you suggested,
with priority given to the 'mode'. This stuff gets complicated!

Paul

At 01:43 PM 9/3/03 -0700, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>Thanks for the feedback.  My prior analysis is included at the end for those
>who can't remember.  I think it was Mel VE2DC who pointed out that there is an
>option to highlight unconfirmed new entities as if they are unworked, so #1
>changes a little.
>
>Would it be nice to be fully configurable?  Sure!  Is it likely to happen?
>Probably not. The most requested switch seems to be to choose whether band
>spots have priority over mode spots, or vice versa (default right now is mode
>over band).
>
>So I hope Paul can fix the priority 3/4 problem (unworked band entity should
>have priority over worked mode entity), as well as add this new switch.  This
>should satisfy 95% of the users.  If you don't care about band or mode awards,
>go into your DXCC prefernces and turn these awards off.
>
>73 - Jim AD1C
>
>I think I boiled the priorities down to three simple rules:
>
>1.  All-time never worked has the highest priority.
>
>2.  When both entities are unworked or both entities are
>     worked but not confirmed, mode has priority over band.
>
>3.  When one entity is unworked and the other is worked
>     but not confirmed, the unworked entity has priority
>     over the worked entity.
>
>The priorities I suggested earlier seem to embody these requirements:
>
>   1 = never worked
>   2 = never worked mode
>   3 = never worked band
>   4 = unconfirmed mode
>   5 = unconfirmed band
>
>
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