[Dx4win] Error - Fixed

Stan Rowe shrtuba at chartermi.net
Wed Apr 20 08:23:48 EDT 2005


John Paul,
I'm glad you solved your problem that caused the error message "List index 
out of bounds."   For the record, with Steve's help (support at DX4WIN), I 
solved a similar but different problem just last week that was causing two 
error messages, "An exception occurred - invalid floating point operation." 
and "An exception occurred - List index out of bounds (0)"

In my case I had told DX4WIN in the Preferences that I had a rotor 
connected, but in fact I had temporarily disconnected the rotor controller. 
That combined with specifying TNC=Regular caused the above mentioned errors 
to occur when I started DX4WIN.  After much playing around, I discovered 
that I could eliminate the error messages by either specifying Rotor = None 
OR TNC = None.

As of today, my rotor control unit is still disconnected.  In the 
Preferences I have specified Rotor=None and TNC=Regular, and DX4WIN is 
working fine and has Internet access.

I'm writing this note just to document my experiences in case anyone else 
receives similar strange error messages, and also in hope that perhaps some 
check could be built into a future release of DX4WIN that would issue a more 
meaningful error message in the case where a rotor had been specified but 
none is actually connected.  More generally, I suppose the same or similar 
errors could occur with other devices but I did not test any other cases.

Stan - K6VWE 




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