[Dx4win] Bugs I reported in 7.02
Chaz Cone, W4GKF
w4gkf at chazcone.com
Thu Jun 8 21:16:14 EDT 2006
DX4Win-ers:
I thought I'd pass these along so others might not redundantly send them in.
These are observed and easily reproduced in 7.02; they were present
in 6.x as well.
1) Preferences/Ext Data
If you use "Website callsign lookup" you must put something in both
the "Callsign lookup address" field AND the "QSL manager lookup
address" field. If you don't, pressing F3, Enter from the QSO window
does nothing.
Here's the way this is supposed to work (according to the User Guide) :
If the field with focus in the QSO window is ANYTHING OTHER THAN the
QSL manager field, pressing F3 followed by Enter is supposed to do a
callsign lookup on the website you chose in the Preferences/Ext
Data/Callsign lookup address box.
If the field with focus in the QSO window IS QSL manager, pressing F3
followed by Enter is supposed to do a QSL manager lookup on the
website you chose in Preferences/Ext Data/QSL manager lookup address.
It doesn't work that way.
In my case, I used http://www.qrz.com for the Callsign lookup and
http://www.qrz.com/callsign?qsl= in the QSL manager lookup (as
instructed in both the online help and the User Guide).
There are two problems: No matter where the field focus is in the
QSO window, pressing F3 and Enter always goes to the QSL manager
lookup address. Paradox: If you only want to do a Callsign lookup,
you can never do a Manager lookup because you must put
http://www.qrz.com/ in BOTH the Callsign lookup box AND the QSL
manager lookup box.
The workaround is to put http://www.qrz.com/ in both the Callsign and
QSL manager lookup boxes. If you do that, at least F3, Enter does
the callsign lookup.
And, while I'm whining, I asked that the F3 followed by Enter be
changed to just F3. The Enter keypress shouldn't be necessary.
2. Country Window position (dual monitor setup)
When you ask that DX4WIN remember window position by
Preferences/Screen and using the "Leave all windows in original
position" checkbox, it does not affect the Country window. No matter
where you move it to, when you exit it comes back to the middle of
the left-hand screen (approximately). Note:this only behaves as
described on my dual monitor setup.
And, while whining, the wording for the checkbox should be "Leave all
windows where they are on exit".
Just tryin' to help..
Chaz, W4GKF
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