[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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