[Dx4win] DX4WIN in DEMO mode

[Mel Martin]

This bug has been around a long time... I'm not sure how far back it 
goes. It happened to me once... I have no idea why and has never 
happened since (so I can understand why it's hard to track down). 
However I ALWAYS hit alt-s immediately after working a new one. It's 
kinda stupid you have to do this... but another overdue item for Paul is 
a journal file. That can't be hard to accomplish... just write a record 
to an ADIF text file after each Add Paul... and make it optional if you 
are concerned about performance in case someone is still running DX4Win 
off a floppy drive ;-)

Alan Zack wrote:
> Yesterday I had a very strange thing occur with DX4WIN. I have been a registered user for many years. Currently using ver 7.07.02. I have NEVER seen this happen before.
> 
> I opened DX4WIN using the same shortcut as always. It appeared to open normally. I saw ZL7T spotted on 17m CW on the DXCluster (I did not have PACKET open on DX4WIN, instead I was using the separate VE3SUN DX Monitor program for my spotting). I did an F8 search for ZL7 to see if I needed them on 17m CW. I did, so I worked them, and all seemed OK. I had received some QSL cards in the mail so I did F8 searches for those calls and marked them as confirmed. Over the next few hours I worked C6/W6DXC on 20m SSB, C56YK on RTTY, and H40FN on 17m CW. Again, before working H40FN I did a F8 search to see if I needed H40 on 17m CW. All my F8 searches went normally and when I logged each new contact I searched for their QSL info and put the info and address in the QSL MGR window. Everything seemed to be working FB. My complete log was open and seemed to be working normally.
> But then, when I was ready to shut down I did an ALT+S to save the changes. OK. I then clicked on the uppermost right corner X to close the program. When I did that a window opened saying C:\PROGRAM FILES\DX4WIN707\SAVE\K7ACZ.DXL WAS MODIFIED, SAVE LOG TO DISK? I clicked on YES. Another window opened saying something to the effect that changes could not be saved in DEMO mode. I looked at the top of the main menu. It read something to the effect DX4WIN DEMO MODE. It should have read DX4WIN 7.07.2 K7ACZ, etc. At this point I knew I was in trouble. I needed to close the window that said: C:\PROGRAM FILES\DX4WIN707\SAVE\K7ACZ.DXL WAS MODIFIED, SAVE LOG TO DISK? so I could write down on a pad the calls, times, modes, etc, of the contacts I had made during the day so I could reenter them when I could open the program back to normal logging again. So I hit the CANCEL option thinking that would cancel the closing of the program. But it closed anyway causing me to lose all the cont
act
>  s I had made during the day including a new mode (RTTY) for C56YK and a new band/mode (18m CW) for ZL7T and H40FN. I can't remember when during the 6 or so hours DX4WIN was open I actually made those contacts, all I can do is guess within an hour or so.
> 
> When I restarted DX4WIN of course those contacts and changes made while in DEMO mode were gone. Is there anyway to retrieve those contacts? Could they be saved someplace I can't think of?
> How and why did DX4WIN get into the DEMO mode anyway? I can't duplicate it. I don't see how to get it into DEMO mode even if I wanted to.  
> _______________________________________________________
> Alan Zack
> Amateur Radio Station K7ACZ
> Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
> Delta Rocket Quality Engineer, The Boeing Company, Retired
> Aviation Chief Warrant Officer,  U.S. Coast Guard, Retired
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Mel, VE2DC