[Dx4win] F2 action

[Mel]

Glad you explained that Jim. Was wondering what it was supposed to do 
myself.

Just hitting the up arrow in the date field will set the current date. I 
use this when I manually QSL.

And here is a suggestion to Paul for the future:

When replying to cards... you don't want to set the label flag for 
DXpeditions for example. If F2 is configured to set the flag, it's 
annoying to have to unset the label each time. Perhaps implement a 
shift-F2 to suppress the label? And maybe a Ctl-F2 to set the QSL-date 
and method to direct for the cards not going by bureau? Would speed 
things up when you have hundreds of cards to process. Maybe make all 
three actions configurable by repeating the configuration tab for shift 
and cntl-F2.

Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>  > I cannot get F2 to set the qsl date to anything.
> 
> I have a QSO with 5K0T where I sent a QSL, so the QSL Date is the date I 
> sent the card.  I used F2 and two things happened:
> 
> - QSO was marked confirmed by QSL
> - QSL date was set to today's date (that date I received the card.
> 
> If I'm answering cards from the bureau (where I had not sent a card 
> first), F2 sets the Cnfm and Label flags.  When I eventually print the 
> labels, DX4WIN will set the QSL date to the date on which the labels are 
> printed.  I find this very fast and simple.
> 
> I don't believe that F2 can set the QSL date if there is NOT already a 
> date in the field.  It's only meant to (optionally) change the Sent date 
> to the Rcvd date.
> 
> 73 - Jim AD1C
> 
> On 5/6/2010 1:43 PM, John Buck wrote:
> 
>> I have updated to 8.04 and got an improvement in the F2 action.
>> At least now it works predictably.
>>
>> With Preferences, F2 key, set as follows:
>> Checked: Mark Qso as confirmed, Set QSL Data to today, Qsl method Direct.
>>
>> QSL method action is only if Mark QSO for Label is checked.
>>
>> I cannot get F2 to set the qsl date to anything.
>>
>> I suppose there is some logic to this if the QSL date is set when the
>> label is printed.
>>
>> To me, the coupled logic is not useful.  It may be optimized for some
>> sort of batch processing for sending QSLs.
>> I receive many QSLs by multiple methods.  I do not routinely send QSLs
>> for all contacts made but do respond to all received.
>>
>> F2 would be much more useful to me, if I, with received card in hand,
>> could search for the QSL, confirm the card, then use F2
>> to set my choice of Label, today's date, Cnfm, and method. with one
>> stroke according to my preference settings.
>> Perhaps this simpler logic could be an option to the present approach.
>>
>> What am I missing, or can you point me to documentation of the way it
>> really works?
>>
>> Aloha,
>> John KH7T
>