[Dx4win] Fwd: Re: Custom Award Value ??

[Mike Rhodes]

Guess my previous message went as HTML and got nuked. Here it is again.

  Jim,
   You got it !! At the moment I am working with CWOps contacts. I would 
choose CWOps from the 'Custom Award' field by double-clicking in the 
blank field and choosing from the list. Then I double-click in the 
'value' field and it would only search on the first letter. That is, if 
I type 'w', it goes to the w's. Then I type '6' and it goes to the calls 
starting with '6'.
   I tried using 'F1' as you mentioned and BAM, it opens a separate 
window and does a progressive search. Don't know why it does not act the 
same when double clicking in the value field but - anyhow - F1 gets me 
what I need.

Thanks again,
Mike / W8DN

On 4/6/2017 9:40 AM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Mike Rhodes<w8dn.mike at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>>    Am I missing something? I would expect that when I choose a custom award
>> name and then go to enter the callsign of the claimed station, I could type
>> the call and a progressive search would happen. However, that is not the
>> case, at least for me. It only searches on the first character of the
>> callsigns. Am I doing something wrong or is that the nature of the beast?
>>    If that is the nature of the beast, a progressive search there would be
>> high on my list of future upgrades (along with hooks to connect to external
>> programs such as flDigi, etc.).
> Specifically, which award?  What method are you using to access the fields?
>
> In the Custom Award field, the keyboard matches only the first
> character.  Type K, you will go to those awards beginning with K. Type
> S next, and you'll go to those awards beginning with S.  But that list
> is usually relatively short, so scrolling by hand is not that
> cumbersome.
>
> In the Custom award value field, you can type F1 (or right-click) to
> see the list.  Start typing and it will match keystrokes as you
> expect, in the second column, i.e. C-T-1 goes to those calls beginning
> with CT1, not just "1".  If you want to search by award value instead,
> use F2 to change the sorting order, then scroll through the list
> manually.  Keyboard matching only works on the 2nd column, and only
> when it's sorted, which is how it comes up by default.
>
> Does any of this help?  I may post a separate message to the reflector
> once I understand your issue better.  Or you can yourself.
>