[DXBase] Another Wish for DXB2005

[Peter Dougherty]

Hi all,

I will soon post a more extensive wish-list for the future of DXBase, but I 
thought I'd put this one out, now that it's in the forefront of that which 
passes for my mind. I would love to see tighter integration of any 
auxiliary QSL managers lists into the QSL INFO window.

Right now there's the standard DX Base internal lookup and the CD-ROM 
lookup, each with their own window that by and large is good. I am also a 
subscriber to the GO List and I find their data is often more timely and 
accurate for specific DX  operations than is Hamcall (the CD to which I 
also subscribe).

At issue is the present process of double-clicking the GO List-supplied 
manager's call, transferring it and then doing the Hamcall lookup for that 
information. This is a very tedious procedure that needs to be streamlined 
considerably. There are two possible solutions to this:

1) Allow the user to re-assign the DXBASE lookup window (the top pane) to 
display the address of the manager supplied by GO List. This lookup would 
be keyed to whatever CD database is installed (Buckmaster's Hamcall, QRZ, 
RAC Flying horse, etc). If no CD is installed, then this option would be 
unavailable.

2) If that's not feasible, generate a third window that would take any 
value from the GO List (or other supported third-party managers) and use 
the CD-ROM to look that up and display it in this new window.




73 de Peter (W2IRT)
w2irt@nac.net

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