[Ham-Mac] Update on the ARRL Logbook of the World (LoTW) electronic QSLing project

[Kim Mackey]

In looking a little bit closer to section 2.3.3 I note that the library 
also supports transmission and reception of data with the server.  So, 
it seems that the programmer will be mostly concerned with the 
interface elements.

Kim
KC9BZL

On Saturday, May 31, 2003, at 16:53 America/New_York, Kim Mackey wrote:

> I looked over the document mentioned here and find something very 
> encouraging.
>
> The document describes the key element of this software as the 
> Authentication process.   This part has been written into libraries, 
> which the document states will be provided for several versions of 
> Windows (up through XP) and for Unix/Linux.  They also say that the 
> libraries are to be provided for the Mac platform (see section 2.3.3 - 
> "Logbook Programming Library Library Functions".  This means that a 
> Mac developer will be able to take advantage of these libraries to 
> handle the Authentication.  The remaining issue is connecting to ARRL. 
>  I imagine these specs will also be released and that such method will 
> not care what platform is doing the accessing.  So, although ARRL may 
> not be taking the initiative to include a Mac developer in writing 
> their version of the software, they are not doing things to block a 
> Mac developer from creating something for the Mac community.
>
> Thanks for the link, Dick.
>
> Kim
> KC9BZL