[Logic] QSO/Record number or serial number

[Arthur Tan]

Hi Dennis,

>From pdainc@hosenose.com on Aug 06, 2003:

> A QSO number is one thing, but it is not the same thing as a QSO
> count.  What happens if you delete a record?  Do you then go back
> and renumber everything?

True.  I see your point.  

> The Count feature of the Filter screen IS accurate, and always has
> been.  The record count at the bottom of the screen is what I was
> referring to as not being accurate.  It is a count including deleted
> QSOs.

> The only solution is to either go ahead and count all records (as
> the Filter form does), or keep a counter somewhere that you
> increment when you add a QSO and decrement when you delete one.  Or
> take take the total record count and subtract the deleted, which
> would still require reading the whole file, unless you added the
> overhead of another index....

Well, speaking only for myself, I think a column called QSO NUM or REC
NUM or REC NO. etc. would look nice.  And if you deleted a record, it
could "on-the-fly" re-number that qso and every subsequent qso.  But
this might be adding too much overhead to LOGic and require indexing
another column.

My second choice vote is what Tony, WB2JRI is proposing - which I
think is placing an always visible Filter count somewhere either in
the INFO window or along the bottom edge of the screen.

My $0.02 worth...

Thanks!

73, Art AB4RL