[LOGic] Logform Issue

Sat Jan 3 17:36:30 EST 2009

Dear Ben:
   Your suggestion about screen organization is the one that I actually 
adopted a couple of days ago. I think it's the only easy way right now to 
accomplish the task. I put the data entry form, browse window, and spot log 
on the "main" screen, and TRX-Manager on the second screen with several 
other windows I like to use: DX progress et al. This screws up the basic 
screen layout that I prefer, but using logmein.com for remote access makes 
toggling back and forth between the screens a matter of one click, so this 
isn't too bad a way to go as a compromise "one size fits all" solution for 
home and on the road.
   Maybe Dennis would consider an enhancement to the program that would 
allow one's entire screen layout to be saved as a "logform", with a menu 
option ("Close logform") to close it in its entirety so a new one could be 
opened in the workspace. This would NOT change the log database, but only 
the appearance of the screen(s). Dennis, what do you think?
73,
Jeff, K6JW

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "N6FM Ben" <n6fm at oregonfast.net>
To: "'LOGic is open to all radio amateurs for discussion of LOGic logging 
program'" <logic at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 16:33
Subject: RE: [LOGic] Logform Issue

> The only way I can think of is to use the INSTANCE parameter and load the
> program twice in separate folders.
>
> You might also consider in your two-screen environment to place forms you
> may not absolutely need, such as memberships, etc on the second monitor so
> that if they don't show up on the single monitor, no big deal.
>
> Ben
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: logic-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:logic-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
> On Behalf Of J.A. Wolf, MD, K6JW
> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 4:00 PM
> To: LOGic is open to all radio amateurs for discussion of LOGic logging
> program
> Subject: Re: [LOGic] Logform Issue
>
> Nope -- still not quite right.
> What I WANT to do is to use the SAME database, but a different screen 
> layout
>
> more suitable to the laptop single monitor instead of the home dual
> monitors. I should be able to load a specific logform to do this, but with
> reference to the same log database. There doesn't seem to be any easy way 
> to
>
> do this.
> --Jeff, K6JW
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "N6FM Ben" <n6fm at oregonfast.net>
> To: "'LOGic is open to all radio amateurs for discussion of LOGic logging
> program'" <logic at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 11:23
> Subject: RE: [LOGic] Logform Issue
>
>
>> OK, I think you mean that you wish to use a separate log database for the
>> home station than the remote station? If you wish to use a separate
>> database
>> for remote contacts vs local contacts, then I think what you would have 
>> to
>> do is define a new shortcut for the program and add the parameters in the
>> command-line specifying the location of the desired log database (DATA
>> perameter). Then you would restart the program each time using the
>> different
>> shortcuts.
>>
>> I don't know any other way to switch databases. Someone else might.
>>
>> I understood your question:
>>
>>>   My question is whether there is any easy way to close one logform
>>> and load another without first closing every window in one logform
>>> before loading the next, so they're not one on top of the other?
>>
>> ...to mean that you wanted to just that, close the log form without
>> closing
>> the other windows and open a different log form. IN any event, the other
>> forms (I assume forms such as "Other QSOs", "INFO", etc) would apply to
>> whatever database you were using (LOG.DBF), not a specific log form.
>>
>> The logform merely is a means to add QSOs to the database, it is not the
>> database unto itself. "LOG.DBF" is the actual log.
>>
>> Also, look in the docs under "multiple instances of Logic" and 
>> "networking
>> and multiple databases"....where it discusses the "DATA" parameter.
>>
>> Hope that helps..
>>
>> Ben
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: logic-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
>> [mailto:logic-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
>> On Behalf Of J.A. Wolf, MD, K6JW
>> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 10:21 AM
>> To: LOGic is open to all radio amateurs for discussion of LOGic logging
>> program
>> Subject: Re: [LOGic] Logform Issue
>>
>> Hi, Ben.
>>   Thanks for the quick response. Clicking on that X only closes the data
>> entry and browse windows. It doesn't close all the other open windows.
>> What
>> I'd really like to do is clear the entire workspace, i.e., also have the
>> Spot Log and other open windows close, too. There may be no good way to 
>> do
>> this, unfortunately, since the "logform" definition appears to include
>> just
>> the data entry and browse windows. Ideally, the "logform" would include
>> everything on the screen at the time it's closed, but I guess it doesn't.
>> I
>> might have to set up another log database and just move any remotely made
>> contacts to the main log when I get home. Seems awfully cumbersome.
>> --Jeff, K6JW
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "N6FM Ben" <n6fm at oregonfast.net>
>> To: "'LOGic is open to all radio amateurs for discussion of LOGic logging
>> program'" <logic at mailman.qth.net>
>> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 09:41
>> Subject: RE: [LOGic] Logform Issue
>>
>>
>>> Try the X in the upper right corner of the logform, or select its
>>> representative icon in the Windows taskbar, right click and choose
>>> "Close".
>>>
>>> Then Click on Forms then All log forms and pick the one you want. You 
>>> can
>>> have more than one open at the same time on the same database.
>>>
>>> Hope I understood your question correctly.
>>>
>>> Ben
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: logic-bounces at mailman.qth.net
>>> [mailto:logic-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
>>> On Behalf Of J.A. Wolf, MD, K6JW
>>> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 9:12 AM
>>> To: logic at mailman.qth.net
>>> Subject: [LOGic] Logform Issue
>>>
>>> To All:
>>>   Happy new year to everyone.
>>>   Here's my issue to start the new year off with a bang. I run LOGic8
>>> over
>>> two monitors at the home station. I'm setting up for remote access to 
>>> the
>>> station, however, and will be doing that access from a laptop. What I'd
>>> like
>>>
>>> to do is to set up a new logform on one screen for when I'm accessing
>>> remotely. Setting up the new form is easy.
>>>   My question is whether there is any easy way to close one logform and
>>> load another without first closing every window in one logform before
>>> loading the next, so they're not one on top of the other? There doesn't
>>> seem
>>>
>>> (or I can't find) any "close logform" command in the available menus. Am
>>> I
>>> just looking in the wrong place?
>>>   Is there a way to set up a shortcut that will load the desired logform
>>> without having to copy the entire logdata directory, which would have 
>>> the
>>> undesirable effect of creating a separate log database? I don't want to
>>> do
>>> that.
>>>   Any advice would be appreciated.
>>>   Again, a happy and healthy new year to all.
>>> 73,
>>> Jeff, K6JW
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