[WT-support] WT in November Sweepstakes CW

[Laurent HAAS - F6FVY]

Hi John

Tnx for your report.

John Bayne a écrit :

> 1.  There doesn't seem to be any field validations, and I ran into several situations that slowed me down because I forgot to enter a field, I put the info in the wrong field, or I mistyped information.  The Sections field should only accept the proper section code, and the precidence field should only accept A, B, M, U, Q or S.
> You should not be able to log the QSO without all fields being populated.

Actually, it has been implemented in the very last version (3.18), but 
it has been officially released on last Saturday only.

FYI, the last version is available here :

http://download.win-test.com/wt-3.18.0.exe [full version, 6.9 MB]
http://download.win-test.com/wt-3.18.0-update.exe [update only, 2.3 MB]

> 2.  An "Auto Advanceor Auto Tab" feature would be FANTASTIC in this program.  Every other SS program that I have used has this feature, and it reduces thousands of keystrokes throughout the contest.  For example, If I am in the serial number field and have just entered a number, pressing A B M U Q or S should take me out of the field and log the letter in the next field without me having to press the spacebar.  Also, when in the check (year licensed) field, any letter pressed should take me out of that field and into the section field.  Also, the check field really should be abbreviated in the header as CK.

We fully understand, but it is IMHO a bit too much SS-specific to be 
adopted. We try to maintain the code in a consistent manner to have to 
same features for every contest (over hundred of them, today), as much 
as possible, to not confuse users.

> 3.  The "check log for errors" feature doesn't seem to work with this contest, at least not the way I expected. The program said it found no errors.  When the contest robot received my log, it pointed out a handfull of QSO's that were missing pieces of the exchange, such as the PRECIDENCE.

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> 4.  If I copy the number and suffix of a callsign and then tab back through to make an addition of the prefix, is there an "insert" key function that will allow me to add the prefix without having to backspace?  I may be doing something wrong here.

Just use the "Home" key. Or Ctrl-Left arrow (like in any window 
software). Or Ctrl-A (like in CT).

73

Larry - F6FVY