[WT-support] Paddle focus problem with WinKeyer 2

[Bob Wilson, N6TV]

2008/9/24 José Nunes CT1BOH <ct1boh at gmail.com>

> If you push F1 on radio 1, and immediately push "*", the radio will finnish
> sending the content of F1 on radio1, but radio2 is already the active radio.
> So using a paddle or pushing a F key (after the "* key") will send CW into
> radio2, the active radio.
> This is the way it is supposed to work.
>

It doesn't work this way with Winkey paddles, unfortunately.  Perhaps it is
going to be hard to implement this behavior in the Win-Test code without
breaking something else.  The code would have to be changed to treat WinKey
paddle sending different than it treats function key sending.  Function key
sending always "completes" the last message before switching active radios,
unless you press [Esc] or another function key.  Paddle sending should
immediately cancel all queued messages, and switch to the "yellow" or
"current" radio before output begins.

So it seems like the first dot or dash could get chopped up a bit if the
paddle CW and radio switch are supposed to happen at exactly the same
time.   What should happen if you press [Shift] in the middle of a
paddle-sent dash?  Should the first part of the dash be sent on Radio 1 and
second part on Radio 2?  Probably so, as that is what you would expect
intuitively, since that is what happens with a manual A/B switch.

There are also three different possible ways to switch the active radio that
have to be handled in the code:

[*] - Swap active radio
[CapsLock] - Switch to secondary radio (Caps Lock Binds to the secondary
radio)
[Shift] - Temporarily switch to secondary radio as long shift is held down
(Shift binds to the secondary radio)

73,
Bob, N6TV
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