[WT-support] Higher priority items than WT on Windows 7

[Stephen J. Schrack]

I hope they do take a look at it soon.  Since Windows 7 is nothing more than
Vista under the hood with improvements there should not be much of an
issue.  In fact I do not see why it does not run already.  I  am currently
running WT version 4 on Vista Ultimate 64bit  in my SO2R setup.  What is
happening in Windows 7?

73 Steve

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Bob Wilson, N6TV <n6tv at arrl.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Frank, IZ7AUH <iz7auh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Any news about my question from WT Dev staff?
>>
>> Best 73 de IZ7AUH
>
>
> Personally I hope the Win-Test developers do *not* make Windows 7 a high
> priority item right now, unless it is something quick and easy to fix.  This
> OS isn't even officially released yet, and even when it is, I believe less
> than 5% of Win-Test users will be running Windows 7 on their contesting
> computers until after Christmas.
>
> While WT4 added a lot of good function such as ESM, rotator support, and
> audio recording, I hope adding some of the following unsupported features
> will be given higher priority than supporting Windows 7, e.g.
>
>    1. $CLEARRIT macro
>    2. $SWAPVFO macro
>    3. SO2V support (Single Op, Two VFO, working like SO2R)
>    4. Much more complete CW Skimmer support in WtDXTelnet (e.g., click on
>    waterfull to tune VFO on rig; dupes / mults worked flagged on waterfall)
>    5. Tune RIT via keyboard (on rigs with sufficient command set)
>    6. Additional CW / RIT messages on F8, F9, F10, F12  (legacy CT
>    functions no longer needed on these keys, AutoHotKey not an ideal solution,
>    Alt-C messages inaccessible via single keystrokes due to DEFINEKEYS
>    limitation)
>    7. Maintain different CW speeds on Rig 1 and Rig 2
>    8. Visible Dupe Sheet (really needed for Sprints)
>    9. Additional LUA functions that will allow us to develop scripts for
>    popular unsupported contests such as the California QSO Party.
>
> I'm sure everyone has their own list.  Without feedback from an online
> poll, it's difficult for the developers to understand what is most important
> to most users.  I've thought about trying to put together such a poll, but
> gathering a complete list of "most requested features" isn't that easy.
> Hopefully the developers already have such as list and they will share it
> with us so we can vote and this will give them valuable feedback.  I don't
> think Windows 7 support will make it to the top of the list, not this year
> anyway.
>
> At least most of the early bugs are getting fixed pretty quickly; we should
> all be happy about that!
>
> 73,
> Bob, N6TV
>
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