[WT-support] default.dta file

[Clive Whelan]

Bob

<<Well it only displays data after you enter a full callsign, rather 
than a partial call, if that's what you are perceiving as "slow.">>

No , in fact there is a finite delay of perhaps 300mS after the callsign 
has been entered before the name pops up. That's on a 3Gb Pentium dual 
core. Not a huge deal, but the equivalent data from the default.dta file 
is instantaneously displayed. My best guess is that this due to some 
high level bolt-on interpreted software implementing the function, as 
opposed to the core C++ code, but what do I know?


<If you put

# VARIABLE $OPNAME

at the top of your .XDT file, you an use $OPNAME at the front of your CW 
Messages (Internal CW keyer only) and Win-Test will send the greeting 
automatically.>

I'm a Winkey user- in the MK2R+- but in any case like to do that sort of 
stuff on the paddle anyway. Just a personal preference.


<<Instead of printing the entire Win-Test reference (a document which 
was never designed to be read from cover to cover) just download the 
.PDF file from http://docs.win-test.com/pdf/downloads/manual.pdf and 
then you can use the Search capability of Adobe Acrobat to more easily 
find things, or print selected sections for more casual study.>>

I've done that of course, but I find I DO need to read things 
cover-to-cover to get the whole picture. One can only search for 
something that one thinks might exist, and I did not dream that the .xdt 
file facility might be there. Not practical of course, so I'll just have 
to make do.

The most important thing is the 10,000 hour bit. I've done that with TR, 
WL and N1MM ( OK I probably exaggerated a bit there!), but I probably 
haven't broken the 10 hour barrier with WT yet, so I need to get cracking.

It's good to have gurus on line for support of course.

73


Clive
GW3NJW



Bob Wilson, N6TV wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Clive Whelan 
> <clive.whelan at btinternet.com <mailto:clive.whelan at btinternet.com>> wrote:
>
>     somehow N1MM gets around the problem, and the same file works OK
>     in N+1 there
>
>
> Probably N1MM doesn't count slash as a character.  Maybe that's a good 
> thing, but I'm not sure.
>  
>
>     The only downside is that the window is a tad slow to pop up whether
>     there is just one or 500 calls in the file, so clearly it's an
>     overhead.
>
>
> Well it only displays data after you enter a full callsign, rather 
> than a partial call, if that's what you are perceiving as "slow."
>
>     That would preclude executing a paddle greeting at the front end,
>     but I
>     often can't react quickly enough from the .dta file in the partial
>     window anyway, so I just fake it by using the name at the end of the
>     exchange!
>
>
> If you put
>
> # VARIABLE $OPNAME
>
> at the top of your .XDT file, you an use $OPNAME at the front of your 
> CW Messages (Internal CW keyer only) and Win-Test will send the 
> greeting automatically.
>  
>
>     So all's well that ends well. I just wish it were practical to
>     print out
>     the manual so I could read it "off-line" and find out about all these
>     useful features.
>
>
> Instead of printing the entire Win-Test reference (a document which 
> was never designed to be read from cover to cover) just download the 
> .PDF file from http://docs.win-test.com/pdf/downloads/manual.pdf and 
> then you can use the Search capability of Adobe Acrobat to more easily 
> find things, or print selected sections for more casual study.
>
> Note that we (Wiki documenation volunteers including myself, DL6RAI, 
> DL4NER, and others) haven't had time to add documentation for all of 
> the new V4 features yet, but we're making progress.  In the mean time, 
> just refer to RELEASE.TXT.
>
> 73,
> Bob, N6TV
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