[WT-support] One more question

[Bob Wilson, N6TV]

Enter Sends Message (ESM) support was added to Win-Test via a customizable
Lua script called ESM.WTS (built in to Win-Test by default, but editable and
customizable).

Unfortunately Win-Test does not provide any way for a script to get called
whenever the VFO moves, otherwise it would be trivial to automatically
switch to S&P mode when this happens.  The ESM script could be modified to
automatically switch to S&P mode whenever it is called, if the VFO A
frequency has changed compared to the prior QSO.  But then thing get
confusing.  The status will show "RUN" even though as soon as you hit Enter
it's really going to behave as if you were in ESM.  I don't know if people
really want that.

And when is the mode supposed to automatically switch back to RUN mode?

For some contests such as the NA Sprint, EU Sprint, A/P Sprint, there is no
need to automatically switch from RUN to S&P modes.  Win-Test automatically
sends the correct exchange when you hit the INSERT key.  But ESM doesn't
work well for these contests at present.

In sum, ESM mode in Win-Test is a work in progress.  At present it may not
be possible to provide 100% compatibility with TRlog and N1MM ESM support
without further enhancements to Win-Test itself, but you can get close (see
AltDScripts3.zip at http://bit.ly/wtscripts).

73,
Bob, N6TV

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 3:57 AM, Vytenis Sciucka
<vytenis.sciucka at gmail.com>wrote:

> Or feature suggestion? Being very fresh Win-Test user might be premature.
> I like automatic RUN->S/P switching in N1MM or TR4W. That means if I
> turn tuning knob fast enough, program detects it as I am starting to
> search and switches itself into S/P mode. If that is made in win-Test
> I would never send wrong mode Fx messages. I know RUN or S/P status is
> shown, but I tend to forget to check it. Or do not have habit yet.
> S/P->RUN automatic switching is also implemented in N1MM, but I can't
> remember it's logic right now.
> Or is there some logic behind in switching modes manually?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Vytenis
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