[WT-support] Feature request: Column Headings in Secondary Radio Window (+ more fonts)

[Nick F5VIH/SV3SJ]

Bob,

using ' * ' to swap radios can give you the usual comfortable interface with
the column titles when running on 2nd radio.

No software is perfect and UI issues can always improve. Unless new original
features are implemented, I do not think that striving for resemblance to
other software has a particular merit. If one's taste prefers X2YZ software
it's easier to install X2YZ than making wintest X2YZ compatible.

73 Nick

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 21:53, Bob Wilson, N6TV <n6tv at arrl.net> wrote:

> As you can see from this screen shot:
>
> http://www.kkn.net/~n6tv/WTSO2RLeftRightRadioWindows.PNG<http://www.kkn.net/%7En6tv/WTSO2RLeftRightRadioWindows.PNG>
>
> Using Win-Test it is rather difficult to run QSOs exclusively in the
> secondary radio window, because there are no column headings.  It is
> especially difficult in contests like the ARRL Sweepstakes or the NA Sprint
> or any contest with more than one exchange column.  There are no visual
> clues such as an RST column, or headings, to help you understand the
> position of the cursor.  It is just way too easy to accidentally enter data
> in the wrong field.
>
> Please add to the Secondary Radio's Pop-up Menu the same options we have in
> the Primary logging window:
>
>    1. Headers -> Hide (could be the default so that it still looks the
>    same for those who prefer the current look)
>    2. Font -> Bold
>
> Speaking of fonts, it would be nice if Win-Test allowed you to select some
> alternate fixed-width bit-mapped fonts for data entry and other windows,
> such as the very nice slashed zero "Dina" font that K3NA described in a
> recent post to CQ-Contest:
>
> http://lists.contesting.com/pipermail/cq-contest/2010-August/091437.html
> http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Jibz/Dina/  (bit-mapped)
>
> -or-
>
> the Envy Code R font (TrueType)
>
>
> http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-coding-font-released
>
> Rationale:
>
> About a year ago I proposed a dual-column data entry scheme similar to N1MM
> Software, so that the left radio (Radio 1) would always be referenced on the
> left side of the screen, and the right radio (Radio 2) on the right side.
> With the current Primary/Secondary scheme, the brain can get easily confused
> because the radios can exchange positions on the screen, but not in your
> ears.
>
> See http://www.f5mzn.org/pipermail/support/2009-October/078519.html and
> http://www.kkn.net/~n6tv/ProposedNewSO2RMainLoggingWindow.PNG<http://www.kkn.net/%7En6tv/ProposedNewSO2RMainLoggingWindow.PNG>
>
> Unfortunately this was never implemented, even though CT1BOH (privately)
> replied that he understood the advantages.
>
> However since then, Laurent *did* add some new LUA APIs that let you
> automatically switch focus between the Primary and Secondary Radio windows
> (e.g., by calling wtApp:ToggleCapsLock() in a LUA script).  So it is is now
> possible to automate SO2R via LUA scripts so that it works almost like
> N1MM.  With the proposed column headings in the secondary radio window, you
> can get very close to duplicating N1MM Software's elegant SO2R techniques
> without suffering from data entry confusion.
>
> I hope this is easy and quick to implement for the upcoming contest season.
>
> 73,
> Bob, N6TV
>
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