[WT-support] GetScores etc

[Rick Dougherty NQ4I]

Hi Marios...so good to hear from you and hope all is well...I am
hoping that someone will take the ball from you and run with it on
this issue...you have done your share so far...it can't be that hard
for someone who has programming background...maybe someone will take
this up...we users of WT could sure put it to good use...HNY de Rick
NQ4I

On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Marios Nicolaou <drmarios at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all
> HNY.
>
> I know there has been some interest regarding the getscores conduit
> recently. Unfortunately, due to computer crash, I ve lost the source code so
> I cannot update the code in order to  make it compatible with the current
> getscores specs. Most of the code was based on trying to listen to UDP
> packets, work out qsos, mults and score, decoding the type of mults
> depending on the contest type before reformatting them for the getscores
> protocol. It was mostly IF statements etc This was very prone to bugs and
> vulnerable to protocol changes.
> My suggestion was for this information which was readily available in the
> summary window to be dumped in an xml format onto the hard drive every
> minute. It then becomes very easy for anyone to read this information and
> upload it to the getscores website! Unfortunately, I dont have the time to
> re-write the initial code [too many other projects etc] although I would
> consider implementing the 2nd approach I suggested above if the developers
> feel is a viable option.
> 73s
>
> --
> Marios
> 5B4WN/G0WWW
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