[WT-support] GetScores etc

[Hans Johansson]

Hi all,
Have listened to one of my ham friends who has been looking into this issue.
It would be very difficult to develop a GetScores update utility without
changing the possibility to access the Win-Test summary information in a
more easy way. It should not be that difficult to implement a small hack
that write/update the summary information in an easily accessible format,
e.g. XML.

cheers
Hans - SMØIMJ


On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 8:15 PM, G3WVG <g3wvg at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Hello Marios and Happy New Year
>
> Your suggestion sounds a good one to even though I don't really understand
> it!  Sadly computer programming is not my ( very limited) skill set. It
> would certainly seem to be worthwhile having WT users represented on the
> GetScores site .  I completely understand that you have more pressing work,
> I am amazed at the massive effort you guys manage to devote to the hobby,
> and the majority of us simply benefit from your work. So thanks!
> 73 Ian G3WVG
>
> Sent from my mobile
>
>
> On 8 Jan 2011, at 12:24, 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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