[WT-support] Handling serial numbers on multiple computers

[kd4d at comcast.net]

Good day:

First time WinTest User here - we were successful using WinTest for the first time
in WPX!  :-)  It was refreshingly stable compared to CT (DOS) and we only had ONE 
minor configuration problem on one computer!

Like CT before it, WinTest has the "feature" of changing the serial number in
the logging window if another station logs a QSO using that number.  The
suggested solution in the manual requires the operator to log the QSO with a bad
serial number and go back to correct it.  Tired operators don't do this well.

I suggest "locking" the serial number update on the screen whenever a character
is typed in the logging window (or, perhaps, requiring a "space" to get to the
entry window).  This WOULD cause sending duplicate serial numbers sometimes
(unless something complicated like a serial number server is implemented),
but that's preferable to logging a different number than is sent.

N1MM's solution is elegant, but it sends wildly out of sequence
serial numbers and requires a central server.  I think this proposal would
probably be reasonably easy to implement and, with minimal operator
training, eliminates the problem of logging a different serial number than
was sent.

(I think that freezing the number on on the first character being typed into
the window is preferable.  It can be "unfrozen" if the line is wiped).

Comments?

73,

Mark, KD4D