Hi Jim,You are adding more work for you that I think is not so necessary. The
Updater as it is now works FB and I am not using any options. I think it is the
case of most of us. I had a problem only once, having to delete downloaded
files to fix it. But, if you are aiming at the perfection, let it be :) !
Best 73 and HNY,
Radi F6GNZ
Le Mercredi 28 décembre 2016 17h17, Jim Reisert AD1C
<jjreis...@alum.mit.edu> a écrit :
Hi Folks,
I'm considering re-writing the DX4WIN Data Updater (porting from Perl
to C/C++). The main reason is to reduce the program (file) size from
approx 5MB to something under 300KB (about 6% of the original size),
as well as making it easier to debug. I'll be cleaning up a lot of
the code, and removing some features that I never finished or that
never worked right. I'll change it so that a failed download (like
eQSL) won't stop the update process to wait for user input before it
can continue. Plus, I can use a free compiler to build the program.
Is anyone using any of the following features in the Updater? If not,
then I will not implement them in the new version.
http://dx4win.ad1c.us/updater/index.html#options
–prompt : ask before updating each file
–auto : run Updater Program without graphical interface
keep-alive functionality. I have never thought this worked very well,
the VE7CC user program does a much better job of this.
I'm considering adding the options described at the URL above as some
sort of configuration menu that you can access from within the
program, but that's a low-priority item right now. Getting the
existing functionality working again is most important.
Here is a screenshot of what the new Updater may look like, subject to
change, of course.
http://dx4win.ad1c.us/new_updater.png
I may have trouble supporting Windows XP, but Windows Vista and later
should be fine. If this is a deal-breaker for you, let me know.
If there are new features you want, please let me know and I'll try to
implement them. One new feature I want to add is a "Reset" button
that removes all the downloaded files from the UPDATE directory. This
will force the Updater to download all the latest files if things get
out-of-sync.
Support for ARRL National Parks on the Air (NPOTA) will be left in for
the time being, but be disabled. The framework I created (i.e.
sub-menus for Calendar and Membership Lists) is useful for adding
similar features.
Please do not ask me when it will be ready.
73 - Jim AD1C
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Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
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