Guess my previous message went as HTML and got nuked. Here it is again.
Jim,
You got it !! At the moment I am working with CWOps contacts. I would
choose CWOps from the 'Custom Award' field by double-clicking in the
blank field and choosing from the list. Then I double-click in the
'value' field and it would only search on the first letter. That is, if
I type 'w', it goes to the w's. Then I type '6' and it goes to the calls
starting with '6'.
I tried using 'F1' as you mentioned and BAM, it opens a separate
window and does a progressive search. Don't know why it does not act the
same when double clicking in the value field but - anyhow - F1 gets me
what I need.
Thanks again,
Mike / W8DN
On 4/6/2017 9:40 AM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Mike Rhodes<w8dn.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
Am I missing something? I would expect that when I choose a custom award
name and then go to enter the callsign of the claimed station, I could type
the call and a progressive search would happen. However, that is not the
case, at least for me. It only searches on the first character of the
callsigns. Am I doing something wrong or is that the nature of the beast?
If that is the nature of the beast, a progressive search there would be
high on my list of future upgrades (along with hooks to connect to external
programs such as flDigi, etc.).
Specifically, which award? What method are you using to access the fields?
In the Custom Award field, the keyboard matches only the first
character. Type K, you will go to those awards beginning with K. Type
S next, and you'll go to those awards beginning with S. But that list
is usually relatively short, so scrolling by hand is not that
cumbersome.
In the Custom award value field, you can type F1 (or right-click) to
see the list. Start typing and it will match keystrokes as you
expect, in the second column, i.e. C-T-1 goes to those calls beginning
with CT1, not just "1". If you want to search by award value instead,
use F2 to change the sorting order, then scroll through the list
manually. Keyboard matching only works on the 2nd column, and only
when it's sorted, which is how it comes up by default.
Does any of this help? I may post a separate message to the reflector
once I understand your issue better. Or you can yourself.
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