I doubt that Paul will ever make these colors user programmable for the priorities. I think the order you laid out for 1) never worked 2) never worked mode 3) never worked band will satisfy 90% of the DX community. The unconfirmed mode and band are neat touches, also. Paul spent a period of several months getting the never worked band as a reality, and that has helped me more than any other improvement in DX4WIN as getting bands worked for anyone chasing MIXED, PHONE, and CW (or RTTY) takes a lot of work without this improvement working properly. After a while there are not many never worked left. The logic used by DX4WIN is pretty straightforward and as best I can sort it out, depends on the priority order for the searches to be very quick (and it is).
Yes, I agree with your order. I confirm DX to the ARRL requirements and do not care for having to work every band in all modes as that requires working Dxepeditions too many times, but there are those that want to work every band on both CW and Phone and RTTY. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jim Reisert AD1C Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 3:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dx4win] DX spot colors revisited I think I boiled the priorities down to three simple rules: 1. All-time never worked has the highest priority. 2. When both entities are unworked or both entities are worked but not confirmed, mode has priority over band. 3. When one entity is unworked and the other is worked but not confirmed, the unworked entity has priority over the worked entity. The priorities I suggested earlier seem to embody these requirements: 1 = never worked 2 = never worked mode 3 = never worked band 4 = unconfirmed mode 5 = unconfirmed band Does this make sense to everyone? 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863 USA +978-251-9933, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, http://www.ad1c.com PGP Fingerprint: D8E2 3D78 339F A7F1 8C13 1193 B5D1 4FB6 79D1 70DC _______________________________________________ Dx4win mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win
