Courtney, you might want to reconsider this hasty statement. DXBase is a great product. We customers like it instead of the competition, that's why we chose it. Part of the dues you have to pay for deciding to offer an email reflector is the occasional criticism of your product's deficiencies. Fortunately, DXBase has fewer in general than the competition. But if you wish to continue to upgrade, enhance and otherwise maintain your competitive edge, you have to listen to your customers. I personally do not believe many of us are going to send you private messages with our suggested enhancements of your product in order to "protect" DXBase from the marketplace. Countries that attempted to protect their domestic industries from competition through trade barriers learned that it's a futile practice. Don't fear competition. Let us, your loyal customers, assist you in maintaining your leadership position.
George W1EBI -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 7:36 PM To: Tom; Peter Dougherty; [email protected] Subject: Re: [DXBase] Feature requests for DXB-2004 Folks, We appreciate input, but a couple requests. Please don't post them to the reflector. We already have competitors who wait till we offer an upgrade, then they go scan our web to see the new stuff and then they come out with their upgrades many months later and wouldn't you know it, their list of new features looks remarkably similar to what we already offered plus their usual list of bug fixes. We don't need to present a roadmap here to the world. Send us your requests in direct email and include plenty of detail on exactly what you mean. Thanks for your consideration. Also, please note that traditionally, our release cycle is such that whatever is planned for the next upgrade has already been established and chances are that we are already in a beta test cycle for the "next" release. Asking for things in the "next" release at this time of year is not likely to happen unless you just happen to mention something that has already been submitted previously by someone else. We take all requests throughout the year and store them in our files and at some point we review them, prioritize them, and determine how much can be accomplished in the amount of time available for development. Usually that all happens around the early fall. Regards, Courtney ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Peter Dougherty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 4:46 PM Subject: Re: [DXBase] Feature requests for DXB-2004 > Hi Jack: > > Here is my brief list of my recommendations for DXbase 2004: > > 1.Isn't there some small backup routine that you could include in the next update of DXbase that > would make backup an automatic feature upon shut down of DXbase. Currently you save all the > tables > at shutdown of DXbase. Why not just perform a backup automatically at that time and let the user > specify the backup medium (eg 2nd hard drive or CD-ROM)? > > 2. Please consider displaying the local time of the DX station. It's a > little thing but really important when working a station across the globe. > > 3. Draggable colums i.e. an easy way to re-arrange the column order. If > this can't be done, at least make it possible to EDIT a column > configuration file (rather than generating it from scratch every time). > > Tnx for a great program. Let's try to make it even better. > > 73, > > Tom, N0YD "Yankee Doodle" > > > ************************************************************************ **** ************* > > --- Peter Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I'd like to offer a wish list of features or changes for DXB-2004, if it's > > not already too late. While I love 2003, there are still a few things that > > drive me batty, and a few neat features that I've played with in other > > loggers that I'd love to see implemented here if possible. > > > > 1. Easier method of saving the database (no batch files, etc), and also of > > importing and exporting from/to other apps. > > > > 2. When exporting data, allow USB and LSB contacts to be either exported as > > such or as the more generic SSB (I also use a compact logger on my laptop > > called AA Log that does not recognize LSB/USB properly). Having the choice > > of either format would be great. > > > > 3. Allow the notes field to be exported to ADIF without extra comments > > (specifically, I don't need OPR-CALL added to every exported QSO since I'm > > the only one using the log! > > > > 4. Band Mapping. I fell in love with this feature in N1MM and CommCat, and > > if there's EVER a possibility of implementing this in DX Base, please > > *please* find a way of doing this (again, optional for those who might wish > > to use it). > > > > 5. Pet Peeve...There are now two boxes with the title Previous QSO. One is > > View\Previous QSO that works beautifully. The other...well, I don't know > > how to turn this on and off...I just leave it on. It's the one that gets > > populated as a spot comes in to let me know if I've ever worked the station > > before, etc. This box cannot be minimized, can only be closed, and always > > sits on top of everything else. This behaviour is incredibly annoying. > > Could you PLEASE change this in DXB-2004? > > > > 6. On the same topic, how about allowing the VHF packet window to be closed > > and stay closed?! I don't ever use it, and with T1-speed in my home, I > > never will. Period. I have it minimized now, but why should I have to have > > it open at all? I really want every window available to be fully > > customizable and placeable wherever I want. > > > > 7. If I choose to not use VHF packet, how about allowing things like CTL-P > > for printing, CTRL+S for saving, etc...i.e. Windows shortcuts that work in > > every other standardized Windows app out there. > > > > 8. Please consider displaying the local time of the DX station. It's a > > little thing but really important when working a station across the globe. > > > > 9. I can presently remove all raw spots, all filtered spots but NOT > > messages from the cluster monitor. Can a right-menu item to clear all > > messages be displayed, or maybe a setting to expire them after x hours. > > > > 10. IOTA Handling. I brought this one up a few months ago, and I'd dearly > > love to see it implemented in an upcoming version. In short, there are > > numerous DXCC entities that are self-contained IOTA entities as well (to > > wit, mainland Australia (VK1-8) is OC001, KH3 always maps to OC023, VP9 > > always maps to NA005, etc). While some entities have multiple IOTAs (and > > can be left blank), why not automatically populate the IOTA field just as > > you do the prefix field for those that have a one-to-one mapping? This > > sounds easy enough to implement... > > > > 11. Draggable colums i.e. an easy way to re-arrange the column order. If > > this can't be done, at least make it possible to EDIT a column > > configuration file (rather than generating it from scratch every time). > > > > 12. This one might take some heavy-lifting. Most other loggers use a > > separate "form" to enter a new QSO into the log. When I first started using > > DXBase 2 years ago, I actively disliked using the bottom-most line of the > > log as the entry point. I think a customizable QSO entry form window would > > be a tremendous addition to the program. For those who don't like this > > method (and prefer to stay the way it is now), how about letting the end > > user decide and make its use optional? > > > > Thanks for an absolutely amazing program, and I hope some of all of these > > changes might be do-able. > > > > > > > > 73 de Peter (W2IRT) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Please visit http://www.nyctrackbook.com for details of my book > > Tracks of the NYC Subway > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: > > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! 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