Jack I think I brought the same subject up before and in the back of my mind thought you hoped to do just what John suggested. It is a real nuisance to have to keep changing back and forth in the Summary window just to get the beam in the right direction.
This has to be top of my wish list for the next release and will make a Great program even Greater !! Dave (G3SBP) At 16:41 26/02/2004 +0000, John wrote: >Jack, > >DXBase is just great and does almost everything I could wish for. However, >there is just one little niggle that bugs me almost every time I operate. >My bag is IOTA, so the drop down menu in the Summary window is always set to >HF-IOTA. I also chase the DX expeditions and have a play in contests but >the Summary window does not display information about beam direction, >country name, distance etc. unless there is an IOTA reference number in the >remarks, in a valid IOTA format. The drop down menu has to be quickly >changed to HF-COUNTRY to get this and invariably I forget to change back ( >something to do with my age ). Now I know that the beam headings for IOTA >come from a different data base but would it not be possible to display data >in the Summary window from the same source as HF-COUNTRY unless there is a >valid IOTA reference in the remarks and only then display data from the IOTA >data base. > >Hope I'm not too late for this to be considered for the next upgrade. > >Thanks, 73 John G3HTA > > >_______________________________________________ >DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: >http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase
