Forgot these few wishes that were buried in my notebook: 29) An "Unknown Country" spot (usually either a bust or someone getting cute with the cluster) should NOT generate an alert! I sincerely doubt anything ever alerted this way has ever been worth alerting and passing along to the DX Info window. These should just either be overlooked entirely or get sent to the announcement pane.
30) Speaking of the Messages tab, may we please have a context-menu selection there to remove messages, either individually or all (just as you can do with spots and entries to the DX Info window)? 31) Also speaking of the messages tab, and this is a biggie, how about either full copy/paste capability or better still, clickable URLs (for example, an/full VU7 logs at http://arsi.info/vu7/onlinelog.shtml). Any string starting www. or http:// should automatically do this. 32) When you have a report or other dialog or menu up on-screen, why is the UTC clock frozen? 33) Another pet peeve of mine: in User Options (and others, too). When you make a change or access a tab within that box, and you close the box, upon re-opening it you should be returned to the most recently-used tab. For example, if I'm setting up my rotor control, I make the desired change, say OK, thus closing the Options box. If I then need to go back in and change something in the rotor tab I have to re-navigate to it. This gets old fast. Finally, I gave some thought to yesterday's suggestion number 5 (DXCC award submission). The way it is now, it's too easy to do a "practice" DXCC submission, say YES to that Big Question, and all of a sudden, you're scuttled -- DX Base then assumes you've just sent a batch-o-cards off to the League, and further assumes they've all been accepted. Here's a better way for the DXCC submission part to work, I think: When you access Output-Awards-DXCC, and click compute you get the same results you get now (please make the compute button re-pressable!). As it stands now, at the end of the computation, you get The Question That You Must Answer Correctly And Not Have A Second Chance At If You Make A Mistake (Do you want to set the award field in the QSO Log to credited AND clear the Select field for all QSOs used in this award form? Y/N). What I propose is that, instead, delete this choice and just bring up the forms, etc. More often than not, you do this just to "see where you stand" or to do a sample/test, etc. After you close the crystal report forms (Front Sheet, QSO form, Worksheet), you should have a choice to MAKE THIS AN ACTUAL DXCC SUBMISSION or CLOSE, with CLOSE being the default. If you choose to make this an actual submission, all the entries you send to the League should be in a "pending" state until you get your paperwork back from Newington. When that happens, you should then be able to go into AWARDS-DXCC again, bring up the pending submission and either ACCEPT ALL or mark certain QSOs as not-accepted. Once you do that, THEN the marked QSO records should be unmarked and the QSOs shown as credited for DXCC. Finally, DX Base should keep track of all the submissions by date, and be able to re-print them on-demand later on if desired. Cheers, Peter, W2IRT
