Hi Carl, I like your idea of a reset-to-known-state command usable with macros. I'll add this to my list.
tnx Wayne N6KR On Jul 28, 2011, at 10:19 PM, Carl Clawson wrote: > I set out to make four macros so that I could select either of two > mics > (CM500 & HC4) in either of two modes (contest/DX & net/ragchew). This > involves setting mic HI/LO and bias ON/OFF that toggle by a > keypress, so you > can't be sure whether you need to do a keypress unless you know the > initial > state. In other words, you can't write a macro that's guaranteed to > work. In > practice, you'll have about a 50% failure rate. > > Am I missing something? > > If not, I have a suggestion: In addition to the UP and DN commands, > have a > command to reset the menu entry to a known ground state. This could > possible > be a press of the CLR button, or maybe a new command. One could then > proceed > with confidence to set up the desired parameters. Adding commands to > cover > specific menu items would be another approach. > > This would also cover the case of not knowing how many DN commands > to send > if in the future more knob-selectable menu entries were added. > Elecraft > could add more selections and your macros wouldn't break. > > 73 and thanks for listening > Carl WS7L > K3 #486 > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
