Time for me to chime in, which I don't do much. I've now spent some quality time now with my FlexControl and will comment on several of these latest posts and add some of my own in other threads. I think we still need some work on the software, but this knob is showing great promise.
> That might be something to consider in an upcoming software revision; giving the user the option to choose rounding or no rounding. And >. most people are on decimal integer multiples of frequency. I agree with both of these. While an argument could be attempted to be made to make steps based upon where you are tuned without rounding to nearest rounded step, I'll argue that in 99.5% of the cases, operators use steps of either 100 KHz or 250 KHz, which is apparent from where you find them in the bands. This is just the normal practice. I can't think of a single condition where I would be at perhaps a frequency ending in 198 and having selected 100 Hz steps, where I want it to jump to 298 or 098. But even if one wanted to do this for some inexplicable reason, it should be a button you have to select in the software, but rounding should be the default. Having it round will serve the majority. Why serve the minority first? Doesn't sound very wise for sales. Leaves me scratching my head. > If the dangling decimals really bother you, just hit <Cntrl> <UpArrow> and it will jump to the next highest whole number. No, that really won't work if you are using the FlexControl as intended. The key strokes <ctl><up arronw> will work ONLY if PowerSDR has the focus, which defeats the main purpose of the FlexControl to begin with and the reason many (most?) of us bought it. Normally, the focus will be with logging software or digital software with the FlexControl maintaining its lock on PowerSDR. Therefore, <ctl><up arrow> will do nothing under what I would consider normal FlexControl operating conditions. And if I have to click back in PowerSDR to be able to do this, I might as well make the adjustment with the mouse to begin with. 73, Scott AC8DE _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software.
