Thanks for the feedback everyone! I appreciate it and look forward to future improvements.
Mike - N5INP On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 9:55 AM Joe Taylor <j...@princeton.edu> wrote: > Thanks to everyone who commented on the color-highlighting of decoded > messages in WSJT-X 2.0-rc1 and -rc2. We appreciate hearing all the > sentiments expressed: they ranged from "keep it simple" and "better as > it was" to "more options are needed". > > As most subscribers here know, in general we in the WSJT Development > Group devote our greatest efforts toward innovations in protocol design: > source encoding, error-control coding, modulation/demodulation schemes, > related DSP algorithms, and the like. The underlying "guts" that make > these weak-signal modes work. Surely our contributions to Amateur Radio > in these areas are among our most important. > > We also try to make the finished product -- in this case WSJT-X -- > convenient and enjoyable for users. However, going too far in this > direction requires a lot of time... and it's often impossible to satisfy > everyone. We have therefore shied away (for example) from building > full-featured logging facilities into WSJT-X. Excellent programs with > such facilities already exist. > > The scheme and logic used for color highlighting in WSJT-X 2.0-rc1 and > -rc2 was intended as exploratory, by no means final. Excellent > "alerting" facilities already exist (for Windows) in JTAlert. If we > keep anything like the color highlighting that's now there, we'll > certainly add some switches so you can back it off or disable unwanted > parts. We'll also consider the possibility that this is a case of "less > is more", especially when it's arguably redundant. > > -- 73, Joe, K1JT > > > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel >
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