Bill,

 

When I wrote, “delete the storage of the current configuration,” I meant the 
named configuration that was presently being used as the current configuration. 
 Once I have CurrentConfig = UserConfig1, can’t I delete UserConfig1 and keep 
CurrentConfig?  

 

And thanks for the explanation of the configuration reset command – new 
information not otherwise available.  Could we add that to the next 
documentation release?

 

Ed.

 

From: Bill Somerville <g4...@classdesign.com> 
Sent: Sunday, October 4, 2020 12:55 PM
To: wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] 2.3.0-rc1 UI on adding a new configuration

 

Ed,

 

what you describe is simply not possible. WSJT-X has to have a current 
configuration, if you want to delete the current configuration then another 
must become current. If you don't want the current configuration and you don't 
want to switch to another then all you need do is reset the current 
configuration, that will shift all settings to defaults, as if you had 
installed WSJT-X for the first time, with the exception that any other 
configurations you have created will be preserved.

 

73
Bill
G4WJS.

 

On 04/10/2020 17:47, j...@comcast.net <mailto:j...@comcast.net>  wrote:

Bill,
 
It's not true that, "[i]f you no longer want a configuration then you surely
are going to select a different one."  I delete configurations regularly --
at the end of a DXpedition or contest, for example -- without a desire to
switch to some other configuration at that moment.  It's just housekeeping,
so that the number of saved configurations does not grow without bound.  At
a club station that I visit, due to member turnover, changing interests, and
equipment changes unused configurations are deleted frequently.
 
If I delete a current configuration, I expect the program to delete the
storage of the current configuration and remove the current configuration
name from the pull-down configuration list and the status bar at the bottom
of the main window, but otherwise do nothing detectable to the user -- it's
just a configuration that is no longer selectable, so the user cannot return
to the current configuration once he leaves it.  If I delete the last
remaining configuration, I would expect the program to operate as if the
configuration feature did not exist -- i.e., it would stay with its present
settings, but all future settings changes would have to be entered manually,
as there would be no user-accessible memory of, well, prior settings
configurations, until a new configuration was saved.  
 
73,
 
Ed N4II
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Somerville  <mailto:g4...@classdesign.com> <g4...@classdesign.com> 
Sent: Sunday, October 4, 2020 9:50 AM
To: wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> 
Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] 2.3.0-rc1 UI on adding a new configuration
 
On 04/10/2020 11:23, Alan Groups wrote:

One other thing - would be more intuitive if one could delete a 
configuration without having to open another one first!
 
Alan G0TLK

Hi Alan,
 
I'm not sure I follow this request. If you no longer want a configuration
then you surely are going to select a different one, OTOH if you want to
reset a configuration to defaults you can do that whether it is the current
one or not. If we allowed deleting the current configuration then which
configuration should be substituted? What should the common edge case of
only having one configuration and deleting it do?
 
73
Bill
G4WJS.

 

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