On Mon, 11 Oct 2010, Jerry wrote:
Is there a way to let the incoming messages flow by date and time ( with date and time showing) rather than being sorted by call sign order?
If you open the window and leave it open you'll see them in time-order. If you open it after-the-fact, it shows you message history by callsign-order, but prints new messages at the bottom in time-order. I've thought about changing it in the past 'cuz I'm not particularly happy with it either. If/when I'm doing a lot of messaging, or watching a lot of it, I leave the window open so it's in time-order. We're one week into code-freeze though so no changes other than bug-fixes and translations are being accepted or permitted right now. Ask me again in a week or two after the stable release is out, we can talk about what a better format might be until then.
When you send a message to a station and do not get an ack back and it is not timed out yet, can you send a second message to that same station before you have to clear the message that never got an ack back?
No. However, if you have a reasonably good channel you can chat back and forth fairly quickly using the Reply-Ack scheme, which is automatic if the other station has that mode as well. Ack's for the other guy are piggybacked onto your messages, so if he/she doesn't receive your individual ack's, they might get it in your next message instead. It makes for much better message flow. I know it's frustrating to try to message over poor links, but if a message isn't getting through you can kill it and then send a different message. Try shorter messages as they get through better, particularly over multiple hops. You can also kick the timer on a message, but that has limited applicability and probably causes more problems than it solves. I try to use it sparingly. -- Curt, WE7U. <http://www.eskimo.com/~archer> APRS: Where it's at! <http://www.xastir.org> Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
