Op dinsdag 26-02-2008 om 18:21 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Martin Ewing AA6E:
> On the user level, I can imagine a button or menu item on the xlog > panel that says "Add Special Remark" (or some such). It could bring up > a simple text box for you to type an arbitrary note. Then a "Save" > button enters the text (with date/time) into the database. (You choose > the db technology!) The "New Special Remark" pane could be an > alternative to the "New QSO" pane. > Sorry for the late reply, recovering from a flue attack. Okay, but we already have a remarks field in the log which we could use for this. I am thinking of using a special callsign (e.g. NOTE or TAG) to tag a QSO for 'Special Remark'. This way we don't need to add an extra field to the QSO Frame or an extra menu item. > Now, how does the log viewer panel look with this feature? It shows > QSOs as usual, but a special remark needs to show between QSOs, if not > in a separate pane for remarks. It could be a text line that crosses > the usual QSO columns, and shows in a distinctive manner - italics, > green color, whatever. It's probably enough to show the first text line > of the note. If it is longer, you would select it for viewing bringing > up the full text entry/edit dialog, which would let you read, edit, or > delete the remark. > The QSO list is divided into a number of columns which can not be altered once it is configured. You can add/delete columns (which the log-editor does), but when displaying the list they have a fixed number of columns. However, colorizing a QSO in the list is no problem. We could display it when double-clicking the QSO in a special window, but it would also be visible through the remarks field. The tagged QSO would be ignored when doing an export. > The remark entry wants to be keyed by creation date, most likely, and > should be sorted along with QSOs by date. Nice, but not essential: an > ability to search on contents. > Okay, no problem. > As you suggest, you could use a pop-up like word processors do. You > could annotate a QSO and indicate by a colored flag or asterisk. (Or > possibly between QSOs.) Click on it and you can view, edit, or delete > the note. The advantage is that it needs little screen space and it > minimizes the violence to your current layout. However, I'm not so much > interested in annotating a single QSO (although that could be useful) - > I want to say that I installed a new antenna, or something like that > that applies to many future QSOs. > Yes, I can see the reason for adding this. It would be quite helpful. > Even though it sounds fairly simple, I know this might be some work. I > just wanted to put the idea out there for consideration. > Thanks for the suggestion. Feel free to comment on my idea for implementing this into xlog. > 73 Martin AA6E > Joop PG4I _______________________________________________ Xlog-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/xlog-discussion
