Re: [Xlog-discussion] mia 746

[Eric S. Johansson]

Stephane Fillod wrote:

> Ask Rein about it.

no worries, I will.  I just need to find a terminal emulator which 
doesn't make tlf look like a refugee from the BBS world.


> AFAIAC, I like GUI for general QSOs, and character oriented interfaces
> for contesting, in text console. To me, general QSOs log and contest
> logging are really different. But there's place enough on earth and
> the space for different log applications. Your idea of loglib is
> interesting. xlog has already a liblogfile (for log format support)
> which average support. That would be nice to have a kind of libcontest
> and the support for "skins" (either GUI or CO). Rein already has some
> plan on the topic.

I should probably elaborate.  Log lid that would provide all the 
functionality necessary to handle things like configuration files, 
packet cluster, spot analyzing, partial and full duplicate reporting, 
load file management (reading, writing, journaling, searching etc.).

For example, user interface could ask "show me all spots on the current 
band that are multipliers" and get back a list of spots with 
frequencies.  This information could then be turned into a tabular form 
for the screen or a graphical form.


> IMHO, we shouldn't try to move people, they will, by themselves, move over
> if they'd like to. IOW, if people are happy with Windows, that's fine
> for me. Personnaly, I run only Linux or *nix, develop stuff for me, 
> and eventually give hand to newcomers.

I'm just thinking how I hear from a couple of hams that they don't want 
to move to Linux for hamradio because they don't have XXXX which usually 
translates to a favorite program with a GUI.  no big deal.  I was just 
being evangelical.

> Excellent:) You will find the project on sourceforge, have a look at the
> README.betatester and README.developer files, and feel free to ask any
> question on the hamlib-developer mailing list.
> A test report would be very appreciated. Patches are welcome too :)

OK.  I will try to get to it tomorrow (Sunday).  I still need to figure 
out why my homebrew ci-v interface is proving me to be a less than 
competent homebrewer.  :-(

as for coming up with patches, I will try.  Unfortunately, I am limited 
to the amount of programming I can do because almost ten years ago by 
ruined my hands from too many hours on the keyboard.  As a result I use 
speech recognition most of the time (hence my signature) and limit my 
programming to Python because it's the most speech friendly programming 
language around.


> okay, I won't spend the whole week-end on cqww, but I'll be looking for
> your signals.

I think I saturated on the contest.  I'm staying home Sunday to try and 
work out where the hell the address@hidden noise is coming from that wipes out 
my radio from 18 MHz on up.

---eric


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