Re: [Xlog-discussion] Possible feature?

[Andy Stewart]

On 08/18/2013 09:50 PM, Peter N. Spotts wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> I was merging my SOTA log from last weekend with my 2013 master and
> wondered if it might be possible at some point to add something like a
> refresh function.
>
> I had my 2013 master log up as a tab (because I had just finished a net
> tonight as NCS) and set up a new log for the SOTA outing in a new tab.
> When I merged the two, I then used Save As to overwrite the old master
> log. But to view it, I had to go the master log tab, close it out, then
> reopen it through the Open function in the menu. It would have been
> slick to bring that tab to the fore and hit a refresh icon, or something
> similar to get the updated version.
>
> Yoost a thought...
>
> With best regards,
>
> Pete

Hi Pete,

Since I'm also the club QSL manager, on Field Day, I make sure most of 
the stations are running the latest version of Xlog.  I had to merge all 
of those logs together and ran into a similar situation.  I feel your 
pain, but fortunately, it isn't often that I merge logs together.

I wonder how often people actually merge logs.

While we're on the subject of possible future features, here's what I 
was thinking prior to your email:

a) When exporting QSOs to a file, automatically X the "QSL out" column 
for the exported QSOs.  Naturally, this would be on/off at the behest of 
the user, probably on a per-export basis.  My usage model is to Export 
to ADIF prior to uploading to eQSL and LoTW, thus I want to X the "QSL 
out" column for those QSOs.  Today, I close Xlog, edit the file with 
emacs, put Xs in the proper column, close the file, and restart XLog. 
Painful IMHO!  More generically, maybe there should be a way to mark a 
group of QSOs like this...maybe the user just sent a pile of QSL cards 
or something.

b) I'm looking at what it would take to automatically interface with 
eQSL.   One could upload to eQSL as each QSL is logged, or a group of 
QSOs.  The upload looks easy.  Dealing with the myriad error cases looks 
frightful.  Maybe as I look deeper, it won't be so bad.

Thanks, Pete, for the idea!

73,

Andy
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