N1MM's format, so a file published for a contest is read as it is: # comments,
!!Order!! naming the columns of the lines after it, semicolons in preference to
commas so user text can hold a comma, and a default column order for a file
that names none. The directives that change what is stored are acted on;
!!Order!! can appear again part way through, because these files are usually
several files stuck together.
Leaving the callsign box fills what the file knows into the exchange boxes that
are still empty. A box with something in it is left alone: what the station
actually sends beats what somebody published months ago. The zone comes from
the CqZone or the ITUZone column depending on which the contest asks for, and a
file with no Sect falls back to State.
The check window's two missing columns are in. History lists matching calls
from the file. Exchange is not about callsigns at all: it offers the values the
exchange box with the cursor in it can hold, which is what N1MM's exchange pane
does — it searches the contest's list of valid exchanges, not the log.
CheckCandidate.Call is now Text, because an exchange value is not a call.
The section-validating directives are read and passed over rather than acted
on. Acting on them means holding N1MM's section lists and its rules about
retired sections, and getting that wrong throws away good data.
Running it caught what the unit tests could not: the exchange was filled and
scored but the boxes on screen still looked empty, because nothing resynced
them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The README said "not yet" and listed four things. There are more than four,
and the more useful split is between what is half-built and what is finished
but has never met the hardware it talks to.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three things stopped it.
A contest is keyed by ContestNR, not by ContestID. ContestID is only the
ContestInstance table's primary key; DXLOG.ContestNR refers to ContestNR, which
is what N1MM's SQLWhereString matches on. The two agree in a fresh log and
drift apart in one that has been used for a while, so we were reading one
contest's header with another contest's contacts. In a real log of 56284
contacts, joining on ContestID disagreed with the contact's own ContestName
52029 times; joining on ContestNR disagreed 109 times.
N1MM names a contest per mode: CQWWCW, CQWWSSB, CQWWRTTY, never plain CQWW.
Our contests now use those names, and N1mmContestNames turns one back into a
contest and a mode when a log is opened. The name carries the mode, so it beats
the ModeCategory column. Plain CQWW still opens, because older versions wrote
it that way.
The log columns were sized by counting characters, which was too narrow for the
headers: those are drawn in the theme's font, not the grid's monospace. The
grid sizes them now, with the character count as a floor so a column of short
values does not collapse.
Bandmap spots now age from when they arrived rather than from the time written
in them. A node with a wrong clock, or one replaying its backlog on connect,
emptied the bandmap as fast as it filled it.
Checked by opening a real 56284-contact N1MM log under Xvfb and reading the
contest and contacts back.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The function keys send through cwdaemon or a WinKeyer, with N1MM's message
macros. Escape stops sending.
Settings are read with the reflection serializer rather than a generated one:
the generated one hands back null for every property the file leaves out
instead of the value the property is declared with, which crashed the program
the first time a new setting was added.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
