Four changes to the QTC window, three of them N1MM's behaviour and one an
addition.
Tab, enter and space all move to the next box the operator types in, and shift
and tab move back. The walk covers those boxes and nothing else. N1MM handles
the three keys in every box itself — `QTCLinesA_KeyDown` and its two siblings,
with `PreviewKeyDown` claiming Tab — rather than leaving them to the tab order,
so the cursor never lands on a switched-off line or on a button beside one.
Tab was going to Avalonia's default walk, which covered every control in the
window.
The header now says how many lines take traffic. `QTCHeader_LostFocus` reads
the count after the last `/` and hands it to `ColorizeCWRXFields`, which enables
that many lines and switches off the rest, capped by how many of the station's
ten are still free. All ten were live whatever the header said. Nothing already
typed is cleared, which N1MM does under `DontErase`.
A time typed short is filled in from the line above as the cursor leaves the
box: `52` under `1148` reads as `1152`. `QTCLinesA_LostFocus` takes as many
characters off the front of the line above as the typed part is missing, and
drops a colon whatever the length. `QtcTraffic.FillTime` is that rule.
The addition: while the cursor is in a QTC callsign box the check window
answers for that call rather than the entry window's, so a call taken down in
traffic is checked the same way one being worked is. `CheckWindowSources`
takes the call from `Elsewhere` when the QTC window has set it.
Checked by driving the window: header `4/5` left five lines live and read
"1 of 5", tab walked header to time to call to serial to the next line's time,
shift and tab walked back, `52` on the second line became `1152`, and the check
window listed W1AW while `W1A` was typed in a QTC line.
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The menu tree comes from N1MM's EntryWindow.Designer.cs: File, Edit, View,
Tools, Config, Window, with the items under the names N1MM gives them. The
window list moved out of View into Window; the call history file moved from
Config into File > Import. Ctrl+W, Ctrl+L and Ctrl+M now work, so the keys
printed in the menu are real. Two commands that had no menu item before:
the CW and SSB function key definitions, and the QTC setup area.
The rest of the Edit menu:
- Ctrl+N asks for a note and puts it in the comment of the contact in the
boxes, or of the last logged contact when nothing is typed.
- Edit Current Contact opens the Edit Contact form over what is typed but
not logged. Update hands the values back to the entry boxes.
- Ctrl+Q and Ctrl+A load a logged contact into the boxes and paint them
pale yellow. Enter writes the change back, Esc puts back what was being
typed, and stepping forward past the newest contact leaves quick edit.
- Ctrl+U raises the received serial, or a numeric exchange box when the
contest has no serial.
- Ctrl+F shows the call being typed in the log window, then the next
contact with that call.
RadioPosition is now OperatingPosition: it is the operator at one radio,
not a place on a band.
Looked at under Xvfb on a 3775-contact log: quick edit back and forward,
Esc, the note dialog, find, and Edit Current Contact putting a zone back
into the entry boxes.
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Ctrl+Z opens the QTC window for the station being worked, which is the key N1MM
puts it on, and the window is laid out the way N1MM lays it out: the header,
ten lines of time, callsign and serial number, an Agn and a Cfm button beside
each, Clear, Close and Cancel underneath, and the same colours — green for a
line that will be saved, red for one still empty, yellow for one that cannot be
read. Enter and Tab move forward and space moves within a line, so a line can be
walked while listening to it.
Sending, the lines are filled from the log and cannot be edited: the contacts
not reported to anybody yet, oldest first, never the station being worked, and
never past the ten any station may have. The rule for what has been reported is
N1MM's — a contact counts as reported when a QTC row carries its call and the
serial we sent it — so the pair is kept in the row the way N1MM keeps it.
Which way traffic goes is not the operator's choice on CW and SSB: Europe
receives and the rest of the world sends. On RTTY it goes both ways, and there
the window carries a switch. That is the one piece of the workflow that is ours
rather than N1MM's, which toggles a QTC mode outside the window instead.
Nothing here transmits. N1MM sends the lines on CW and RTTY and plays recorded
voice messages on SSB; we have no QTC message templates, no voice keyer and no
digital window, so Agn, Cfm and RX Ready move the cursor and the operator sends
by hand.
Running it caught what the tests could not: focus set in the constructor does
not stick, so the first thing typed into a freshly opened window was dropped and
every field after it took the value of the one before.
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