GrabIntoFocused puts text in whichever box has the cursor, whatever kind of
value that box normally holds. It is what N1MM's digital window does on
Ctrl+click, for the exchange element the contest has no box for.
The entry window also says when a CQ has gone out, which the digital window
needs to clear its grab list on: a run that starts again brings new callers.
GrabList.N1mmDepth is the ten calls N1MM's grab window holds.
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The folders under the user's own directory are N1MM's now, with N1MM's names,
read out of N1MMLibrary.dll: Databases, SupportFiles, UserDefinedContests,
FunctionKeyMessages, CallHistoryFiles, ExportFiles, GoalFiles, LettersFiles,
QsoRecording, SkinsAndLayouts, SystemFiles, TransactionLogFiles, Diagnostics
and Wav. A station that runs both programs keeps its files in one shape.
An operator's recordings go in Wav/<his callsign>, which is where N1MM plays
them from, and the folder is made when he takes the radio. Cabrillo and ADIF
start in ExportFiles, call history files in CallHistoryFiles, and the .mc
function key files in FunctionKeyMessages.
N1MM's three *DDL folders and its Piper folders are left out: they hold the
migrations for N1MM's own admin databases and the program it speaks with.
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MMTTY and 2Tone have no socket or pipe interface: N1MM hosts XMMT.ocx and
exchanges window messages with the engine. A Linux process cannot load that
control, so bridge/nonemm-mmtty-bridge.exe hosts it under Wine and passes
lines over its standard input and output. docs/digital-bridge.md states the
protocol and what the control needs.
The window is N1MM's: receive pane with coloured callsigns, grab list, call
stacking, twenty-four macro buttons and the engine controls. One left click
copies what is under it — a callsign to the callsign box, anything else to the
exchange box the contest keeps for that kind of value.
Config > Digital registers XMMT.ocx in the Wine prefix on its own, making the
prefix first if it is not there. The engine, the bridge and the control start
at the copies shipped beside the program.
The bridge reads the control's own events. OnTranslateMessage carries only the
messages the control has no event for, so nothing was ever decoded through it.
hamlib's data mode names read as digital modes now, and a mode typed into the
callsign box changes mode the way a frequency changes band, so a station with
no radio can reach RTTY at all.
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Alternating CQ ran off every message the keyer finished, so working a
station that answered started a CQ on the other radio, and Escape --
which stopped it outright -- was the way around that. It now follows
N1MM: only the CQ message carries the alternation to the other radio,
anything else holds it where it is, and so does Escape. The next CQ
picks it up again, which is what the CQ after a logged contact does, so
Ctrl+B is needed once rather than after every contact.
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The BARTG RTTY contest sends the time with the serial number, and both
stations log the time the other one sent. The entry window now has the
report, serial and time boxes N1MM's has, and the time this station sent
is stamped into the MiscText column as the exchange message goes out, or
at log time when nothing sent it. The Cabrillo line writes that time and
falls back to the time of the contact when the column is empty, which is
what N1MM writes, in N1MM's columns.
The total score was points times every multiplier. N1MM's class works
out points times the countries and areas together, times the continents.
Per-contact points and multiplier flags do not change, so the station's
2022 log still scores contact for contact as N1MM did.
N1MM has a class each for the March HF RTTY contest and the September
sprint. This program has one contest holding the March rules under the
sprint's name, and docs/unfinished.md now says so.
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The QTC window took traffic down and read it out of the log, but nothing left
the window: on CW the operator had to send the lines by hand. It now puts them
on the air through the entry window's keyer, the way N1MM's QTC window sends
through its own entry window, so the same macros are expanded and the same
transmitter is pointed at first.
Sending a series: Send Hdr keys the header, Send1 to Send10 key one line each —
the time, the callsign and the serial number — and Close keys the TU message
when one is set. Taking one down: Hdr Agn asks for the header again, and shift
with Enter in a box asks for that one field again and clears it.
The messages and their defaults are N1MM's: AGN TIME, AGN CALL, AGN SERIAL, the
hard-coded HDR AGN with its two spaces, and a TU that sends nothing until the
operator writes one. So is the field spacing, written N1MM's way with S for a
space. All five are in Setup, where the note about the missing settings used to
be.
Nothing is sent on SSB or RTTY. N1MM plays four recordings on SSB and sends
RTTY from its digital window, and there is neither here, so on those modes the
buttons move the cursor as before. RX Ready sends nothing on any mode, because
a recording is all N1MM ever sends from it. Serial numbers go out as digits:
N1MM can send cut numbers and nothing here does, in any message.
Driven under Xvfb against a fake cwdaemon, in a WAE CW contest with four
contacts logged. Sending, it keyed QTC 1/2, 2257 DL1AAA 01, 2257 DL2BBB 01,
then QTC 2/2 with its two lines and TU DE W1ABC on close. Receiving, HDR AGN,
AGN TIME, AGN CALL and AGN SERIAL.
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A CQ is answered by more than one station. N1MM lets the operator put the
others on a stack and work them one after another; this is that, with N1MM's
keys and macros.
Ctrl+Alt+G and {STACKANOTHER} put the call being typed on the stack and clear
the boxes. Alt+G brings the top call back. Alt+D drops it. {SOCALLSTACK} both
stacks and unstacks in one key: it swaps the typed call for the top one, stacks
it when the stack is empty, and takes the top call when the boxes are.
{LOGTHENPOP} and {LOGTHENNEXT} log the contact and bring the next caller in.
{CLRSTACK} empties it.
The rules are N1MM's, and CallStack and the entry actions hold them without a
window, so they are unit-tested: stacking only while running, nothing shorter
than two characters, no dupe, no frequency typed into the callsign box, a call
already on the stack moved rather than repeated, and a multiplier to the front.
{SOCALLSTACK} takes the stacked call off before it puts the typed one on, so a
multiplier just typed cannot come straight back.
Two places differ. N1MM refuses your own call only while the stack is empty;
it is never a station to work, so it is refused either way here. And the order
is multipliers first in every mode: N1MM's digital window offers first-in and
last-in as well, and there is no digital window here.
The stack window opens by itself with the first call and closes with the last,
or Window > Call Stack opens it. It does not take the keyboard when it opens,
because the operator is typing the next call. The next call out is ringed and
each is coloured by what working it would bring, as in every other window.
OperatingPosition.JudgeCall now answers what a call alone is worth, which the
stack window and the check window both need; it was private to the check
window before.
Driven under Xvfb: four calls stacked with Ctrl+Alt+G and listed in the window,
Alt+G bringing the top one into the boxes, Alt+D dropping the next.
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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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Three more things off the screenshot of N1MM's entry window.
A Name box and a Comment box beside the exchange. Neither is part of the
exchange, so an empty one does not hold up a contact and ESM does not wait for
it; both fill the log columns of those names, and a contest that exchanges a
name keeps what was exchanged. Tab now walks the callsign, the exchange, the
name and the comment before coming round again, which is what the boxes being
there implies. The name is filled from the call history file, and what that file
says in its UserText column is written under the entry boxes, where N1MM writes
it.
Two lights beside the run switch: green while a radio is answering, red while
something is going out on the air. The transmit light follows the keyer, so with
cwdaemon it goes out when the message has actually finished rather than when the
text was handed over.
The window is wider to fit the two new boxes.
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The messages were twelve boxes in a dialog, which meant no labels, no
search-and-pounce set, and no way to read a file somebody published. They are
now the file itself: right-click any function key button under the entry
window, or the two buttons in Config ▸ Keyer and messages, and the text of an
N1MM .mc file opens in a plain editor with Import, Export and Back to the
defaults.
MessageFile reads that format by N1MM's rules. A line starting with # is a
comment; every other line is a label, a comma and the message, with && standing
for one & in a label. Which key a line belongs to is decided by where it is and
nothing else: the first twelve lines are F1 to F12 while running, the next
twelve the same keys while searching, and a file that stops part way through the
second twelve leaves the rest sending what they send while running. A blank line
in the middle is a key with nothing in it, which is what the manual says; the
newline that ends the last line is not, which it does not say, but no .mc file
in the world means its final newline as a message.
Two things fall out of this. The buttons now say what the file says, and they
change when the operator moves between running and searching, so the labels are
the documentation N1MM's manual suggests writing them as. And the search set is
real: ESM's F2 while searching can be a different message from the one it sends
while running, which is how the file was always meant to be used.
Settings keep the file text and carry the twelve stored messages into it on
first read, with the labels this program used then, so nobody loses what they
had typed.
The editor is deliberately a text box rather than a grid of fields: importing,
exporting and editing are then the same thing, and the comments an operator
writes in the file survive being edited here. The telnet window's buttons can
use the same editor later.
Running it caught two: Save as the default button ate the Enter key that a
multi-line editor needs, and the button labels did not follow the move between
run and search until they were redrawn rather than only rebuilt.
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ESM is how most people run N1MM, and it was not here at all — not in the code,
not even in the list of what is missing. Config ▸ ESM turns it on and it stays
on between runs.
The decision is a table in N1MM's function-key documentation, and it is written
here as one: the state of the callsign and exchange boxes, whether the station
is running or searching, and whether the call and the exchange have gone out
already, give the function keys Enter sends and whether the contact is logged
after them. Esm.Decide is that table and nothing else, so it is tested against
every row rather than by clicking.
Searching: type a call, Enter sends your call, space moves to the exchange, and
once the exchange is filled in Enter sends yours and logs. Running: Enter calls
CQ, a call in the box makes Enter send his call and the exchange, and the next
Enter ends the contact and logs it. A dupe gets QSO B4 while running and nothing
while searching, unless dupes are worked, which is what N1MM recommends and what
this does out of the box. F1 puts a searching station into run mode.
The entry window highlights the keys Enter would send next, so what is about to
happen is on the screen rather than in the operator's head. `=` sends whatever
Enter last sent. Escape and F12 put ESM back to the start of a contact.
Send Corrected Call is in as well: copy SM3AB, send it, fix it to SM3ABC, and
the message that ends the contact goes out as "SM3ABC TU DL1ABC". That is why
N1MM's documentation says to put ! in F5 rather than {CALL}, so the default F5
message is now ! . F6 is QSO B4, which is the message ESM sends a dupe; it used
to repeat the exchange, which no part of the table asks for.
{EXCHSENT} means something again, now that there is an ESM state for it to set.
Worked end to end against a fake cwdaemon: a search-and-pounce contact logged in
four keystrokes, a run contact in three, both with the right text on the keyer
in the right order, and the corrected call in front of the last message.
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A function key message was read as text and nothing else, so a message file
written for N1MM lost half of what it said: {WIPE}, {LOG}, {RUN} and the rest
expanded to nothing and the key only sent characters.
Reading a message now produces a plan rather than a string. MessagePlan.Read
walks the template once and sorts what it finds into three parts: the actions
that run before anything goes out, the text that goes on the air, and the
actions that wait until it has gone. N1MM's {END} decides which side an action
falls on, and text after {END} is dropped, because the message is over by then.
So TU {LOG}{END}{WIPE} logs the contact, sends TU, and clears the boxes when the
key has finished sending.
The actions that are carried out: {WIPE}, {LOG}, {RUN}, {S&P}, {SPACE},
{SPOTME}, {STOPTX}, {FREQUP}, {FREQDN}, {PGUP}, {PGDN}, {JUMPRX}, {JUMPRXTX},
{CTRLF1} to {CTRLF12} for sending on the other radio, {TELNET sh/dx} for a
command to the cluster node, and {OTRSP TX2} for one to the SO2R box. The last
one wanted a way to send a command straight to the box, so So2rBox grew one.
The frequency steps are two settings, with N1MM's own two numbers behind them.
Waiting on the keyer is the part worth reading twice. What follows {END} runs
when the keyer says the message has gone out, which is the only honest moment:
timing it from the length of the text is a guess that goes wrong exactly when
the contest is busy. A keyer that does not report completion is taken at its
word as soon as the text is handed over, and one that goes quiet is given two
minutes before the actions run anyway, because never running them is worse.
Running it against a fake cwdaemon and a fake node showed the message text on
the keyer, the telnet command at the node, RUN lighting up before the message
and the boxes clearing after it. That is also what showed the entry window was
not redrawing between the actions and the message.
What is still read and passed over is written down: the CAT, audio, rotator,
stereo and call-stacking families, the digital TNC macros, and the CW keyer
characters < > ~ ] [ + = , which belong to the keyer rather than to the
expander. {EXCHSENT} waits on ESM, which is next.
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