N1MM keeps them on a Setup tab inside the window; here they are a dialog behind
a right-click, which suits a window this size better. Four of them, with N1MM's
own defaults: how many QTCs a series carries, whether the RX Ready and Cfm steps
are stopped at on the way through, and whether Hdr Agn and Agn clear what they
are asking for again.
Each one changes what the window does. The series count is passed to the search
for contacts worth reporting, the two skip settings are the focus order, and the
two clear settings are what the Agn buttons do. The Cfm buttons also disappear
when a RTTY station is reading its own log out, which is what N1MM does with
them.
N1MM's remaining QTC settings are all about putting traffic on the air — the CW
messages for Agn and TU, the field spacing, the four SSB recordings, the RTTY
templates — and nothing here transmits, so they are left out rather than shown
as settings that do nothing. The dialog says so where the operator will look.
The right-click menu needed a background on the panel to come up anywhere but
over a control: a panel with no background is not hit-tested.
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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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