You can enter lat/Lon directly; enter an angle (e.g. 24
12'N ) and then
strike the Enter key.
Hmm! I thought I tried that and it didn't work, but I just tried
it again and it does work. I'll bet I clicked on "Go" in stead of
pressing enter.
Hiding the map is certainly feasible; I'd have to find
room for a button
that toggles between ShowMap and HideMap, as use of
this function seems to
frequent for the Config window. Interest in the map
will also increase once
SpotCollector starts plotting spots there.
I hope that SpotCollector is next on your to do list. I find that
absence of that is the major reason that I keep reverting to
Logger. I think that once the bugs are worked out and
SpotCollector implemented this will become my main modus operandi!
In the non-map portion of DXView's window, about half
the space is taken up
with control labels and associated whitespace; would an
"expert view"
lacking this nicety be a reasonable alternative?
Hmm! I don't think id like it without any control labels some of
them could be abbreviated and made smaller. Let's see ....
We don't need the Go button, that could be performed by double
clicking the callsign. Prefix could be abbreviated and that field
made smaller, Country could be smaller. Lat/Lon can be made
slightly smaller, distance can be smaller, grid can be eliminated
(put that in the title bar instead of Lat/Lon), Region and Time
can be eliminated. The DXCC button could be eliminated and become
a tab in the config dialog, help could be reduced to a "?". How
does it lay out now? I'd have to see it. Maybe there are a few
other economies that could be applied without affecting the
functionality.
You already have a Map button there. If the main map were hidden
by default, clicking that button would display it, clicking on the
map itself could toggle between the large scale map and the more
detailed ones. The traditional "x" in the title bar would hide the
map again. How are we doing?
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73, Rich - W3ZJ
