Re: feature request: cabrillo template

[Joop Stakenborg]

Sounds good Ervin / Thomas!

I was thinking of a more simple solution, something like: if there is a 
template file in the current directory, just add the QSO data to it. The 
cabrillo file then should be edited later.

But.. the solution suggested by Ervin is even better, thumbs up!

73 de Joop PG4I


Op 18-11-19 om 19:01 schreef Thomas Beierlein:
> Hi Ervin,
>
> sounds good so far. If there are no other suggestions from Joop or
> others just go ahead.
>
> 73, de Tom DL1JBE
>
>   Am Sun, 17 Nov 2019 18:17:13 +0100
> schrieb Ervin Hegedüs <address@hidden>:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 06:00:41PM +0100, Thomas Beierlein wrote:
> > > Hi Joop,
> > >
> > > I assume you are talking about the contest and operator related
> > > informations gathered when you want to write a new cabrillo file.
> > >
> > > Can you please elaborate some more about what you have in mind here.
> > > The head part of the cabrillo file is not independent of the
> > > contest. So one template for all seems not to fit. But I see that
> > > at least the operator related part could be common between contests.
> > >
> > > Any comments or suggestions?
> > I don't want to answer for Joop, but I thought about this feature
> > earlier.
> >
> > I imagined like this:
> >
> > logcfg.dat:
> >
> > CABRILLO_DATA=/home/airween/.tlf/HA2OS_general.cab
> > CABRILLO_CONTEST=CQ-WW-CW
> > ...
> >
> > /home/airween/.tlf/HA2OS_general.cab
> > CABROLLO_CALLSIGN: HA2OS
> > CABRILLO_LOCATION: DX
> > CABRILLO_CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
> > CABRILLO_CATEGORY-ASSISTED: NON-ASSISTED
> > CABRILLO_CATEGORY-BAND: ALL
> > CABRILLO_CATEGORY-POWER: LOW
> > CABRILLO_CATEGORY-MODE: CW
> > CABRILLO_CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
> > CABRILLO_CATEGORY-OVERLAY:
> > CABRILLO_CONTEST=
> >
> > I wrote deribelately the CABRILLO_CONTEST field at two places
> > (logcfg.dat and general data file): the second occurrance of
> > field overwrites the first, so therefore we can replace the
> > values at every contest, but can use a basic data.
> >
> > When user types a ":w" in callsign field (start to export the log
> > to CABRILLO), then the fields which has values (by set them the
> > fields above) will filled in dialogues.
> >
> > If you like this way, I can start to implement it soon.
> >
> >
> > 73, Ervin
> > HA2OS