[Dxbase] DXB2007 Time display

Fri Feb 19 12:08:03 EST 2010

Good gosh fellows,
What is shown on your screen can be easily customized for the card or label.
I use two formats for my card templates:
Left$(TIME,4)
and 
Left$(TIME,2)+":"+MID$(TIME,2,2)
Will give HHMM and HH:MM
All the above is in the help files which still work if you download a simple
plug-in from Microsoft.
Also, you don't have to hard print a label or card. There is a WYSIWYG
output built into the label and card editor. In fact you can do a dry run to
screen just to see what the actual card or label looks like. So you really
don't need to waste a single card or label to experiment.
As for the seconds on the screen, which is a non-issue for me and many
others, I simply close in the column width of the log to make the seconds
invisible. 
Catch you all on the bands,
Eric - VE3GSI
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Parry
> Sent: February-19-10 10:15 AM
> To: 'Wes N7WS'; 'Jack'
> Cc: dxbase at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Dxbase] DXB2007 Time display
>> We discussed this sometime back and came to the idea that this couldn't
> be
> fixed. I agree that I don't like the time on my QSL cards being
> represented
> by hhmmss, instead of just hhmm. Seems like this would be a nice
> little
> tweak on the new version. (It didn't use to do it on the 2005 version.)
> It
> is clearly a function on DXB2007 because it didn't do it till I
> installed
> 2007 and everything else is the same.
>> Bill W5VX
>> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wes N7WS
>> I guess I'm not making my self clear. In my DXB2005, the time in the
> on-screen log display is hours and minutes only. In 2007, the seconds
> are also displayed. Is this a new "feature"? Furthermore, I copied
> the label design that I've been using for years over from 2005 to 2007.
> It's printing the time as five digits and an "x".
> > There is a step by step writeup complete with pictures in the help
> > file that illustrates how to modify the label design for the time
> > field to limit the printout to 4 digits. This is located under the
> > Label section of the help file under the heading, "How do I". But of
> > course you'll need to download the Microsoft .dll that allows viewing
> > of the old style ".hlp" help file system. I no longer have the link
> > for that file.
> I can always use the full-feature help files on my XP machine, but the
> patch for Vista, at least the one I have only allows opening one page
> at
> a time, but no stepping back, etc.
>> If there's not a way to change the time back to just hour and minutes,
> is there a way to import 2007 logs back into 2005?
>> Thanks,