[Logic] Spot log

Sun Sep 26 20:03:50 EDT 2004

There are too many unresolved bugs in Logic. Dennis should stop adding
features for a while (it already has way more features than any other
logger!) and work on cleaning up the loose ends... It mars an otherwise
great product.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: logic-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> [mailto:logic-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Ron NØAT
> Sent: September 26, 2004 17:35
> To: LOGic is open to all radio amateurs for discussion of 
> LOGic logging program.
> Subject: Re: [Logic] Spot log
>>> There is an intermittent problem with the spot log, but only 
> when it is 
> full.
>> When a new spot comes in, you expect the oldest spot to be 
> deleted from the 
> spot log. But, sometimes, the index for deleting the spot 
> gets changed to 
> the callsign index. In this case the spot with the last 
> indexed callsign 
> gets deleted. In other words, if the spot log is full, then 
> the index is 
> temporarily changed to callsign, the last callsign is 
> deleted, then the 
> index is changed back to chronological.
>> If you erase the spot log, the problem will go away.
>> I reported this to Dennis. He said I am the only one having 
> this problem. 
> So I set the spot log size to the maximum, and erase it every 
> few months.
>> 73 de Ron NØAT
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "C.M. Christensen" <cchrisac0m at cox.net>
> To: "LOGic is open to all radio amateurs for discussion of 
> LOGic logging 
> program." <logic at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 07:26
> Subject: Re: [Logic] Spot log
>>> This has been happening here through several releases. The 
> only thing I can do is erase all of the spots and start with 
> a new screen for the spot log and then they come back. Weird for sure.
> -- 
> 73,
> Chris, ACØM
>> Robert Carroll wrote:
>> > I don't have a problem with the length of the spot log, but I have 
> > been watching when I saw one appear on the spot log--and disappear 
> > within a second. I have seen this behavior a good while prior to 
> > February--in the previous version of Logic--and it's still 
> there. T 
> > will be hard to find the problem because it occurs 
> infrequently--but 
> > sometimes for 3-4 spots in a row
> > or sometimes with a couple of spots between the ones which 
> disappear. If
> > those who are seeing this report it and the circumstances 
> it may help 
> > Dennis
> > find the problem. In my case I have 2 telnet windows and 
> the DX Cluster
> > open--which may be relevant. Also I think I have heard "partial"
> > announcements of the spots which disappeared--for instance 
> an OZ spot 
> > might
> > be announced as O. On occasion I have heard a spot starting to be 
> > announced
> > only to be interrupted by another spot--maybe from another 
> telnet or the 
> > DX
> > cluster--only to have the original announcement completed after the
> > intervening spot. Maybe somehow the several sources of spots are 
> > clobbering
> > each other.
> >
> > Bob W2WG
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: logic-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> > [mailto:logic-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
> > On Behalf Of Hank Phillips
> > Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 3:49 PM
> > To: mel.martin at axare.mail.net; LOGic is open to all radio 
> amateurs for
> > discussion of LOGic logging program.
> > Subject: Re: [Logic] Spot log
> >
> > No. I am running .119 nd have seen approximately the same 
> problem for 
> > several minor releases. I first reported it in February, 
> but nobody 
> > else seems to be able to reproduce it.
> >
> > The spot will announce, and if you are really quick 
> sometimes you can 
> > see it visible briefly.
> >
> > Clearing the spot buffer seems to get us working again for a while, 
> > but
> > the
> > problem returns.
> > I have done a "clean" and that doesn't seem to help either.
> >
> > I have also seen another weird spot behavior: If I am 
> trying to print 
> > a report and I am half way through some of the early screens 
> > specifying the report criteria, and incoming spot will 
> knock me out of 
> > report writer. That is not as much of a bother as the spot 
> > disappearing and spots not displaying.
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Hank
> > AA4HP
> >
> >
> >
> >>Am I the only one having trouble with the spot log with ver .123
> >>
> >>After about 30 spots the window won't display any more spots...
> >>
> >>
> >>Mel...
> >>VE2DC
> >>
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