Re: [Tlf-devel] [Fwd: problem with sound recordings?]

[pa0r]

Hi Doug,

just back from 8 weeks in sunny Spain.... and I notice there's been quite some 
action here... tnx for the patches, I will download them and test them for 
inclusion in the next release of tlf!!

73,

Rein PA0R

On Wednesday 02 March 2005 18:35, Doug Smith W9WI wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 08:14, Pat N8VW wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 07:45:02AM -0600, Doug Smith W9WI wrote:
> > > > I was thinking about using TLF for the ARRL DX SSB this weekend,
> > > > but... can't get the sound recordings to work.
> >
> > You need to set the file names in the rules file.  I just tried and the
> > this worked, the only thing to note is that I had to have a space before
> > the file name
> >
> > ex:
> > VKM1= /home/pat/tlf/cq.wav
> >      ^ space
>
> That got me a lot closer, thanks!
>
> It looks like the space is necessary because in audio.c there is no
> space after the device name when the string passed to "rec" is
> assembled.  If you don't have a space in the rules file, it tries to
> record to device "/dev/dsp/home/w9wi/arrldxssb2005/f1.wav".
>
> Problem is, if you *do* have the space in the rules file, then when you
> try to play back the recording it looks for a literal space as the first
> character of the filename & can't find it.
>
> I've hacked audio.c, adding a "strcat(commands, " ");" in the
> appropriate place for each F-key.  This allows you to set the filename
> in the rules file without the leading space, so that record works with
> the same filename that works for playback.
>
> I also found that it was playing back the wrong F-keys.  I'd press F4
> and it would play the recording for F7, etc...   It turns out that
> ph_message is declared ph_message[14][80] in audio.c and main.c, but
> ph_message[14][40] in several other places.  I hacked these other files
> so it's declared [14][80] everywhere, and now the right audio files
> play.  The files in question are:
>
>       autocq.c
>       callinput.c
>       getexchange.c
>       logit.c
>       parse_logcfg.c
>       sendspcall.c
>
> I'm afraid I've still got a problem in that when a F-key message
> finishes playing, TLF exits with an "invalid command" message.  Which
> was affected by something I did; before I did the changes to the
> ph_message declarations it was exiting with a "segmentation fault"
> instead.
>
> I'm not sure about the proper etiquette for submitting such patches...
> this being the first time I've tried to modify someone else's source
> code.  I've posted a "diff" file and a gzipped tarball containing my
> changed versions of the above .c files on my website:
>
> http://www.w9wi.com/software/tlf.02mar2005.diff
> http://www.w9wi.com/software/tlf.02mar2005.tgz
>
> Be gentle, I'm a novice at this C stuff!  (and understand that the
> changes I made may very well be the wrong way to do them, and might even
> cause more problems elsewhere than they fix!)