Re: [Tlf-devel] Stew Perry review

[Pat Collins]

On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 22:29:33 +0100 Ervin Hegedüs - HA2OS <address@hidden>
wrote

> Hello all,
> 
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 10:16:23PM -0500, Pat Collins wrote:
> > On Wed, 8 Jan 2014 21:34:52 +0100 Ervin Hegedüs - HA2OS
> > <address@hidden>
> > wrote
> >
> > Worked well, no crashes to report for my 370 qsos.  Much better than last
> > year
> > using N1MM which crashes every now and then.
> >
> > > If everything had works, we would like to merge the Stew Perry
> > > support to master branch, and it will published in next stable
> > > version.
> > >
> > I would like to see the power multiplier taken into consideration when
> > scoring
> > and the place holder for the MYQRA in the messages added.
> 
> there is a new keyword: POWERMULT, and it needs an argument,
> which will be used as integer, and calculated score will be
> multiply with this value. For example: if you put 4 to there, the
> score multiplier will be 4, if you put 11, that will be... :) You
> can decide which is good for you - in this case this keyword
> could be more flexible.
> 
Probably want to make that a double.  I think 1.5 is a possible value.


> The placeholder for the MYQRA is a littlebit more complex -
> because I don't know, which character should be used for that?
> 
> These are busy: %, @, #, [, +, -
> 
> Usable: *, ~, ^, `, ', ", !, (, ), <, >, &, {, }, ...
> 
> Which one is the best choice for the MYQRA?
> 

This is probably part of tlf that needs rewritten.  It would be nice to have
common replacements like @, #, %, but also more complex ones like {myqra} so we
could be more flexible and maybe have user defined items.  

I'd be glad to take that on if we think it is useful.

Lots of fun code to write.

Pat