- Changes for xlog version 1.6.2 * Because of using the old wwl code, locator distance calculation stopped working. This has been fixed. Thanks to Stephane for the patch! - Changes for xlog version 1.6.1 * Compilation fixes. * Fix appearance of the scoring window. Thanks to flavio, IK3OCD and Boris, 4Z5ST for reporting. * Fix power retrieval from the rig. Thanks Pat, KB8PYM and Martin, AA6E for the report. * Some fixes for EDI and EDITEST file format, patch by Stephane, F8FCE. * Some changes to the S-meter coding which will hopefully make it more accurate. * If there is no cummunication with the rig, hamlib will be stopped and a warning dialog will be shown. * The wac scoring is now updated correctly when a log is closed. * Country worked count would be set to "0" whenever you would have at least one confirmed QSO with that country. Patch by Stephane. * When using the bandoptionmenu the band would sometimes be truncated. * WAC scoring will now get updated when importing a log. * Include the old wwl code again because of license problems with the new code. * All of xlog is now GPL version 3. - Changes for xlog version 1.6 * Swedish translation updates by Peter, SM4ABE * The "worked before" window is now activated with "Control+Shift w". * There was a small bugfix for the "worked before" window. Selection of QSO's in this window would sometimes fail when several contacts with the same callsign were displayed. * German translation thanks to Martin, DL5RMH. * Defaults now also work when the band- and modeoptionmenus are activated in the QSO frame. Thanks to DL5MRH. * The UTC time length now is truncated to HHMM (the default for xlog), even if the log displays time in seconds. * Time length is not touched when updating a QSO if hours and minutes are the same. Both changes suggested by Martin, DL5RMH. * Frequency is not touched when using "update" when the frequency is the same as used in the optionmenu. For example: if the optionmenu uses "7" and the frequency in the log says "7.030" we don't change it when using "update". Suggested by Martin, DL5RMH. * The FAQ has been removed and integrated with the manual. * The manual has been rewritten and is now available as html, see /usr[/local]/share/xlog/manual/index.html. * xlog now uses xdg-open (available from the xdg-utils package) for opening URL's and for reading the manual from the menu. xdg-open always uses the default browser as configured for your gnome, kde or xfce desktop. * xdg-email is used for opening "mailto:" links, this is only important for the about dialog. * A small fix for Cabrillo, so we correctly export USB contacts. Thanks Jacob Anawalt, KD7YKO. * A Cabrillo import fix for NAQP contests by Jacob, KD7YKO. * Another fix from Jacob which fixes a crash when using large remarks fields. * xlog has been ported to the latest GTK+ version, which is 2.12.0. * The keyer window is now prevented from resizing when the end of line is reached. Thanks Al, NH7O for reporting. * WAC (Worked All Continents) award scoring has been added. You will have to enable it from the Settings -> 'Dialogs and Windows' -> Scoring page. This adds a new valid entry for the AWARDS entry. You can use "WAC-" to modify a continent lookup. Valid strings are "NA EU SA OC AS AF". For example, UA9A callsign are located in Europe, but xlog will think it is Asia. Just add "DXCC-EU" to the AWARDS column. * An overview of your WAC scoring can be seen by selecting Tools -> Awards -> WAC from the menu. Ctrl + 2 is a shortcut for this. * xlog will now recognise K1-K0 and VK1-VK0 callsign districts. * When importing a cabrillo file, a remark can be added to all of the log fields by entering a value in the import dialog. * Adopted the wwl rewrite by Diane, VA3DB. - Changes for xlog version 1.5 * Installation of the desktop icon has been fixed. * The awards entry is now cleared when using Ctrl-y. * Setting the autosave value to zero will disable autosave. * The log open dialog adds a checkbutton, which allows opening a log read-only. * Accessing the menu with Ctrl-F10 works again. You need to make sure that your window manager does not use Ctrl-F10, e.g. it is used by xfce to access the 10th desktop. Note added to the handbook. * To facilitate maintainance translation of the handbook and FAQ is no longer supported. * The Settings->Dialogs menu has been renamed "Dialogs and Windows". * Scoring page added to the "Dialogs and Windows" dialog. On this page you can decide which bands should be used for scoring. * Some changes to the code to fix compilation on MAC OS X. Thanks to IZ0ETE for reporting. * Czech translations updated. * All strings in the GUI refering to "GMT" have been named "UTC". * When in the middle of a dupecheck which takes very long, it can be aborted by clicking the 'Cancel' button. * A new option has been added to the first page of the preferences dialog. When "use free fields to add distance and azimuth to the log" is checked, distance and azimuth will be calculated from the locator field (when present) and added to the log. Thanks to Richard, G8JVM. * All available amateur radio bands and modes (as used by ADIF) are now added to the band- and mode-optionmenus when xlog is started for the very first time. * When importing a cabrillo file, date, mode and exchange is now imported correctly. Thanks Nate, N0NB. * ADIF export has been improved. Whenever there is an exchange used in the RST report, the designated STX, SRX or STX_STRING, SRX_STRING ADIF fields will be used. * The handbook has been improved. - Changes for xlog version 1.4 * There were several DXCC lookup fixes. * Activation of the keyer window has been moved to the options menu. * When exiting xlog, the keyer strings are now saved correctly. * A new item has been added to the help menu, called 'DXCC list'. It displays the current entries of cty.dat. Every column in this window can be sorted. * A socket has been added to xlog. Xlog will listens on port 7311 for data to be added to the xlog. See data/remote/client.c for example code. * An "AWARDS" column has been added to the logs. You can activate it by using the log editor. For now, this column can be used to overwrite DXCC lookups. To use it you must enter a country prefix, which can be looked up in the DXCC list. For example: the 2002 baker island expedition has used the callsign K1B. Xlog will think it is United States, but you can overwrite it by putting the number DXCC-KH1 in the AWARDS column. * Locale conversion of the date in ADIF export was improved. Thanks to Martin, OK1RR for reporting. * A return in the remarks field is replaced with a space when added to the log to prevent log truncation. Reported by Fredrik, OH1HSN. * Return now invokes "OK" in most dialogs, patch by Jon, LA4RT. * The main menu is accessed with ctrl-F10, so the F10 key can be used by the keyer. * Underscores are removed from all of the menus, so you can't use the ALT-key with the menu anymore. Instead, this key is now used for quickly pressing buttons in the QSO-frame. All of the labels in the QSO frame which have an underscore will grab focus to the entry next to it if the ALT-key is used. When a default is present it will be filled-in automatically. * The ADIF QSL_VIA field is now imported when one of the free fields is named QSL_VIA. * ADIF import has been fixed for logs with empty lines and returns inside a field. * File naming for ADIF import has been fixed. * Swedish translations by Peter Landgren, SM4ABE. * When multiple logs are loaded at startup the last page will get focus. * A scoring window has been added, activate with Ctrl+j. This window now holds the callsign prefix lookup with calculated distance and beam heading. The top table of this window displays the number of times a country is worked or "0" if confirmed. The bottom table shows the total number of worked and confirmed DXCC countries for every band. The scoring window focuses on the major hf-bands and does not look at the mode of transmission. Future xlog versions will add more bands and modes for scoring. * An overview of your DXCC scoring can be seen by selecting Tools -> Awards -> DXCC from the menu. Ctrl + 1 is a shortcut for this. * Hamlib is now enabled by default, see the INSTALL file for details. * When polling is used with Hamlib, times as low as 50 milliseconds are allowed for rigs that have high baud rates. * Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down will move the rig's frequency by 50 Hz. * Xlog now uses a GtkListStore for the logs instead of a GtkTreeStore. * The preferences dialog has been somewhat reorganised. - Changes for xlog version 1.3.1 * Update spanish translation by Jaime, EA4TV. * Updated french translation by Jean-Luc, F5IBH. * Czech translation by Jan Straka, OK2JTB. * Fix building when hamlib not present. Thanks Matt, GW0VNR. - Changes for xlog version 1.3 * Responsiveness for opening large logs has been somewhat improved. * A copy of xlog is used for saving so the gui does not get blocked. * ADIF: when importing a file which uses strings like 160m, 80m, 40m, etc. in the 'BAND' field it is converted to frequency. * ADIF: when the 'NOTES' field is present it is appended to the xlog remarks field. * The remarks entry is now a multiline text entry which can contain up to 512 characters. This also fixes ADIF import from files with long comment/note fields (e.g. dx4win). Thanks to Alan D. Snyder, KF3B, for reporting. * A separate dialog and menu entry has been added for log importing. This also means that the dialog for log opening has been somewhat redesigned, it will now only show logs of type xlog. * We now have a separate dialog for log exporting. This will handle ADIF, cabrillo, EDI and TSV files. The saveas dialog must be used for saving logs of type xlog under a different name. * Shortcuts have been re-organised. Ctrl-i: log import, ctrl-e: log export, ctrl-shift-s: saveas, ctrl-b: dialogs, ctrl-g: preferences. * HAMLIB: configuration has changed. You need to click the "Select a radio" button in the preferences dialog. This will show a dialog with rigid, model and make. The rigid number is now saved in the preferences instead of the model name, so hamlib needs to be re-configured with this release. * You can now keep on using xlog while using the search dialog if "Keep this dialog open" is checked. * Naming of the log when merging has been fixed. * The locator frame (only visible when you use the locator field in the log) has been moved above the DXCC frame, because locator distance and bearing calaculations are more accurate. * When exporting to TSV you can now decide to add bearing and distance columns if the locator field is used. This must be set in the export page of the dialogs dialog. Suggested by Richard Bown, G8JVM. * A new argument for the configure script has been added. If you want to update the KDE/Gnome mime database during install use ./configure --enable-mime-update. This is recommended for people who install from source into /usr or /usr/local. * Xlog now correctly updates the band/modes optionmenu when using Ctrl-k with hamlib. Thanks to Ian Maude, G0VGS for reporting. * For the sake of speed, colorization of the log and themeing of the program has been removed. Instead, bold fonts are now used. You can now also change the default font of the log. * 'Delete' and 'Insert' keys no longer work for deleting or adding QSO's because they would prevent correct use of these keys in text entry widgets. * xlog.dat is no longer used. Future versions of xlog will probably contain an editor for cty.dat. - Changes for xlog version 1.2.1 and 1.2.2 * Debian: correct the Build-Depends line. * This is a bugfix release, which fixes compilation against version 2.4 of the GTK+ libraries. There is no need to upgrade if you use version 2.6 of this library. - Changes for xlog version 1.2 * Import support for the OH1AA logbook. Tested by Jarmo, OH1MRR. * A keyerwindow has been added, opened from the 'Tools -> Keyer' menu. This is a simple interface to cwdaemon and will allow you to run a contest. It features programmable function keys, macro's, switch between CQ and S&P mode, an auto increment counter and short numbers. See the MANUAL for a description. * Ctrl-H opens help, Ctrl-R the keyerwindow. * The list of hamlib-rigs in the preferences dialog is now sorted. Thanks to Jean-Luc F5IBH for proposing. * You can use the 'del' key to delete a selected QSO and the 'insert' key to add a QSO. * We now have slightly different icons for the worked before dialog and the keyer window. * A safe backup method has been added, you can now select a backup directory in the 'Logs' page of the preferences dialog. This directory can be on another drive or on a network mounted directory. Proposed by Matt, GW0VNR. * When using hamlib, only the needed backend is loaded at startup. This saves about 2 Mb of memory compared to the old method, which would load all backends. * When using hamlib it is now possible to use the FCC emission designators for modes. Check the option in the hamlib page of the preferences dialog. Another proposal by Matt, GW0VNR. * When selecting 'Logs -> Merge' or Ctrl-M you are presented with a dialog which can be used to merge 2 logs. * The manual has been rewritten so it can contain images. * To make xlog more HIG compliant, Ctrl-Q will now quit the program and Ctrl-W will close a log. * Fixed a crash when locale conversion fails when reading the manual. Thanks to Boguslaw, SQ5TB for reporting. * Many minor bugfixes. * Slovak translations by Michal Karas, OM4AA. * French MANUAL and FAQ by Jean-Luc Coulon, F5IBH. - Changes for xlog version 1.1 * Several cleanups in the function which creates the main window, the toolbar now uses the GtkAction API, toolbar items are now also accessable through the edit menu and the vertical handlebar can move freely to the left. * "Tab" in the menu has been renamed to "Page". * You can hide the number column by using the log-editor and entering a zero column width for this column. * The BUGS file has been added to the help menu, with a description on how to report bugs. * The logeditor has been redesigned so it fits on a 800x600 display. * Most of the dialogs have been cleaned up and partly rewritten, so they will load faster. * Xlog now correctly recognizes the 60 meters band. Thanks to Harv Nelson, AI9NL for notifying. * At ADIF import, frequencies with a comma are converted to a dot. * A gtk+ version check has been added, which will display an error at startup if the version is below 2.4. * An error will be displayed when trying to load a non-xlog file. * The labels export format has been renamed TSV (Tab Separated Value). * You can decide which fields to export in the TSV format (used by glabels), by going to Settings->Dialogs and checking wanted the fields in the "Save As" page. * When hamlib is enabled, rounding of the digits is now also possible when the s-meter is not visible. * When entering a logname in the new log dialog, dash (-) and underscore (_) are now also allowed. * Polish MANUAL and FAQ added by Boguslaw Ciastek, SQ5TB. * The position of the paned window is now remembered at program exit. -- Joop Stakenborg