I recently downloaded LOGic 9.0.58. Now when tabbing field to field to get into the time field, my cursor lands on the "seconds" part of that field instead of on "hours" at the beginning of the field. In other words it lands after the second colon. I have to backspace to make an entry. Any suggestions?

Thanks, Dennis. Do you mean that you will offer a newer version than 9.0.58? How do I get back to normal?

Garry, W8OI

Hi--

Sorry, I haven't posted the update yet.

The way to work around it is to click where you want to type with the mouse. Or {Ctrl+A} to select the whole field, then type to replace the whole field. Also {Home} to go to the start, {End} to go to the end. These are standard keystrokes that work elsewhere in LOGic and also other programs BTW.

When contesting, you typically do not enter the time manually.

Tnx & 73,

Dennis WN4AZY

It's there now.

Tnx & 73,

Dennis

Ok, if you aren't logging in real-time, click Log/Real-Time Mode and turn off real time mode. That way no time will be put in the time field when you log a new QSO. When you tab to it, it will then go to the very first position.

Responses to this change have been well-received. I see no downside to it myself. Typically, you want to correct data or add to the end, and there's no reason that being at the start would be better. You are just more likely to overtype something in the heat of battle that you didn't intend to. If you do want to start at the beginning once in a while, it is a single keystroke to get there {Home} goes to the beginning. {Ctrl+A} selects everything in case you want to overwrite the current contents.

I could add an option to control this if you can show me how it would be useful. But I think the non-real-time mode is your ticket.

Tnx & 73,

DH WN4AZY

Well, going to next-to-last is correct -- if the field is filled up. Fill up the name or QTH field and it will do the same thing. You can't tab to the end because you would exit the field. That is how the {End} key works in Windows in general, not just LOGic.

Tnx & 73,

Dennis WN4AZY

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I noticed that too. I think the reasoning was to save typing the hours, but it makes no sense to do minutes too, or at least the 4th-place minute. I guess you COULD have two or three QSOs in the same minute if contesting, but most contesters would not be logging manually.

I think I'll just carry the hours forward. It would then jump to the first minutes digit when you tab to it. That would be sweet, huh?

By the way, (sorry I didn't think to mention this earlier) if you want to adjust the automatically-logged time to the current time (say you logged him but it was a few minutes until you actually made contact), simply double-click the time or date field.