I want to auto-populate the "Rig" Userfield based off the active Rig's Radio Button.


The Rigs userdefined field is a drop-down list of (3) Rigs. I want to populate the field based on what the active radio button is when logging a QSO. LOGic knows what rig is active by which radio button is toggled at the top of the logform. So, if Rig (1) is active, I would like to have the userfield populated with the description of Rig (1) after hitting tab key to log the QSO. Is there anyway to read this ??


I can do this in other ways using IIF(), or better yet ICASE() expressions in Logform Set-Up under the Defaults tab but I'm going to do that for my Antennas and Amps. Populating the Rig is more complicated in that (2) of the (3) Rigs can share the same Antennas so I was thinking if there is a way to read the active rig maybe it could be used to trigger some form of IIF() expression.


Interested in other ways to do this instead of my manually selecting from a drop-down list....especially during a contest (hi hi). I did try my Antennas and the expression was getting pretty long, but it did work, although it did take lOGic twice as long to actually log the QSO, about 1 to 1.5 seconds.

73 de Brad

Dennis,

Thanks so much for looking at this!!! I'll get back with how its working.

Thanks again !!

73 de Brad

Well, we've always done it that way :lol:.

You can remove it easy enough:

strextract(global.log_form_ref.radio_ifc_ref.caption, "", " (", 1)

That removes everything before the open paren and the space before it. Note the space before the paren. Like this, not line the second line:

strextract(global.log_form_ref.radio_ifc_ref.caption, "", " (", 1)
strextract(global.log_form_ref.radio_ifc_ref.caption, "", "(", 1)

Can't remember if strextract() is documented in help or not. The first parameter is the string to act on. The second is the beginning delimiter (none in this case). The third is the ending delimiter. The 4th is the nth delimited item to return.

What I will do is add a simple function called Active_Rig_Descr() or something like that. We may need to so something special like handle conditions where there is no rig configured, in which chase it will return null or an empty string.

Thanks for the idea!

73,

Dennis WN4AZY

Dennis,

All is working great !! Thanks so much for taking the time to do this, your support and obvious love for what you do is what makes this the absolutely best software out there. You have a lifetime user here and I know many many others are of the same opinion. So unless some other software out there can know when my cup is empty and fill it with Dunkin Coffee I'll be sticking with LOGic !!!

Very Best Regards,

73, de Brad

PS: Need a way to edit the title in the post to add a status, like "RESOLVED" without breaking the thread.