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n4af / TR4W

TRLOG 4 Windows free amateur radio logging application
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Add date-aware contest selection to contest drop-down #758

Open ny4i opened 5 months ago

ny4i commented 5 months ago

Show the contests active in the current weekend first in the contest drop-down. Have a section up top with the contests. Use the contest calendar CSV file to find the contests for "this weekend"

Idea originally from POLO developer, Sebastian KI2D

sd commented 5 months ago

That's an awesome idea 😁

n4af commented 5 months ago

Does 'value added' exceed the effort to duplicate what already is extant ?

My preference is a single data source- that being WA7BNM weekly, monthly, yearly, and perpetual calendar. Additionally, larger clubs maintain a list of contests qualifying for in-club awards. Also, keeping a calendar up to date can be 'challenging'.

ny4i commented 5 months ago

WA7BNM’s data was going to be my source. It’s not terribly hard to implement and the  usability factor is very high.While we have a real-time source of upcoming contests, I was also thinking to put a data code in out contests array with the month and “which weekend” so it was a static list. Then we just include the contests for this week. Additionally I always wanted to learn how to write a custom drop-down in Win32. Once I see if this is possible, I was going to get more feedback from the user base as well. On Apr 27, 2024, at 8:01 AM, Howie Hoyt @.***> wrote:ï»ż Does 'value added' exceed the effort to duplicate what already is extant ? My preference is a single data source- that being WA7BNM weekly, monthly, yearly, and perpetual calendar. Additionally, larger clubs maintain a list of contests qualifying for in-club awards. Also, keeping a calendar up to date can be 'challenging'.

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