Software Improvement Suggestion

[wa1fxt]

Bob,

It would be helpful if all menus and menu items could be accessed from the keyboard. I find a mouse somewhat difficult to use out of doors or in the shop. I may be a bit old fashion, but, I can move faster on the keyboard.

It would also be nice if one were able to set the Zo as a default. Anumber of times my plots caused me to go the wrong direction when I forgot to set Zo as 50 ohms.

Accessing ZPLOTS from the local drive would be nice. Especially when you are nowhere near an Internet connection.

73,
Bob WA!FXT

[Bob]

wa1fxt said:

Bob,

It would be helpful if all menus and menu items could be accessed from the keyboard. I find a mouse somewhat difficult to use out of doors or in the shop. I may be a bit old fashion, but, I can move faster on the keyboard.

It would also be nice if one were able to set the Zo as a default. Anumber of times my plots caused me to go the wrong direction when I forgot to set Zo as 50 ohms.

Accessing ZPLOTS from the local drive would be nice. Especially when you are nowhere near an Internet connection.

73,
Bob WA!FXT

Hello Bob,

Using hotkeys for the menus is a good idea. I'll look into that. The downside is that more options make the learning curve longer.

The default Zo can be anything you like. Whatever you enter is saved and used as the default, so that can be 50 ohms. If it seems like your Zo is not being restored when you run the program, be sure the *.ini file is not set for read-only. The current value of Zo is saved in the *.ini file when you exit from the program.

ZPLOTS is downloaded onto your hard drive, so you only need to access the Internet for it the first time. The AIM menu item under the "utilities" tab is just to get you started. After that, you can go directly to ZPLOTS on your computer.

--73/ Bob - W5BIG