[chirp_devel] Next CHIRP UI Mod

[Rick DeWitt]

Whew; busy season with Field Day, Fireworks stand and Special Olympics 
volunteering....
OK, I made a series of mods to mainapp, memedit, memdetail and 
chirp_common that added a new driver-generated column 'Note'. Then I 
realized that this displays exactly the same as the Comment column. So 
now I would like to try simply adding a new radio-feature option that 
runtests.py would check in the compare_mem module and  skip testing 
Comment if that feature is set. This would let us use Comment for 
driver-generated info that is not saved , uploaded or downloaded when 
that feature is set.
Make sense?

Rick DeWitt
AA0RD
Sequim, Washington, USA
360-681-3494

On 7/6/2018 1:21 PM, Dan Smith via chirp_devel wrote:
> Sorry for the delayed response...
>
>> OK, that Information Prompt mod went pretty well.
>> Would it be possible to try adding a new 'Calculated' or 'Generated' UI
>> column where the driver would load channel information at the get_memory
>> call? This would be 'write-only' (my personal favorite) text that is not
>> uploaded, downloaded or even set back into memory.
>> My application would be to generate the FT-450 memory group labels,
>> where channel 53 is also labeled  'MEM-02-03'; the 3rd channel of 10
>> 50-chan groups.
> If the implementation is right, I could go for something like this. Maybe bang out a POC and post it so I can see what all would be involved and we can discuss.
>
> Does it need to be a column necessarily, vs. something in mem.extra? If it's a column, it needs to be readonly for the UI user in some way that won't be confusingly un-ediable when they think it should be. Could also be a hover-over tooltip type thing...
>
> --Dan
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