[chirp_devel] Yaesu FT2D WiresX suggestion and questions

[Declan]

I’ve a suggested change to the FT-1D/FT2D driver to support the Yaesu WIRES-X settings that the radios handle. I don’t yet like the partial implementation, so I ask for suggestions. 

The FT2D can define five named categories of up to 20 digital rooms each. There’s a new settings tab for WIRES-X, which will presently list the following (I intend to make them modifiable inside CHIRP, if I can figure that out. Those changes don’t work yet. Are there ANY instructions for getting the callback to work correctly for changing?)

Here’s a synopsis of what the settings menu provides now:
Category1 <text name1>
Room ID1 <string of digits>
Room Name1 <string>
Room ID2 <string of digits>
…
Room ID20 <string of digits>
Room Name20 <string>
Category2 <text name 2>
Room ID1 <string>
…
Room Name20 <string>
Category3 < ….
Category4 <…
Category5 <….
…
Room Name20 <string>

I really don’t like multiple aspects:
-	ID and Name are on separate lines… I think it’d be better if they were each on one line, possibly indented from the Category name entries.
-	It’s distracting to always have the category names separated by 40 lines, many of which are blank (although they need to eventually be accessible for editing). Is there a way to have a pull-down for rooms, so they’re not shown ’til wanted to see or change? I suppose it’d not be unreasonable to only display the first blank entry in a series of blanks.
-	Again: modifications to the values don’t yet work.

I attach my diff text file, wherein I define a Wires-X settings memory structure, a callback routine (it errors and it doesn’t work) and a settings subroutine. They’re REALLY, really not ready for formal inclusion. I’ll be continuing with my trial-and-error misprogramming. I REALLY would like some feedback on this, please.

Clearly, I’ve got an image with Wires-X data in it to test it against, but you can see some of causes my discomfort with the test FT-1D or FT2D images.

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: WiresX
Type: application/octet-stream
Size: 3535 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://intrepid.danplanet.com/pipermail/chirp_devel/attachments/20181021/6301f4d8/attachment-0001.obj 
-------------- next part --------------