[chirp_users] Chirp's new Alias feature.

[Pavel Milanes (CO7WT)]

Hi to all the Chirp's users out there.

Since last night daily (20160616) Chirp support an Alias feature that 
make radio clones to be showed in the user interface (UI) as it's own 
vendor/model.

This will ease the use of the software and avoid some head aches for new 
comers, as you don't need to know before hand that for your "FooBar 
3000" radio you must select the "ChinaRadio 2345" as vendor/model in the 
UI at clone time.

So far just the below mentioned radios support this feature,*but there 
it has a catch all you need to know:*

As the radios are clones, this alias feature mask the vendor/model in 
the download/upload UI procedure for convenience, but once you save an 
image for that radio it's all about the real radio. The implications are 
this: if you save an image of a clone, when you open it in Chirp _it 
will show itself as the real radio, not the clon__e_.

So my recommendation is that you NAME the image file like your radio 
vendor/model; this way you will get get a "tip from the past" when 
months in the future you hit with this odd behavior.

73 Pavel CO7WT.

PS: I will update the supported radio page of the wiki later to show this.

El 15/06/16 a las 03:12, Build System escribió:
> Greetings,
>
> A new daily build of CHIRP is available.  This includes changes made
> directly to the tree yesterday, and may include additional features,
> bug fixes, and/or bugs.  If you are interested in trying it, grab it
> from the following location:
>
>    http://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_daily/daily-20160615
>
>
> A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily)
> follows:
>
> Changes for Build #409
> [Pavel Milanes (CO7WT)<pavelmc at gmail.com>] [PATCH][Feature] Add the know clones of the btech with the new alias feature, fixes #3749
>
> This patch explicitly adds the following Btech clones to the UI:
> * Jetstream JT2705M
> * Juentai JT-6188 Mini
> * Juentai JT-6188 Plus
> * Sainsonic GT-890
>
> This radios do show properly now in the download/upload dialog as vendor/model, this will ease the handling of clones in the user side.
>
> *But it has a catch and the users will be notified on the chirp_user 
> list: when you opens a saved image of a clone it will show in Chirp as 
> the real radio, not the clone.*
>
> 73 Pavel CO7WT

-- 
73 Pavel CO7WT.

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