Re: [wsjt-devel] Decode Background Colors - Suggestions

[Joe T. <jo...@pr...>]

Thanks to everyone who commented on the color-highlighting of decoded 
messages in WSJT-X 2.0-rc1 and -rc2.  We appreciate hearing all the 
sentiments expressed: they ranged from "keep it simple" and "better as 
it was" to "more options are needed".

As most subscribers here know, in general we in the WSJT Development 
Group devote our greatest efforts toward innovations in protocol design: 
source encoding, error-control coding, modulation/demodulation schemes, 
related DSP algorithms, and the like.  The underlying "guts" that make 
these weak-signal modes work.  Surely our contributions to Amateur Radio 
in these areas are among our most important.

We also try to make the finished product -- in this case WSJT-X -- 
convenient and enjoyable for users.  However, going too far in this 
direction requires a lot of time... and it's often impossible to satisfy 
everyone.  We have therefore shied away (for example) from building 
full-featured logging facilities into WSJT-X.  Excellent programs with 
such facilities already exist.

The scheme and logic used for color highlighting in WSJT-X 2.0-rc1 and 
-rc2 was intended as exploratory, by no means final.  Excellent 
"alerting" facilities already exist (for Windows) in JTAlert.  If we 
keep anything like the color highlighting that's now there, we'll 
certainly add some switches so you can back it off or disable unwanted 
parts.  We'll also consider the possibility that this is a case of "less 
is more", especially when it's arguably redundant.

	-- 73, Joe, K1JT