BV7 - QSL Management and Label Printing by DF3CB ------------------------------------------------ Release Notes and Changes 7 Beta 2 - Oct 7, 2001 ============================================================================ - New function key Ctrl-A to select all QSOs for a callsign! - New function key Ctrl-F to fill the manager field in the log from the QSL manager database. You can also drag and drop the manager from the manager edit field into your log or open the popup manager list right to the manager edit field and click on the right manager. If you have selected several QSOs, all records are filled with the manager. - Putting QSOs into the print queue should work perfectly now with all methods: F2/F3, Ctrl-Left and drag & drop. - All former BV6 log exports are available again. The ASCII output in fixed column format does not yet work. - Import: sub modes were not imported. - ADIF Import: QSL sent date and QSL received date were not imported. - Configuration dialog improved: helping hints added. - Digital Mode WSJT added. - Help file updated, especially the label designer section. The help file is half-done now. Further updates available more frequently now. 7.0 - Nov 17, 2001 ============================================================================ - First full release of BV Version 7. - A few icons and menu item captions changed. - Filtering for QSL sent/rcvd flags through new buttons with dropdown menus. - New Windows menu item "Reset dock positions" in the main program and designer window. - Mode FAX added. - A few bugs in the import section fixed. - Label print options (F12 key) (former: "Start printing at") works now. You can print ranges of pages now. - Print preview of labels improved. - To navigate and to delete records in the print queue window, use the ALT keys now or right click into the print queue window to open a context menu. - Several access violations fixed. - The status bar and the print queue information box show now the number of labels and pages to be printed instead of just the number of records in the print queue. - New function keys Shift-Cursor Down and Shift-Cursor Up to select several contiguous QSO records at one time. - All window text captions scaled correctly for all available Windows fonts. - Screen splitter between print queue window and log windows reintroduced. - Helpfile updated but it's not yet complete. 7.1 - Jan 23, 2002 ============================================================================ Log Import ---------- - Logs greater than approx. 100,000 QSOs were truncated and not completely written. Fixed. Tnx VE6JY. Writing BV7 logs optimized and it is about 10x faster now! - BV Version 3 & 4 and Swisslog import wasn't working. Fixed. Tnx DJ9MH. - Import of DXBase, OH2GI, OH1AA, FINTEST added again. - Number of read errors (faulty QSO's) and duplicate QSO's added to the conversion report. - Warning if you want to overwrite a BV log that is still open. Log Export ---------- - ASCII output is fully working now including the fixed column export type. Log Window ---------- - New option "No date" in the "Set QSL sent/rcvd date" dialog. Tnx G4BWP. With this option, the "QSL sent/received" column is not filled with a date when filling the print queue. - Changing the QSL sent and received flags (F8/F9) sets the QSL sent and received date now. Setting the flags to "N" or "!", empties the QSL sent and received date. - New option: you can fill the entire log with QSL Managers from the BV QSL manager database now if you cannot import your manager information through the log import. Use the "Fill entire log with QSL Managers" command in the Log menu. This automatic function tries to fill only those QSO's that don't have a manager yet. It can be aborted at any time by pressing the Escape key. - Changing the log index (F5): When switching from Call index to Date index, the date of the current QSO is taken as default for the date index. New function key Shift-F5 to switch back. - Editing a call: if only one QSO is in the log for a call, and that call is edited, after saving the edits, an error window pops up saying "The call does not exist". Fixed. Tnx N3SL. - Splash screen changed. Label Designer -------------- - "Manager" field was mixed up with "My Call" field in datafield properties dialog. Tnx DF2PI. - The Log Window couldn't get the focus if there were no logs open and if the Designer Window had the focus. 7.2 - Feb 5, 2002 ============================================================================ Printing -------- A major bug in the print core routine was fixed which had caused a number of strange print errors and behavior. Prining ranges of pages and start printing at label position # (F12) should work perfectly now. Configuration ------------- Option "Merge QSOs in print queue and/or from different logs into one label" reintroduced. See "Configuration | Sorting". This option is set by default. If you have a QSO for e.g. DF3CB in the print queue and if you add another QSO for DF3CB later, this additonal QSO is also put on the same label then if there are still free QSO lines left. If there are no free QSO lines left, a new label is started. If this option is not checked, every additional QSO will automatically be printed on a new label. Log Import ---------- - Import of K1EA CT RES Files added again. - Import of all YPLog versions now supported. Tnx OK1RR. Import of QSL managers from the log added. - The import of all ASCII type logs (ADIF, ASCII text files, Cabrillo, NA, TRLog) plus YPLog is 6x faster now! 7.3 - Mar 9, 2002 ============================================================================ Printing -------- If the print queue was sorted "First in, first out", only one single label was printed. Log Import ---------- Several wrong conversions of VHF/UHF/SHF bands/frequencies fixed. Label Designer -------------- - Configuration: number of QSO and footer lines in the layout settings could differ from the actual number in the layout. Fixed. - Line style and mode combo boxes were not filled in frame and shape properties dialogs. Help file updated and wrong/missing references to help file fixed. 7.4 - Jul 1, 2002 ============================================================================ Label Designer -------------- - Layout settings: the window couldn't be closed anymore if the margins exceeded the paper dimensions. Fixed. Additonal help buttons added. Log Import ---------- - Log Conversion Macros reintroduced. Frequently repeated log conversions can be saved as a Macro and repeated at any time. Documentation of this feature will follow. - Appending/updating of BV logs revised. - If no band information is provided in the import log, frequency information has to be decoded instead. Several UHF/SHF frequencies were not decoded. Fixed. - Cabrillo import revised. - LogPlus! import is not working everywhere yet. QRX. Log Import ---------- - G4ZFE log output fixed. Band and mode were trimmed so that e.g. CW QSOs were not found in the G4ZFE log search Java applet. Tnx PA9JJ. New Log Item ------------ - Was much too slow. Revised and improved. Tnx N3SL. Delete Log ------------ - BV7 logs can be deleted now by right-clicking into the open log and by chosing the item 'Delete Log' from the popup menu. 7.5 - Aug 7, 2002 ============================================================================ Log Export ---------- - ADIF export: each QSO is now one line. 7.6 - May 14, 2006 ============================================================================ General ------- - Compiler change. BV supports Windows versions 2000, ME, 98SE and XP. Windows versions 95 and NT are not supported any more! - Warning if no printer installed. Label Designer is disabled then. - New bands and modes added - Prefix list for automatic Bureau sorting updated (Korea) Log Window ---------- - Navigation in log window easier now - Better date and time from / to entry fields - New QSL status "I" = Internet Configuration ------------- - Configuration Window redesigned. - Frequencies to be printed on the QSLs can be defined now. - Directories Layouts, Logs, Manager, Tmp and User can be set to any directories now. - New import option "Ignore Dupes" Log Import/Export ----------------- - Continue button - Two new Export log types for Internet Logsearch purposes. - Bug fix for Swisslog: 2m was imported as 4m. - Cabrillo log file extension now *.log instead of *.txt Batch Input ----------- - Batch Input from Internet OQRS (Online QSL Request System) 7.7 - Apr 26, 2009 ============================================================================ ADIF Export of Print Queue 7.8 - Jan 2, 2010 ============================================================================ All imported QSOs after Jan 1, 2010 are imported with a wrong date. 2010 was imported as 2000. This applies to all imports.This means all BV7 versions prior to 7.8 will not work anymore and you need to update to BV 7.8! New modes added: JT65, OLIVIA, WSPR