A Few Fixes That Would Make DSD+ Even Better :)

[adamfancher]

Any chance of adding the capability to paste from the clipboard when entering Alpha tags? This would make live changes so much easier.

Also, can anything be done about the appliciation's propensity to completely wipe the DSDPlus.radios file off the face of the earth without warning? I do my best to keep backups but this is a very regular occurrence and I've cumulatively lost a lot of hours of hard work.

Thanks in advance

 

[RaleighGuy]

Any chance of adding the capability to paste from the clipboard when entering Alpha tags? This would make live changes so much easier.

The RID and TG files can be edited in a regular word processor, such as Notepad, Wordpad or Notepad ++, any of which can use the paste feature. When you complete the edits just save the new file with the appropriate DSD file name.

Also, can anything be done about the appliciation's propensity to completely wipe the DSDPlus.radios file off the face of the earth without warning? I do my best to keep backups but this is a very regular occurrence and I've cumulatively lost a lot of hours of hard work.

I've been using the program for many years and have never experienced this issue, nor have I heard of this from other users. Perhaps you should post about this and maybe someone can figure out the cause/solution, but I doubt it is a bug in the program.

 

[adamfancher]

The RID and TG files can be edited in a regular word processor, such as Notepad, Wordpad or Notepad ++, any of which can use the paste feature. When you complete the edits just save the new file with the appropriate DSD file name.

Yeah, I'm aware. It would just be a nice feature to have it that way internally without having to dig through a separate file.

I've been using the program for many years and have never experienced this issue, nor have I heard of this from other users. Perhaps you should post about this and maybe someone can figure out the cause/solution, but I doubt it is a bug in the program.

Been there, done that. Started a thread, found others that also experienced this:

DSDPlus - Suddenly Wiped And Rewritten DSDPlus.RADIOS file?!

First off, shame on me for not making frequent backups of my valuable data....that being said... A rather extensive activity log complete with hundreds of alpha tags (and countless hours of my time) disappeared suddenly. I noticed when I fired up DSDPlus today, all of the talkgroups and their...

forums.radioreference.com

Would love to see these few things addressed.

 

[cg]

Since everyone does not see the loss of radios, it may not be the program. I have most of my radio computers running 24/7 and have had it happen only a dozen or so times in the last 9 years. Where it has happened is more from power failure or otherwise not shutting the program down properly. Getting a basic UPS solved that

 

[adamfancher]

Since everyone does not see the loss of radios, it may not be the program. I have most of my radio computers running 24/7 and have had it happen only a dozen or so times in the last 9 years. Where it has happened is more from power failure or otherwise not shutting the program down properly. Getting a basic UPS solved that

I would say that 95-100% of the time it was due to a BSOD crash, which I do occasionally experience. Just seems a rather destructive way of dealing with a file that may be corrupt but still readable and fixable.

It seems the current methodology is: DSDPlus.radios, thousands of lines long, experiences an OS crash, pukes, and gets a little bit of throw up on iteslf. Seeing this, DSDPlus blows the entire thing away without creating a copy and replaces it with a nicely formatted blank page of nothing.

System crashes are not ideal, but they do happen, and it seems that in those cases a rather deliberate decision is made to clobber everything and start anew over a syntax/formatting error.

 

[scanfan03]

The RID and TG files can be edited in a regular word processor, such as Notepad, Wordpad or Notepad ++, any of which can use the paste feature. When you complete the edits just save the new file with the appropriate DSD file name.


I've been using the program for many years and have never experienced this issue, nor have I heard of this from other users. Perhaps you should post about this and maybe someone can figure out the cause/solution, but I doubt it is a bug in the program.

I've noticed that even after changing the radio file, DSD+ still doesn't import the aliases for NXDN but keeps the over the air alias, and when it doesn't decode it right (when the alias ends in ... because DSD+ forces you to listen to TGs until it gets a good radio ID decode), it will always track that radio id even if you have the TG locked out. I've changed the alias in the radio file and it still for some reason uses the alias that is still saved in the DSD+ program somewhere with the .... in it, so therefore anytime that ID keys up on a locked out TG DSD+ follows it.

BUT, when you change the ID alias in the DSD+ program itself, it takes.

Kind of hard to explain, I hope that makes sense.

 

[CanesFan95]

Are you removing the asterisk * when editing the radio alias?

 

[cg]

There is an asterisk before the alias in quotes. If you delete that, the alias will remain as it is. So allow them to populate, once you are happy, delete the *
done:
TIIIStd, L1501:13, 600-72-900, 600-72-201, 50, Normal, 61, 2024/02/28 5:46, "Portable 1 "
TIIIStd, L1501:13, 600-72-900, 600-72-202, 50, Normal, 117, 2024/02/15 22:23, "Portable 2"
TIIIStd, L1501:13, 600-72-900, 600-72-203, 50, Normal, 51, 2024/02/15 10:39, "Portable 3"
not yet done:
TIIIStd, L1501:13, 600-72-900, 600-72-204, 50, Normal, 56, 2024/02/14 7:34, *"Portable 4"
TIIIStd, L1501:13, 600-72-900, 600-72-205, 50, Normal, 25, 2024/02/15 10:48, *"Portable 5"
TIIIStd, L1501:13, 600-72-900, 600-72-206, 50, Normal, 59, 2024/02/14 5:04, *"Portable 6"

 

[redbeard]

Any chance of adding the capability to paste from the clipboard when entering Alpha tags? This would make live changes so much easier.

Have you tried using the keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste?

 

[redbeard]

Have you tried using the keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste?

Disregard, this doesn't work either.