Home Contact Donate Login. Search form. Boost Software License 1. If this happens, the message is 'fragmented'. When receiving such a message on a pager, you normally wouldn't notice this, because in most cases the second part will be received before you are able to read the message.
When monitoring with PDW, it would seem that one capcode is receiving more than one message, because the fragmentation-bit is not being displayed.
You need to push "Apply" first, if you want t o keep the changes. Some users could already use the mousewheel to scroll through the received messages. This depended on the mouse driver. For those who couldn't use the mousewheel before, it should be possible now.
Also there is a new option within "Scrollback", which allows you to determine the scrolling speed. Using the commandfile, users can execute external programs via the commandline. The maximum number of characters which could be used as commandline command seemed a bit too short for longer messages.
This limit has been increased to such an extent that I don't expect any more problems. The commandfile can now also be used for monitor-only messages too. Before, the commandfile was only enabled for filtered messages. Now and then I receive reports that PDW sometimes stops decoding after a while, when using the serial port.
In some cases, the needle keeps on moving, but no more messages would appear. In other cases, the needle stops and in those cases it would be possible to reactivate decoding by selecting the soundcard, then reselecting the serial port. I tried to detect this "stop" and give PDW an interal reset if detected.
In version 2. When pusing "more", an extra edit control would appear and the pushbuttons below would move automatically a bit lower. As this didn't always seem to work correctly, all three controls are now visible, but read only. To enter a file, you'll need to select one via the browse button, which also allows you to enter a new filename. Finally, this is possible! Only the network and the pager s both know for sure the correct message type.
Unfortunately, some networks don't stick to these specifications and use the function bits differently, which makes it a bit more difficult to determine the correct message type.
Tone-Only messages will always be displayed correctly, as they are just an "empty message". Also, longer messages will also be displayed correctly, as there is a limit to the maximum number of numeric characters, making all longer messages alphanumeric.
The most difficult messages are those which are shorter than the maximum number of numeric characters, they can be numeric or alphanumeric.
PDW uses some tricks to "guess" whether a message is numeric or alphanumeric. In most cases PDW makes the right decision, but unfortunately sometimes a alphanumeric message gets to be displayed as numeric, or numeric messages as alphanumeric. Despite the improved accuracy I added a new option which allows PDW to decode the 4 function numbers as prescribed in the pocsag protocol specifications.
Please be sure to know that your network uses the function numbers as 'NTTA', otherwise some messages would be displayed incorrectly after all For those networks which don't use the function numbers as prescribed, there is also a new option in Pocsag Options : "If PDW can't make an accurate guess, display message both as numeric and alphanumeric".
Logically, those messages would also be counted twice in the statistics although actually one message was received. Anyhow, in those cases you can be sure that as least one of the two messages is correct When displaying a message twice, they will be 'grouped', using an empty line before and after these two messages, also if the "separate messages" option is disabled. Those options were originally meant to give the PDW users better access to their log files, since plain text files don't support colors and HTML files do.
Also, you could access the HTML logging on a local network or on the internet, protected with a password. Nowadays, there are lots of public online PDW monitors which was never my intention.
However, who really wants to continue the HTML logging, you could use the external command file. The external program PDW-Filter.
I received some requests that some were missing the option of checking for duplicate filters, which PDW-Filter offered them. PDW-Filter only compared capcodes, and since you can use more than one filter with the same capcode but with different text filters , my first thought was that it might be difficult to make a good comparison. Later, I thought of comparing both capcode and text filter.
If both are equal, we have a duplicate, and one of the filters can be removed. Only two duplicates at once can be displayed, if there are more than 2 equal filters you'll just have to check again. If PDW finds a duplicate, both filters and their labels will be displayed.
Those filters are clickable so PDW can display them in the filter window and you can decide which one has to be removed. Especially when the filters are 'grouped' per user and the label colors per user are the same, I thought it would be nice to display the label colors in the filter window. At first it might look a bit too colorful, but I got used to it myself after using it for a few days. When scrolling, you can see in just a glimpse which user s the filters belong to and also if a filter label might have the wrong color.
Just like in the filters window the filter label colors will also be displayed in the filter edit window, in the "Color" box. I've made up a nice name for this new option which arised out of the changed lay-out of some messages on one of my local paging networks. If you want to filter messages which contain the words "call" and "asap", but these words are not connected like "Call asap" or "Call the office asap", it wouldn't be possible to filter those messages rather on the word "Call" or "asap".
PDW now offers the possibility to minimize to the systemtray, so it won't be visible anymore in the taskbar. PDW can stay in the tray until you doubleclick the tray icon, or it can restore automatically when a certain message is received.
If you don't want PDW to restore automatically, only select the first option. Else, you can also select the second option and choose one of the 3 options below. Before, only the message text was compared to determine if an empty line was needed.
This "empty lines option" has also been improved a bit. When using "date log files" a new log file will be created automatically when the first message of a new day is received. In the previous version that new log file would start with an empty line. In the previous option I already mentioned 'clear screen'.
In this version you can choose whether you want to clear only the monitor window, the filter window of both windows. By default, both windows are selected. WAV has been changed a bit. Now PDW uses priorities which allow to 'override' an already playing wavfile :. If the priorities are the same, the length of the new file will be used to decide whether the playing file will be stopped.
A larger file will have a higher priority and will stop a smaller file. Normally, all messages would be displayed in the monitor window, and the filtered messages also in the filtered pane. Now you can select whether you want to see a filtered message in both panes, or only in the filter window, which causes the 'normal' messages and filtered messages to be fully separated. When pressing F11 these sizes will be switched. When using SMTP, you can now select other character sets.
Sometimes it can be useful to filter based on text, but only if that text is the first part of the message :. Sorry for the Dutch example, but on my local network, lots of messages start with "A1". In this example you will find "A1" in the middle of the message, and when filtering on "A1", this message will also be filtered. I received lots of requests for the possibility to define more than one separate filter file.
From this version you can define up to 3 separate filterfiles per filter. When clicking this button, you can enter an extra file. When using lots of wavfiles, it can sometimes be usefull only to hear files played by filtered messages. Via the option "Filterbeep" you can also enable the sounds for filtered messages only. Just like the multiple edit, this box has now 3 options :.
Normally, the PDW version and current mode would appear in the titlebar. From this version, you can select 2 extra options via Options, CTRL-O , to get some extra information in the title bar :. WAV has changed a bit. Before, a code had to be filtered if you wanted the capcode. Now this also works for monitor-only filters. PDW now has the option to add an empty line when the current messages differs from the previous message.
In this way, all messages with the same text are being 'grouped' and offers better readability. This only works for alphanumeric and group messages. I've received several emails in which people tell me that they are not able to change the font. Actually, this IS possible, but if PDW detects that the characters will become too large to fit in their columns, the change of font is ignored.
I can see that users could think that this is some kind of bug, but it is, in fact, protection to ensure maximum readability. From now on, the selectable font sizes are limited, and when selecting a font size which would cause the characters to become too large, the user will receive a messagebox with a warning.
I always thought that the filters in the filter window were a bit messy. The characters used a non-proportional font, which caused one character being larger than the other. This caused not all filters to line up as they should. PDW tried to display all filter options in columns, but that didn't really work out. Now, the filter window uses a proportional font, so all characters have the same size and all filters line up correctly with all filter options being displayed in 'columns'.
Some screen resolutions caused a horizontal scrollbar to appear in the filter window. Other resolutions caused the filter line to be cut off before the end of the line. Now, in all resolutions, the full line length will be used and " In the filter window, you can now perform a multiple edit. All filter options will be checked, and for example, if all filters are monitor-only, this box will be checked. If some filters are monitor-only, and others aren't, this box will be grayed meaning that it will be ignored when changing the selected filters.
You can still check this box so selected filters will become monitor-only. In this way, all checkboxes as well as the colors, sounds and separate filterfile can ben changed for all selected filters at once. After some requests it is now possible to hide the column containing mode, type and bitrate information, creating more space for the messages. In lower resolutions the window would become to big, in higher resolutions it would be a bit too small. From this version on, the size of the filter window and the buttons will be resolution dependent.
You can enter a search string capcode or label and PDW will search in the list of filters for possible matches. A name of log file is date-stamped. For example, " TXT " is raw log file for 08 October SeaTTY finds these sequences in symbol stream and writes messages separately in the " Messages " folder.
A name of message file is time-stamped. If station ID is found in a message, it is included in a filename. For example, " KA WAV " and " TXT ". Filter list includes 4-symbols mask, which can consist of digits, letters, "? These messages are not human-readable and consist of groups of digits. If message was started or stopped manually, it is saved nevertheless filter settings. The same button has " Stop " caption while message receiving and can be used to stop message receiving before "NNNN" footer.
PNG " is an image saved at on 10 July The left bottom window shows a tree of received messages and images. The right bottom window shows a text of selected message or preview of selected image.
To open message file in a text editor, open image file in an image editor or to play voice message, make double-click at the message window or at the tree window. If date is selected raw log file opens. To delete message or image, select it and press " Delete " key.
To delete all messages and images for one day, select desired date in the tree and press "Delete" key. When that option is selected, receiving symbol shift is switched to a "Letters" after receiving "Space" or "Line Feed" symbol. Manual switching of receiving symbol shift can be made by keyboard.
The hotkey for these commands is Alt-V. Take to attention that a minute of sound recording need above 1 MByte disk space. A sample rate must be , or Hz. Preferred file parameters are mono, 16 bit, Hz. There are two methods to correct sound card sampling rate variation against nominal frequency Hz. INI file, f.
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