Monday, October 04, 2010

N1MM Logger... was this so hard to answer ?

I'm not the one writing this app so it would seem that although you get what you pay for and it's very good, they pick and choose what they care to address.

Now my resolution is 1680 by 1050 native but there is no way I'm having my eyes pulled out of their sockets by that tiny resolution. If America isn't using the 125 percent magnification, no wonder it gets out of work and is apt to kill you by running you off the highway driving home after enduring eye strain all day.

For a year or so I asked what the issue was with the Grayline map looking like this and it was like talking to a wall. I tried lots of stuff including trying to edit the image until tonight another ham told me that he installed it on Windows 7 64 bit Professional, and I once again thought what might be different. Now, all the other apps are fine with the magnification. Sorry to say that the one coded by professionals is the one that has choked.

I set the magnification back to 100 percent... and it was fine. That's not normal. That's a compatibility error and given the advanced age of most hams I'd have expected better help in figuring this out. That is, unless the same contesters don't know the difference because they're running Win XP SP1 with no antivirus and no firewall on a 1 GHz or higher Celeron and with their wireless router blowing in the breeze.

Or, they too run you off the road at 4 PM and wouldn't know the difference if they were squinting anyway.

Theory three is that they wouldn't know how to change the resolution even if they did retire from Lockheed.

I now assume that the issue will still be ignored.

As I said, MMTTY, MMSSTV, MMVARI, DX4WIN, CC USER, WINLOG32, DXLAB, HAM RADIO DELUXE, UI-VIEW 32 (that hasn't been updated in years due to the code being gone with the death of the author)... none have balked at being made readable like N1MM Logger did.