re: the start/finish time method of recording an elapsed time which a lot of
folk are after. I'm leaning towards free format entry fields rather then 6
up/down fields. i.e. so you type in a finish time of 16:33:34 in a single
field rather than have 3 fields with up/down arrows on them. Any opinions
out there..? The reason is that it's actually faster to type in the time
like this.
Thinking about doing this for the elapsed time too... again, any opinions
out there.
Sorry about delay; 'been bogged down with real work lately...
Regards,
Colin
In the program we were using (before sailwave)we had seperate entry boxes
like you do but jumped to the next box if you entered a fullstop (the same
as pressing tab or enter).
Fullstop's would be better than : since they dont require you to use
the shift key and are available on the numeric keypad.
John
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-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Jenkins [mailto:colinjenkins@talk21.com]
Sent: 11 May 2001 07:48
To: Sailwave User Group
Subject: [sailwave] Start finish times etc
re: the start/finish time method of recording an elapsed time
which a lot of
folk are after. I'm leaning towards free format entry fields
rather then 6
up/down fields. i.e. so you type in a finish time of 16:33:34 in a single
field rather than have 3 fields with up/down arrows on them. Any opinions
out there..? The reason is that it's actually faster to type in the time
like this.
Thinking about doing this for the elapsed time too... again, any opinions
out there.
Sorry about delay; 'been bogged down with real work lately...
Regards,
Colin
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definitely sounds the right way to do it, doing drop down fields on say 25 starters will be tedious to say the least. A thought, some times when you are keying software registration codes they divide the number up into chunks so it fills 3 or 4 seperate fields (i’m talking microsoft here!) so when you’ve done the hour bit it, it automatically hops to the minutes field and then on to the secs field. The race officer will probably taken the time down in 16-33-34 format not using the colon as the divider and reading one thing and typing another can become equally tedious.
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----- Original Message -----
From:
Colin Jenkins
To: Sailwave User Group
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 7:47 AM
Subject: [sailwave] Start finish times etc
` re: the start/finish time method of recording an elapsed time which a lot of
folk are after. I’m leaning towards free format entry fields rather then 6
up/down fields. i.e. so you type in a finish time of 16:33:34 in a single
field rather than have 3 fields with up/down arrows on them. Any opinions
out there…? The reason is that it’s actually faster to type in the time
like this.
Thinking about doing this for the elapsed time too… again, any opinions
out there.
Sorry about delay; 'been bogged down with real work lately…
Regards,
Colin
`
Free format fine and simple.
can it be done to assume the hour leaving only mins:secs to enter until
hour changed ?
Not personally knowing how.
regards
John Cox
CYC
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----- Original Message -----
From: Colin Jenkins <colinjenkins@talk21.com>
To: Sailwave User Group <sailwave@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 7:47 AM
Subject: [sailwave] Start finish times etc
re: the start/finish time method of recording an elapsed time which a lot
of
folk are after. I'm leaning towards free format entry fields rather then
6
up/down fields. i.e. so you type in a finish time of 16:33:34 in a single
field rather than have 3 fields with up/down arrows on them. Any opinions
out there..? The reason is that it's actually faster to type in the time
like this.
Thinking about doing this for the elapsed time too... again, any opinions
out there.
Sorry about delay; 'been bogged down with real work lately...
Regards,
Colin
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