Hi Joop, On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 09:23:25AM +0100, Joop Stakenborg wrote: > Op 03-11-19 om 19:56 schreef Ervin Hegedüs: > >Hi Joop, > > > >On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 05:41:26PM +0100, Joop Stakenborg wrote: > >>I have been using tlf 2 times today: during the ukrainian DX contest and the > >>HSC CW contest. I have managed to write a rules file for the ukrainian, but > >>not for the HSC. > >> > >>Does anyone know how to do this? Multiplier is easy enough with COUNTRY_MULT > >>but how do you score points? It is 5 points for member, who send their > >>member number and 1 point for non-members, who send 'NM'. > >I'm afraid actually you can't do that. > > > >There are so much possibilities to control the scoring, but not > >for this. > > So, what would it take to have this added to tlf? > > We already have ONEPOINT, TWOPOINTS and THREEPOINTS, can we also have > FIVEPOINTS?
this is a good question :). I think there is some historical reason (as many other things in Tlf :)), but of course, we can change it. The first part of your ideas are simple (POINTS=n). > Even better, how about adding points depending on the exchange, > something like POINTS="NM",1. Using POINTS= would make configuration of > scoring easier. We could use POINTS=1, POINTS=2, POINTS=3, POINTS=5 instead > of ONEPOINT, TWOPOINTS and THREEPOINTS or even FIVEPOINTS. Of course > multiple POINTS= lines would have to be possible. For example: > > POINTS=5 > > POINTS="NM",1 I think that something like this could be a solution, but what about the other patterns? What if you can describe the pattern only with some regex? > >>Also, is there a way for tlf to automatically fill in the member number in > >>the exchange field, like yfktest does? > >yes, I think that could work - see INITIAL_EXCHANGE directive > >(where you're one example :)) > > > > Thanks, I will have a look. I am still using yfktest in the CWOPS mini CWT > contest, but would like to migrate to tlf completely because development of > yfktest has stopped. ahm, sorry to hear that. :( 73, Ervin
