An operator's screenshot had it side by side: the Awards panel showed Morocco
validated on five bands, and the band/mode matrix two inches above showed the
entity as merely worked.
ADIF's QSL_Rcvd enumeration has both Y and V — "received" and "verified" — and
V is what a LoTW download writes for a confirmation the ARRL has validated. The
award engine's isYes accepted "Y" or "V". Everything else in the app compared
against 'Y' alone: the worked-before status grid, the slot statistics, the row
colouring by QSL status, the awards QSO list, the call history badges. So the
confirmations an operator cares most about were the ones that did not count.
Now one definition per side, named so the next reader finds the other:
qso.ConfirmedValues on the Go side, used by the queries themselves, and
isQSLConfirmed in lib/qsl on the frontend, which rowColors and the panels call
instead of testing the letter.
The Go test drives the real query shape against a real database with a 'V' row
— the constant being right is not the point, the queries using it is.
Replaces the four fixed rules with the model Logger32 uses and the operator
asked for: Worked / Confirmed / QSL sent / To be sent, and inside each, which
channels count — paper QSL, LoTW, eQSL, QRZ.com. No ticks means every channel,
because a rule the operator has not narrowed must not quietly become a rule
about nothing.
"To be sent" is FIRST in the order, and that is the substantive decision here.
A contact can be confirmed on LoTW and still owe a paper card; the colour an
operator scans for is the one meaning "something is still owed". Placed after
"confirmed" that row goes green and the card never gets printed.
"Worked" is the catch-all — nothing sent, nothing requested, nothing back — and
is off by default, since turning it on paints every remaining row.
R and Q both count as owed: ADIF says requested and queued, and both mean the
card has not gone out.
Logger32 draws a green square for a LoTW user and an X for a worked one. The
square is the part worth copying; the way it is drawn is not.
Colour on this map is already spoken for — it carries the entity status, and
the left edge of each pill stacks the new-park / new-county markers. Adding a
green fill for LoTW would put two unrelated meanings on one channel, and an
operator would have to work out which green meant what. So it is the same "L"
badge the cluster list draws, in the same muted blue, for the reason written
there: whether a station uploads to LoTW says nothing about whether the spot is
worth chasing.
Worked stations already read as worked here — the pill goes grey and the
status markers speak — so no X is needed.
Switchable in Settings → Appearance, and on by default: a `configured` flag
distinguishes "saved with this off" from "saved before the option existed", so
turning it off sticks instead of being undone by the next default.
The first version filled the whole row at 24%, and in a real log that meant
every row was painted: nearly every contact has SOME QSL state, so colour was
present everywhere and stopped being information — a striped background with
the data behind it.
The default is now a 3px stripe down the left edge. Same signal, nothing lost
to read it. A filled row is still offered, with a strength slider, for
operators who want the block — and the rule cards in Settings preview whichever
is chosen, so the decision is made by looking rather than by imagining.
Drawn as an inset shadow rather than a border: a border would shift the cells
three pixels on coloured rows only, and the columns would stop lining up.
Style and strength are normalised rather than rejected — a value out of range
is a slider that got away, not a reason to reset the operator's colours.
The "to send" rule only looked at qsl_sent, so a contact waiting to go to LoTW
— marked R, and the commonest not-gone-out-yet state in a digital log — matched
nothing and stayed uncoloured. It now covers any route still queued, and the
label says so.
New Settings → Appearance section: whole-row colouring in the log grid driven
by QSL / LoTW state, each rule with its own colour from a palette or a free
picker. What Logger32 does, with one difference that matters — the colour is
applied as a 24% tint, not a fill. Logger32's grid is white; this one is dark,
and a saturated user-picked colour behind white text is unreadable at exactly
the moment the operator is scanning for what still needs sending.
Rules are ORDERED and the first match wins, because a contact is usually
several of these at once: one confirmed on LoTW and by card is confirmed, not
"sent, awaiting reply". The order lives in the data so the panel can show the
rules in the order they actually apply, numbered.
The colour is interpolated into a CSS color-mix(), so anything that is not
plainly #rrggbb is refused on the way in and falls back to the default.
Also fixes the QSO number column, which was empty for contacts logged from
WSJT-X: that path inserts through the repo directly and never reached AddQSO.
Rather than chase each of the remaining bulk-insert paths — the POTA hunter
import and the LoTW/QRZ "add what I was missing" passes, which insert OLD
dates and so shift every number after them — the index now checks its length
against a COUNT and rebuilds when they disagree. One indexed count beats
remembering to invalidate in a place that does not exist yet.
rouggy