fleshed out some commands (particularly flag setting and unsetting)

[spider.git] / cmd / Notes.txt

diff --git a/cmd/Notes.txt b/cmd/Notes.txt
index 3768d2c389c38275320a284eb4b8e8e50c9e6065..16b2a25c494c4761c8f95d731929931f7a688637 100644 (file)
--- a/cmd/Notes.txt
+++ b/cmd/Notes.txt
@@ -43,12 +43,13 @@ Programming Notes ($Id$)
 * slash characters are replaced by '_' so the equivalent name for 'show/qth'
   is 'Emb_show_qth'.
 
-* you would normally do a 'my $self = shift;' as the first thing. There
+* you would normally do a 'my ($self, $line) = @_;' as the first thing. There
   are a complete set of accessors for DXUser, DXCommandmode and DXChannel
   classes and these are the recommended way of getting at these classes.
   A fairly standard start might be:-
 
-  $self = shift;
+  my ($self, $line) = @_;
+  @args = split /\s+/, $line;
   $call = $self->call;
   $user = $self->user;
 
@@ -79,6 +80,23 @@ Programming Notes ($Id$)
   of an element (the client will put the correct one in if required 
   [but see below]).
 
+* As this is perl and it is very easy to alter stuff to get it correct,
+  I would like to see some intelligent argument processing, e.g. if 
+  you can have one callsign, you can have several. Interpret your
+  arguments; so for example:-
+
+    set/locator jo02lq       - sets your own locator to JO02LQ
+    set/locator g1tlh jo02lq - sets G1TLH's locator (if you are allowed)
+
+  or
+
+    show/locator             - displays your locator (and other info?)
+    show/locator in92jo      - displays the bearing and distance to 
+                               IN92JO using your lat/long or locator
+    show/locator jn56in in92jo  - bearing and distance between two
+                                  locators
+    show/locator gb7dxc      - bearing and distance to gb7dxc if poss.  
+
 * Anything you output with a > as the last character is taken to mean
   that this is a prompt and will not have a \r or \n appended to it.