cocoaModem

What’s New in cocoaModem 2.0 v0.32

Kok Chen, W7AY [w7ay (at) arrl.net]
Last updated: February 21, 2007


Click here for the previous (v0.31) What’s New page.





What has changed in v0.32 ?

This version of cocoaModem has a new MFSK16 interface. Upper sideband operation has been added to the FM Hellschreiber modes. Escape characters no longer causes cocoaModem to quit.



MFSK16

mfskmenu

cocoaModem now has an MFSK interface. (Only MFSK16 for now.)


Upper sideband in Hellschreiber

Feld Hell is sideband independent, but the FM Hell modes are not.

The FM Hell modulator and demodulator have up to now only been implemented for lower sideband (AFSK on the Yaesu FT-1000MP). When used in upper sideband mode, the display and transmission had their polarities inverted (the text shows up as reversed video with white/black reversed, and the other end also copies the transmission as a reversed image).

The FM Hell modes now obey the sideband menu in the Receive Config panel. When using upper sideband, text in FM Hell should now appear as they do in Feld Hell.


Escape characters from the keyboard

Escape characters that are typed into cocoaModem's TextViews are now ignored.

All characters that are typed into a text view used to be passed on to Cocoa's NSTextView class; that had caused an untrapped Escape key to close the main cocoaModem window. In turn, that had caused cocoaModem to Quit if the "Allow main window close button to quit application" preference is turned on.

The Escape character is no longer passed on to NSTextView.