I remember why I didn’t like treating Yaesu presets as SPECIALS… SPECIALS do not show up in my Banks tab. Is there a setting somewhere that can force them to be listed in Banks? Is ‘my' driver (ft1d.py) not doing something right in banks? I definitely have not studied the BANK_MODEL at all, so I’ve no clue where to start.
No, it's just that I don't think any other models have the ability to put specials in banks, so they're not shown. I can cook up a change to show them.
Furthermore, is there a convenient way to keep the Banks tab from showing all memories (the list is 1000+ long even if all-but-one memories is empty, and only then do the SPECIALS show.) It’d be nice to have empty memories blank the corresponding Banks line, UNLESS that Banks line has bank selections.
We could make the bank editor only show non-empty memories. Probably not much reason to have empty ones visible.
Maybe we already discussed this, but... is this a feature you actually want control over? Meaning, do you have a strong desire to be able to do this, or are you just thinking this is the way out of the box for errors that people have when they download a radio that has some of these channels in a bank? I'm asking because this seems (to me) to be a really oddball yaesu-ism that I can't really see myself using. Doing a bunch of work to enable it just because it exists doesn't really excite me. But, if the goal here is to implement it because it's useful to a wider audience, then fine.
--Dan