This is controlled by the state of menu item View, Hide Unused Fields. Simple to change.

On 05/08/2016 03:50 PM, Ted wrote:

On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 4:47 PM, Ted <tedfs3@gmail.com mailto:tedfs3@gmail.com> wrote:

While upgrading from CHIRP daily 20160419 to 20160507 I noticed that several fields normally populated with data are now empty in the latest daily build.

Just wondering if there was a change to not display default data in those fields in the latest build ? I apologize for not knowing, I’m still very new to HAM Radio

and really haven’t had a chance to study the way CHIRP files are written for different radios. Visually, I prefer the way the 20160419 build displays data as it’s

more consistent to my eyes. Just trying to understand if those are default values that are now not be displayed or if there is an error somewhere.

Thank you

20160419 build:

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20160507 build:

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On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 1:50 PM, Ted tedfs3@gmail.com wrote:

On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 4:47 PM, Ted tedfs3@gmail.com wrote:

...

While upgrading from CHIRP daily 20160419 to 20160507 I noticed that several fields normally populated with data are now empty in the latest daily build.

Just wondering if there was a change to not display default data in those fields in the latest build ? I apologize for not knowing, I’m still very new to HAM Radio

and really haven’t had a chance to study the way CHIRP files are written for different radios. Visually, I prefer the way the 20160419 build displays data as it’s

more consistent to my eyes. Just trying to understand if those are default values that are now not be displayed or if there is an error somewhere.

Thank you

20160419 build:

​

20160507 build:

​

Hi Ted,

You can read about this in the daily build announcement:

On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 12:12 AM, Build System donotreply@danplanet.com wrote:

Greetings,

A new daily build of CHIRP is available. This includes changes made directly to the tree yesterday, and may include additional features, bug fixes, and/or bugs. If you are interested in trying it, grab it from the following location:

http://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_daily/daily-20160507

A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows:

Changes for Build #400 [Tom Hayward tom@tomh.us] [platform] Support serial port names used by

OpenBSD. #3633

Submitted by Ted Roby: http://intrepid.danplanet.com/pipermail/chirp_users/2016-May/009868.html

[Dan Smith dsmith@danplanet.com] Removed AP510 image due to #3617

[Tom Hayward tom@tomh.us] [UI] Default "Hide Unused Fields" to enabled.

Completes #1779

The orignal patch to add this feature missed one place the hide_unused

value

is read from. This caused new installs to show the Hide Unused Fields box

as

checked, but not actually enable the feature. This patch adds defaut=True

to

that last remaining line of code so that this feature is enabled on the

first

run of Chirp.

You'll notice each change has a issue number. There's a little more information in the issue detail page http://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/1779

It explains that approximately two years ago the behavior you describe was set to be default. However, one spot was missed so this change had no effect. Last week I fixed it so that it's now working as intended.

This whole time, the Hide Unused Fields box has been checked on your install. Until last week, it was lying to you and not actually enabled. Now it hides fields that are not applicable to your current configuration (like a DTCS code when you're in Tone mode). You can disable this behavior with the View > Hide Unused Fields checkbox.

Tom KD7LXL