| Use Your Mouse | This screen shot illustrates Pathfinder's graphical user interface. Enter a Target Callsign and then click on the twelve search buttons until you find the QSL route. | |
| Pathfinder displays the Stop button while a search is in progress. Click on this button to terminate the search. | ||
| If you allow the mouse to linger over a search button, Pathfinder will present the full name of the database to be searched. | ||
| Click the New button to clear the Target Callsign. | ||
| Click the Info for the latest Pathfinder information. | ||
Clicking the  button
displays the web page you previously visited. Note
that this button is not displayed until you leave one web page
for another -- either by clicking on a
hyperlink, or by clicking on a search button. |
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Clicking on the  button
displays the web page you visited before clicking the
Back button. Note that this button is not displayed until you click the Back button.
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| Or Your Keyboard | You can operate Pathfinder without removing your hands from the keyboard - each of the 12 function keys activates a search. Striking keys F1 to F6 is equivalent to clicking on a top-row search button; striking keys F7 to F12 is equivalent to clicking on a bottom-row search button. | |
| Strike the Escape key to terminate a search in progress. | ||
| Strike the Home key to clear the target callsign. | ||
| Dynamic Search | One second after you enter a Target Callsign, Pathfinder consults a built-in prefix table to determine the associated DXCC country. If Pathfinder knows of a web-accessible callbook for this country, it presents a dynamic search button directly beneath the Target Callsign textbox. Click here for more information using, maintaining, and modifying dynamic searches. | |
