The
frequency, Off (time off), and #Out are filled by the program.
All the others can be populated by manual keyboard entry or by
selection from the Rx panel. The time off, Off, is continuously
update with the current GMT. The time on, On, will be filled in
when the Call is updated, but can be modified later by the operator.
A right click on the Rx panel brings
up a context sensitive menu that will reflect which of the two QSO
capture views you have open.
 Normal Short Menu |  Normal Long Menu |  Contest Short Menu |   Contest Long Menu |
If
you highlight text in the Rx pane then the menu selection will operate
on that text. If you simply point to a word of text and right
click then the menu selection will operate on the single word.
Certain
fields may also be populated with automatic parsing, Call, Name, Qth
and Loc. You point to the Rx pane word and then either
double-left-click or hold a shift key down and left click. The
program will attempt to parse the word as a regular expression to
populate the Call, Name, Qth, and Loc fields in that order. It
may place some non standard calls into the Loc field if they qualify as
a proper Maidenhead Grid Square, such as MM55CQ. That may be a
special event station, but it also looks like a grid square locator
value. You need to decide when that occurs and use the pop up
menu for those special cases. The first non-Call non-Loc word
will fill the Name field and subsequent qualify words will go into the
Qth field.
A highlighted section of text, can always be copied
to the clipboard for subsequent pasting elsewhere. The Copy menu
item will be active when text in the Rx pane has been highlighted.
That text can also be saved to a file. Use the "Save
as..."
menu item for that purpose. All data fields in fldigi share a
common set of keyboard shortcuts. Linux users will recognize
these as familiar Emacs shortcuts. There is also a small popup
menu that can be opened for each field by right clicking the contents with the
mouse:

Highlighted
text will be overwritten when a paste is selected. Otherwise the
clipboard will be pasted at the current cursor position.
You can query on-line and local CD based data base systems for data regarding a Call. Set up your query using the
Callsign Db configuration tab.
You make the query by either clicking on the globe button, or
selecing "Look up call" from the menu. The latter will also move
the call to the Call field and make the query.
If you have
previously worked a station the logbook will be searched for the most
recent qso and fill the Name, Qth and other fields from the logbook.
If the logbook dialog is open that last qso will be selected for
viewing in the logbook.
You open the logbook by
selecting from the View menu; View/Logbook. The logbook title bar
will show you which logbook you currently have open. fldigi can
maintain an unlimited (except for disk space) number of logbooks.