From 663ed600132d480ede80df449c78eefaafb4125b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Moran <brian@trucentive.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2023 10:55:40 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] once fox has been reset, don't process decodes until decoding
 period ended

---
 widgets/mainwindow.cpp | 10 ++++++++++
 widgets/mainwindow.h   |  1 +
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/widgets/mainwindow.cpp b/widgets/mainwindow.cpp
index 1f5c80dca..44cbc28ef 100644
--- a/widgets/mainwindow.cpp
+++ b/widgets/mainwindow.cpp
@@ -9221,6 +9221,7 @@ void MainWindow::FoxReset(QString reason="")
   m_houndQueue.clear();
   m_foxQSO.clear();
   m_foxQSOinProgress.clear();
+  m_discard_decoded_hounds_this_cycle = true;     // discard decoded messages until the next cycle
   if (reason != "") writeFoxQSO(" " + reason);
   writeFoxQSO(" Reset");
 }
@@ -9400,6 +9401,15 @@ void MainWindow::houndCallers()
  * Distance, Age, and Continent) to a list, sort the list by specified criteria,
  * and display the top N_Hounds entries in the left text window.
 */
+  //  if frequency was changed in the middle of an interval, there's a flag set to ignore the decodes. Reset it here
+  //
+
+  if (m_discard_decoded_hounds_this_cycle)
+  {
+    m_discard_decoded_hounds_this_cycle = false;             //
+    return; // don't use these decodes
+  }
+
   QFile f(m_config.temp_dir().absoluteFilePath("houndcallers.txt"));
   if(f.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly | QIODevice::Text)) {
     QTextStream s(&f);
diff --git a/widgets/mainwindow.h b/widgets/mainwindow.h
index 3243e1e3f..34f516630 100644
--- a/widgets/mainwindow.h
+++ b/widgets/mainwindow.h
@@ -565,6 +565,7 @@ private:
   bool    m_bBestSPArmed=false;
   bool    m_bOK_to_chk=false;
   bool    m_bSentReport=false;
+  bool    m_discard_decoded_hounds_this_cycle=false;     // if something changes, like frequency, discard decoded messages that may be in-flight.
 
   SpecOp  m_specOp;