Re: 5250 rules

Joe,

In a message dated 97-06-21 13:58:48 EDT, you write:

> Now that color PCs are the rule rather than the exception, I am much more 
> conscious about adding color to screens rather than just attributes such as

> underline, hi-lite and reverse image. What bothers me is that I have a 
> limited number of colors and 2 of those are undesirable. Both turquoise and

> yellow fill a dot in between each character that I think is more
distracting 
> than the color can make up for. Could someone explain why this is? Or even 
> better, why does it still need to be that way? Is there anything that I can

> do to turn this off on the AS/400 or the PC?

I fail to understand it as well.  This (seperation character) stuff dates
back even prior to the S/36, and I didn't understand it then either.  I would
offer a word of warning to those of you considering a mixed environment in
the near future -- colors and attributes aren't uniform between IBM
monochrome, color, and third party PC emulator displays.  On PC's, underline
often doesn't appear at all.  Sometime HI appears, sometimes WHT appears --
your best bet is to make fields both HI AND WHT.  Blue often appears as
turquoise, without the seperator characters.  In testing applications, try
them on a "green screen", a color monitor, AND a PC running your emulator of
choice...

JMHO,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@AOL.COM

"The saints are the sinners who keep on trying." -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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