Re: Field Plus -- its not just for breakfast anymore!

["Jason M. Felice" <jfelice@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott Klement wrote:
> 
>  (Sorry, I accidentally deleted Mr. Felice's most recent reply on the
>   topic of field plus handling, so I can't quote it back... but he said
>   something to the effect of "field plus isnt set up in tn5250, so didnt
>   work in gnome-5250" and then he went on to say that its fixed in CVS.)
> 
> Okay, I see what I did... in my keyboard maps for the xterm & console
> versions of tn5250, I have my keypad "+" key mapped to field exit, rather
> than field plus :)  (I rarely work with negative numbers, so this isnt much
> of an issue for me)
> 
> I updated my sources from CVS, and tried the new field plus.  It works
> great in numeric fields, but gives an "X II" (need to press error reset
> to continue) in a character field.
> 
> On dumb terminals (and in other emulators) the field plus key, when used
> in a character field, acts just like field exit does...

Okay, moved one line.  Problem fixed.  In CVS.  You know the rest ;-)

> 

-Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice
(jfelice@cronosys.com)
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