Re: tn5250 Questions . . . -- LINUX5250


Hey! You ARE alive.   Did you get my patch from a week ago...  the
field+/field- fixes?   Can they be applied to CVS, or do they still need
more work?

The keymapping/scripting thing sounds interesting.   I keep meaning to
check out your RPG compiler.  When I try it now, I'm getting a "enter user
name and password" dialog box.  I can't get to the page.


On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Jason M. Felice wrote:

> Scott Klement wrote:
> > 
> > Hmmmm... I know the GTK version was going to do its own keymapping...  but
> > I believe Jason has simply been too busy to work on it.
> 
> Basically, yes.  The good news, tho, is that I have two other
> curses-based programs that I'm working
> on that need a generic way to do key bindings - one of them is a
> PostgreSQL browser/Query IDE that
> I use constantly for my day job (I wrote it in about a day), and the
> other is an RPG code editor for my RPG compiler.  I've come up with a
> sort of light-weight scripting language to do it over the last three or
> four days.
> 
> Although it's not complete, I will evaluate plugging it in to the tn5250
> code when it is.  It might be a little too much baggage for the tn5250
> emulator (read: this would probably replace the
> configuration-file-reading code and make python bindings - uh - ugly),
> or it may not...
> 
> On the upside, it will add the ability to do sophisticated, interactive
> macros.
> 
> -Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice
> 
> > 
> > Other than that, I don't know of any work...    For a situation where an
> > external terminal is connecting, I don't see how this COULD work.  Not all
> > the keypresses generate unique codes that it could look for...
> > 
> > For example, how would you make the left ctrl key be error-reset?  By
> > itself, it doesn't send any escape codes, unless you modify your keyboard
> > map (ala loadkeys or kbdcontrol under FreeBSD)
> > 
> > With an external terminal, that's not really an option.
> > 
> > Sure, if you wanted to make this a Linux-specific deal, you could
> > interface with the keyboard directly.  But that wouldn't help the external
> > terminal issue...
> > 
> > On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Jasper O'Malley wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Scott Klement wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > First thing to understand is...   tn5250 doesn't do any keyboard 
>mapping.
> > > > At all.  None.  It's done by Linux and the terminal.
> > >
> > > This reminds me, someone once talked about getting tn5250 to do internal
> > > keymapping, a la the BSD tn3270 app. This setup seems to make more sense
> > > to me, in that it would allow one to correctly report one's actual
> > > terminal type (or emulated terminal type) to the operating system, and
> > > have the app map 5250 keys to your terminal's keys. Does anyone know if
> > > any work has been done on this, yet? Just out of curiosity. I'd be lying
> > > if I said I had the time to do it m'self, but I was just wondering ;)
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Mick
> > >

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