Re: [LINUX5250] continued field support

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marc-Antoine Ruel wrote:
> With kind James Rich's help, I've been able to implement the 
> continued field support.

Hooray!!

> Still it need some testing and I'm on a very limited environment. 
> Indeed, there is much more to add. I won't be able to do much more 
> sadly. In my case, I've been able to create an ActiveX that runs on a 
> web page to show the terminal. Quite far from a text-mode app on 
> linux but much more ressource hungry. :)

So windows-only, right?

> I also added F-key recognization (kinda like "F1"-"F24" becomes a 
> button) and cursor displacement with the mouse, but only in my 
> version. It would be almost like a cut'n'paste to put it in linux or 
> standard win32.
>
> I must warn that the code hasn't been tested on linux. In fact, it 
> has been minimally tested. It must be tested by someone else and I 
> don't think many people have the time to do this.

Does is even run on linux?  I thought this was an ActiveX control?

> So if anyone has interest for this, or to merge in main source tree, 
> just send me an email and I'll send a patch (or full source tree) for 
> HEAD.

Well I'm interested.  Either a patch or full source tree is fine.  Just 
post is somewhere (it's probably too big to post inline and attachments 
are stripped by the list).

James Rich