Re: [LINUX5250] Thanks! and new blinking issue.

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 Phillip.Watts@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> I read in the man page: It suggests that column separators
> don't work with curses and blinking doesn't work with xterm.
>

That's correct.  Curses is a text-only solution.  You cannot draw lines
in between characters because, that would be graphics, not text :)

> I assume xt5250 is an ncurses app in xterm.

tn5250 is an ncurses app, not xt5250.   xt5250 is just a shell script
that starts a new xterm and runs tn5250 in it.   It also sets some
environment variables to allow the XTerm file to be used for keyboard
mapping.

> Does that mean no hope on either of those attributes?

Hmmm... "no hope" sounds awfully bleak.   The GTK version of tn5250 isn't
totally complete, but it's graphical and therefore "has hope".   I don't
remember if column separators work in it, but I know that blinking works.
the GTK version ("gnome-5250") is just a different front-end from the
curses version you're used to, it uses the same lib5250 code.

Since the GTK version isn't finished yet, you have to get/build it
yourself from CVS.

>
> Or is there a terminal emulator I can switch to for blinking
> and not screw up something else?
>

Installing the GTK version won't screw anything else up.  It might be
worth trying out... if nothing else, you can go back to xt5250 if it
doesn't work as well as you'd like.

You can also help extend the GTK version so that it finally gets
completed, that would be really nice :)