Re: x5250 now supports copy/paste

What's up with the colors?  It comes up with a gray background and black
text, instead of the standard black background and green text.

Bold text still comes up as white, and is almost invisible on the gray
background.

It still flickers like crazy whenever you do something that involves
repainting the screen a lot.

The caret is still a hollow box which is the X11 standard for "this
window is not selected" which drives me nuts.

Also, when you left-click anywhere in the window, the caret disappears
until you type something.

The selection mechanism when copying text to the clipboard is strange.  It
seems to reverse image the characters as you drag the mouse, but doesn't
show any blanks that you might have selected, which makes it tough to see
exactly what's been selected.  Please try running gtk-5250, use the mouse
to select some text -- I'd suggest drawing your selection box the same
way, as that's how both gtk-5250 and the Windows version work --
consistency is good.

When you middle-click to paste some text, it pastes whereever the mouse
cursor is. If you like that functionality, fine, but please give me a way to
disable it. :)



On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, James Rich wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Just writing in with an update on the progress of x5250.  You can now do
> copy and paste.  Even better, you can do multi-line paste without causing
> the problems that currently exist in tn5250 (no fault of tn5250 - it's the
> xterm that gets in the way).  Not only that, but you can automatically
> make the left columns line up under the start paste position - very handy
> for pasting text copied from midrange.com mailing lists into SEU!
>
> Quite a few other improvements have gone into x5250 since I last posted
> here.  Check out the What's New section at:
>
> http://www.chowhouse.com/~james/x5250/
>
> With this release x5250 supports every feature that tn5250 does with the
> exception of the dup key and user font preferences.  There are still a few
> bugs to work out, but overall it works quite well.  I'd be very interested
> in hearing from people who use x5250 - whether it works or not :)
>
> The link to download the source is on the page referenced above or just
> grab it at:
>
> http://www.chowhouse.com/~james/x5250/x5250-0.1.5.tag.gz
>
> James Rich
>