Re: enhanced 5250 protocol patch

And if you want to know where the patch is I guess I better tell you :)

http://www.chowhouse.com/~james/x5250/enhanced.patch

On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, James Rich wrote:

> I've been working on adding support for the enhanced 5250 protocol to
> lib5250.  So far my work has been changing that connection negotiation to
> let the remote host know we support the enhanced protocol and handling the
> CREATE WINDOW Structured Field, REMOVE GUI WINDOW Structured Field, and
> REMOVE ALL GUI CONSTRUCTS Structured Field commands.
>
> These new features require +enhanced to be in the user's ~/.tn5250rc file
> to be enabled.  Without it, no changes occur so it shouldn't affect anyone
> (unless they change their .tn5250rc file, obviously).
>
> Interestingly, with my patch cursor progression works correctly for
> continuous fields.
>
> With this patch a new window handling method is required when +enhanced is
> enabled.  x5250 version 0.1.8 shows an incomplete implementation of the
> new method.  Compiling x5250 0.1.8 with -DEHANCED defined will enable the
> new handlers.
>
> This patch adds a new window structure to track every window created with
> the CREATE WINDOW Structured Field.
>
> This patch is against current CVS.
>
> James Rich
>
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James Rich

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