Re: [LINUX5250] x5250 version 0.4.3 released

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Scott Klement wrote:

> > Now I'm wondering, what is x5250 missing that tn5250 does?  I would really
> > like to get release 0.5 out that is feature complete with tn5250 0.16.4.
>
> Do you mean 0.16.5? (Why would you be trying to be compatible with an old
> release of TN5250?)

Were any new features added to 0.16.5?  I picked 0.16.4 because that was 
the latest when I started working on x5250 in earnest.  I just wanted to 
avoid a moving target.

> > Right now the only thing that comes to mind is key remapping which I'm
> > saving until after x5250 0.5.
>
> Yeah, that has to be done in the windows version as well.  We really
> should try to sync-up x5250 and the windows version.  It'll confuse people
> if the two behave significantly differently.  When someone thinks of a
> piece of software having "X11" and "Windows" and "Console" support, they
> expect it to work pretty much the same way in all three of those versions.
>
> We should identify which features work differently and figure out how to
> make them (at least from teh user's perspective) work the same way.

I have some ideas about how I want to approach key mapping.  I also am 
working on a macro interface that should be nice.  I certainly agree that 
x5250 and the windows tn5250 should be similar, but I don't think I want 
to start coding cross platform widgets.  gtk5250 is probably better for 
that.  x5250 doesn't even use a widget toolkit (that's why the menu is so 
spartan looking).

But perhaps more urgent is getting more 5250 features into lib5250.  I 
need to work on my enhanced patch more.  Many of the things I want to do 
with x5250 1.0 depend on lib5250 fully supporting all of the 5250 
protocol.

James Rich

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