Re: Windows Display Problem

On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 15:30 +0100, Naylor Robert wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 09:16 -0400, Buck Calabro wrote:
> > Hi Naylor!
> > 
> > > tn5250 works fine in linux but on
> > > Windows no matter which font I'
> > > ve selected bold characters appear as
> > > standard characters boxed in with | at either side.
> > 
> > I use tn5250 on Windows and don't have any problems with bold. 
> > Looking at the screen shot (thanks!) it appears as if you are seeing
> > the 'column separator' attribute.  On a colour terminal, the 5250
> > protocol doubles up some attributes.  So DSPATR(HI) becomes the colour
> > white and so on.  It works the same in reverse: COLOR(YLW) display
> > column separators.
> > Without looking at the DDS, I can't be certain what attributes are in
> > use.  I'm attaching a shot of my display from GO MAIN so you can
> > compare.  If that isn't helpful, perhaps we can try working with
> > common DDS to see how your copy renders compared to mine.
> >   --buck
> 
> I won't be able to get hold of the DDS files Today (maybe not even at
> all) as I'm not part of the team which looks after the AS400.  To be
> honest I rearly used it - but I've ended up looking at an alternative to
> teamtalk. 
> 
> I can however provided part of the trace file for the second line
> http://robert.pobice.co.uk/as400.png (Info Depar etc)
> 
> (0x34) I (0xC9) n (0x95) f (0x86) o (0x96)   (0x40) D (0xC4) e (0x85) p
> (0x97) t (0xA3)   (0x40) ! (0x5A)   (0x40)   (0x40) S (0xE2) Y (0xE8) S
> (0xE2) O (0xD6) P (0xD7) R (0xD9)   (0x40) M (0xD4) e (0x85) n (0x95) u
> (0xA4)   (0x40) - (0x60)   (0x40) D (0xC4) O (0xD6)   (0x40) N (0xD5) O
> (0xD6) T (0xE3)   (0x40) U (0xE4) S (0xE2) E (0xC5)   (0x40) P (0xD7) L
> (0xD3) E (0xC5) A (0xC1) S (0xE2) E (0xC5)   (0x40) ! (0x5A) ! (0x5A) !
> (0x5A)
> (0x20)
> This->cy = 2, This->cx = 0
> SetBufferAddress: row = 3; col = 1
> 
> If it doens't have enough info let me know and I'll post anything else
> you need.
> 
> Also I didn't get any attachment.  Does this list remove them from any
> posts?
> 

I've just set the option colsep_style to dots - I think I may be able to
get the System past the user testing this way.  It would still be nice
if it could look the same as it did in Teamtalk (bar the red cross if
you try type where you shouldn't) but its heading in the right
direction.