Re: support for SAVE PARTIAL SCREEN and possible restructuring

Also, we'll need a win32 directory. You omitted that from your list.

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Scott Klement  http://www.scottklement.com

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, James Rich wrote:

Hi everyone,

It has been awhile since much has happened on the list. I've been working on tn5250 and x5250 but haven't committed anything yet. I've fixed several bugs in x5250 (particularly related to non-US keyboards) and added support for SAVE PARTIAL SCREEN to lib5250.so. This last fix is necessary for QSH to work in enhanced mode so it is probably a pretty important fix to commit.

I've also been working on organizing the source a little better. I see a few benefits from doing so: old source is moved out (like the slang interface), the code that builds lib5250 vs. the other executables is better distinguished, the various executables and library may all be built independantly of each other, and builds for external projects like x5250 are simplified. So I propose the following two organizational changes for your consideration:

structure 1:

Split the source into five top level sub directories of tn5250 like this:

tn5250->
        curses->
                files needed for autoconf
                ChangeLog, etc.
                src->
                        Makefile.am
                        cursesterm.c
                        cursesterm.h
                        tn5250.c
        lib5250->
                files needed for autoconf
                ChangeLog, etc.
                src->
                        Makefile.am
                        buffer.c
                        buffer.h
                        codes5250.h
                        conf.c
                        conf.h
                        dbuffer.c
                        dbuffer.h
                        debug.c
                        debug.h
                        display.c
                        display.h
                        field.c
                        field.h
                        macro.c
                        macro.h
                        menu.c
                        menu.h
                        printsession.c
                        printsession.h
                        record.c
                        record.h
                        scrollbar.c
                        scrollbar.h
                        session.c
                        session.h
                        sslstream.c
                        stream.c
                        stream.h
                        telnetstr.c
                        terminal.c
                        terminal.h
                        tn5250-autoconfig.h
                        tn5250-config.h
                        tn5250-private.h
                        tn5250.h
                        transmaps.h
                        utility.c
                        utility.h
                        version.c
                        window.c
                        window.h
                        wtd.c
                        wtd.h
        lp5250d->
                files needed for autoconf
                ChangeLog, etc.
                src->
                        lp5250d.c
                        scs.c
                        scs.h
                        scs2ascii.c
                        scs2pdf.c
                        scs2ps.c
        python->
                files needed for autoconf
                ChangeLog, etc.
                src->
                        Makefile.am
                        py5250.py
                        tn5250-python.c
        slang->
                files needed for autoconf
                ChangeLog, etc.
                src->
                        Makefile.am
                        slangterm.c
                        slangterm.h
                        tn5250.c (maybe?)

structure 2:

tn5250->
        files needed for autoconf
        ChangeLog, etc.
        src->
                curses->
                        (same as above)
                lib5250->
                        (same as above)
                lp5250d->
                        (same as above)
                python->
                        (same as above)
                slang->
                        (same as above)

I think either way would achieve the improvements I mentioned. Both should be equal amount of work in terms of the build. So I think it is just preference. So, structure 1, structure 2, or no change at all?

James Rich

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