Re: Mochasoft and Mac OS 9.1 -- MIDRANGE-L


On 04/04/2005, at 8:35 PM, Rob Dixon wrote:

I apologise for my earlier positng with the wrong subject!!!

I posted the message below on PC-Tech but only got a response relating
to MAC OS X.

A client wants to use mochasoft 5250 emulator on a Mac with newly
installed Mac OS 9.1.
He has downloaded and installed the Mocha emulator but none of the
function keys work and he gets a MAC OS 9.1 message about programming
the function keys if he presses any of them.

I have installed Mochasoft on MacOS 9 in the past. As I recall it was a bit weird but not this weird. Have they also installed a keyboard mapping tool? I'm not sure about Mac desktop keyboards because we have iBooks and PowerBooks but on both of those you have to press and hold the Fn key to make the function keys pass to the application. If you just press the function keys they do Mac-specific things.

Is this how it should be?  A quick glance at the Mocha help showed that
it told you how to change keyboard mapping within the emulator but not
that it was necessary to map them in OS 9.1 before you could get the
emulator up and running properly.

Has anyone any experience of using Mocha with Mac OS 9.1?

Only that I've installed it and run it and don't recall any such behaviour.

The response that I received relating to OS X stated that Mocha ran under OS X "out of the box" without any set up being necessary. This is what I would expect under OS 9.1 but the Mac software house who installed 9.1 (without my knowledge) say that function keys have to be enabled in each application that uses them in both 9.1 and OS X, even for instance for IE.

Mochasoft did run out of the box for me on MacOS 9 and it does run out of the box on MacOS X although I believe their web site says it is unsupported on PowerBooks but it works fine (I just don't like it as an emulator: keyboard handling is too slow, cut-and-paste is line oriented and unusable for the things I do, and it doesn't support the enhanced 5250 data stream).

I no longer have MacOS 9 available, all my systems are on MacOS X which is much better in so many ways. Why are they running MacOS 9 anyway? OS 9 is very old now and I think Apple have dropped support for it.

The "Mac software house" are correct that function keys have to be enabled in an application but that's no different from WinDOS. The application has to trap the key press and do something as a result.

You could try checking the System Menu->Control Panel->Keyboard->Function Keys to see if there are any hot function key assignments that may be interfering with the application.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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