Re: Web5250

Should have said:

so if you press enter the entire screen lights up with errors because 
all the characters are off by 5 (in position 1 instead of position 6)

Pete


Pete Helgren wrote:

> How do you do that?   I wish I knew more about the inter workings of 
> tn5250j.  One of these days I'll roll up may sleeves and get my hands 
> dirty and muck around in the code base for a few weeks.....
>
> That took care of the ability to edit the code, however, there appears 
> to be an alignment issue with the data as it appears in SEU.  SEU must 
> have a field that tells it how to align the data on the screen because 
> the Type entry in SEU normally aligns to position 6 (at least in an 
> RPG OPM program) and in this case the type field aligns to position 1 
> so if you press enter the entire screen lights up with errors because 
> all the characters are off by 1. If you could point out where to look 
> for this, I could take a shot at it.  The field itself, in debug, does 
> not have the leading blanks and I can't tell how SEU "knows" to align 
> the data since tn5250j DOES align the data.
>
> I'll also add a properties file that will hold the IP address so we 
> don't have to keep changing IP addresses if we fully update the code.  
> I'll also investigate the "cursor movement" issues.
>
> Final question:  How do we want to handle the CVS access on this?  
> This is a pretty small piece of code so far.  We could:
>
> 1. Create a sub project of tn5250j and make the code available there.
> 2. Create a new SF project .
> 3. I could get you set up with CVS access on our CVS server.  I might 
> be able to get anonymous access set up  for folks to check out the 
> source but I am really not in a good position to set up multiple 
> committers and such.
>
> Your call. I know that Richard is interested in the code and I expect, 
> if I post to a few other lists that I participate in , that we could 
> get some volume of interest on this.  I just don't want to announce it 
> being available until we are ready for folks to access the code. What 
> do you think?  I'll do the legwork on the SF project or our company 
> CVS if you think that is the best way to go. As admin on tn5250j, 
> you'd have to set up the sub-project (however that is done).
>
> Pete
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