Re: tn5250j on linux with java 1.5.0

Patrick and all

The previous are messages that I had copy pasted in my todo list because 
they were sent to my private e-mail.  Thought I would throw them out 
there to see if they need to be worked on or have already been fixed.

Regards

Kenneth

Kenneth Pouncey wrote:

> Patrick
>
> Here is a problem just reported a couple of days ago with a code fix 
> attached:
>
>Bugs item #1333978, was opened at 2005-10-21 12:02
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>You can respond by visiting: 
>https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=376973&aid=1333978&group_id=22923
>
>Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread,
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>Category: User Interface
>Group: None
>Status: Open
>Resolution: None
>Priority: 5
>Submitted By: manote (manote)
>Assigned to: Kenneth J. Pouncey (kjp1)
>Summary: Key mapping
>
>Initial Comment:
>OS = linux 2.6.5 Suse 9.1
>System = pIV 512MB
>JDK version = 1.5.0_05
>
>In the dialog for get the key, the label never get the
>focus and  can't set the key.
>Changing to the following piece of code, int the
>KeyConfigure class: 		
>
>JOptionPane opain = new JOptionPane(
>
>				message,
>
>				JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE,
>
>				JOptionPane.DEFAULT_OPTION, // option type
>
>				null,
>
>				options,
>
>				options[0]);
>
>by this other:
>
>JOptionPane opain = new JOptionPane(
>
>				message,
>
>				JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE,
>
>				JOptionPane.DEFAULT_OPTION, // option type
>
>				null,
>
>				options,
>
>				null);
>
>
> the label can obtain the focus and can set the key.
>
> Regards
>
> Kenneth
>
> Patrick Bielen wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> Recently i installed Ubuntu Linux (which is the best distro i've seen
>> in the last 7 years imho) and that is where the troubles began.
>>
>> Running java 1.5.0_05 on my linux box gives the next troubles...
>>
>> 1) Splashscreen stays on top and the connection window is below
>>      it, there is not way to remove it until you actually make the
>>     connection to the iseries.
>>
>> 2) Keymapping does nothing... no matter which key you press,
>>     nothing happens and  you have to manually edit the keymap file.
>>     xdev gives other values then the values used in the keymap file,
>>    which makes it hard to find out which value you actually need.
>>
>> No need to say this is very frustrating, cause you loose a lot of
>> functionality in the first place.
>>
>> The second thing... a dutch user contacted me about the jython
>> commands that can be used in tn5250j. A few years ago i was
>> using this functionality a lot, but since i became SCJP i lost the
>> attention to the scripting feature in tn5250j. So there is a lot
>> changed in meanwhile, and commands changed also. The
>> website was never made up-to-date so it's damned hard to
>> actually find out what the exact commands are. Anybody that
>> knows what actually was changed ? _session.getscreen() seems
>> not to work anymore cause things are changed.
>>
>> So i think after almost one year of inactivity, that it becomes time
>> we pickup the project again and do the very last bugfixes, and
>> also remove the 1.3 code crap, to become some more up-to-dated.
>> I know the most of you guys are working on the browser version
>> of tn5250j, but that is not that interesting for the most users, cause
>> tn5250j standalone just does what it needs to do. So maybe we
>> can focus back on the program itself and make it bugfree on
>> windows and linux (and mac) for once and for all.
>>
>> Ofcourse i'm not the project leader, but seems he lost his interests
>> in the project cause we haven't heard him anymore for a very long
>> time. As i'm one of the people that joined the project in the very
>> first beginning it should be nice if we could make a deal, that i will
>> try to lead the team until Kenneth returns.
>>
>> What do you guys think ?
>>
>> Well maybe my java skills do not go that far as most of you, but
>> i will try to lead the project into the right directions. The most
>> important goal is to make it stable now, so we actually can
>> release a FINAL (stable) version. I'm into Linux now, so i can
>> heavily test the program on that platform now.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Patrick Bielen
>>
>>
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