John, I am another long time programmer, but I have generally been using the WRQ Reflection for IBM emulator. They and Attachmate have now merged or one bought the other, I don't remember which. Under Windows XP, I have used Reflections for IBM version6.20 for a long time with Window-Eyes and that has worked well. The latest version of Reflection is something like 14, though, so you probably can't find 6.20. However, I did play with version 14 and did get the cursor to track although I had other problems. I am forced to install Reflection 14 during the next day or two because of my employer switching to Vista, and I can let you know more specifically if that will work.
However, I can't say that I've ever seen a case where JFW tracks a cursor that Window-Eyes does not track. I know there were problems with certain versions of Extra, though, but I thought problems were in the 6.x versions. Be sure that you have the screen as uncluttered as possible, turning off any on-screen keyboards and the like. Also, be aure to try a cursor detect to see if that finds the cursor. It can be helpful to turn off the highlighting of the current line by the emulator if you have that option. If none of this works, then experiment with the cursor shape. I have always used the underline cursor, though, so I would not expect that to be a problem. Also, experiment with the blink rate. Some emulators have several choices including "System." If there is a "system" choice I have generally chosen that to be sure that there isn't some special hook being used, but I don't honestly know if that matters or not. You might turn all highlight tracking off temporarily to see if perhaps Window-Eyes is getting confused by the color scheme and thinks it needs to track highlighting. I've seen this happen but rarely. If that is the case and you need highlighting, you can work on Window-Eyes looking for specific attributes rather than using the Automatic setting. If none of this seems to work, what does Window-Eyes say when you do the cursor detect which is usually CONTROL- INSERT-C? Good luck. Best regards, Steve Jacobson On Tue, 12 May 2009 11:25:16 -0500, John W. Carty wrote: >I'm a long time mainframe programmer (cobol believe it or not) and I use >attachmate extra 3270 version 7.11. >I'm slowly weaning myself away from jaws since it seems to be growing >ever more instable. And for almost every application I use, I've made >the switch to WE. >However, with extra WE seems not to be able to locate the cursor. I have >always used a blinking underline with jaws but I have tried all other >cursor settings with We and it cannot find the cursor. >Does anyone use extra with We, what version, and how did you configure >WE to operate properly? Have any of you had better luck with a different >terminal package? >Thanx, >John Carty >If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original >sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and >your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending >your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. >All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be >searched through and sorted using the search >form at the bottom of the page. >If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to >[email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body >of the message. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
