I'm just saying it was a surprise.
I don't know anything about WSA other than I tried it once, saw that
each line of the simulated ISPF edit area was a separate edit box, and
that did it for me. I never tried it again.
On 1/26/2021 11:03 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 10:41:42 -0800, Tom Brennan wrote:
I haven't used SPF/PC in many years, but I do remember it doing things
that weren't possible via 3270, and those were sometimes a surprise.
For example, I think I remember it automatically scrolling down text
just by moving the cursor past the bottom of the screen. Can't do that
on a real 3270 terminal.
Are you suggesting (below) that's undesirable? I'd think it ideal. A 3270
emulator should (by configuration option) automatically send PF8 when
the user moves the cursor past the bottom of the screen.
One of my many dead-end projects was a C program that would run in the
background on Windows, listen on a port for your own TN3270 emulator,
and then simulate the TN3720 connection processing and basic ISPF
screens, editor, 3.4, etc. The idea was that you could use your
favorite TN3270 emulator for the equivalent of SPF/PC, which would then
eliminate the possibility of the SPF/PC surprises I mentioned. Then the
same code could be recompiled easily on Linux, since there's no GUI
code. Your own terminal emulator is the GUI. Maybe somebody else
already thought of this idea and finished it, unlike lazy Tom.
I think an enhanced ISPF should be factored as an X11 client, with
all the nice things that aren't "possible via 3270." Or is that what
WSA already does?
-- gil
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