Enhancements/Change Log for Tn5250j

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--- v0.7.6 ----------------------------------------------------- 20/10/2015 ---

FIX: bug the ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException, which causes screen freeze (again, as

in #1222 or bug #187)
FIX: Updated JarBundler and fixes for Mac OSX (Thanks to Christian Gut)

--- v0.7.5 ----------------------------------------------------- 21/02/2015 ---

FIX: bug 'DataStreamProducer stumbles upon invalid packets' ;

https://sourceforge.net/p/tn5250j/bugs/186/
FIX: Better support for RTL language support - Thanks to Roi Mor
([email protected])

--- v0.7.4 ----------------------------------------------------- 22/07/2014 ---

ADD: Support for inserting APL color codes in SEU - Thanks to Tomasz Krajewski
FIX: ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when opening certain type of window - Thanks to
Roi Mor ([email protected])
FIX: Trailing spaces to RTL fields. Without it, spaces needs to be added manually
to each RTL field - Thanks to Roi Mor ([email protected])

--- v0.7.3 ----------------------------------------------------- 19/05/2013 ---

FIX: Start Tn5250j with views from last time running

--- v0.7.2 ----------------------------------------------------- 09/05/2013 ---

FIX: NPE when 'emul.startLastView' is set but 'emul.view' is empty

--- v0.7.1 ----------------------------------------------------- 22/02/2013 ---

FIX: Initial default key bindung was broken - Thanks to Roi Mor
([email protected])

--- v0.7.0 ----------------------------------------------------- 19/01/2013 ---

ADD: Support for detecting reverse fields - Thanks to Roi Mor

([email protected])
FIX: Built in code page support for Hebrew (CP424) - Thanks to Roi Mor
([email protected])
FIX: Wrong keyboard mapping for CCSID 870-pl and 870-sk
FIX: Reworked tab close & session close, now unified handling on all events
FIX: Charset for CCSID 1141, according to
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/cs/cs00695.html
FIX: Updated JarBundler and fixed tnicon.icns (Thanks to Christian Gut)
FIX: bug id:3469004 (Scrolling Problem) - Thanks to Frank T�pfer
FIX: Updated IzPack installation - Thanks to sgonzalez3884
CHG: New default option use Enter instead of Ctrl key (See feature request ID:
3161670 and poll on mailing list in 01/2011)
CHG: New default option use 'mouse wheel: send page up/down'
CHG: New default option 'confirm signon screen before close'
CHG: Simplified internal mouse wheel scroll implementation, discarded older JRE
support (older than 1.4.2)
CHG: When selecting areas with mouse, always start a new rectangle
CHG: Internal code page conversions (charset mappings) refactored
DEL: Dropped internal source code for older JRE support (older than 1.4.2)
DEL: Finally dropped broken MDI implementation

--- v0.6.3 ----------------------------------------------------- 25/05/2011 ---

ADD: About dialog/tab (JSE6 only)

ADD: center connect dialog on top of main frame/window
ADD: tool tips for session tab titles
FIX: wrong display of title text, when tab title changes
FIX: unchecked confirmTabClose in properties (JSE6 only)
FIX: bug id:3292459 (Reload macros file on launch)
FIX: bug id:3205299 (email addresses prefixed with "mailto:" are not considered as
hotspots)
FIX: bug id:3179868 (Text and fields are not displayed)
FIX: bug id:3161636 (System Name not in window title bar anymore)
FIX: bug id:3160345 (Default value of column separator looks strange)
FIX: bug id:3158911 (command line switch -s not working any more)
FIX: bug id:3158902 (settings folder in user's home directory is not created)
FIX: bug id:3155293 (hangs when called with explicit host name)
FIX: reworked internal code for debugging (JSE6 only)
CHG: removed old images (JSE6 only)

--- v0.6.2 ----------------------------------------------------- 08/12/2010 ---

ADD: Improved tab bar with SSL enabled icon (JSE6 only)
ADD: Nimbus theme as default (JSE6 only)
ADD: Multiple icons in different sizes (JSE6 only)
ADD: Saving last connected session at user's preference store, preselecting
last selected session on startup
ADD: Sessions table, sorting by session name ignoring case
ADD: Sessions table, sorting by host/ip is possible
ADD: Screen export: concat a '.txt' to the exported file name, if no extension
was given
ADD: Screen export: set the file filter '*.txt' as default
ADD: New icon set (sf-patchid: 2110159)
ADD: About dialog/tab
ADD: Saving last selected session in user's system preferences
ADD: Send keyboard type, codepage and charset to configure display device
(correct CCSID)
ADD: feature request "Confirm on tab close" (feature request id: 2714023,
3085825), contributor: Craig Duncan (duncan3dc)
FIX: IndexOutOfBoundsException, when trying to reorder a single tab
FIX: NullPointerExceptions when trying to transmit no file to/from AS400
FIX: ClassCastException when using MDI mode (sf-patchid: 2555604)
FIX: SSL connecting problem since Java5 (sf-patchid: 2555362)
FIX: NPE when using console logger
FIX: Codepage converter 1147, 1148, 870, 871, 1025, 1026, 1112
FIX: Dialog for SysReq is not centered within the main window
(sf-bugid: 2842807)
FIX: Instantiating Inflater/Deflater causes OutOfMemoryError;
finalizers not called promptly enough (JVM bug 4797189)
CHG: Update log4j-1.2.15
CHG: Renamed the applet to "org.tn5250j.My5250Applet" to avoid confusing
with 'Application'
CHG: Reworked some codepages (277,280,284,285,297,500)
CHG: lot of internal code reworked

--- v0.6.0 ----------------------------------------------------- 19/06/2005 ---

18/06/2005 New release with a whole lot enhancements. Do not remember them all
read the Readme.txt file for more information

13/03/2004 Fixed some field exit problems.

15/02/2004 Well we have not kept this up to date at all. Hopefully

we can catch it up to date from now on.

Fixed the bounding area.

Added kunstoff look and feel - Patrick Bielen
Added access to functions/operations with password access
Added delete macros functionality - Right click on the macro
Fixed up some of the panels - Patrick Bielen
Fixed a lot of problems in E-mail - Patrick Bielen
Added new options to e-mail functions
- New output to image .png
- New access to just send quick message with file attachment -
Patrick Bielen
- Send screen image via e-mail - Fixes by Patrick Bielen
Added new options to define the margins for the Print Screen
function.
Added auto login support
New splash screen donated by Carlo Daffara from Conecta
http://www.conecta.it
Added blinking cursor. Beta code and may leave traces
Added a new keep alive function to fix some network disconnect
problems.

Well just run it to see all the new stuff

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05/09/2002 Lots of clean up for bounding area selection.

04/09/2002 Added support to map scripts to the Key Mapping

Added new access funtions to get SessionManager and a list of

Sessions from scripts.

Fix for bug 604515 for selection of mouse in continued area.

25/08/2002 Sort of the keyboard functions on Map Keys...

Fixed the remapping of keyboard operations for special characters

Fixed for Tabs when closing a session to set focus on the next
session instead of always first one. Next is MDI. Hopefully
fixes problem with bug report 595892

Fixed error with System Request screen and Escape is used to

dismiss the dialog.

Fixed for MDI when closing a session to set focus on the next
session instead of always first one. Hopefully
fixes problem with bug report 595892

24/08/2002 Fixed a number of problems since the last changelog entry

Keybuffering problem with cursor disappearing, and doing all

sorts of other things. Complete rewrite of cursor handling.
 Added new cursor offset from bottom parameter.

Fixed problem with hanging the emulator due to starting a

new session in other window. Caused by splashscreen

Printing not showing up lightly. Now prints in Black

Error messages for script errors

Added a script running indicator.

17/08/2002 Updated startup message to be more informational and less error

sounding.

15/08/2002 Fix a problem with splash screen and painting a looking better.

Added Russian code page 1025 from

"Fomin, Leonid" <[email protected]>

14/08/2002 Added splash screen.

Added sorting to scripts menu

13/08/2002 Added support for scripting menu to support subdirectories

12/08/2002 Fixed the NULL error problem with keys strokes FOR REAL!!!!

10/08/2002 Fixed a problem with scripts not showing up if no macros where

defined.

07/08/2002 Fixed the NULL error problem with keys strokes I think.

Fixed the keybuffering to work correctly with reset.

06/08/2002 Fixed a problem with macros not ending themselves.

04/08/2002 Added to send via e-mail where if the smtp configuration file
already exists then the option will read edit config instead of
always config

Added ability to list scripts on the macros menu from scripts

directory only

03/08/2002 Added new categories to the session attributes screen:

Cursor - Moved from display cat and added Ruler follows cursor
Signoff - not implemented yet
On Connect - added support to run a macro on connect
Mouse - added double click send enter

Fixed another problem with keybuffering hopefully the null as well

02/08/2002 Fixed a problem with the keybuffering where when there is an error
it will clear the buffer and lock the keyboard.

31/07/2002 Fixed a problem with gui windows not restoring the screen correctly.

Added support for multiple macros running at the same time for
different sessions.
30/07/2002 Fixed a problem with error line again.

27/07/2002 Added scripting to emulator using jython. We now have scripting!!!

25/07/2002 Add the macros in ascending order. This and the session sorting
have been needed for a long time. Thanks Roy for the request.

Added new italian translations from Maurizio. Thanks

24/07/2002 Added a sorted session table to the connection screen.

23/07/2002 Added all predefined short cuts to a short cuts menu off of the
keyboard menu item.

22/07/2002 Added changes from Maurizio to add an all-dep build target to the
ant build.xml file.

Added changes to the antbuild.txt file from Maurizio.

Fixed session jumping for MDI interface.

21/07/2002 Added short cuts accelerators to popup menus.

Another attempt at fixing a NULL error on keybuffering.

19/07/2002 Added short cuts to key mapping screen so now you are able to remap
these keys as well.

15/07/2002 Added a message area for option message text to be attached to the
e-mail.

12/07/2002 Made the connection dialog highlight the default session selection
if one is specified.

Fixed another problem with sys request dialog pane where the default
option was not responding to key strokes. I have now tested this on
windows 1.3.0 through 1.4.0 and linux 1.4.0. Thanks Irene for the
report.

Added a new button to connection dialog to apply changes.

Added a new check box to connection dialog to show connection dialog

at startup. If you want the default option to be started without
this prompt deselect this box.

11/07/2002 Fixed a problem when changing the colors the separator line in the
Operator Information Area was not being repainted.

Miscellaneous painting problems fixes.

10/07/2002 Added support for two new keys - dup and new line. Thanks for the
request Roy. You will have to map these two keys if you already
have a keymap.

Added new popup menu item "keyboard" that has the following special
key shortcuts:
Attention;Error reset;Sys Req;Dup field;help;erase eof;field plus
field minus;new line;host print
 display messages is now here as well if there are messages waiting

09/07/2002 Fixed a painting problem with session startup.

05/07/2002 Fixed a connection problem while negotiating environment settings.

This was causing the session to never connect sometimes. It would
stay forever at connecting. Finally found it!!!

Fixed a problem with reset key resetting the emulator and unlocking
the keyboard when there was a process running instead of an error
condition.

Added keybuffering/type ahead indicator.

04/07/2002 Fixed a problem with focus on system request text box. The text box
now gets the focus on all jdk versions. Thanks for report wolfgang.

Made session full screen on MDI interface when starting.

03/07/2002 Added a another color schema which is the Default Green on

Black.

Fixed focus problem with the connections dialog. It now defaults to

the sessions selection panel instead of screen appearance.

02/07/2002 Fixed screen repainting problem with keybuffering.

01/07/2002 Fixed some null pointer errors when running as an applet.

28/06/2002 Fixed another problem with restore of changed fields after a popup
not being recognized as being change. Thanks for the report, again,
James

Fixed a bug with keybuffering where if system request, reset, or

attention key was not working if their was a long running job like
a query.

Tweaked the interface one more time for long running jobs where the
interface was not very responsive at all.

Fixed a null pointer exception for highlited entry fields.

26/06/2002 Added two new Radio Buttons to the connection screen to choose
between Tab or MDI session presentation. This can be overridden
by the -MDI command line switch.

21/06/2002 Fixed a problem with special characters in extract to Open Office

documents that was causing it to crash.

20/06/2002 Fixed a hang on the file transfer dialog for multiple member files.

15/06/2002 Added changes to the ant build.xml from Christian Geisert

13/06/2002 Added some fixes for key buffering.

Fixed a dump that was being caused by the java e-mail apis not being
available. It will now display a message notifying that it is not
found and the document to read to install these api's.
12/06/2002 Fixed some problems with the Multiple Document Interface sessions.

Added jdk1.3 socket option for keep alive. This means that you can
not use jdk1.2 versions anymore.

06/06/2002 Fixed a problem with restore of changed fields after a popup not
being recognized as being change. Thanks for the report James

23/5/2002 Added new color schema from Alessandro Casassa named Asso from
http:\\www.teknosw.it [email protected]

20/5/2002 Fixed a problem with code page 280 for italian.

15/5/2002 Cleaned up some error messages on thread interruptions during session

shutdown.

Added frame persistance meaning that the frames will be restored to

the same position and size as when they were closed.

Fixed a problem on new sessions with the font changing if attributes

are changed. This was causing a random font to be used and replacing
the original font used. You would then have to go in and reset
the font. Not anymore :)

Added new command line argument for testing of MDI interface instead
of tabs.
Command Line Option Description
-MDI Uses JInternalFrames instead of tabs
to represent the sessions.

13/5/2002 Fixed a problem in screen print. It will now only print what was on
the screen at the time of initiating the print dialog. If the user
udated the screen the print thread would print what is on the
current screen instead of what was there when the print was initiated.

09/5/2002 Added support for Highlighted Entry Fields.

08/5/2002 Fixed a problem with the connect dialog not showing up under some
versions of the JDK. I changed the JDialog to be resizable instead
of non resizable and it worked as it should. @#$@%@#$@#$

Fixed a problem with the Highlighted Entry Fields being interpreted

as Cursor progression fields. Next is to actually get the the
Highlighted Entry Fields to actually hightlight when entered :)

05/5/2002 Added Enter key as command key to connect that session from the
session connection dialog. You can now select the connect button
or just hit the enter key.

01/5/2002 Added SMTP configuration dialog for Send via E-mail. Now the
configuration can be done by selecting Configure button from
Send via E-mail dialog.

Added ability to send the screen to text file as text output.

This can be referenced vis Send Screen. It now has two options
Send Screen -> Via E-Mail
To File

29/4/2002 Added another parameter for column separators. Now they are as
 follows:
Line - Full height line
Dot - A dot like Rumba/Extra
Short Line - like Client Access.

27/4/2002 CVS checkin notifications, updates and bug fixes. Test CVS again

26/4/2002 Fixed a problem that was happening when sending data to the host.
on a READ_MDT_FIELDS command 0x52 when should send blanks instead of
a field with no length. I was saying truncate all letters less than
or equal to spaces. Now it is all characters less than spacess.

17/4/2002 Fixed a problem with the boot strap deamon. The writers were not
being flushed and sockets were not be shutdown correctly thus
causing problems at times.

Fixed the debug logging. It was broken in the last release.

Fixed a problem with string index out of bounds for signed numeric
fields. Where the hell did that come from?????

16/4/2002 Changed some color attributes for turquoise and yellow to be inline
with client access. CA does not follow the document definitions but
after a few questions of why they are different from client access
I decided to change to be exactly like client access.

Added new options to session configuration.

description command line option

----------------- -------------------
Open in new frame -noembed
Session start monitoring -d - default on session configuration
Start in new JVM -nc

For more information about these command line options please read
secion 2a. of README.txt file.

15/4/2002 Started work on opening sessions in their own frames. This can be
accomplished by a new command line parameter of -noembed.

12/4/2002 Update Spanish literals

Fixed a cursor repositioning problem on screen restores.

11/4/2002 Fixed a problem where the program would never end if there are no
sessions active and the session connection dialog is cancelled.

Updated Polish translations. Thanks Janusz Sobczak

10/4/2002 Added support for mandatory enter fields.

Updated Dutch translation. Thanks to Patrick Bielen

Updated Portuguese translation. Thanks to Rui Palma

09/4/2002 Updated German translations. Thanks to Wolfgang Krautt for the

translations and Christian Geisert for helping with the special
characters.

08/4/2002 Fixed field reading problem. This was introduced while

 making changes for 21/3/2002. The problem came from parsing the
start of header (SOH) command incorrectly.

05/4/2002 Added new attribute for cursor ruler. It was always there with
the alt-L to toggle through them but now you can specify a
default ruler line. The alt-L option is still available.

Changed print to print in background in it's own thread. This

fixes the problem of the dialog locking up while printing.

02/4/2002 Actually fixed the bug for reading fields from screen with
CMD_READ_MDT_IMMEDIATE
CMD_READ_MDT_IMMEDIATE_ALT

21/3/2002 New classes and code re-arrangement.

A little better screen response we hope

Fixed a problem with fields returning values when really there were
no values returned. This was a fix for a reported bug. Thank you
for the report.

Fixed a bug for reading fields from screen with

CMD_READ_MDT_IMMEDIATE
CMD_READ_MDT_IMMEDIATE_ALT
Found this while implementing the AUTO(RA) function

20/3/2002 Lots of code re-arrangement.

Added default session selection to first session if there are sessions

defined.

15/3/2002 Lots of code re-arrangement. Hopefully this makes the user interface
a little more responsive.

14/3/2002 Added a new connection/configuration screen. This should null out

the null pointer problem from 25/2 for the JDK 1.4. Hope you all
like it.

- Added new tab to specify a socks proxy host. I have not heard
any feedback on this so went ahead and added it.
- Added new command line parameter -usp which specifies whether
to use the socks proxy or not. This is specified on the proxy
tab mentioned above and is a check box.

13/3/2002 Added double click of mouse to send enter. I will need to add a
flag to the session attributes screen to turn this on and off.

11/3/2002 Fixed a problem with the host print function. It was causing a
crash/error from some screens.

7/3/2002 Added codepages 277 for dk and no. Thank you for the request.

Now that we have them can somebody translate them????????????

25/2/2002 Fixed some problems happening in the JDK 1.4 version.

- Null pointer exceptions coming from start new session and
using enter key to start instead of mouse to click start
button
 - Null pointer exception from keyReleased event coming from unknown
sources. What a pain!!!!!!!!

22/2/2002 Added code for default session selection. It was on the session
configuration panel but it is now on the table selection as a
check box.

That is one of the TODO items off the list.

21/2/2002 Added two new Session Attribute fields.

- Color of hex attribute when selected
- Whether to use underlines or not in gui fields. Default is
yes.

18/2/2002 Added an ant build how-to document and included a build.xml for
building the emulator.

05/2/2002 Fixed an infinate loop on next field and prev field. It only
happened in certain instances and found it while fixing the
previous problem of null pointer. Never saw it before.

Fixed a keying problem for windows users. With all the keyboard
work that was done I missed something really important.

04/2/2002 Fixed problem with null pointer exception on tab keystroke when
no fields are defined.

28/1/2002 Fixed problem with keymapping configuration screen not showing the
correct language literals for the option buttons.

Fixed problem with the save as file dialog not showing itself
correctly. It was cutting off some of the buttons on the right.

24/1/2002 Fixed a problem with file transfer hanging up the emulator if there
was an error transfering the file.

23/1/2002 Added special character mapping functionality to Map Keys dialog.

18/1/2002 Added unicode support for latin-2 (ISO-8859-2) languages. This

allows for the Polish Language.

Added codepage 870-pl for polish code page.

Thanks goes to Janusz Sobczak for the translation to Polish.

15/1/2002 Added a new field for fixed point size for 27X132 to the sessions
attribute screen.

Changed key handling to not interpret the Alt-Gr for the emulators
keybindings. This was causing problems with entering special
characters for languages such as Polish.

Added send screen via e-mail option to the popup menu.

19/12/2001 Add font scaling fields to the Session Attributes screen when
selecting font. This works for 27X132 for now until I get
feedback if it works or not.

The horizontal field is to control scaling left to right.

 The vertical field is to control scaling top to bottom.

18/12/2001 Fixed a very irritating disconnect problem when starting the

emulator with the first session startup.

17/12/2001 Fixed some more focus problems with linux dialogs. Almost all now.
I am getting closer.

14/12/2001 Fixed a problem with bounding rectangle not disappearing after copy
when selected with Shift + arrow keys.

13/12/2001 I got tired of loosing the emulator when a dialog was displayed.
Now the dialogs and the main emulator stay together when switching
between applications

Fixed some more focus problems with linux dialogs. All accept from
the new session dialog.

11/12/2001 Added italian translation for emulator.

Thank you Alessandro Casassa of http://www.teknosw.it

Added ability to select which description from the file to use as

header fields.
Field text:
Full description
- or -
Internal name

05/12/2001 Added support for codepage 280 - italian. Thank you for the request.

Added option to transfer screen to select which text to use for the
field descriptions. Internal text or Full text.

29/11/2001 Fixed problem with downloads showing zero records transferred when
there were actually records transferred.

Fixed a formatting problem for numeric values. The decimal

precision was not being formatted correctly in the output filter.

27/11/2001 Fixed a problem with characters not showing up correctly in graphics

mode for some fonts. The right and/or left part of the character
was not showing up.

20/11/2001 Ok got the excel file filter to output all rows but now the numeric
are not formatted correctly.

19/11/2001 Added parameter acceptance to the My5250App.java for the command

line parameters passed from the htlm to the app. Almost all of the
parameters are passed except -f at this time.

Got it working for the first time over an intranet after figuring
out the signing/certificate acceptance stuff for Applets.

17/11/2001 Started on making the emulator work as an Applet within a browser.

14/11/2001 Created a feeble attempt at an Excell file filter. It works but can
not figure out for the life of me how to get it to create more than
256 rows.
13/11/2001 Added vertical scroll bar support. Need to implement horizontal but
first need to figure out how to create one.

09/11/2001 Added file transfer for KSpreadSheet and OpenOffice 6## formats.

Added a new option for the decimal separator selection.

Great thanks goes to Patrick Bielen for all the testing and reporting
of bugs for this release.

*** Note *** for the filters if the numbers do not show up correctly
try transferring with a different decimal separator.

08/11/2001 Added Code Page 285. Thank you Gordon for the request.

07/11/2001 Added two new color schemas.

Pumpkin from Anonymous - I guess I am a little late for Halloween ;-)

Algarve from Miguel Alves

02/11/2001 Added key assignment option for mapping keys to macros. This can
be accessed from the Map Keys option. There is a combo box with
keys and macros. Choosing Macros will list all the defined macros
for selection.

29/10/2001 Changed the 27*132 mode to scale the fonts. The scale seems
to be different on different JDK versions. At this time it is set
at 1.2 to scale the height of the characters.

Added a KDE KSpread file output filter for file transfers from the
AS/400.

26/10/2001 Added Dutch language. Thank you Patrick Bielen

Added a new color to the color list. The new color is to set
the color of the column separator.

24/10/2001 Added device name to the session configuration screen.

Added port number to the session configuration screen.

18/10/2001 Fixed a lot of startup problems with command line parameters. They
should work as decribed in the readme.txt file. Thanks to
Patrick Beilen and his incesant testing and feedback I think I got
all of them.

18/10/2001 Added four now key mapping keys:

Mark Left - Mark the text to be copied to the left of the cursor
Mark Right - Mark the text to be copied to the right of the cursor
Mark Up - Mark the text to be copied up one row cursor
Mark Down - Mark the text to be copied down one row

After marking a bounded area you can use copy - Alt-c - or copy from
the popup menu - right click of mouse.

These are mapped as dead keys - not used - if there is already a key
map generated. You will have to map these four new keys so that they
will function.

16/10/2001 Enhanced logging to log all streams when turned on until turned off.
11/10/2001 Added a sum area function to allow the summing of a column of numbers
that have been selected by the mouse. This option will only show
up if there was a bounded area selected for example copy and paste.
You can select two different formats to parse numbers. The Grouping
separator as ',' and a '.' as Decimal Separator, #,###.## or
the grouping seaparator as '.' and a ',' as Decimal Separator,
#.###,## .

10/10/2001 Fixed a problem with cut and paste on last line of screen. When
trying to copy from last line of screen only it was not correctly
calculating the rows and columns thus not cutting correctly.

Fixed ArrayIndexOutOfBounds error when a session is disconnected.

I should only be updated the session tab when I receive a connection
event.

Hopefully fixed some focus problems under linux and JDK1.4 beta under
windows.

09/10/2001 Fixed a problem when the host resets the connection to the emulator.
This was causing the connections to never end and taking up 100%
of the cpu. This would happen during an IPL or host cutting the
socket for some reason.

08/10/2001 Fixed intermittent problem with screen not showing up sometimes.

This was mostly in linux and only when device name (-dn option) was
used. I ended up wrapping the code that changes the tab name in a
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(xxxx) call. That seems to have solved
the screen issues.

07/10/2001 Added new command line option for device name. * NOTE * This is
test code and may not work. I have been experiencing problems with
it on linux.

-dn ----> This option takes a device name parameter to be used

by the Host. The device name is 10 characters in
length and following rfc2877 it the device name
is already allocated then the device name will be
sent again with a consecutive number appended. If
the device name plus appended sequencial number is
longer than 10 characters then the device name is
truncated until the device name and the appended
sequential number fits into 10 characters.

For example:
-dn DEVICEUSER

This will send the device name on allocation to the host

as DEVICEUSER. If there is already a session allocated
with device name DEVICEUSER then the emulator will send
the device name with a 1 (number one) appended as
DEVICEUSE1 if this is allocated then DEVICEUSE2 and so
on until the host says no more attempts are allowed or
the same device name is sent twice in succession as per
rfc2877.

This option will also change the session name to that

 of the allocated device name.

25/09/2001 Added new options to start "poor mans deamon mode" for checking for
other instances of the emulator. This was the default but after
feedback from Martin Reising he suggested a switch to start this.
-d ---> Startup BootStrap deamon.

Added new key map entry for sending the attention key. You will have
to map the key as it will be mapped as a non functioning key if you
have already run the emulator once.

Changed attribute settings to update the screen with new color

attributes when they change.

Added a new option to the settings screen to allow the selection of

some predefined color schemas. I hope to get some from you guys to
include. Send me the color attributes from your session configur-
ation file and a name the schema and I will add it. The color
attributes are those properties with color in front of them.

24/09/2001 Added new options to not check for other instances of a JVM
-nc ---> no check for other tn5250j instances that are running

A new frame will be created within another instance

of JVM

Added support for window titles and footers and justifications

right, left, and center.

23/09/2001 Added socks proxy support. The new command line options are:
-sph ---> Socks Proxy Host
-spp ---> Socks Proxy Port

There is no place to specify these options on the configuration

screen. I will put it there in the future when all testing and
bugs are worked out.

** NOTE *** This does not work under JDK 1.4 beta 2. I will need to
check the bug reports or maybe I have to set another property now.

** NOTE *** This is considered test code. I can not guarantee that
it will work on all machines at this time.

21/09/2001 Added support to start a new session within the same JVM. Still in
test.

20/09/2001 Fixed the screen resizing again. This time for good!! Well at least
until I mess with the painting code again :-)

Spanish Translation

Added new frame icon. I wish it was something exotic and/or beautiful
but this is what I came up with. If someone artistic can create
another one please do so and send it to me.

19/09/2001 Added three new options to the command line switches.

-s -> start up using an existing configured session

-width -> start up emulator using the width specified
 -height -> start up emulator using the height specified

Added a confirmation screen to session closing. This will prompt

the user for which session to close down.

Current Session - the session that sent the close

All Sessions - all currently connected sessions
None - No sessions. Do nothing

Fixed a bug in displaying windows again. Documentation does not

say that the 5494 does not always send the border attributes in
the minor structure. Well if the attributes are defined that does
not mean that the border characters are included as well.

Updated the German translations sent from Martin Reising.

Inserted patch from Martin Reising of http://www.natural-computing.de

that allows multiple sessions to be opened from the command line
using the -s command line option. Now if multiple -s options are
specified then those sessions will be opened when the emulator starts
up.

18/09/2001 Added new codepage 500-ch for switzerland. Thank you Mr. Graenacher
for the request. I hope I got the correct one.

Added new key binding Alt-q for closing a session and removing it
from the session panel.

16/09/2001 Added support for signed numeric that was not in the first release
of file transfer.

Added i18n support to the XTFRFile program so that literals can be

translated.

Updated to use the decimal grouping character of the locale instead

of hard-coded '.'

Documented the FTP5250Prot class module

Tested against the JDK 1.4 beta 2 on windows and linux. Linux has a
problem with the key events or something. I will be debugging that
later.

15/09/2001 Added progress monitor and interactive text area for ouput to file
downloads.

10/09/2001 Added retrieval of member list to obtain size of member

8/09/2001 Added support of member to downloads.

30/08/2001 Fixed a problem with sticky keys between sessions. The keys would
seem to remap from the other sessions.

29/08/2001 Added option to popup menu to close down the session and remove it
from the tab pane.

25/08/2001 Added file selection chooser for local file.

24/08/2001 Added file transfer to emulator. It can be selected from the popup
 or by pressing Alt + T.

21/08/2001 Fixed a problem when a macro is the first macro added. It was not
showing up.

18/08/2001 Fixed a split message problem reported by Martin Reising.

The response message was being split between two message buffers
upon connection to host. This caused the screen not to show up
during connections to hosts that use this method.

Added support for window headers/footers in enhanced mode. It is

not finished but it is now supported. I still have to parse some
of the options for orientation and justification.

17/08/2001 Resize problem fixed.

16/08/2001 Macros record fucntion added. It is not complete but does work.

Implemented code for Beginning of Field, Erase field and Erase to

End of Field. Now mnemonics for those should work.

15/08/2001 Macros where added. I will add a record function for interactive
creation in the future. Read the macros.txt file for how to use this
functionality.

14/08/2001 Added an interactive key mapping option. It took me some time to

get this working because Linux works differently than Windows so I
had to make sure that it worked on both. Also, testing for the
JVM 1.4 beta under windows.

Added new option to the pop menu for key mapping.

08/08/2001 Changed the option buttons to flow left to right instead of top to
bottom. Per request by feedback of Martin Reising.

Added german translation. Thank you Martin Reising.

file tn5250jMsgs_de.properties

07/08/2001 Changed the debug toggle switch from ESC to ALT-O.

Added copy and paste keys shortcuts back. I forgot them. To

activate them delete the keymap file and restart emulator or add
them by hand to the keymap file as follows:

[copy]=67,false,false,true
[paste]=86,false,false,true

06/08/2001 Added a new color to the color attributes panel to change the color
of the cursor.

06/08/2001 Added a keyboard remapping functionality through "keymap" properties

file for now. The file will be created automatically on first run
of emulator. When the file exists you can change the information in
the file. The keyboard is mapped across ALL sessions.

The file has the following layout:

Key <-> Keycode , isShiftDown , isControlDown , isAlternateDown

for example the default of Enter and Field Exit is:

[enter]=17,false,true,false
17 = keyCode for Control key
false = Shift key is not pressed
true = Control key is pressed
false = Alternate key is not pressed

[fldext]=10,false,false,false
10 = keyCode for Enter key
false = Shift key is not pressed
false = Control key is not pressed
false = Alternate key is pressed

If you want to change this to the Enter key as enter and Shift + Enter
as Field Exit then change to the following:

[enter]=10,false,false,false
10 = keyCode for Enter key
false = Shift key is not pressed
false = Control key is not pressed
false = Alternate key is not pressed

[fldext]=10,true,false,false
10 = keyCode for Enter key
true = Shift key is pressed
false = Control key is not pressed
false = Alternate key is pressed

When I get the time I will build an interface to assign keys

interactively.

The key values are represented in the following table:

Description Key Value of keymap file

--------------- ------------------------
BACK_SPACE [backspace]
BACK_TAB [backtab]
BEGIN_OF_FIELD [bof]
CLEAR [clear]
DELETE [delete]
DOWN [down]
COPY [copy]
END_OF_FIELD [eof]
ENTER [enter]
ERASE_EOF [eraseeof]
ERASE_FIELD [erasefld]
FIELD_EXIT [fldext]
FIELD_MINUS [field-]
FIELD_PLUS [field+]
HELP [help]
HOME [home]
INSERT [insert]
KEYPAD_COMMA [keypad,]
KEYPAD_MINUS [keypad-]
KEYPAD_PERIOD [keypad.]
KEYPAD0 [keypad0]
KEYPAD1 [keypad1]
KEYPAD2 [keypad2]
KEYPAD3 [keypad3]
 KEYPAD4 [keypad4]
KEYPAD5 [keypad5]
KEYPAD6 [keypad6]
KEYPAD7 [keypad7]
KEYPAD8 [keypad8]
KEYPAD9 [keypad9]
LEFT [left]
NEXT_WORD [nextword]
PA1 [pa1]
PA2 [pa2]
PA3 [pa3]
PASTE [paste]
PAGE_DOWN [pgdown]
PAGE_UP [pgup]
PF1 [pf1]
PF10 [pf10]
PF11 [pf11]
PF12 [pf12]
PF13 [pf13]
PF14 [pf14]
PF15 [pf15]
PF16 [pf16]
PF17 [pf17]
PF18 [pf18]
PF19 [pf19]
PF2 [pf2]
PF20 [pf20]
PF21 [pf21]
PF22 [pf22]
PF23 [pf23]
PF24 [pf24]
PF3 [pf3]
PF4 [pf4]
PF5 [pf5]
PF6 [pf6]
PF7 [pf7]
PF8 [pf8]
PF9 [pf9]
PREVIOUS_WORD [prevword]
PRINT [print]
RESET [reset]
RIGHT [right]
SYSREQ [sysreq]
TAB [tab]
UP [up]

02/08/2001 Changed to use package structure org.tn5250j.*

I also changed most of the classes to begin with an uppercase
character to fit with standards.

Fixed a screen attribute parsing problem (I finally found it!!!!!).

When using ftp after entering the password the screen was not being
updated correctly. Also; some windows where not being painted
correctly because of this. One if statement and all that went away.

28/06/2001 Added code to resize application frame to last size when closed.

27/06/2001 Added check box to make session the default session but no code
behind it yet.
27/06/2001 Added field copy. If there is a popup in a field and there is no
area selected previously then the option copy is to copy the data
that is contained in the field. Paste and Paste Special work the
same in both popups.

26/06/2001 More modifications to deploy with JavaWebStart. It is working great.

Added two new options to the sessions file. When I get time I will
somehow add them to the configuration menu.

emul.locale= This sets the language of the emulator. It can be

overridden with the -L command line option.

emul.default= This allows you to set a default session to be

used on startup. Just fill in one of the sessions
that exist in the sessions file.

25/06/2001 Made some modifications so that we can deploy with JavaWebStart. If

you have not checked this program out you should really do so. The
URL is http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/

25/06/2001 Fixed problem when high values are sent in data stream. 0xFF is
not a valid character but we found some cases where they are being
sent in the data stream. This caused two problems. One; the screen
would seem to hang and doing sysreq and 2 would get you out of it
but you could not display screens with this data. Two; the value of
the length of the stream data was not really what was being passed
as the length of the data stream thus throwing my parsing off.
If there was a 0xFF in the data stream then it was always followed
by another 0xFF. So the length I was receiving was always off by +1
or as many of these combinations as occurred in the data stream / 2.

Sorry to bore you with the details but I could not find this
anywhere in the documentation. It only says that 0xFF is not valid
so I assumed this would not be sent. Great documentation!!!!!!

22/06/2001 Fixed bug with restore of screen when switching between 24 and 27
row displays.

22/06/2001 Fixed problem with original error line being over written if there
were multilple errors.

22/06/2001 Fixed problem with error messages not showing up in 27*132 mode.
The error row is passed differently in this mode, go figure. It is
always one row larger than the number of screen rows if it is the
last row of the screen. Why???????

21/06/2001 27*132 support. You can specify this on the configuration screen
not the attributes screen.
*** NOTE *** I consider this test (in other words I can not
guarantee that this works) code. Use at your own risk for now.

20/06/2001 Key Buffer again. Still not perfect but better I think

20/06/2001 Fixed gui fields not showing up as gui fields after restore.

20/06/2001 Translation of new strings to Spanish, Catalan, French and Portuguese

Thanks to the following people again for correcting me. Like I said
my native language is English and the others are second, third, and
 fourth. Catalan I have no clue. Please if anybody finds something
that does not fit please send corrections.

Irene Serrano, Jesus Irausquin - Castillano

Miguel Alvez - French
Rui Palma - Portuguese
Didac Lopez - Castillano and Catalan

15/06/2001 Fixed message wait indicator disappearing on resize of

screen and lots of code cleanup.

13/06/2001 Fixed a really annoying problem with the last character typed in the
the last column of a field that is at the last colum of the screen.
The !@#$ thing now shows up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

13/06/2001 Cleaned up the code of the configuration screen. Put comments not
Javadoc documentation but comments.

12/06/2001 Finished configuration screen. The code is dirty and will clean
it up later but it does work. You can add, edit and delete
sessions. I will get to translating as time permits. If anyone
would like to do this please change the files for your locale and
I will update the files. It is not the prettiest but it does work.

08/06/2001 Started configuration screen will finish as I find time

08/06/2001 Fixed a restore screen field problem where when a screen was
restored the field linkages were not being updated for next and
previous fields. This was a large problem with cursor progression
fields.

07/06/2001 Fixed a start up problem with different parameters. Also changed

startup sequence to only display session selection if no startup
session parameters are passed in when calling emulator. Added
option to session selection to configure but no code yet.

07/06/2001 Added new color attribute for input fields when gui is enabled.

05/06/2001 Added new attribute to display to show attributes. Hex is to show

the hex values and normal is to now show attributes on the screen.

01/06/2001 GUI enhancements for hotspots

28/05/2001 Changed the keypad back to JButtons and made them display better.
This is a bug fix release because the mixing of Heavyweight and
Lightweight components was causing major focus problems on Linux.

25/05/2001 Internationalization of application. We now have English, Spanish,

French and Catalan. German and Portuguese are in the works.
If you guys have any problems with our translations please let me
know. I am not a native Spanish, French nor Portuguese speaking
person. Thank you for the requests. I would like to extend my
thanks to the following people that corrected my Spanish and French.
Irene Serrano, Jesus Irausquin - Spanish
Leonel Olivera, Miguel Alvez - French and Portuguese
Didac Lopez - Castillano and Catalan

25/05/2001 Fixed a focus problem on linux. When the attributes screen is shown
the focus was not returning back to the screen.
24/05/2001 Started the long overdue Internationalization. I will start Spanish,
French, Portuguese and Catalane tommorrow.

24/05/2001 Added hotspot for http:// there is not code behind it yet it just
just writes a message to stdout.

23/05/2001 Changed the keypad button from JButtons to Buttons. I did not like
the way the JButtons where being displayed with the text. For those
that want to see what the JButtons look like I have left the code
there but commented out. Change the Button to JButton, change all
setLabel to setText, uncomment the code the private static variables
and paintComponent, recompile. I started to implement my own button
but decided not to and took the easy way out. Hope this does not
cause problems with mixing lightweight and heavyweight controls. So
far so good. Maybe add a feature to select which one you want in
the future.

23/05/2001 Fixed problem of the note for 22/05/2001 for the keypad and resizing
the screen.

23/05/2001 Added the Hotspot assignments for More... and Bottom to the hotspot
attribute screen. For other languages besides English you can put
the string literal for More... in the field that is provided. The
same for bottom. For example French is "A suivre..." so I would
place this in the field next to the label More... For Bottom it is
"Fin" so this would be typed in the field labeled Bottom. I have
tested this on french and spanish.

22/05/2001 Added More... and Bottom for hotspots. Clicking More... will do
a page down. Clicking Bottom will do a page up. Sorry only
English at this time until I can figure out a nice way to implement
a multi-lingual version. Any suggestion can be sent to
[email protected] or posted on sourceforge.

22/05/2001 Added a keypad feature that displays the PF keys and other at the
bottom of the screen. This is a work in progress because I have
other ideas for it. Also added this to the Attibutes screen under
Key Pad.

* NOTE * There is still a problem with the apply for this. If

keypad is first turned on and the screen does not resize correctly
turn the keypad on or off again and hit apply.
Get this worked out later.

17/05/2001 A little more memory and GC cleanup.

14/05/2001 Changed the save and restore again to not transfers so much data
also fixed a couple more memory problems which I was not letting
go of for garbage collection.

10/05/2001 Changed the save and restore screen to use the AS400 as a repository
for the save data. This generates more traffic but it will allow
tn5250j to reserve more memory by not storing saved screen data in
memory as objects.

09/05/2001 Fixed a problem with cursor positioning (again) when I send an error
to the screen. This was because of the change on 01/05/2001 for
getting the error messages from the AS400.
04/05/2001 Added code page 273 for German. Thank you for your request.

01/05/2001 Changed emulator to get error messages from the as400 to be

displayed on the screen instead of using my hard coded english
messages. This should display the error messages in the language
of the system that emulator is connected too.

30/04/2001 Added new attributes screen. It looks pretty now.

New attributes added where gui interface and hotspots. I will
leave the command line option there for now. If the property
exists in the properties file it will override what is passed on
the command line for -gui. There is also a new option i18N that
is not implemented yet but I will use this in the future for
internalization of messages. That is being added to the todo list.

27/04/2001 Added an option to the popup menu to display messages if the MW

light is on. Alt + M was added to do the same thing but this can
be pressed at any time. Read the README file for explanations of
these two items.

27/04/2001 Fixed a problem with the interface hanging when connecting with the
connect and disconnect options from popup or ALT + x

26/04/2001 Fixed another hotspot error hanging the user interface.

24/04/2001 Cleaned up the hotspot code a little more to keep from getting
non hotspot links (whew what a pain). Added hotspots to menu
entries and screens for selections. Still have a few hotspots
show up that are really not hotspots. Displayed numbers are one
of them. Can not figure a way to get rid of them yet but they
are fewer from the previous release. Enjoy.

23/04/2001 Added ALT + S to toggle hotspots on and off default is off

until I can implement this in the attributes screen or somewhere
else. Any ideas?
Added ALT + G to toggle GUI Interface on and off

23/04/2001 Fixed bug in hotspot code that caused an error when trying to access
a part of the screen past the number of columns defined.

23/04/2001 Changed the background color of gui fields to be white by default

instead of tied to the white color of the screen attribute colors.
This will stay like this until I can get the color attributes added
to the attributes screen

22/04/2001 Added -t flag to command parameters to use the text from the session
list instead of the host name. See readme.txt file for use.

22/04/2001 Actually added the code for the hotspots

21/04/2001 Added hotspots for the PFKeys.

20/04/2001 Cleaned up restoring of gui constructs so that the screen is clean

after a restore screen command. It was not restoring the graphic
/gui elements correctly.

19/04/2001 Added etched border for gui windows and cleaned up the painting of
fields to look more like gui fields.
19/04/2001 Fixed bug 416934. Took the socket.KeepAlive() out of program
this is available for JDK1.3 and above and really does not need to
be in the code. The part about the "M at the end of the lines of
the tnvt.java module I can not reproduce. Thanks to bmcully for
reporting this problem. You should be able to compile now.

18/04/2001 Added scroll bars to attributes page for users that have 800/600
screens. *** Note **** I do not like it and am planning to revamp
it when I get the time. I get complaints about it all the time.

18/04/2001 Added GUI enhancements and flag -gui to command line to enable this.
updated readme.txt file to reflect these changes

17/04/2001 Took the changelog, readme, and copying files out of the jar file.
I figure that they are delivered in the main zip file so should not
be put in the jar file for distribution purposes.

17/04/2001 Fixed another threading problem. When an action key is hit a

number of times really fast the interface was locking up. Also
wrapped the key event dispatching up in the swing utilities invoke
and wait to be executed in the swing thread. Maybe this is wrong??
could someone look at it and let me know.... Feedback for the
keyboard buffering code would be greatly appreciated !!!!!!!!!!!
Also do not know how this works under a 1.2 JVM.

16/04/2001 Split the readme file into two parts, readme and changelog, and
added them to the jar file as well.

16/04/2001 Fixed the status line not showing up when the screen is resized.

13/04/2001 Support for Delete and backspace key in continued edit fields and or
masked fields ( *** NOTE *** I made it work like Client Access in that
when the first column of a continued edit field or masked edit field
is reached then an error is generated if the user tries to backspace
beyond the first column of the field or backspace over an mask
character. Maybe this should not be let me know.)

12/04/2001 Fixed a threading problem between sessions again (I hope this time).

11/04/2001 Fixed screen attribute painting for enhanced and normal. This was
major in my opinion so I moved the version from 0.2 to 0.3 after
testers feedback.

04/04/2001 Fixed field exit on continued edit end masked edit fields.

04/04/2001 Added next and previous field support for continued edit fields when
tabbing, field exit, field plus and field subtract. It was not
positioning on the next field but on the next segment of the
continued entry field. According to the documentation a continued
edit field or masked edit field should be treated as one whole field.

04/04/2001 Added cursor progression support in enhanced mode

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Enjoy!