Re: continuous entry and cursor advance

[Mike Madore <mmadore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I think what we need is a collection of testing screens, and an
application to drive them.  This way we can test each new version of the
emulator against screens with known behavior.

Ideally, each screen would be documented to describe what sort of testing
it represents.  This would also let us easily test tn5250 against the
behavior of other emulators and real terminals.  If we ran this test
program before each release, we would cut down on the number of bugs that
creep in.

Do I have any volunteers?  

Mike

 On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Jason
M. Felice wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 09:13:01PM -0700, Mike Madore wrote:
> > Hi James,
> > 
> > > Fields that are defined as continuous entry in DDS don't work with
> > > tn5250-0.15.8.  When text is entered into such a field the text should
> > > break at the spaces.
> > 
> > Could you explain this to a non-DDS person? ;-)
> 
> Hrmm, tracefile good, it would show which flags are set in the field format
> word.
> 
> >  
> > > DDS defined cursor progression also doesn't work.  The cursor always moves
> > > in the standard way - ignoring any DDS progression.
> > 
> > I assume you mean that the fields are not re-ordered?  I don't think this
> > was ever implemented.  Has this worked for you in the past?  
> 
> Think think think... it must be something other than what you're thinking,
> Mike, cause I know what you are thinking (field resequencing).  It annoyed
> me a while back that we weren't implementing it because if it ended up causing
> a problem, it would've taken me forever to actually pinpoint the problem, so
> I put a few well-placed asserts.   No-one ever complained, so I assume that
> field resequencing is no longer in use.  It doesn't even happen when
> connecting to a System/36 (even though I don't have one network-accessible
> any more).
> 
> > 
> > Mike
> 
> Hmm, I wonder if the problems aren't just one problem - for example, all 
>fields
> with the same "sequence" number are 1 continuous entry field.
> </weird-thought>
> 
> -Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice
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