Re: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, James H H Lampert wrote:

> Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I can not believe the amount of resistance I have gotten
> > from trying to implement scroll bars on green screen
> > subfiles.
>
> I don't recall encountering *resistance,* but I do recall
> running into trouble finding docs and tools to implement
> them.
>
> As I recall, InfoWindow II terminals do have scroll-bar
> capability. That is what we're talking about, right?
>
> If I remember right, I've run into even more trouble
> finding docs to help me add the capability to our
> emulator.

Some time ago I started working on adding scroll bar support to tn5250. 
If I remember right, the docs weren't wonderful but they were usable. 
Other things came up and I never finished adding the support.  However, I 
don't think it would be an impossible task to complete.

James Rich

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