Re: Finer points of the IBM emulator

[Steve McKay <samckay1@xxxxxxxxx>]

Open the ACS Emulator - click on 'Edit' -> 'Preferences' -> 'Keyboard'.

On the displayed panel, select on the "Key Assignment" tab and select
Category "Host Functions" near the middle of the panel.

Find (for instance) "Erase to End of Field" in the list and click on it.
With the function highlighted, click on the "Assign a Key" button.  Press
the key that you want for this function.

Once you have assigned the desired keys, click on either 'Save' (which will
save to the default keyboard and potentially be overwritten at IBM's whim)
or 'Save As . . .' and give "your" keyboard a name.  If you choose this
option, you might need to modify existing 5250 configs to use "your"
keyboard.

Thanks,

Steve McKay
(205) 585-8424
samckay1@xxxxxxxxx



On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 12:47 PM James H. H. Lampert via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Since my terminal emulator of choice is the one I designed and helped
> write, which actually looks like a 3487HC (except that some of the
> status line icons are different), with TN5250J as my second choice, I
> freely admit to being rather appallingly ignorant of how things work in
> the emulator IBM provides in ACS.
>
> I find myself in a situation where I'm using the IBM emulator, on a
> virtual WinDoze 10 box, accessed through a browser-based remote desktop.
> (It's a big improvement over what I was having to use before it was set
> up.) And while I've been able to remap "Enter" and "Field Exit" to where
> they belong (at least to terminal jock used to a 102-key InfoWindow),  I
> find that some of the keys on my keyboard are completely invisible to
> the emulator. Particularly the ones I normally have mapped as "Insert"
> "Erase EOF," and "Help."
>
> I found the easily-customized "pop-up keypad," but is there a way I can
> have that open automatically when the emulator launches?
>
> I also found the button-strip called "keypad," that hangs below the
> status line, evidently for the convenience of those who don't have
> physical function keys (potentially useful on a Chromebook, for
> example). Can that be customized?
>
> Any other ideas for setting up a way to provide availability for the
> specific keystrokes I can't map to any reasonable physical keys? (I'm
> bound to discover others.)
>
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