Gallagher & Robertson 2001

New look for toolbar  ‘flat’ look with raised button as mouse passes over  note new handle for dragging the toolbar

Floating toolbar, button bar  Toolbar can be undocked to work as an independent window  Toolbar can be redocked either at top or at bottom of screen  Current positions can be saved in config  Same functionality is provided for all other toolbars

Function and keyboard bars  Function bar provides function keys specific to emulation  Keyboard bar provides other emulation- specific special keys  Both can operate in docked or undocked mode  Can be disabled dynamically from the system menu, or in the configuration using Screen=>Windows attributes

Screen backgrounds  Background image for main screen  Either JPEG or BMP format supported  Stretching, tiling and centring

Screen frames  Configurable empty area around emulation screen  Can use any JPEG or BMP file as wallpaper

On-screen function keys  Automatic enhancement of function key texts  Buttons are directly clickable

New facelift config box

New menus  Toolbar bitmaps in menu items

Putting it all together  A complete ‘new look’

Summary – Glink Professional Appearance New features  New look for toolbar  Floating toolbar and button bar  New function and keyboard bars  On-screen function keys  Screen backgrounds  Screen frames  New menus but there’s more...

IBM 3270 graphics

UNIX/General Communications ANSI 3.64 or VTnnn emulation.  The VTnnn emulation supports VT102, VT220 and most features of the VT340, including the most commonly used Regis graphics commands.

The Glink Professional API Glink for Windows Api is compatible with the Glink for Java API GlinkApi A Glink instance GlinkConfiguration Runtime configs GlinkFields Collection of fields in the last host form GlinkField Individual fields in field collection GlinkKey A keystroke, regular or function key GlinkEvent Event notification sent by API to client application GlinkScreenArea Description of a screen string area

Glink Api COM+ component Hard-coded API sessions limit  5 for the Professional Edition Full blown Glink  The API starts a full Glink  can be used as a normal Glink  includes the full Glink emulation screen display  defaults to invisible at startup  includes Glink scripting  client applications can remain invisible, wait events  keyboard, print data Not intended for Server applications  The Enterprise Edition is coming for server-side applications

Glink Api interfaces Available with Glink Professional Edition (and Enterprise Edition in the future)  Event interface  turn, start, connect, screen strings...  Screen interface  read/write text, read attributes...  Field interface  field enumeration, attributes, position, index...

GlinkApi documentation Microsoft HTML Help format, GlinkApi.chm icon Generated from state-of-the-art Javadoc  familiar to all Java programmers

Other goodies Moved to WinSock 2  allows multiple transport stacks to coexist  looking at QOS, Quality Of Service &  Secure sockets!!!!!!!!!!! Additionally FTP client Removed Pascal 255 string limit  no script variable size limit

FTP client New external utility, integrated with Glink and the script language

Secure Sockets  Stunnel, or equivalent secure socket server, on host or front-end  Glink client negotiates secure socket protocol with the host security system

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