AccuTerm 7.1 Release Notes
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1. new column type displays icon label new column type like ellipsis type displays label button Use the GPICON property to set the button icon Clicking the button fires a GEBTNCLICK event ellipsis column type fires GEBTNCLICK event This is the same event as GEELLIPSIS same value in ATGUIEQUATES just a new name This may cause some confusion in the code generator in the GUI Designer new FocusStyle property GPFOCUSSTYLE determines the style of focus indicator used to highlight the active cell 0 no focus indicator 1 thin dotted line 2 thick dotted line 3 heavy solid line new PasteMode property GPPASTEMODE determines whether multi cell paste is allowed e g pasting a block from an Excel worksheet The default is single cell paste FontUnderline GPFONTUNDERLINE New DragMode GPDRAGMODE property controls grid behavior when dragging within a grid O change active cell 1 use drag amp drop 2 extend selection 3 disable dragging drag amp drop source and or target cell position is reported in GEDRAGDROP event Tab each tab may have an icon GPICON FontUnderline GPFONTUNDERLINE drag amp drop source and or target tab index is reported in GEDRAGDROP event GPDEFVAL is defined to reset the current tab on form Reset Progress Bar custom foreground amp background colors are now supported new marquee style displays continuous moving bar for indeterminate progress drag amp drop source and or target progress2. t is suggested that you used this control to display simple HTML content rather than rely on full browser capabilities future version of the GUI runtime may use a different implementation which may not have all the capabilities of Internet Explorer The HTML Viewer control has a Value GPVALUE property which contains the URL you wish to display in the control as well as a Content GPCONTENT property which allows you to load HTML formatted content for display in the control The control will fire a Click GECLICK event if the user clicks a topic link You can use this event to reload the Content based on the target topic For more information see the ATGUIHELP topic in the online help Status Bar ATGUICREATESTATUSBAR APPID FORMID CTLID STYLE ITEMS GUIERRORS GUISTATE The ATGUICREATESTATUSBAR routine creates a status bar that displays at the bottom edge of a form A status bar consists of a series of one or more panels and is typically used to display the current status of the form indicating various status information Each panel is described by a value in the ITEMS argument as follows item lt 1 1 1 gt status bar panel ID item lt 1 1 2 gt unused must be null item lt 1 1 3 gt panel caption item lt 1 1 4 gt panel icon picture filename item lt 1 1 5 gt enabled item lt 1 1 6 gt visible item lt 1 1 7 gt unused must be null item lt 1 1 8 gt unused must be null item lt 1 1 9 gt tooltip ite
3. Designer the boiler plate HTML has been updated to include new messages alerting the user about unsupported browsers and platforms This is accomplished with some Javascript that is now included at the end of the HTML file Release 7 1c 11 07 2014 The following bugs have been fixed main program 1 Fixed Wyse character set bug when using a codepage for the host character set 2 Fixed problem where half of a double wide character at end of line would not get cleared 3 Fixed data corruption problem with the modem dialer phone book file 4 Fixed problem with redirected printer names on Citrix amp Terminal Server 5 Fixed alignment problem with images displayed on the screen and then printed 6 Fixed background screen image problem where using a URL instead of a file path would fail Release 7 1b sp2 06 18 2014 The following bugs have been fixed main program 1 Fixed bug that caused SSH connection to terminate when an unexpected message was received before the host shell process was started for example password expired 2 Fixed SSH annoyance where an incorrect password caused a disconnect after re entering the user ID Changed to allow up to 3 attempts before disconnect as long as the same user ID is entered each time 3 Fixed capture append bug when appending text only files 4 Fixed problem with screen prints when screen contains double high or double wide characters 5 Fixed screen printer bug where selec
4. ESC STX jS documented in the online help AccuTerm 7 Reference chapter AccuTerm Programming topic ESC STX iB filename scalemode transparency CR loads an image to use as the screen background wallpaper filename the path or URL of the image to use as the screen background scalemode 0 picture is stretched to fit screen size This may alter the picture s aspect ratio scalemode 1 picture is scaled so that its longest dimension fills the screen The area not filled by the picture is black scalemode 2 picture is scaled so that its shortest dimension fill the screen The longer dimension is cropped transparency a percentage 100 means that the picture is the only thing seen in the background 0 means that the screen background color is visible and the picture is invisible Any percentage in between blends the picture with the screen background color To clear the background image simply use ESC STX iB CR ESC STX R script CR this is a variant of the old ESC STX P command used to run a script The difference with this command is that the script is synchronized with the terminal This basically sets the session InputMode property to 1 before the script starts and restores it once the script completes This ensures that any characters received from the host will not be processed by the terminal emulator unless they are first processed in the script using Input or WaitFor This has the effect of buffering any data
5. MenuFileName property has been removed this property has been obsolete since AccuTerm 2K2 TelnetHostsFile property is obsolete and has been removed Session object FKeys property and FKey object the FKeys property returns an FKeys collection which acts like the FKeys array property from previous AccuTerm versions so existing scripts should continue to work Instead of containing strings elements in the FKeys collection are FKey objects The default property of the FKey object is the content of the key which is a string BackgroundPictureFile property has been added to support background pictures BackgroundPictureMode property has been added to support background pictures BackgroundTransparency property has been added to support background pictures ScreenPrinterName ScreenPrintPaperSize ScreenPrintPaperSource ScreenPrintOrientation properties have been added so that screen amp slave printers can be configured independently ScreenPrintAdapterScript property has been added to support use of a print adapter script to process screen printing SlavePrinterName property has been added as a synonym for PrinterName property SlavePrintAdapterScript property has been added to support use of a print adapter script to process slave print jobs DeviceLicenseMode property has been added to supersede the old U2DeviceLicensing property old property is still valid BreakKeyAction property has been added to supersede the old TelnetAltBre
6. after the last replace operation Release 7 1a 12 19 2012 The following bugs have been fixed main program 1 Fixed Excel export bug when specifying a target worksheet name on a new workbook The blank sheet 1 tab is no longer included in the new workbook 2 Fixed Excel 2013 export select failed error 3 Fixed the Reset function in the keyboard editor The following GUI bugs have been fixed 1 Fixed designer so that labels are aligned the same at design time as they are at run time Previously the designer showed labels a few pixels higher than they were shown at run time 2 Fixed problem where clicking a command button twice quickly would buffer the second click when the first click caused a modal dialog to be shown In this case the second click should have been discarded 3 Fixed command button TabStop property so that buttons with the toolbar style ignore this property toolbar style buttons do not support tabbing 4 Fixed bug that ignored setting the PrinterName property of the global Printer object 5 Fixed Move method so that when NULL is passed for the Left or Top argument the current value is used 6 Fixed menu bug where enabling a disabled top level menu was not enabling the sub menu items 7 Changed the argument used to specify the number of properties in ATGUIGETPROPS amp ATGUISETPROPS Used to be DCOUNT CTLIDS AM now DCOUNT PROPS AM This allows passing NULL for CTLIDS when se
7. bar percent is reported in GEDRAGDROP event Tree new checked style for multi select tree new hierarchical checked style for multi select tree where checking or un checking a node propagates the node state to all descendent nodes Changing the state of a descendent node may cause ancestor nodes to indicate a mixed state grayed check FontUnderline GPFONTUNDERLINE drag amp drop source and or target node path is reported in GEDRAGDROP event Other Enhancements Drag amp Drop most controls now support DragID and DropIDs properties Any control with a DragID can initiate a drag and drop operation As the control is dragged over other controls the target control s DropIDs is searched for an entry that matches the source control s DragID If a match is found the cursor is changed to indicate that dropping is permitted Otherwise the cursor indicates that dropping is prohibited When the source is dropped over a matching target control the GEDRAGDROP event is fired The event is fired on the target control and the event argument can be queried for the ID of the source control Other information may be passed in the event arguments such as the source and or target tree node grid cell character position edit amp combo box controls list index etc ATGUISORT sorts items in grid list box or combo box ATGUICOPY same as Copy built in menu ID ATGUICUT same as Cut built in menu ID ATGUIPASTE same as Paste built in menu I
8. developer documentation status bar tool tips are displayed only if the panel has an icon and no text or if all of the text cannot be displayed inside the panel 3 Fixed bug in read only combo box Setting the Value property of a read only combo box updated the selection in the item list but did not display the selected item Now the display matches the selection even if a combo box is read only 4 Fixed bug in Timer control where events were fired even if the form containing the timer was disabled Timer events will no longer occur if the timer s form or other container is disabled 5 Fixed bug which sometimes would place an inactive form above the active form The inactive form may not be enabled This usually would occur when the main AccuTerm window as the active process and the user clicked somewhere on a GUI form to activate the GUI form The clicked on form would become the active GUI form but sometimes a different form would display above the active form 6 Fixed a problem where a form s initial position appears to be random when using a thin client or remote desktop on Terminal Server 7 Changed ATGUIVERSION constant in ATGUIEQUATES from a number to a string for compatibility with D3 using European number format Release 7 1a sp2 04 09 2013 The following bugs have been fixed main program 1 Fixed macro recorder issue crashing program when recording macro opening multiple sessions 2 Fixed macro recorder problem
9. or escape sequences received while the script is running This is useful when changing Session properties such as screen sizes terminal type etc Previously we recommended adding a final Output in scripts that required synchronization This required a corresponding INPUT statement in the host program However this technique is not compatible with typeahead on the host The new escape sequence solves this problem ESC STX w and ESC STX m these existing escape sequences can be used to play most types of audio media files including mp3 files ESC STX iL this existing escape sequence is used to display images on the text screen It has been updated to use the Freelmage Open Source image library so more image formats are now possible AccuTerm Object Model Changes Server object The name of the server object provided by AccuTerm 7 has been changed from atPickServer Server to atMVServer Server You need to use the new name in your CreateObject function to access the AccuTerm 7 version of the MultiValue server If you are using a reference to the AccuTerm 2K2 MultiValue Server type library you need to change the reference to AccuTerm 7 MultiValue Server To make your code version independent declare variables that reference the Server object as Object instead of an explicit type Attempt to create the server object using the new AccuTerm 7 name and if an error occurs try using the AccuTerm 2K2 name instead AccuTerm object
10. the ID from a TCL command line 10 The file transfer wizard now supports the option to use column headings instead of dictionary names when exporting data files to Excel or delimited text files this feature was previously supported by the FTD utility and FTEXPORT subroutine but not by the wizard 11 Bug in file transfer wizard caused the header row of a text file to be included as data when importing to a host file was fixed 12 Fixed bug in file transfer wizard which allowed associated PC file names and MV Item IDs to get out of sync when renaming files during the transfer 13 During installation Custom Feature Codes were being ignored 14 During installation using a setup ini file the DESKTOPSHORTCUT N option was not working 15 The Update MultiValue Host Programs script has been modified to re install the FTBP file first 16 The FT FTD and FTPICK programs now support an optional user defined exit string Entering the specified exit string at any prompt in one of these programs immediately terminates the program Use FTSETUP to specify the exit string GUI Enhancements and Fixes 1 The ATGUISORT subroutine when sorting multiple grid columns only sorted on the first column specified Now all the columns in the list are used for sorting 2 Fixed bug with tool tips on toolbar buttons and status bar panels The bug caused ampersand characters amp used in tool tip text to be discarded Note according to Microsoft
11. was not visible when using the ADDS 4000 style normal visual attribute The picture should be visible wherever the normal attribute is displayed 3 In certain cases where the screen is frequently switched between normal 80 column and extended 132 column mode occasionally when in extended mode the screen would display blanks in columns past the end of the normal screen width When the problem occurs it would usually only affect one or two lines on the screen 4 The PrinterName and TitleFormat properties caused an error when used in a recorded macro 5 A small bug which caused the Host Type field in the Settings dialog to show custom instead of the selected host type has been fixed 6 In the Settings dialog the list of print adapters may not be properly loaded when starting AccuTerm 7 from a shortcut that does not use Atwin70 as the startup directory Also sometimes the adapter selected would not match the one that is used Finally there should have been a tooltip that displays the print adapter description for each item in the list when the mouse hovers over any item These problems have been fixed 7 After changing certain settings to zero for example Interline Delay then saving the session the changed setting would not be saved in the session file 8 In the main AccuTerm program using the menu designer it was not possible to disable the main menu 9 A bug that caused AccuTerm to crash when using ActiveSession
12. was unable to handle using the LOOP keyword as a variable name This has been partially fixed However the code formatter is unable to distinguish between LOOP as a keyword and variable name if it is the first word in a line 17 When the Settings dialog is open pressing the F1 key usually displayed the Contents page from the help file instead of the help page for the selected category 18 When using the keyboard with the connection wizard pressing Enter to each prompt the newly created session would immediately abort the connection process This was caused by the Enter key being handled first by the Finish button in the wizard then by the Abort button on the session window This has been fixed by delaying the appearance of the Abort button by a second or two 19 A custom title did not always work sometimes the title reverted back to AccuTerm 7 20 The Standalone installation option would fail unless the user had administrator privileges This has been fixed one of the main reasons for this installation option is to enable non admin users to install the product for their personal use The following new features have been added to the GUI 1 A minor enhancement change to the Resize event when a form is moved by the user a Resize event is now fired even if the size has not changed The new position is indicated in GUIARGS lt 1 4 gt left and GUIARGS lt 1 5 gt top The Resize event is now available to fixed size forms Th
13. AccuTerm 7 1 Release Notes Release 7 1c sp1 09 24 2015 AccuTerm 7 is designed to run on Windows XP SP2 and above It will not run on Windows 2000 or any Windows 9x or ME versions It is a 32 bit Windows application and requires an Intel x86 32 or 64 bit architecture CPU It is not compatible with ARM processors Windows CE Windows Mobile Windows RT Upgrading from AccuTerm 7 1a to AccuTerm 7 1c AccuTerm release 7 1c provides updates to Secure Shell SSH and adds a new connection method SSL Telnet An incompatibility in Windows 8 1 cryptographic support required a change in AccuTerm s SSH crypto functions SSH host key verification was also added in this release See the highlighted sections below for details on the new SSH and SSL features Upgrading from AccuTerm 7 to AccuTerm 7 1 The main focus of AccuTerm 7 1 is to add support for Unicode to all AccuTerm functions This includes supporting UTF 8 as a host character set encoding for terminal sessions green screen file transfers data capture GUI Designer and Runtime and the wED Editor Enhancements or changes which are new to AccuTerm 7 1 compared to AccuTerm 7 are denoted by shaded text AccuTerm 7 1 should be installed in a separate directory from other versions of AccuTerm AccuTerm 7 1 does not share any common components with prior versions of AccuTerm The default installation directory is C Program Files Atwin71 The atwin ini file has been renamed atwin71 ini The
14. Auto When Auto is selected the function key bar tracks the state of the Shift and Ctrl keys Other selections Normal Shift Ctrl Shift Ctrl lock the bar to the designated bank 2 The reconnect panel that is displayed when a connection is lost has a new Info button Clicking this button will display additional information related to the cause of the disconnect a popup help topic Similarly the connection error dialog that pops up when a network or communication error occurs also includes an Info button to display additional information about the error 3 The character set selected in the Settings dialog is now used as the User Preferred Supplemental Set UPSS when running the VT220 320 amp 420 emulations Similarly it determines the international character set used in Prism P30 emulation 4 The wED editor now has a Maximize menu item in the Window menu to maximize the current document 5 The Session object now includes AnsiAutoPrint and CharacterMapping properties These were previously available only as properties of the Settings object The following bugs have been fixed main program 1 On systems using multiple monitors any tree control settings dialog GUI designer GUI program using a tree etc placed on a monitor which is to the left of the primary monitor the one with the Start menu would not respond to mouse clicks 2 When using Viewpoint Enhanced emulation with a screen background picture the picture
15. Close from a function key was fixed 10 When opening multiple sessions especially from a layout file AccuTerm could get into an infinite loop activating and deactivating the newly added session windows 11 The script used to install the host programs from the MultiValue gt Host Programs menu failed when AccuTerm was launched from a shortcut that did not use Atwin70 as the startup directory 12 The FTSETUP program used by the MultiValue gt Host Programs menu and from TCL prompt did not update existing catalog items in the MD VOC when you choose replace all from the item exists prompt 13 When importing a large number of keywords into wED the import would fail 14 In the WED Editor double clicking a label on a GOTO or GOSUB statement moves the cursor to the line containing the target label The document should scroll so that the target is in the center of the window Also some of the WED dialog boxes Goto Find etc would not position themselves on the same monitor as the main window if the monitor containing the main window was to the LEFT of the Start menu primary monitor These have been fixed 15 In the WED Editor if you have multiple documents open and they are not maximized opening a new document switches all documents to maximized This has been fixed so that a new document will open in the same window state maximized or normal as the currently active document 16 In the WED Editor the code formatter
16. D Tab Stop property now available in the designer Pressing the Application key on the keyboard will cause a Context GECONTEXT event on most controls wED Editor The wED editor now has the same tabbed interface style as the main AccuTerm program Each open document is referenced by a tab The drop down arrow at the right of the tab bar can be used to select any tab A new monospaced font DejaVu Sans Mono is now the default font for wED This is an open source font with decent Unicode coverage and nice rendering at most sizes User defined keywords have enhanced block start end mid designations so some of the newer BASIC syntax should be easier to recognize Keywords may contain most characters including the comment characters and as well as spaces Reserved characters are parentheses comma and semicolon Allowing the use of comments as keywords might prove useful in conjunction with the code block collapsing feature or when using a pre compiler For example you could define comments like lt lt IF gt gt and lt lt END gt gt as keywords and designate them as block start and block end Then the code collapse feature could hide or show whole sections of code enclosed within these special comments The Comment Uncomment commands now respect the indent comments preferences set in the editor options The wED editor now supports bookmarks Bookmarks are indicated by a small blue rectangle to the right of the lin
17. ak and SSHBreakCharacter properties old properties are still valid Keepalivelnterval property has been added and supersedes the old TelnetKeepalive and SSHKeepalive properties which remain valid The new property allows the interval to be specified which whas not possible using the old properties TcpNoDelay property has been added and supersedes the old TelnetNoDelay and SSHNoDelay properties Tcpldn property has been added to support Internationalized Domain Names or punycode for host names TelnetKeepalivelsNOP property has been added to select the telnet NOP command as a keepalive message the default is the telnet DMARK command SSHUseOnlyPreferredCipher property has been added OnLine property has been added Set this property to True to connect or False to disconnect CopySelMode property has been added to support new remove selection after copy feature GetSelection method has been added to return coordinates of selection instead of selected text returned by the Selection property Copy method has been changed so that the last line copied to the clipboard does not have a terminating CR LF appended Server MenuFileName DDEResult ScrAutoFwd properties are obsolete and have been removed TelnetEcho TelnetAltBreak TelnetNoDelay TelnetKeepAlive SSHNoDelay SSHKeepalive SSHBreakCharacter and U2DeviceLicensing properties have been superseded by new properties listed above These properties continue to function however th
18. application data directory is the same as for AccuTerm 7 C Users username AppData Roaming Asent atwin70 This is where private menu files the dialing directory and ssh key files are stored Although the host programs from prior AccuTerm versions are upward compatible with AccuTerm 7 1 we recommend installing the new host programs from AccuTerm 7 1 The host programs have been updated to support Unicode UTF 8 on platforms supporting these The updated programs are designed to be backward compatible with any previous version of AccuTerm Although you can run LOAD ACCUTERM PROGS from the ACCUTERM account on the host to install the updated programs it is easier to use Update Host Program from the MultiValue menu This will reinstall the base programs in the FTBP file first then display a dialog where you can select the other libraries and samples that you want to reinstall Upgrading from AccuTerm 2K2 to AccuTerm 7 1 AccuTerm 7 1 should be installed in a separate directory from other versions of AccuTerm Unlike previous AccuTerm versions AccuTerm 7 1 does not share any common components with prior versions of AccuTerm The default installation directory is C Program Files Atwin71 The atwin ini file has been renamed atwin71 ini and the application data directory has moved to C Users username AppData Roaming Asent atwin70 This is where private menu files the dialing directory and ssh key files are stored Although the host programs from pr
19. button s position GUIARGS lt 1 1 5 gt Y position of mouse relative to the command button s position Option transparent background GPTRANSPARENT FontUnderline GPFONTUNDERLINE ReadOnly property supported GPREADONLY drag amp drop source and or target button index is reported in GEDRAGDROP event Checkbox transparent background GPTRANSPARENT left 0 or right 1 alignment GPALIGN FontUnderline GPFONTUNDERLINE ReadOnly property supported GPREADONLY drag amp drop GPDRAGID GPDROPIDS List box new checkbox style supports multi select using checkboxes instead of ctrl click New Style property 0 single selection 1 multiple selection 2 drop down list 3 checked multiple selection GPSTYLE first column can display an icon per item GPICON FontUnderline GPFONTUNDERLINE ReadOnly property supported GPREADONLY new ColDataType property used to indicate data type when sorting content using ATGUISORT GPCOLDATATYPE drag amp drop new search algorithm using the keyboard to search a list for a particular item is now consistent between the list box combo box and grid dropdown list amp dropdown combo columns Previously the grid employed an incremental search and the list and combo box employed a simple first letter search The incremental search is more powerful each key typed is concatenated to a hidden string that is used to search the list When a key causes the hidden string to not match any items the s
20. ch are substituted before the command is issued For example COMPILE FILENAME ITEMID 5 comma separated list of indent values Margin Tab Size Indent for Star comments Indent for Bang comments Margin amp Tab Size are characters Indent for Star amp Indent for Bang are 0 margin 1 code or 2 none Any lines that are null use the default values for those lines To initialize the keyword list use the Export button on the Language or User keyword tab in the Settings dialog The keyword list is a simple text item one keyword per line Each keyword may have a suffix character to indicate its effect on the block structure of the BASIC language The block structure suffixes are used by the formatter and by the block collapse function to identify block structures in the program being edited The suffix characters are keyword indicates the beginning of a block structure for example FOR in a FOR NEXT structure keyword indicates the end of block structure for example END in a multi line IF THEN END structure keyword indicates a mid block for example WHILE in a LOOP REPEAT structure keyword indicates the beginning of a block structure when found at the beginning of a line keyword indicates the beginning of a block structure when found at the end of a line The keyword list may contain comment lines which begin with a semicolon You can use comments to identify special keyword lists or for other doc
21. e following GUI bugs have been fixed 1 Several GDI object leaks have been fixed 2 Under Windows XP only in the GUI clicking most controls that have a tooltip would cause the tooltip to never display again Similarly leaving the mouse over a control with a tooltip until the tip disappeared would never display the tip again 3 The way that SelStart and SelLength in GUI combo boxes has been changed Setting the SelStart property implicitly sets the SelLength property to zero removing any selection highlight from the text part of the combo box This is the same behavior as the edit control A bug in the original release of AccuTerm 7 caused SelLength to be set to a negative value causing text from the beginning up to the new SelStart position to be selected if you were to retrieve the SelStart and SelLength properties after setting SelStart SelStart would be zero and SelLength would be the value you had specified for SelStart A bug in the 2K2 version of the combo box caused SelLength to be set to the end of the text selecting the text from the SelStart position to the end 4 In the GUI the status bar was firing Click DbIClick and Context events whether or not these events were selected in the designer 5 In the GUI when a grid was placed in a container whose Enabled property was False changing the container s Enabled property to True did not cause the grid to become enabled 6 When an MDI Child form is first displayed the first c
22. e number Use Ctrl F2 to toggle the bookmark on the current line F2 to locate the next bookmark in the current document or Shift F2 to locate the previous bookmark Bookmarks may also be toggled using the context right click menu The Search function has been enhanced to include an option to search all open documents Multiple results can be bookmarked or shown in the Results window Forward and backward navigation is now supported Use the arrow icons on the toolbar or Alt Left to navigate backward or Alt Right to navigate forward Navigation is maintained across multiple documents Code block collapsing is supported for recognized syntactical blocks IF THEN ELSE FOR NEXT BEGIN CASE END CASE LOOP WHILE REPEAT This function must be enabled in the General preferences Tools gt Settings gt General A wED configuration record on the host can be used to specify keyword lists compiler command and format preferences allowing these settings to be easily shared among developers wED configuration settings are stored in an item named WED in the ACCUERMCTRL file The layout of the WED item is 1 must be X 2 file name and item ID of the language keyword list the file name and ID are separated by a backslash character 3 file name and item ID of the user keyword list using a backslash to separate the file name and ID 4 command to execute to compile a program The command line must contain tokens FILENAME and ITEMID whi
23. eir use is discouraged FontSize and PrinterFontSize property type has been changed from integer to float TextFileEncoding property specifies the encoding used for capture files or received text files Set to 0 for raw no encoding 1 for ANSI 2 for Unicode and 3 for UTF 8 Settings object Generally the same properties that were added removed or superseded in the Session object have been similarly updated in the Settings object Instead of TextFileEncoding the Settings object has a DefaultTextEncoding property New Features GUI The following sections describe the new features that available in AccuTerm 7 GUI Note that there are still a significant number of items on the wish list so if your desired wish did not make the cut for this release don t give up hope it might make a future release Generally new features that were requested by multiple users are the ones that have been included although not all of these were feasible at this time One of the main goals of AccuTerm 7 is to bring the user interface style up to the level of modern Windows versions Every effort has been made to render the GUI objects according to the style used by Windows itself Because of this you are not guaranteed that colors or sizes will be 100 consistent between Windows versions or even between the same versions with different themes monitor sizes and screen resolutions This might require a bit more flexibility by developers to ensure their a
24. en using a timer control when a system dialog was open MsgBox Font dialog etc the Timer event would cause the GUI to freeze 3 Fixed problem with StatusBar control with hidden panels returning incorrect panel ID in Click DbIClick amp Context events if any hidden panels precede the clicked panel 4 Fixed problem with multiple file selection in ATGUIFILEDIALOG 5 Fixed freeze in ATGUIFILEDIALOG when opened from Click event by pressing ENTER on a command button which has focus The following wED Editor bugs have been fixed 1 Fixed problem with multiple search results not activating the correct document when double clicking a line in the results window 2 Fixed Find All amp Replace All when search scope is selected text so that the selection is restored after the search replace operation 3 Fixed problem when search result is inside of a collapsed block The block is now automatically expanded so the search result is visible 4 When the cursor is at the top of the document and the Find dialog is opened the first word in the document is not automatically loaded in the Find what field Normal behavior is to load the word at the cursor into the Find what field as long as the cursor is before or within a word 5 When using Replace Next after the last match is replaced the text not found message was not being displayed until Find Next was clicked The message not displays
25. ent window A problem was discovered when a new MDI form was being created before its menu had been initialized the empty child menu replaced the parent menu Once the child form s menu was initialized the new child menu replaced the empty menu This caused the child forms to quickly jump up and down as new forms were created This is now fixed 12 When an MDI application has one or more hidden MDI child forms the tab for the hidden child forms is still displayed on the MDI Tab bar 13 When using the multiple application model with MDI subroutines after all MDI apps had been deleted then after showing a modal dialog the host busy window would appear and there was no way to hide it 14 In the GUI it was possible for the Enabled state of a container control frame picture box tab to become disabled when it should not 15 Several bugs related to controls placed directly on a Tab Group control have been fixed These were all related to focus problems when activating a control using the mouse Symptoms ranged from missing Validate events to requiring multiple clicks on command buttons to trigger a Click event Note the controls must be in the Tab Group all controls on a Tab behaved correctly 16 When deleting the only Tab in a Tab Group any controls that are placed directly on the Tab Group become hidden when any Tabs are added to the Tab Group They actually are not hidden just obscured by the newly added Tabs 17 When u
26. ge quality The following GUI bugs have been fixed 1 Fixed a bug in the MDI Tab Bar that allowed the X to close a disabled form 2 Changed the way images are scaled to improve quality 3 Fixed a tab order inconsistency in the designer 4 Fixed problem that changed the style of a dropdown list to a combo box if the list ReadOnly property was set then reset 5 Fixed problem that restored a form immediately after minimizing when the main AccuTerm window was minimized Release 7 0d 06 20 2011 The following bugs have been fixed all programs 1 An error was discovered in a component DLL which is used in nearly every part of AccuTerm The error prevented some kinds of cleanup from occurring when closing a program No specific bugs have been attributed to this error however for correctness it has now been fixed The following bugs have been fixed main program 1 When installed using portable or standalone mode the WED Editor and GUI Designer would hang when launched This was due to a missing type library which has now been added 2 When installed using portable or standalone mode sometime the temporary registry entries were not cleaned up when the program closed 3 If the path for a non existent directory was entered as the home directory during install at run time the home directory would be set to the program directory Now if the directory does not exist when AccuTerm is first run it will atte
27. ing an SSL proxy such as stunnel Please consult your U2 documentation for server configuration instructions Setting up the server for SSL is not a trivial task At minimum a self signed X 509 Server certificate must be installed on the server for SSL Telnet to function In addition to the advanced Telnet options which are the same for SSL Telnet and normal Telnet SSL Telnet has options for validating the server certificate and for specifying an optional client certificate Server certificate validation can be selected from a drop down list None any server certificate is assumed to be valid Minimal the server certificate s name role expiration and root certificate authority are ignored The certificate is rejected only if it has been revoked Self signed disregard host name the server certificate s name role and root Certificate Authority are ignored The certificate is rejected if it is expired or revoked Self signed verify host name the server certificate s role and root Certificate Authority are ignored The certificate is rejected if the certificate Common Name does not match the host name specified in the Host Name or IP Address for the session configuration It is also rejected if it is expired or revoked Strict the server s certificate must be issued by a trusted Certificate Authority and it must be valid for use as a Server certificate It must not be expired or revoked and the Common Name must ma
28. ior AccuTerm versions are upward compatible with AccuTerm 7 1 we recommend installing the new host programs from AccuTerm 7 1 If you use AccuTerm GUI you definitely should install the new GUIBP library because there are several new subroutines included and new constants defined in ATGUIEQUATES for new events properties and methods Although you can run LOAD ACCUTERM PROGS from the ACCUTERM account on the host to install the updated programs it is easier to use Update Host Program from the MultiValue menu Be sure to select the Reinstall FTBP first then run the update again and reinstall the other desired programs especially GUIBP New MsSl based Installer The AccuTerm 7 1 installer has been redesigned using Microsoft Installer MSI The MSI installation file is wrapped in a standard EXE installer which allows the selection of the desired installation type The EXE installer then launches the MSI install msiexec with appropriate options As with AccuTerm 7 three installation modes are supported normal all users personal install for current user only and portable run from removable device The silent install options have been changed from q or s to SILENT or VERYSILENT The format of the setup ini file used to customize the installation process has been changed Please see the user manual or online help for more information Product Activation The product activation has been updated in AccuTerm 7 1 The product can now be ac
29. m lt 1 1 10 gt panel size O auto 1 spring else actual size item lt 1 1 11 gt panel alignment O left 1 right 2 center Note when a panel size is set to 1 spring the panel size is adjusted to fill up the remaining space on the status bar If multiple panels are set to spring the extra space is divided among them The status bar supports Click GECLICK DoubleClick GEDBLCLICK and Context GECONTEXT events Panels using built in IDs do not respond to the Click event Caps Num Scroll Date Time Timedate Enhanced Controls Form drop drag not supported Label transparent background GPTRANSPARENT FontUnderline GPFONTUNDERLINE data field style 2 single line data field 3 multi line data field eliminates need to use amp amp when you need to display the amp character in a label drag amp drop Edit New Style property 0 single line 1 multiline word wrap enabled 2 password 3 multiline word wrap disabled 4 up down button FontUnderline GPFONTUNDERLINE drag amp drop source and or target character position is reported in GEDRAGDROP event SelRange property returns SelStart in propval lt 1 1 gt and SelLength in propval lt 1 2 gt GPSELRANGE The edit control GECHANGE event now includes the new content in GUIARGS lt 1 gt The new style 3 multiline with word wrap disabled displays both horizontal and vertical scroll bars The new style 4 up down buttons is a single line edit c
30. mpt to create the directory and if successful use the specified directory 4 The new connection wizard now saves the telnet port and SSH port separately Previously a single port number was saved between executions of the wizard and the previous value was used as the default the next time the wizard was executed If the next execution created a session using a different protocol from the previous execution the wrong port would be shown as the default 5 The Upload and Download dialogs now save the file transfer protocol selected and use this as the initial selection next time the dialog is opened The following scripting bugs have been fixed 1 The default value for the Right amp Bottom arguments of the Session Select and Session SetSelection functions has been changed from 1 to 32768 This was done so that these functions could be used to select text in the screen history which is referenced using a negative value for the row number Previously any negative number was treated as last column or last row 2 The Item property of the FKey object was assigned as the object s default property This fixed an incompatibility with the GET PROGRAMMED KEYS subroutine 3 The Settings Dialog function was not properly displaying nodes in the tree for specific panels when the Categories argument was used to limit which panels should be available in the settings tree The following GUI bugs have been fixed 1 The Context event for O
31. n of maximized window on secondary monitor was incorrect 2 Fixed problem with excessive number of GDI objects when a menu used many icons 3 Fixed printer dialog ATGUIPRINT2 where number of copies was being ignored 4 Fixed problem when using a multi line description or copyright in the app properties in GED 5 Fixed problem opening the code window WED from the GUI designer under Windows 8 6 Fixed a Windows 8 1 typeahead problem which caused wrong or no event to fire when clicking a control while a context menu is displayed Release 7 1b 10 11 2013 The following bugs have been fixed main program 1 Added new connection method SSL Telnet 2 Added host key verification to SSH 3 Updated SSH crypto functions for Windows 8 1 compatibility 4 Zmodem uploads no longer force the file name to be lower case 5 The AccuTerm escape sequence to draw a border around a rectangle was not drawing the entire border 6 When using multiple screen pages switching between normal and extended mode might cause the screen to become corrupted if normal and extended modes have different number of rows 7 Sometimes the current directory was used instead of the default directory when loading a script file that did not include a full path 8 In the wED Editor the Replace function did not always handle match case correctly 9 WED GED and FTWIZ did not correctly parse item IDs enclosed in double quotes with embedded spaces in
32. n use on many Linux versions The difference between Keyboard Interactive and Password authentication is that Keyboard Interactive supports password expiration and changing if supported by the host AccuTerm 7 1 SSH supports two additional encryption algorithms Diffie Hellman group 14 key exchange previously only group 1 was supported and RSA signatures previously only DSS signatures were supported but some Cisco routers require the RSA signature algorithm SSH now supports Putty format private key files so you can import DSA and RSA private keys generated using Putty s puttygen exe program AccuTerm 7 1 can be installed in FIPS 140 mode Use the custom feature code FIPS140 to enable this mode during installation In FIPS 140 mode AccuTerm 7 SSH is restricted to FIPS compatible algorithms when running on a Windows machine configured FIPS compliancy While AccuTerm SSH itself is not FIPS certified the encryption functions used by AccuTerm SSH are provided by the Microsoft Crypto API Library DLLs which are FIPS certified when Windows is running in FIPS mode see Microsoft KB811833 for more information about FIPS mode When running in FIPS mode AccuTerm 7 is unable to create RSA keys however you can import an RSA private key from another source for example a key created by puttygen exe Also note that OpenSSH private key files are not supported in FIPS mode This is due to the use of MD5 hash to ensure the file has not been tampered
33. o display the DSA host key fingerprint change rsa to dsa in the above command Note the ssh keygen command displays the MD5 hash of the host key You can use this fingerprint for host key verification unless you are running AccuTerm in FIPS 140 mode In FIPS 140 mode the MD5 hash algorithm is not supported and you will need to use the SHA1 hash instead At this time we are unaware of any Linux command to display the SHA1 hash of the host key Default SSH2 cipher changed to AES 128 in CTR mode The default cipher used for SSH2 connections was changed from Triple DES to AES 128 bit in CTR mode Security experts have discovered a weakness in CBC mode ciphers and now recommend using CTR mode instead This may affect the cipher used for SSH2 connections if you are using the default cipher SSL Telnet Connection A new connection method SSL Telnet has been added to this release This connection method establishes a secure SSL TLS connection between AccuTerm and the host then initiates a Telnet session within the SSL connection tunnel This provides privacy and optionally authentication of both client and server This connection method is provided primarily for users who need to connect to UniVerse UniData and other MultiValue platforms running on Windows These platforms do not support Secure Shell SSH Both UniVerse and UniData have support for SSL Telnet Other MultiValue platforms may be able to use this connection method by us
34. oject default font name amp font size were being ignored Now they are used as the initial font properties for newly created forms 9 Beginning with AccuTerm 7 the default font was changed from MS Sans Serif to Arial This worked properly in the GUI Designer but at run time MS Sans Serif was still being used as the default font Now Arial will be used as the runtime default as well Release 7 1b sp1 02 10 2014 The following changes have been to the SSH protocol 1 Added CTR mode support for AES 128 amp 256 bit ciphers 2 Changed default cipher for SSH2 connections from Triple DES to AES 128 in CTR mode 3 AES CTR mode ciphers have priority over CBC mode ciphers during negotiations The following bugs have been fixed main program 1 Fixed text mode capture problem in VT emulation which caused extra tab characters to be written in the capture file 2 Fixed problem with keyboard in Wyse ADDS emulation when line drawing character set is selected 3 Fixed VT100 emulation bug where the line drawing character set could not be selected unless the session was configured to use the DEC Multinational character set 4 Fixed Euro character code setting was being ignored since release 7 0 5 Fixed problem with permissions for custom shortcuts when performing a customized installation The following GUI bugs have been fixed 1 Fixed problem using multiple monitors where reported positio
35. ontrol with a small spinner button at the right edge Clicking the up or down spinner button will fire a GEBTNCLICK event with GUIARGS lt 1 1 gt 0 when the down button is clicked and GUIARGS lt 1 1 gt 1 when the up button is clicked GUIARGS lt 1 2 gt contains the current value Command Button new Toolbar button style does not get focus change to Cancel button style the Cancel button bypasses required amp local data type checking Icon IconSize amp IconAlign properties display proper icon on button GPICON GPICONSIZE GPICONALIGN FontUnderline GPFONTUNDERLINE custom Background amp Foreground colors are now supported now supports Border GPBORDER property O none for borderless graphical buttons and 2 normal border Default is 2 When using borderless graphical buttons pictures with transparency for example PNG format with alpha channel is now supported drag amp drop The command button has a new event GESTATUS which is fired when a mouse button is pressed or released In this way an application can perform some action while the button is held down perhaps incrementing some value at a periodic rate The GESTATUS event arguments are GUIARGS lt 1 1 1 gt button 1 left 2 right 3 middle GUIARGS lt 1 1 2 gt state of Shift Ctrl amp Alt keys GUIARGS lt 1 1 3 gt 1 if button is down pressed O if button is up released GUIARGS lt 1 1 4 gt X position of mouse relative to the command
36. ontrol in the form was not automatically activated 7 Inthe GUI designer the Preview function will now work with an MDI app object 8 In the GUI when word wrapping in a grid control is enabled text in the last column may not be wrapped correctly This is partially fixed The underlying problem is that the actual size of the last column changes as the grid is scrolled horizontally This is not solvable However when the grid displays all the columns the wrapping in the last column should now be correct 9 Using a Picture control as a container failed for many control types This was due to the fact that the Picture control does not have BackColor ForeColor or Font properties and several control types inherit these properties from their parent When the picture control is the parent these properties will be inherited from the Form instead 10 The GUI runtime maintains a count of visible forms When any forms are visible the this session is running a GUI application message is displayed on the text screen There were certain sequences of functions that corrupted this count This could cause the text screen to be activated when hiding a GUI form while other forms are still visible This causes a flickering as the text and GUI applications are switched and degrades performance 11 When using MDI forms each child form can have its own main menu When the child form is the active form its main menu replaces the main menu of the MDI par
37. othing 2 The AccuTerm 7 Upgrade process for converting customized menus from previous versions of AccuTerm now works more reliably and accurately 3 File transfers to Excel FTD FTEXPORT File Transfer Wizard where a column contained both string and numeric or string and date data the column was auto sized based only on the string data If the column contained only short strings it might not be sized correctly to display the numeric or date values 4 Fixed Page Setup so that the printer orientation works Also fixed problem causing paper bin and paper size drop down lists to be empty 5 Fixed session tab context menu so that if the main menu File gt Close item is disabled the Close item in the context menu is also disabled 6 Inthe WED Editor documents are always saved using standard Windows line ending of CR LF Previously if a document using only LF or only CR for newlines was saved to the host the CR or LF control characters were stored in the host record instead of converting to AM This was because the in transmission to the host CR LF were converted to AM but not CR or LF by itself The following new features have been added to the GUI 1 New toolbar styles allow a toolbar button to display both an icon and caption The new styles are 2 small icon with caption and 3 large icon with caption The following GUI bugs have been fixed 1 When creating controls at runtime on the fly on a visible form the con
38. pplications look pleasant on a wide range of target systems There is a system wide setting in the atguisvr ini file in the program directory Add the item DisableThemes True to the Behavior section of this file You can create the file with Notepad if it does not exist Most AccuTerm GUI objects have a Border Style property with settings for None Flat and 3D The 3D style has been renamed as Normal When using themes the default on Windows XP and later the Normal border style will be rendered using the appropriate Windows border style for the particular object With Windows XP and above most borders are drawn using a flat style with colors compatible with the current Windows theme AccuTerm 7 GUI has a type ahead feature which was first introduced in AccuTerm 2K2 release 5 3c sp2 This feature buffers keyboard and mouse events while the host is processing events So even though the user might not see the effect of a keystroke or click immediately the short delay is typically barely noticeable and the GUI program appears to be more responsive than previous versions without the type ahead feature There are several actions that clear any buffered events from the type ahead buffer calling ATGUIACTIVATE calling ATGUISUSPEND or ATGUIRESUME and switching to a different Windows application The GUI Designer has new default font and scale mode preferences which will be used whenever a new project is created Tools gt Settings Also a set
39. problem with how Ctrl Backspace key was handled This key combination now sends the DEL control code delete instead of an underscore character _ 7 Fixed custom window title problem which caused the title to revert back to AccuTerm 7 instead of the custom title when switching to a different session 8 Improved CapsLock key tracking With this option is enabled when a session is activated the state of the CaspsLock key should be restored to the same state as when the session was last used Host program bug fixes and enhancements 1 Fixed problem with Northgate Reality version of host programs where dictionary items containing both correlative amp conversion codes were processed incorrectly 2 The host programs have been enhanced to support UTF 8 on some platforms lacking native UTF 8 support d3 See readme txt in the PICKBP directory for more information on enabling this feature The following wED Editor bugs have been fixed 1 The dropdown list for the Find what box in the wED search dialog was never populated with recent search strings This is now fixed 2 The wED editor now supports item IDs with embedded commas or semicolons The following AccuTerm Cloud bugs have been fixed 1 When a text screen was displayed on a web page in Internet Explorer using the AccuTerm Cloud plug in sometimes the text cursor would disappear This has been fixed 2 When creating a new AccuTerm Cloud connection using the Connection
40. ption controls was not firing This has been fixed 2 The Required property for Option List single select amp drop down controls was being ignored This has been fixed 3 When using MDI applications selecting a child form by clicking on the MDI tab would corrupt the MDI child window z order This has been corrected 4 A bug in the GUI typeahead function allowed mouse amp keyboard events saved in the typeahead buffer to be processed just before a system dialog was displayed message box printer setup font selection etc This could cause a variety of odd behaviors such as the wrong form being activated Now the typeahead is cleared before showing a system dialog just like calling ATGUIACTIVATE clears the typeahead 5 Fixed problem with Option controls which allowed the cursor keys to change the selection when the ReadOnly property is set to True The following wED Editor bugs have been fixed 1 Sometimes after doing a Format operation the Enter key would not function until the cursor keys were used to move the current location 2 When a new item is created using the WED verb from TCL the Compile tool was disabled until a File gt Save was performed Now the Compile tool is enabled and you will be prompted to save before compiling Release 7 0c 03 02 2011 The following new features have been added main program 1 The installer recognizes a new AUTOUPGRADE item in the SETUP INI file to control automatic mig
41. ration of preferences and files from an earlier version of AccuTerm When this item is specified the AccuTerm 7 Upgrade dialog is suppressed when AccuTerm 7 is first used and an earlier version of AccuTerm is detected See the help file AccuTerm 7 Reference chapter for more details 2 A new subroutine FTEXPORTDA has been added to the FTBP file transfer library This subroutine works similarly to FTEXPORT except that instead of the source data being read from a file it is passed as an argument to the subroutine as a standard dynamic array 3 The wED editor now has an option to show Min Max Close buttons on the document window title bar By default these buttons are not shown as they sometimes do not play nicely with the new tabbed interface 4 The Close button for the Session Tabs and Document Tabs in wED has been moved from the right edge of the bar to the right edge of the tab for which the close action applies 5 The command line parser for the WED GED and FTWIZ verbs has been enhanced to perform simple upper case conversion for those platforms that normally have this feature QM amp mvBase On these platforms if you enter a command entirely in lower case and the file exists in the MD VOC only as upper case the entire command is converted to upper case before processing The following bugs have been fixed main program 1 Fixed menu Help gt Documentation so that it now opens the selected document it used to simply do n
42. rm is re activated the focus would advance to the next control on the form This has been fixed 9 Fixed a refresh problem with dropdown lists using border style of Flat or None 10 Fixed a problem with the MDI tab bar where a tab would not appear when a new child window is first created Switching to a different child window and back to the problem window caused the tab to appear 11 Fixed a small window in the typeahead logic where an event would be queued for transmission to the host but typeahead would not capture keyboard and mouse events until the transmission was initiated With very quick fingers it was sometimes possible for keyboard and or mouse actions to alter the state of a control This new state would not be reflected in the event already queued so the host program might get out of sync with the actual runtime state 12 When the height of a Tab control was very small an Invalid procedure call error was returned This has been fixed 13 Setting the Foreground color of a Frame control at run time sometimes ignored the change until the form was refreshed This has been fixed 14 Disabling a frame during a List box Activate event may cause the Click event for the list to be lost This has been fixed Release 7 0b 08 26 2010 The following new features have been added main program 1 When the function bar is displayed the bank selection leftmost button in the function key button bar now includes a new choice
43. s that are not currently displayed on the bar The default font for new sessions is now DejaVu Sans Mono This font has better hinting for small character sizes than the AccuTerm Legacy TrueType font and has decent Unicode character set coverage In prior versions of AccuTerm the AccuTerm font consisted of hand tuned bitmap fonts for smaller character sizes and TrueType fonts for larger sizes Because Windows bitmap fonts do not support Unicode the supplied AccuTerm Legacy bitmap font is limited to the Latin 1 ISO 8859 1 character set The supplied AccuTerm Legacy TrueType font may also be used however due to poor hinting rendering quality at small character sizes will suffer The AccuTerm Legacy True Type font also appears to have thinner strokes at larger sizes The new DejaVu font is recommended In AccuTerm 7 the Settings dialog box was been completely re designed The new interface uses a tree to select the category of setting to display in the main pane of the dialog Using the tree interface has made the settings more logical AccuTerm 7 supports independent settings for screen printing and slave printing Network features in AccuTerm 7 have been improved IPV6 is now supported as are Internationalized Domain Names punycode Support for D3 Device Licensing has been added to telnet and SSH SSH has an additional authentication protocol Keyboard Interactive This protocol is similar to Password but is host driven It is in commo
44. se a font that includes all of the characters for the scripts you intend to display At this time only left to right text is supported We plan on adding bidirectional support for mixed left to right and right to left text in a future release To send or receive files containing Unicode data using the AccuTerm file transfer programs you need to select the desired text encoding for use on the Windows machine Session Settings gt File Transfer gt Text File Encoding If this setting is anything other than no encoding AccuTerm will save text files in the selected encoding When sending text files to the host the file s BOM byte order mark is used to determine the encoding and the content is transcoded from the file s encoding to host character set encoding The BOM is not included in the data sent to the host The AccuTerm host programs must be configured to enable character set conversion On the ACCUTERM account from TCL type FTSETUP to configure the host programs Choose item 3 or 4 then set the Convert character set option to yes Note UTF 8 support in the AccuTerm host programs required some platform specific enhancements to the host programs At this time the following platforms include UTF 8 support QM release 3 and up SSH Enhancements Host key verification Verification of a server s host key when establishing an SSH connection is a security feature that is standard in many other SSH implementations but has no
45. sing a non default font for a List Box control sometimes the vertical scroll bar in the list box was incorrect or missing 18 Several problems in the GUI designer where certain properties were not saved correctly have been fixed 19 When positioning a form using auto coordinates which should center the form in the display area AccuTerm used the actual screen size rather than the usable screen size when calculating the position This could cause the bottom edge of large forms to be obscured by the Windows task bar 20 Under Windows Vista and Windows 7 the frame of fixed size forms is the same as for sizable forms This is different behavior than Windows XP To make this difference transparent Windows reports the size smaller than it actually is Windows Vista amp 7 report lie about the border size and return the same value that was returned in XP This could cause forms positioned at or near zero for the left or top coordinate to have their border displayed off screen or on the adjacent monitor if using multiple monitors AccuTerm now adjusts for this different behavior 21 Printing a form that contained an HTML Viewer control did not print the Viewer control This has been fixed however due to the way the Viewer is implemented printing quality may poor and pixilated
46. t previously been supported by AccuTerm This release addresses this issue by adding some new settings in the SSH configuration panel to specify the level of verification desired The choices are None the host key is not verified and AccuTerm assumes that you are connected to the desired host This is how all previous versions of AccuTerm have behaved Trust on first use if the key has not been established first time you connect to a particular host AccuTerm assumes that you are connected to correct host and its key is saved in your session configuration The key is verified on subsequent connections If verification fails the connection is aborted Confirm change a dialog is displayed if a change in the host key for a particular session is detected Confirmation is required to complete the connection If the host is confirmed the new key is saved in the session configuration otherwise the connection is aborted Verify host key fingerprint requires that the host key fingerprint be manually entered in the SSH settings If the key verification fails the connection is aborted The fingerprint is the MD5 or SHA1 hash of the host key in hex If your host is running OpenSSH you can use the ssh keygen command to display the host key fingerprint and copy paste the fingerprint into the Key Fingerprint box in AccuTerm s SSH settings The command to display the RSA host key fingerprint is ssh keygen lf etc ssh ssh_host_rsa_key pub T
47. tch the host name specified in the session configuration Host Name or IP Address field Custom various requirements for certificate validation can be individually selected in the event that the typical validation levels are not appropriate for a given host If the host requires client authentication a client certificate can be selected from the drop down box The drop down lists all client certificates installed on the user s computer showing the Common Name the issuing Certificate Authority and the certificate expiration date The client certificate is used to authenticate the client to the server while establishing the SSL connection Normal login credentials user ID and password may still be required to initiate the Telnet session New Escape Sequences AccuTerm Programming Some new private escape sequences added to AccuTerm 7 ESC STX p mode CR selects the printer mode mode 0 turns off auto or transparent print mode 1 turns on auto print mode 2 turns on transparent print mode X turns off auto or transparent print and closes the print job immediately ESC STX 2 Enables mouse input in SystemBuilder compatibility mode turns on mouse cursor Transmits mouse location whenever a mouse button is pressed ESC STX yj name CR queries status of a stored screen block Sends a 0 or 1 followed by a CR indicating if a block of the specified name exists in AccuTerm s screen block memory Screen blocks are stored using
48. ting the default printer for screen printer but disabling slave printing would cause screen printer to be disabled as well 6 Fixed problem with relative paths to My Documents were not resolved correctly 7 Added new Init function to AccuTerm Internet Edition connection script The Init function is called before the connection is opened The following GUI bugs have been fixed 1 Fixed activation bug in forms that have a browser control 2 Fixed flashing window bug where main AccuTerm window title bar and taskbar icon would flash several times if a GUI form was hidden then another GUI form was immediately shown 3 Fixed problem with ColDataType property not being handled in the designer for List amp Combo controls 4 Fixed bug in ATGUISORT for List amp Combo controls only sorting on the first column specified 5 Added new WindowHandle property GPWINDOWHANDLE to root app and form objects This property might be useful for some advanced scenarios 6 Added support for the Border property GPBORDER to command buttons Valid values are 2 normal border the default and 0 borderless Graphical buttons are now possible by using pictures with borderless buttons Pictures with transparency such as PNG files with alpha channel are now supported for borderless buttons 7 Fixed data execution prevention bug in the Grid control when using boot configuration option nx set to AlwaysOn 8 Settings for pr
49. ting to disable designer extensions has been added The alignment of borderless edit controls has been changed to work the same as borderless label controls The text baseline of an edit control at a given vertical position height and font will be aligned with the baseline of another edit control or label control at the same position height and font independent of the Border property of the controls New Controls Timer ATGUICREATETIMER APPID FORMID CTLID STYLE TIMEOUT GUIERRORS GUISTATE The ATGUICREATETIMER routine creates a timer control that fires a Timer GETIMER event after a specified interval The timer may be one shot by specifying STYLE 0 or repeating by specifying STYLE 1 For one shot timers you can restart the timer by setting the Enabled GPENABLED property to True 1 For repeating timers setting Enabled GPENABLED to False 0 will disable the timer Specify TIMEOUT in milliseconds The TIMEOUT value can be changed at any time by setting the Timeout GPTIMEOUT property Using the timer control may be more convenient than calling ATGUICHECKEVENT with a timeout because the interval can be controlled more precisely Multiple timers are supported HTML Viewer ATGUICREATEBROWSER APPID FORMID CTLID PARENTID EVENTMASK URL LEFT TOP WIDTH HEIGHT GUIERRORS GUISTATE The ATGUICREATEBROWSER routine creates an HTML Viewer control which is currently implemented using a component version of Internet Explorer
50. tivated at any time without requiring a re install In the Help menu there is a new selection Enter Activation Code The Activation form has a check box Send registration details to Zumasys over the Internet We recommend checking this box to register your copy of AccuTerm when it is activated This will aid us in helping you in the event that you lose your activation code or have other support issues Importing your Settings When you run AccuTerm 7 1 for the first time AccuTerm checks if there are settings from older versions of AccuTerm that can be imported into AccuTerm 7 1 This is a one time offer It will display a list of the various settings that can be imported and you can choose which ones to import The session configuration files layout files and script files can be used without any changes If you update the settings and save the configuration file from AccuTerm 7 1 you might not be able to use it in prior AccuTerm versions as some settings are stored using different keys If in doubt make a backup copy of the file or use Save As to save using a new name New Features Main Program In AccuTerm 7 the menu toolbar status bar and session bar were completely revamped The old session bar has been replaced with a new tab set You can right click on a tab to display a context menu with options to activate maximize close rename or clone the session There is a drop down arrow at the right edge of the tab bar to select session
51. tring is reset to the last key entered and the search is repeated For example if a list contains items car cat and dog typing c would select car typing a would keep the same selection Typing t would change the selection to cat Typing d would change the selection to dog Combo box first column of dropdown list can display an icon per item GPICON return index of selected item using Row GPROW property FontUnderline GPFONTUNDERLINE ReadOnly property supported GPREADONLY new ColDataType property used to indicate data type when sorting content using ATGUISORT GPCOLDATATYPE drag amp drop new search algorithm see List box above for details Picture box additional picture file formats are supported BMP JPEG GIF PCD PCX PICT PNG PSD TARGA TIFF WBMP XBM XPM and Windows Metafile drag amp drop Frame transparent background GPTRANSPARENT added support for caption less frames which do not display a caption and provide slightly more space within the frame vertically This feature is enabled by setting GPSTYLE to 1 A new ATGUICREATEFRAME2 subroutine has been added to the library which includes the STYLE argument FontUnderline GPFONTUNDERLINE drag amp drop added Click DbIClick Context events Grid Word wrap GPWORDWRAP column level tab stop overrides default cell navigation GPCOLTABSTOP can select cut copy amp paste multiple cells GPSELSTART GPSELLENGTH GPSELRANGE
52. trols were initially created using a pre defined location and size and then moved The problem is that controls initially are visible and this caused a noticeable flicker This has been fixed 2 When using icons and pictures from a web server if a URL was used more than once all but the first time the resulting image was blank This has been fixed 3 Fixed a timing issue when images from a web server are being used for grid items or list items Images from a URL are downloaded asynchronously and if target row of a icon in a grid or list were to move insert or delete rows before the target row before the image was available from the server it could get stored in the wrong item This has been fixed 4 In the HTML Viewer control setting the Content property more than once failed on all but the first time and the Reset command was ignored This has been fixed 5 Combo box and single line edit controls allowed multi line data to be pasted from the clipboard Now only the first line of multi line data is pasted 6 When copying data to the clipboard from a grid cell with selected text the entire cell content was copied instead on only the current selection Now only the selection is copied 7 When pasting into a grid cell sometimes the grid status was not marked as changed 8 When using MDI applications if a control on an MDI child form as focus and a non MDI form dialog form is shown activated when the original MDI child fo
53. tting multiple properties on a form or app object The following wED Editor bugs have been fixed 1 Fixed parsing of multi line On Go statement Release 7 0d sp2 05 11 2012 The following bugs have been fixed main program 1 Fixed bug when opening certain layout files where the active window did not have the focus 2 Fixed problem with incorrect terminal screen size when using very high resolution monitors 3 Fixed typo in warning message in activation dialog 4 Fixed potential buffer overrun problem when attempting to use a corrupt ssh key file The following GUI bugs have been fixed 1 Fixed typeahead problem with modal dialogs ATGUIMSGBOxX freezing when using Alt key shortcut to close the dialog 2 Fixed bug with Grid printing when number of fixed columns is same as total columns 3 Fixed bug where MDI background picture was not refreshed after resizing the parent widnow 4 Fixed bug in designer where Word Wrap checkbox was sometimes hidden for grid controls The following wED Editor bugs have been fixed 1 Fixed problem with item lock not being released when update is cancelled 2 Added asterisk after file name in window title if document has been modified Release 7 0d sp1 09 13 2011 The following bugs have been fixed main program 1 Changed the way the list of installed printers is created to make it more reliable 2 Changed the way images displayed on the text screen are scaled to improve ima
54. umentary purposes Two special comments are recognized when the keyword list is accessed by wED CASE SENSITIVE CASE INSENSITIVE These comments indicate if the keywords in the list are case sensitive or not Note the case sensitive setting is global and affects both the language and user keywords Keyword lists for several MultiValue platforms are available on the PickWiki site Check out www pickwiki com and search for AccuTerm and you ll find the topic AccuTerm 7 Update History Beginning with release 7 1c AccuTerm is a Zumasys product This is reflected in updated graphics copyright trademark and license agreements Release 7 1c sp1 09 24 2015 The following bugs have been fixed main program 1 Fixed problem printing in text mode on Windows 8 1 amp Windows 10 2 Fixed compatibility problem with OpenSSH release 6 8 causing connections to close immediately 3 VT commands to erase a rectangle DECERA amp DECSERA now fill the rectangle using the NORMAL attribute instead of the current attribute 4 Fixed problem with Wyse 50 amp Viewpoint A2 Enhanced emulations where updating the last column of the screen with an embedded attribute did not propagate the attribute to the end of the screen or the next embedded attribute 5 Fixed problem with Wyse amp ADDS emulations where underline or blink tag attributes were not processed correctly when allow blink and allow underline settings were enabled 6 Fixed
55. with and MDS is not approved in FIPS 140 Since a large part of AccuTerm s market is the MultiValue community those functions where are peculiar to MultiValue users have been consolidated into a new MultiValue menu group in the main AccuTerm menu These features include the GUI Designer wED Editor and File Transfer Wizard There are sub menus for installing updating and configuring the host programs There is now an option in FTD and FTEXPORT to use column headings instead of dictionary names in the heading row when sending data from the host to Windows A new FTEXPORTDA subroutine has been added to the library to export a dynamic array passed as an argument instead of data from a file The FT amp FTD option Convert OEM char set to ANSI has been changed to Convert character set since other character encodings are now supported Unicode Support To use Unicode UTF 8 as your host character set encoding select Unicode UTF 8 from the Host Character Set Encoding drop down list in the Session Settings gt Terminal gt Font amp Character Set page Select a suitable font to support the language s you intend to use Configure your host to use UTF 8 encoding Note if you attempt to display characters that are not defined in the selected font Windows font linking will attempt to use another suitable font for those characters Sometimes the results are acceptable but if the linked font does not produce suitable results choo
56. with recording of HostPort and Palette properties 3 Fixed relative path for ssh private key file name in atcf file 4 Fixed incorrect character set bug in slave printing copy print or auto print mode 5 Fixed crash when using print adapter and host character set is UTF 8 6 Updated adapter scripts for Print Wizard version 4 1 7 Updated components for Net compatibility Release 7 1a sp1 02 25 2013 The following bugs have been fixed main program 1 Fixed problem with insert character or insert mode in all emulations 2 Fixed buffering problem which caused data corruption when reading large records using WED amp GED This problem is limited to AlX based host database environments 3 Fixed problem that caused Zmodem file transfers over SSH to fail 4 Fixed cosmetic issue with file transfer status window showing 0 bytes at completion of a transfer job 5 Fixed file transfer problem when a UNC path to a share is used as the target directory The problem only applies to the top level share directory subdirectories are not affected 6 Fixed problem when using non standard key length for DSA host keys in SSH 7 Fixed problem with multiple file selection for file upload The following GUI bugs have been fixed 1 Fixed problem with multi select tree control with multiple top level nodes not returning correct value Trees with a single root node worked properly 2 Fixed problem wh
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