Dave We have EXTRA! and I too am not as pleased with it as a few others. However, at least with Extra! Xtreme 9 you can change the mouse's left double click to select and ENTER. HOWEVER, it is NOT in the "mouse map" settings but in the Global Preferences. Go figure.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave Salt Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 10:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: 3270 Emulator Software > From: [email protected] > One anti-recommendation: Extra! has sucked pretty badly IMHO for a > very long time. Buggy and flaky. I have to agree. Last year I worked at a customer's site for 2 months, and was forced to use Extra! The first thing I did after installing SimpList was to try to configure Extra so I could "Surf the mainframe" (i.e. select the many hundreds of SimpList point-and-shoot fields by clicking them with a mouse). But the only way I could get Extra to select point-and-shoot fields was to single left click (to position the cursor) and then single right click (to select). The left-click/right-click combination is far less intuitive than the double left click I'm used to. It was so frustrating I actually gave up and went back to using the keyboard!!! (GASP) What I like about Vista3270 is that it supports point-and-shoot with a mouse right out of the box. Other emulators (e.g. PCOM) don't support it out of the box, but if each user takes the time to look through their emulator settings they can at least configure it that way. The next step below that is emulators where the closest you can get to point-and-shoot support is something very unintuitive (e.g. the left-click/right-click combo supported by Extra). Finally, right at the bottom of the pack are emulators that don't support point-and-shoot at all. I won't name names because it's been many years since I used such an emulator and perhaps they've fixed that deficiency by now. One of the things I'd strongly recommend reviewing when evaluating emulators is their ability to allow users to select point-and-shoot fields with a mouse. Dave Salt SimpList(tm) - try it; you'll get it! http://www.mackinney.com/products/program-development/simplist.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ______________________________________________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email from the State of California is for the sole use of the intended recipient and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review or use, including disclosure or distribution, is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this email. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
