Cut/paste in an emulator involves two related questions: -- What do you want to copy? -- How do you want to paste what you've copied?
It's a little simplistic to characterize a copy/paste operation as merely simulating fingers on a keyboard. Certainly a plain string of characters is easy to copy/paste. What do you do with copying from a structured panel and pasting into an identical panel? The finger model would require copying individual fields from the source panel and pasting them one at a time into the target panel, same as you have to type them. An intelligent model would understand the structure of the source panel, copy all fields in one operation, then paste them into the target panel at the right spot(s). Think that's too hard? Try Vista TN3270. It has all the smarts. . . JO.Skip Robinson SCE Infrastructure Technology Services Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com From: "McKown, John" <john.mck...@healthmarkets.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 06/28/2012 10:16 AM Subject: Re: HELP WITH PCOM - PASTE OPTION NOT WORKING CORRECTLY Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> I guess that I always thought of "paste" as "automated keystroke entry". Q: Try to insert more characters than the field allows? A: Do what a 3270 would do, insert the max possible and then lock the keyboard. Q: Blanks at end of field? A: Either lock or, if emulator (unlike 3270) is set to act as if trailing blanks are nulls when in insert mode, do that. If inserting even more, see previous answer. I.e. insert as much as possible, then lock. On "cut", I would think that is a copy (copy to clipboard) followed by a delete. There is no clipboard on a 3270. But there is a delete key. On a 3270, IIRC, when you pressed the delete key in a modifiable field, the rest of the field moved to the left one character. Do so for every character involved in the "cut" operation area. If you are completely within a non-modifiable field, copy the characters but do not delete the characters on the screen or in the 3270 buffer. If you "cut" and part is in a non-modifiable field and another part is in a modifiable, copy all the characters in the operation area, but delete only those within the operation area which are in the modifiable field. That is what is my "intuition" says makes sense. Other may legitimately disagree because we are going beyond what can be done on actual 3270 hardware. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Bireley > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 11:19 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: HELP WITH PCOM - PASTE OPTION NOT WORKING CORRECTLY > > The Copy and Paste varies greatly between emulators. It is > not easy to implement because of the field oriented nature of > the 3270 screen. Many emulators support paste in insert mode > and must handle the data in the field properly. What if the > field is not long enough? Do you push the data to the next > field, clip it, or lock the keyboard with an error? What if > the field is padded with spaces? Do you treat the spaces as > nulls or do the spaces mean something when the modified > screen is sent back to the host. If you push the data on > paste, do you wrap it to the next field? If you wrap it, on > cut do you unwrap it? If you paste in overwrite mode, but > the pasted data is not as long as the remaining data do you > leave the extra data or automatically erase to the end of the field? > > Pcomm does some Copy/Paste functions very well, just > differently from what a PC does or some other emulators, > including the ones I am responsible for developing which > handle paste in insert mode. You might check Pcomm's edit > options to see if you can change the behavior. > > > Steve Bireley > Managing Director > Research and Development > Rocket Software > 70 Main St., Suite 51 * Warrenton, VA 20186 * USA > Tel: +1.404.364.1731 * Mobile: +1.571.216.3530 > Email: sbire...@rocketsoftware.com > Web: www.rocketsoftware.com > BlueZone and Passport Terminal Emulation > BlueZone Secure FTP is FREE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
